And I'm now officially the slowest and most dilatory author Portkey has ever had.

Please let me finish my stories this year! *prays to IPU* I think I'd have to off myself in shame if they went on any longer than that.

haha, oh don't worry, I think all of us are guilty of slow updating in stories. Hiatus are great for us authors, but unfortunately terrible for the readers.

Welcome back anyway, and hope you are planning to stick around

Hi Jane, good to see you here! I think the record for taking the longest time to finish a story goes to Granger's "Come Together". It took her 5 years and 2 months to finish it.

As I've said in my email to you, drop by the mods forums anytime and let us know if your RL gets less swampy. "Mods on RL leave" still have plenty of privileges - you can store 500 PMs, mass PM 20 people , see hidden forums, etc.

*moves this to the VIP section*

Oh btw, your name came up often in this thread.

WEll, I'm not actually at 5 years yet, thank goodness. It can't be long off, though.

*goes back to typing story, hoping Granger gets to keep the crown*

That's the spirit! I don't know of a way to find out which story took the longest time to finish, but 5 years is certainly a long time.

I also know of many stories that have been, ahem, "paused" for years now.