Hi, everyone.
I know it has been weeks since I last gave you any kind of update, so let me start by saying: I’m alive. Technically.
And Chapter 28 is going up tonight. Yes, tonight.
Life got serious—aggressively. existential crisis happend, and possibly three other stages of character development that nobody warned me about.
But I never forgot about this story.
The truth is, this chapter gave me a very specific kind of trouble: Camila is dealing with Bianca, Ash, and her own internal battles all at once, and I kept questioning every decision I wrote for her. Would someone like Camila really do this? Would she allow that? Would she move closer or retreat? Is this emotionally accurate, or am I making this highly trained, deeply guarded woman behave like someone totally different than herself ?
So I wrote, questioned everything, rewrote, stared suspiciously at my iPad, and repeated the process until the chapter finally felt honest.
And through all my overthinking, it helped to remember that you guys read these characters closely enough to understand even the things I never explain directly. So I kept it simple.
Anyway, before I enter another transformative phase and delay Chapter 28 until my next lifetime: it is going up tonight.
Thank you for waiting for me.