#but I'll try to get part 2 out in November when im on vacation 💜

[rubythecrimsonwriter]

Hi!!! I’m a super big fan of all together cousins, and Im currently re-reading it for the like 4th time:) I know you havent updated in more then 5 years now, but is it something you’d ever think of continuing? Sorry if this is annoying feel free to tell me to shut up lol:)

Oh my gods my heart. Darling, I would never tell you to shut up.

The fact of the matter is that I started writing ATC when I was fourteen, which is over a decade ago now. Fourteen year old me had Big Brained Ideas, and a decent method of execution, but my writing has improved a lot since then and I've kind of fallen out of love with the story execution.

However, I have good news and bad news about All Together, Cousins.

The bad news is that I'm not continuing with the story as it currently stands. The difference between fourteen year old me's story writing abilities and twenty year old me's story writing abilities is stark, to the point where looking at chapter 2 vs chapter 13 is straight up jarring, and frankly? I don't like it. Also I kind of lost track of what I was doing between hiatuses, so I was relying on subplots and character development to drive the story, rather than an overarching plot.

The good news is that I'm in active revision for it. It's not the first story I've done it for; my series Fury's Stresses was a fic that I liked the idea of but not the execution, and overhauled it in its entirety. I'm working on a total outline for everything, so that I can refer to it as time goes on. I'll be splitting it up into three parts, rather than one long fic that ATC became (I still don't understand what in Hades's name high school me was on, tbh, the amount that I wrote for the rewrite of BotL was longer than the original book).

If you want to see the first bit's outline, you can find that here, and I'm working on the second part in between emergencies and work and house renovations 😅.

Happy reading, darling. 💜💜