after an agonisingly long, sleepless and stressy night, i've come to a conclusion:
Indigo Sky was definitely a story that i SHOULD have published straight away.
like Rose Petal Tea, it's not perfect, but it was of its time, and echoed my feelings & thoughts during that part of my life.

i've tried to change it, i've tried to rewrite it, i've tried my best to make it something it never was.

i don't consider Twinkle-in-Indigo-Sky to be "canon Twinkle" anymore, which is odd, and i am planning a novel involving his hyppocus form called "The Angel City Travelling Circus of Freaks and Oddities".
i love that title, i care not if it is long winded!

however: little sweet "original" Indigo Sky deserves something at least, so i am going to either:
a) publish it as is, but pretty much leave it up on Lulu.com. promotion for it will be small, and only those who have followed my work up to a certain point will truly "get" it and appreciate it, i suppose.
or b) upload it all to fictionpress.com, in novel format, so, again: those who want to, are free to read it, and take of it what they will.

your opinions count here: it's up to YOU what i do.
i'm really not fussed either way.
what would you prefer? online or book format? or both?

either way: i'm through with this story, but i am not through with Twinkle. i'll still paint & draw him from time to time, and i'll be developing more to do with his hyppocus form and all that malarchy, but i really sort of have to purge myself of this behemoth of Indigo Sky before i can enjoy just writing for me again.

i realised over the past two years that novels aren't really my forte. Rose Petal Tea and Indigo Sky were flukes, and i am sort of inspired to do the one mentioned above, and my two other plans (the childrens novel about Azanti the cheetah and The Elysiad, my Greek myth-inspired tale of angst and black humour)...but aside from those, nah. i want to move on and do short stories now, poetry, travel journals, zines, reviews...
i adore writing, but i don't really want to have my life consumed in huge projects anymore for my own personal reasons, and honestly? my own sanity! :)

i hope everyone is okay with this decision, and i promise you, once all of this is out of the way, i'll be feeling & acting like my normal self again, and it'll all have been worth it, somehow.