The Paths We Take

I’M BAAAAAACCCKKKK!

Well sort of. It’s a long story, which this AN will catch you all up to speed! First, I want to thank each and every one of you who sent me a PM or left a review asking how I was doing and showing your love! You guys are amazing! I am doing fine, however, that doesn’t mean I didn’t go through some trials of my own in the past year, pun intended lol.

Originally, I had planned to take a tiny break from writing The Paths We Take, but as it turns out, I was much more worn out from writing a story that was practically 3 novels in length that I lost the motivation to continue. I was severely burnt out and the chapter just wasn’t sitting right with me. My break ended up being much longer than I intended and then in December, both my husband and I, unfortunately, came into contact with a so-called friend, who had Covid-19, knew they had Covid, and still ask me to do a home groom with their dog. Suffice to say, my husband and I are no longer friends with her. Anyway, during that time, I had too much anxiety to go back to writing like I had initially wanted to and focused on getting better. Luckily, neither of us had it too severely and recovered rather quickly.

After battling a long year of craziness, January came around and thanks to Winter and the dreaded grey, dull, void it normally creates after the holidays, I still did not feel up to writing, thanks to the depression I received during Covid, although, I did have many story ideas in my head as to how I wanted to progress with TPWT. Come February, I was just about feeling back to normal and decided to scrap everything I had written so far for Chapter 29…Mind you it was half of one of my normal chapters, which are usually around the 11k range in length. You get the idea. I started 29 over, a blank slate, which wasn’t easy as I changed the way the whole trial for Ginny begins. However, I love it so much more and I hope you guys will too.

Moving on…where was I, right, February. So, after I had written a good amount of Chapter 29, my husband and I found out some extremely exciting news, which ended up slowing down my writing to the point of not writing anything at all. I think you can see where this is going…We’re pregnant!!! Yup, you read that right, this Slytherin-Goddess is having a baby boy in September! Our first! And as you would expect with any pregnancy, my first trimester was not the best. It turns out that when my husband and I had Covid back in December, I was about 2 weeks pregnant, resulting in my sickness being much worse than his, and we had no idea. We also have no idea if the virus affected my symptoms during my first trimester or not, although, we are certain that I was too nauseated all day to write anything.

I’m now on week 20 and feeling much better, so much so, that I wanted to update you all and let you know that I will be expecting to finish chapter 29 and have it posted in the coming weeks! You all waited long enough and worried for far too long that I felt it was time to let you know what was happening and what had happened. I promised I would never abandon my story and I never wanted any of you to think I was never going to update again. I will always finish a fic, even if it takes me longer than normal to do so.

Speaking of taking longer, when I do eventually update, no set date yet, I hate to say it, but the weekly updates will be no more as everything depends on how I’m feeling and my new crazy schedule. The good news is, I am cutting back at work, and come July, I will be doing mainly admin/desk work for our grooming department, so I should have a bit more time to write. I want to try and finish this story before my little one comes, but we all know how babies are, they can come at any time and I don’t want to half-ass this story. We still have a long way to go for this fic and I am not missing a single detail with it.

Anyway, thank you all for being so patient and sticking around after I suddenly disappeared. It means the world to me that you guys messaged me and wrote sweet reviews, even if I didn’t have the energy to respond to them just yet. It kept me going and I appreciate you all so much! I cant wait to see your reactions to Chapter 29 when it comes! And trust me, it is coming!

Love always,

Slytherin-Goddess214

Ps: In 3 days this AN will be deleted due to Community Rules, which I will abide by.