So I kind of rambled about this on Tumblr and this is more for those who read Nicotine than anything else. 

I do want to apologize to them for posting this but it's kind of important I feel to just get it out there and say it. Basically, Nicotine is one of my most challenging stories to write for and I know it seems like it would be kind of easy because it is more on the slice of life side but you have to understand I am used to writing very angsty and kind of fast-paced stories that have something interesting and crazy happen in each chapter. 

So the story itself is out of my comfort zone writing wise but on top of that it has a lot of personal elements in it for me. I drew from a lot of my own mental health struggles as well as relationship issues on top of that so the story itself is incredibly personal to me. It kind of is exhausting to work on if I'm being completely honest because it genuinely pushes my creativity and my own health in a sense.

So these two things combined make it so I can't really work on updates for this story for long periods of time and that makes it hard to update because I barely have time to focus on writing in general right now so when I can't sit down and work on something for an extended amount of time along with my ADHD being a it takes a long time to finish. The chapters themselves are typically on the longer side as well which makes the time stretch on further and that in turn backs up all of my writing for my other stories which are easier to write for BUT:

IN SUMMARY, I THINK IA M GOING TO BE CHANGING THE WAY I UPDATE! 

I will not be updating Nicotine on a schedule, I will update it when I can get the chapters finished. I'll keep updating the other fanfics I have going on a schedule where I update them in order but will update Nicotine when I can finish an update. It's just incredibly hard for me to sit too long with that story and that is honestly embarrassing to say or admit. It takes a lot out of me to get back into that mindset or to slip into the mindset of the main character especially when I'm working on myself so intensely right now and am trying to stay away from that but at the same time I genuinely love this story...I don't want to give up on it and stop updating it. I have so much invested in it. I want to finish it and I will finish it. 

Just at a slower pace than my other stories-I'm really sorry to the subscribers of Nicotine for saying this but I really think doing it like this is for the best <3