@COGZealot, please don’t take what I’m about to say to heart. I’m a cranky, tired old author right now; and I know you didn’t mean the request badly.
But it occurs to me that Keep It Tidy, while an important forum principle, is a less than apt heading for the “don’t ask for updates” rule.
As I work on my game tonight, it’s 1 am where I live. My two-year old son has a fever and I have to break the writing every hour or so when he wakes up wailing for a drink. I’ve been up working on my game til 2 or 3 every night in the past week, living on three pots of coffee a day. I’ve also squeezed in as much Choice of Rebels as I can during daylight hours, in this last week before I finish my foreign language study and start a new and demanding job.
A couple months back, I’d been hoping to have the whole game done by now. It’s discouraging and disappointing that I’m not going to be able to do that; but I at least want to be able to push an update (a fairly big one, you’ll be happy to hear). I’m stretching myself hard to do so. To get a query phrased as if there might never again be an update, starting with a testy-sounding, we’ve-been-waiting-a-while-already ellipse…
Well, forget tidy. Don’t Crush Authors’ Sensitive Spirits is the heading I’d suggest. And please don’t ask for updates.