Okay, so I don't know how many people read this, or if anyone does for that matter, but to those who do (maybe), it's personal story time. I have been planning and plotting the Lyvenia series since I was seventeen. It started out as an idea that turned into a novel that exploded into a world. WITCH is the origin story of the origin story, and I first created its characters and events back in 2008. Almost everything that has happened so far was supposed to happen all along. In 2011, I decided to tell the story with sims and I put it together to read for my husband. He was my audience of one, and it was a nice way to share a part of myself with him. In the summer of 2012, my husband abandoned me and my child. I learned he was living with another woman. He informed me that he no longer loved me, that he was madly in love with her, and that she was pregnant with his child (she wasn't, she's actually a pathological liar). Since then, we have divorced and I have forgiven him, and we are friends now, but the pain of what I went through last summer still haunts me. During that time, this story became my escape. Even though Lothar was always going to leave Corynne for Ivaine, that part became more real to me than any piece of writing I have ever penned. The eeriest thing was that I learned of my husband's adultery merely a few days after I uploaded Chapter Eight: The Morning After. In the chapters that followed, I related to Corynne so well and I wrote her pain like it was my pain, because essentially it was. I have never understood a character better than her, and she has taught me about myself in ways I might have never imagined. But just like Lothar was always supposed to leave Corynne, likewise, he was always supposed to come back to her. However, this time their "forbidden love" would be something even more taboo. I have been looking forward to writing Chapter Eighteen, but so far it has been the most difficult one for me, and that is why I have not uploaded it sooner. You guys, adultery is a terrible thing. Terrible. I would know. I am curious to see the reactions to Corynne and Lothar's love affair. I try to separate my personal life from the story, but that is difficult when this story has become like my diary. Yes, Lothar's wife is evil, Corynne's husband is selfish, and yes, they are both completely unsatisfied in their marriages... but so was I, and it still hurt like hell to be cheated on. I guess it just goes to show that good guys don't always do good things. Most of my characters tend to be morally ambiguous. Anyway, I've rambled on long enough. Chapter Eighteen will be up and ready when I pull myself together enough to write it, and I truly hope that you enjoy it.
Much love.
