FAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMMMMMM!!!!!

I really don't know how to express how I'm feeling so I guess I'm gonna bug you all again with this blog.

For those of you following In Pursuit, you'll know that I just ended that story... AAAAAHHHHH! I'm so happy and heartbroken at the same time. 

This is the very, very first chaptered fic that I've finished since the time that I started writing traditional fanfiction (not counting one-shots, of course) and I'm really proud of myself for sticking it out. To be totally honest, there were so many times where I felt like I lost steam and just wanted to abandon the story altogeher, but being a reader myself, I know how following an unfinished story feels. 

It feels like you've been cheated, and robbed, and it feels like the hours you've given reading the story was all for nothing and you wish that the author would just rise from the ashes and give you justice!!!!!!!! (Yes, I'm passionate about unfinished stories, I've had many a broken heart,) SO I most certainly DID NOT want any of you to go through the same kind of anguish, just because my artistic temperment did not mesh with the need for discipline on most days. Hahahaha. 

I pushed through, and now... It's dooooooone :( sniff, sniff...

A bit of background on In Pursuit... One December afternoon, I was watching Netflix with a bunch of princess movies on loop. Like... Princess Diaries, Princess Switch, the one where she was a journalist that had a sequel (I forgot the title). I basically spent the whole day watching all these movies and was like... Hmm... I bet it would be nice to be able to write a story about Jinki and Taemin as Princes, and so I went to bed that night thinking about it. While scrolling through Twitter, oomf posted this picture of Lee Jinki in a freaking Prince outfit. You know the one? With the blonde hair and the red sash and the yellow tassle things on his shoulders? Yep, that one. And I was like--I HAVE TO WRITE THIS. So, the next morning I did.

I initially wanted it to be really short, since at the time, I already had Lonely going on and I really wanted to put all my focus into that. I decided on one chapter per week until the end of the holidays, but as all things, it didn't really work out the way I had planned. They weren't originally supposed to get married in the story, they weren't supposed to go through that bit of drama that they did... But I guess my fingers overruled my mind on that one. December turned into February and I was still itching to keep the story going.

Although I really am super proud of myself, (it's not easy to write 15 chapters of at least 2k words each,) I'm also really sad that it's ending... I feel like I've lost a couple of my friends. I've spent a couple of months with the characters, and suddenly, where do they go? I can think of so many things that happen to them in my head but it feels different to actually write it down... The truth is, there are other stories that I need to focus on too--stories that I love equally... So I'm just gonna have to let them go for the meantime, and it makes me really sad.

Anyway, I'm posting this blog as a celebration-slash-avenue for mourning.

Congratulations, me for my first completed chaptered story!

And a sad goodbye to Crown Prince Lee Jinki and his new husband Prince Taemin...

Thanks everyone for always, always supporting me through everything. I appreciate you!

Many more stories to come!! 

-Belle