Marie asked Ais:

Hello ! I'm new to the fandom (just finished ICoS!!) And I am sorry if you got this question before. did you ever considered stopping or taking a step back from writing ICoS because it might have taken too much of your time ? especially if it was a free work ? Thank you for boh of your work ! It was an amazing journey

Ais Hi :) First, thank you! I'm really glad you liked it! Thanks for reaching out :) About your question, there's never any need to apologize for asking something--I love questions. I'm constantly asking them, myself ;)

Hmm... From my memory I don't think we ever considered stopping it because it took too much time, although it's true it did take a lot of time. I canceled so many offers to see friends on the weekends, it's ridiculous lol But then again, I'm also naturally introverted so who knows if I would have seen them without ICoS as an excuse. Still, my friends and family both became very accustomed to, "Sorry, I can't... we'll/I'll be writing" as a response.

But I don't think in and of itself that was ever a reason we ever would have considered stopping writing it. It was more like, sometimes our schedules were so incompatible that we just couldn't get proper time to work on anything. I was actually more annoyed when we didn't have time to write than I ever was during the times we spent time writing instead of doing something else, haha.

Does that make sense? I feel like my answer was maybe kind of rambling/confusing...

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