Hi!!!!    

So I have no idea if anyone will even see this, since the book has been down for so long and I'm not sure if it's still in your libraries or whatever, but I figured this would be the easiest way to talk to you guys.

If you are seeing this, I'm back!! Sort of. I'll get into that. But first, let me explain my (long) break.

It was definitely needed. I spent a couple years of my life with everything revolving around the world of Viperous and Serene. I wrote over 200 parts of Chasity’s adventures!!

I wrote so much stuff that I don't even remember half of it. Like, I have no recollection of what my thought process was for most of it.

Recently, I reread through a lot of chapters and it was as if I was the reader myself, not the writer. It was a weird experience, compared to how I was around 6 or 9 months ago.

So, to make a long tangent short, I was burnt out.

Even now, I can see that all the ideas I had towards the end were virtually all the same. I was making Chasity and Duff's relationship super forced, and Axl was basically nowhere to be found through it all. I feel like all the people I was writing were becoming so two dimensional and just, boring. There were also so many plot holes, loose ends, and things that I forgot out of lazniess that really took away from the story.

With that said, I both enjoyed not writing for a long time, and hated it.

I enjoyed being able to focus on other things, like my academics (which totally paid off!)

But I also become so out of touch with my craft.

Writing is something I love. And I haven't written literally anything besides things for school since I put Serene on pause.

Admitting that hurts, and also feels weird. I'm very rusty with my writing right now, but at the same time I feel that my skills have also gotten better.

And it's summer! The time when I have nothing to do.

Now that I've talked about my absence, I should cover now.

I can understand if anyone is upset, even mad that I stopped writing and took everything down. I know how much it sucks when you're in love with a story and all of the sudden it stops right in the middle. I've been there. And I apologize.

I think that I do want to finish Chasity’s story. I need to.

I say Chasity's story, because it's about her. From the beginning, I knew that I wanted to write about a girl finding her way (that sounds cliche but it's true) through all the crazy stuff she has to deal with, whether that's fame, relationships, etc.

The bands and everything were not supposed to be the main focus.

And somewhere, I lost that.

There is a little problem with finishing the story though.

I'm not as big of a fan of Guns N' Roses as I used to be.

I can hear your disappointment, I know. I'm sorry!

I don't really know how to elaborate on that, honestly. I don't hate them or anything, I still think their music is good, I'm just not as much of a fan as I used to be.

So, I'm unsure about a couple things.

1. Continuing the story with it being a Guns N' Roses fanfiction.

And 2. The original plotline that the story followed, with it beginning before Guns released their first album and then all the tours and everything.

In regards to the first thing, I just don't know if I could come back to the story and be motivated and invested if I'm writing about people that I don't have the same amount of interest for that I once had.

I also don't know if I feel comfortable writing about real life people now. For me personally as a writer, it makes me feel different than it used to but I can't pinpoint exactly how.

And about the second thing, I don't really know how the original plotline of Viperous and it continuing into Serene would work if I chose to edit/finish the story with substituted characters.

By substituted characters, I mean a band I've made up and new names for all of them and everything. (I would keep personality the same, just different names and appearances.)

So yes, that would mean that I would give Axl a new name and appearance. Same for all the other characters, except for the original ones I've created like Michelle and Chasity.

On the other hand, there is also another alternative idea I've been thinking about that I would love to explore.

That is changing major points of the plot of the story (including the timeline and events), (possibly) using all original characters or substitutes of the real life people (of course keeping the OG's like Chasity, Michelle, Paul, Chasity’s family, etc.), and just reviving the story in a different way.

I say possibly about using all original characters because I'm still indifferent to writing about real people. I haven't formed an opinion about how it makes me feel right now.

If you guys would like to hear the synopsis of that idea let me know! It's the same with or without all original characters.

So yeah. It feels good to be back on here.

I might also paste this into a message to put on my page in case this actually isn't seen by anyone.

But if you can, please let me know your thoughts on that last idea and everything in the comments or in private message or on my page! I want to hear from you guys!

Thank you so much for reading this, and for sticking around. I really appreciate it.

P.S. I'm sorry if any of that was confusing! If you have any questions please let me know!

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