Regarding Mercy's All That You Need (Good News!)

Um. So. Mercy.

Right now I imagine a virtual chorus of what? Who? when my old readers and maybe other mibbians read the title of this thing. I don’t blame you. For a long time life took me away and I left off writing fan fiction for probably months. I focused on my original novels and this past June I finally completed Spreading Roots (which I still have yet to post.) I started to become super insecure about my writing and the premise of posting it online again for everyone’s judgement, so that too stalled me when it came to writing Mercy.

I had no idea what to do with it. The plot, for a long time, seemed dull. There wasn’t much action because I was in that boring lull called the middle of the story. So it remained in limbo in my Shenanigans (translation: lost causes) folder, buried in the scattered depths of my Dropbox. I knew I could complete it, though, if I set my mind to it. I proved that to myself when I finished Spreading Roots. But actually sitting down and reading my terrible writing from two years ago? It terrified and immobilized me.

Then I got comments and tumblr messages. All from my readers asking me—in some cases also telling me—to update. They told me how much they still liked the story even after all this time. I found out that people still care, you know? Mibba used to be a refuge for me, where I could post my writing and people would actually enjoy reading it. I’d share it and they’d share what they thought of it. It was a good deal. I want it to be like that again, and I feel bad for letting my 370-some-odd subscribers down.

You know what I did? I sat down and I wrote. Well, first I faced my fears and read Mercy all the way through. After that, it was the weirdest and easiest writing experience I’ve had in a long while. The story just seemed to blast from my mind and through my fingertips, and before long I had about three thousand words of pretty okay writing. It feels a little stiff to me because it’s been so long, but other than that I like it. So I have my loyal readers, commenters, and tumblr friends to thank for this chapter.

The good news is I kept writing, and still am. So this won't be a one and done type of deal. You can certainly expect more chapters in the future.

I’m about to post the chapter now in a little bit. Hopefully it isn’t too bad and I hope my readers enjoy it—I just want you to know I appreciate you guys so much. Thank you. Please do drop me a line if you’d like to chat or something. I’d love to get back into the swing of things with mibba.

Once again, thank you for your support everyone!