TomVanDyke
Yeah, I know. Clearly, my writing speed hasn't quite recovered yet. ETA for the next chapter: next Sunday.
Don't worry about your writing speed, stressing won't make it suddenly get better and while the pace might be unsteady the quality of the chapters is still excellent đ What would help us readers is to communicate a bit more often, if you give an ETA then make sure you post a comment or edit your author's note on or before that day, even if all you can say is "Taking longer than expected, here's a new ETA". I know it feels bad doing that as the writer, but it prevents someone from checking 4-5 times that day, and possibly the following day or even longer and they would appreciate it greatly. Personally I got 3 stories I'm following on this site so I check maybe 3-4 times a day anyways, not clicking in to this story unless it's got an update. But I have other stories that I check on their own webpages, and whenever they don't communicate they start going down in my priority of things to check. Simply hearing that the author is still alive and working on it is enough to avoid that.
Thanks for the chapter author! Just my opinion, but maybe you should not do the ETA's for the chapters until you feel comfortable writing on a steady schedule again. Most of the readers here have experienced bumps in the updates before so we don't mind waiting a week or even more for a chapter, but putting unnecessary expectations that you won't be able to meet loads more pressure on yourself as well as giving readers false hope. As long as the quality doesn't drop I don't mind 1 chapter/week! Thanks again for the chapter and hope everything's going well!