Update: I decided to delete this post given a recent change of heart, but apparently I can't update the chapter without at least 500 characters. Understandable. Accordingly, here's a sneak peek of my latest update:

  So, I changed my mind. It happens. It happens a lot if I'm being honest, but generally I'm not writing and publishing a web serial in real time, and no one else need ever know—save my wife and two lovely cats.

  I burned myself out. That's the simple truth of it. I try not to burn myself out these days, but I still slip up on occasion. For the month I was rapidly posting and writing Sailor's Rise, I couldn't sleep more than five or six hours a night, knowing I had to write or edit or post a certain amount every morning before my busy workday began. I'm also a writer who is uncomfortable with imperfection, which means I'm constantly going back to old chapters and making tiny edits you probably never noticed. I think I rewrote the opening paragraph of one particular chapter a dozen times.

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