Canceling The Enchanted Carousel, restarting as a new story

Hi all!

I’ve already made the announcement in other places, so I figured I might as well do it here, too, to cement the change.

The TL;DR is The Enchanted Carousel, as the continuation to The Enchanted Kingdom, is cancelled. I’ve decided I want to finish off the series, and in order to do that, I need a fresh start. The new story, The Enchanted Era, which I’ve already started writing and is going very well, will go live next Wednesday, with chapters being posted first on Patreon/Kofi and then here.

I’m aiming for a bi-weekly update schedule, and maybe even a weekly one if things work out. While I’ll be creating a new subscription category for the story, I’ll continue e-mailing folks subscribed to Enchanted Carousel.

That was the TL;DR.

Anyway, as those of you who read my most recent blog post on fimfic (which I now realize I never posted here, oops), I’m finally on the other side of what I can call the Great Writing Crisis. The Great Writing Crisis affected all of my stories, but none more so than The Enchanted Library series. I’ve spent the better part of the last few years trying to convince myself to just let it go and cancel it, letting the story end on the incomplete but high note that was the end of Enchanted Kingdom.

Thanks in part to a lot of hard work on myself and a very difficult year spent completely recreating everything I am inside and out, I’m finally at a place where I am starting to write again for the love of it, which has led me to accept that I simply will never be able to live peacefully unless I finish off the series. I literally can’t. I want it done. Not because I’m sick of it hanging over me, but because I had great ideas for it, and I want those out there like they deserve to be. I want it done for me.

It not being finished has always been one of the most personally painful points of my life, mainly because the reason I stopped working on it was that I reached a point where I was no longer writing the story I wanted, but the story I had built up in my head I had to write in order for people to like it, and validate me, and prove I was Good, and live up to being The Winner Of The RCL’s Contest.

Essentially, it’s all bullshit reasons, which I knew, which is why I stopped.

So, I’ve decided I just don’t care anymore, and I’m going to do what I should have been doing all along which is write the story I want to write and people liking it is a plus, not a requirement. This means I can’t and don’t want to continue from what I had before. It was written by a person who I no longer am, and there’s so little written for it at all that I just don’t see the point of trying to continue someone else’s story instead of starting fresh.

Anyway, that’s mostly it! There’s evidently voices in my head already going at me for this, predicting and anticipating thoughts like ‘why even try? what if it ends up in disappointment again?”, and the reality is that while all of that is true, and who knows what’s going to happen, I’d rather go down trying again and again than just letting it die with a whimper.

So, yeah!

See you Wednesday!