I haven't explained properly on here yet, but the big delay in writing is that I decided to turn my career completely on its head over the summer. I'm now in a grad program earning a masters in library and information science. About the time I posted my most recent chapter of Medically Speaking in June I realized that it was a possibility, threw caution to the wind, and then spent the rest of July anxious about being accepted... only to then immediately kick into gear to get ready for classes to start the end of August. It has been a whirlwind and a lot of my free time (ha) has been spent focusing on my partner, our pets, and my family.
In the grand scheme of things, not much will change on y'all's end. It was taking me forever to post updates, anyway. I'll only really have a chance to write during breaks for the next couple of years. We don't follow a normal university schedule so those breaks look a little weird and I have summer classes, so I won't get the whole summer off, but I do miss writing for fun. I haven't lost interest in my fics at all, in fact I was going through the medicinal/magical plant books at the bookstore the other day and bemoaning that I couldn't work on the Magic of Shadows. I've said it before, but I actually did a lot of story writing during undergrad while I was avoiding things I was supposed to be doing, lmao. As I relax a little bit and find a better work/life/school balance, there's a pretty good chance I'll end up back in that bad habit.
I know it sucks that I'm on here telling you I have even less free time than I used to, but this was a change that I really needed and I'm excited about what the future holds.
