The Marshmallow Ranch Gazette (Patreon)

Volume 2, Issue 7

Tuesday, February 21st, 2017

Howdy, patrons!

I know, I know -- it's been three weeks now since the last part of Stable Love was put up. I'm really frustrated that it's taking so long to work on the next few parts, and I'm working to get the edits done so that you can read the rest of the tale! To be honest, I didn't realize the story was such a monster; if I stuck to my 2,000-word-per-part metric, then it'd be a ten-part story! 

As it stands, I'm still in the middle of the 6,000 word Part 2; I've been working on it as often as I can, but progress hasn't been nearly as fast as I'd hoped. Don't worry, though -- I'll drop the next part as soon as I'm able, and the same goes for parts 3 and 4. I'm hoping that devoting a consistent chunk of time to the story will let me finish the edits a bit more quickly, but we'll see how well I'm able to stick to that plan.

February as a whole hasn't been a great month; in addition to the dumpster fire that is the current Presidential administration, I was hit with some pretty intense family news that knocked me for a loop for about a week. I'm still digging my way through that, with a phone call that will take up quite a bit of time tomorrow evening, but I'm hoping that the issue will be put to rest at that point and I can...well, not necessarily move on, but know what to expect in the future. I know I'm being vague about all of this, and sorry; I'm trying not to make excuses, but life has been really chaotic and full lately and I'm just trying to re-establish a routine that will hopefully make it settle down.

At this point, I know better than to promise anything about release dates; I won't do that any more until I'm certain the next part is finished and I can deliver on that promise. Part 2 of "Stable Love" will be up as soon as I finish the edits, but I have no idea when that will be. Optimistically, next week at the earliest and if everything comes together just right I'll be able to resume regular updates at that point. 

The next serial -- which still doesn't have a title -- will be right on the heels of that. I haven't gotten to work on it very much because I've fallen so far behind with "Stable Love" and editing; once I'm on more sure footing with my writing schedule I'll have more concrete details to share. I know the broad strokes of what I'm doing, and I've got a great deal of the characters set, but the devil is in the details, as they say. I want to make sure that the story is reasonably sketched out and I'm a couple of parts ahead before I pull the trigger on that.

That's all for this week, folks. I know that it's really early in the year for this kind of stumble and I apologize profusely. I genuinely hope that the next few parts of "Stable Love" will be worth the wait!