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Next chapter out tomorrow. Warning: this one is a bit heavy.

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So, I have tech week this week for a school play. I will be getting home too late to realistically write on every school day. However, I did manage to get a shorter (12ish minute) chapter written and it's already ready for publication. I had another part of the chapter planned, but I'm considering moving that to another chapter.
          
          Ultimately what happens comes down to you guys. Do you want a longer chapter in around another 2 weeks or a shorter chapter to release later today?

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Just Trying To Surivive has reached 4,000 reads! 
          
          Um.. I don't really know what to put here lel. I wasn't expecting to really ever even break a thousand reads and now.. yeah we have 4 times that now. There's not enough ways to tell you guys how much I appreciate you all. So many of you have been supportive throughout some lows in my writing (and my life) and thank you all so much for that. Your all real ones.
          
          To the next thousand! :D

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Hey guys..
          
          Um.. Yeah.. I'm here to tell what's been going on with me and why chapters have taken months to release. Three words: Lack of motivation. I have no motivation to write. But also, no motivation to socialize, or speeducbe, or do anything other than the bare minimum. If you didn't read an earlier post, I have depression. I guess this shouldn't be too surprising then, but it still sucks. Because now I feel like I'm letting you guys down because it's been weeks..
          
          So. Changes. Just Trying To Survive isn't going to be cancelled or anything, but chapters are going to be released slowly for an undetermined amount of time. I can commit to something like 20 minutes of writing at a time, compared to the hours which I spent during the summer. 20 minutes of writing time for me is about 3 minutes of reading time on a good day. So for just the writing, most chapters are taking me an hour and a half to write. Add in rewrites and the art (even if it's bad lol), and it's maybe three hours per chapter. That doesn't sound like a lot, but with high school and tons of homework it's difficult. Despite this, the lengths of the chapters will not change.
          
          I don't really know why I made this when I'm announcing basically nothing. I guess to just vent or something? I don't want to sound like the emotional fool which I am, so uh.. yeah. I guess I'll end this with a question? What do you guys like about the story, and who should I cover in the next-next chapter?
          
          Thanks for reading, if anyone read this whole thing. :/

Gabriel89496

@there_is_nothing33 Hey, I can relate. As a person who also writes a Pibby fanfic myself, the process of making a fan fiction is very tiring and the amount of stress you get for this experience is really demotivating. Although I don’t have the greatest advice to help your predicament, having to make breaks for your fanfiction for me is a really good strategy in my opinion. After all, Rome was never built in a week. But, please don’t believe you letting us down, as you’re not. Everyone has mental health and putting these delays and blames on yourself, won’t help your depression and health at all. Please take your time and don’t force yourself on getting at the end goal, cause what you will end up won’t be perfect. Your story is an inspiration for my fanfic and please don’t put faults on you. Your supporters have your back.
            (sorry if this sounded weird, i’m not great at thinking of words…)
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