I agree with Sisiutil (the first time i've called him by his whole name in idk how many posts). i think it's surprising how much people pester writers for updates. In the only other forum I'm on, this isn't tolerated because 1) the person does it for free and 2) it can get extremely annoying to have people constantly blathering at you about when an update is coming. I'm not saying i haven't done it (well everyone else is so why not? lol), just that people should consider that some people have a lot of real life issues to deal with before they start pestering about an update and have some patience.
Don't mean to antagonize the loyal readers of this thread specifically, this is more of a general forum wide issue.