So then, there is a lot going on at the moment, things that I’m looking forward to, and things that I’m not so much looking forward to.

The week has been a long one, with my roommate gone for the past week I’ve had a lot of time to myself (you’d think I’d get a lot of work done… hah.) and I’ve been trying my best to come up with the launch date for the Web-Novel. The biggest hurdle with this date is making sure everything on the site is in working order, and deciding if this (what you see here) is really what I want to go with.

The coding on Wordpress allows for me to do my updates anywhere and any time, which is more than slightly handy; however, it doesn’t allow for me to make updating the Novel any easier. I had thought I could do it much like the webcomic, using that system but posting the updates in a “backwards-forwards” kind of action. Then I thought about the actual reading of the comic… it would never make any logical sense, and looking at the Archives would be near impossible.
So that was out the window.

Then came the idea of making all the links by hand, which wouldn’t be hard but eventually would be more than slightly time consuming. I’ve been stuck on the issue for most of the week and have been going over various scenarios, to do much like this Pheonix Requiem comic has done with their updates only for our novel. There’s more than one page to the update. However, I have no idea how she does her updates or what program she is using to do them — if she’s even using one.

So that’s put me through a loop and it’s hard for me to give a launch date with that in the way. Needless of this issue I have promised to give a launch date and so I shall keep to my promise.

May 25, 2008

I know the date is pretty far into the future and that it’s really barely even May still by that date but there are multiple reasons for this chosen date.
May is a busy month for me. On the 9th of May I will be heading out to Rochester so I can catch a plane on the 10th to fly to Florida for my good friend Sarah’s wedding on the 12th. I will be home then on the 13th of May but back to work on either the 14th or 15th of May. I haven’t decided which day yet. (I’m aware it’s only two weeks, if that, away).
In the coming days, this is going to take up most of my time, making sure I have everything I need and that everything is ready to go.

My original thought had been to launch the novel, the first weekend I get back but I find I’m going to need that weekend to make sure everything is sorted out and that I have everything ready for when my vacation comes around in July. I want to be far enough ahead that even a writers block won’t get in the way of you guys getting your story weekly.

So the updates will still be Every Sunday, starting May 25, 2008, and on Thursdays (On occassion) using the old webcomic script we’re going to run an art day. The art might be mine might be someone elses (comic related or not). This update will not be an “all the time” thing. It weill not start guaranteed on Thursday May 29th either. Though that is the goal.

People will still be free to submit fanart based on the characters they read about in the story, and I will post that art in the “Thursday update” thing and on the Fan Art pages as I decided to leave them up.

So far, this is what I’ve got, more to come as soon as I got more to tell!

-Sheyna

So if you’ve been on the page for the past couple of days you’ve likely seen me playing with the layout. I’m not very good at using word press and I’m horrible at modding forums to work with websites, so as I attempt to do this, I ask you to bear with me and hopefully this will all look alright in the end.

Seeing as I have time, I’m not frustrating myself with it and I will this week have a launch date for everyone, I’m first trying to find the BEST way to release the updates to you guys so that you can read it easily and it’ll look cool some too.

Lots of Love,

Sheyna

P.S. If you can’t see the link to the forums at any time just know the address is http://www.sswars.com/forums and you’re free to access it from there!

There is something going on, something I’ve decided to do, I’ll post more when I have time to post it all. But Please do check back here tonight or tomorrow for the update.

EDIT

-Sheyna

I’m sure most of you saw this coming by now.

There’s a lot of things that happen in life and most of them happen for a reason. This comic has brought me some things that I’ll never forget, but at the same time though short lived it’s time for it to end.

Sometimes no matter how much we love something just aren’t able to to do it on our own and so we look to others for help and when we do we forget that those others have to love it as much as you do and even if they do, they aren’t always going to have the same time and dedication you are.

Mia has been one of the most wonderful people to work with. She’s talented, funny and a great person. Her life has been brutally unfair to her and I can only wish that the light at the end of the tunnel for her is the way out and not a train… darn those trains. We’ve had our ups and downs, but Mia has always been one of my greatest inspirations to continue doing this. Her own life projects and goals has made it impossible for her to have time doing this, and I will miss working with her on this project dearly.

It was mentioned that I take up the task of drawing for this comic, that won’t be happening. My art though improved from years ago isn’t what this comic needs and I will spend too much time second guessing it, doubting it and never been satisfied with it. Just as I’m never satisfied with how I color things, lol.

I will continue writing, and people are free to read my works, and eventually I’ll post a link to them somewhere where other people can read them if they so desire to do so.

So how does this story end? Well who knows, I guess in the end we won’t ever know, but that’s alright, I like the mystery.

Thank you everyone for your patronage, your affection and your kind words. Good Luck and sorry to see it end like this.