Hello there...

TL;DR: Hiatus for now. Maybe forever. In case of forever: There will be some chapters to bring the story to an end (summary-like epilogue). But that might be months away because that would mean dropping the novel for sure.

Unfortunately, I have to announce that I'll be going on an (even) longer, indefinite break. I have to admit that, because of my time constraints, I'm severely lacking in motivation to spend a lot of my time on writing. I've kept trying to force myself into some sort of a schedule, but as you've seen, that didn't work out quite well... Repeatedly. Most of the stuff I've forcefully written during that time was simply lacking too much in quality, making the editing process all the more painful and time-consuming for me to be somewhat satisfied.

That said, I won't just leave this novel as it is. In case I come back to writing this novel, which would be in two months' earliest, then great. If not, and I decide to drop it entirely (a little more below), I will still finish off the story in the form of a narration. After all, I've already thought out all of the major plotlines, how the story progresses and ends. It'd basically be a summary after all the events have ended - a long epilogue if you will, told by a narrator. Probably even a few chapters in length.

For those of you (if you exist) that might be interested in my general future as a writer and potential other work:

I'm yet unsure how much I want to continue writing. I've never written anything creative before, putting school aside, and only recently realized that I quite enjoy it. So It came as a big surprise for me that a lot of people apparently liked what I've written.

Then, as it is usual I guess, I got a lot of other ideas that slowly create a conflict of interest in what I might want to write. Some of them are more fleshed out, some not. The story of Aien was simply the first thing I've thought of that I judged as a decent, unique, creative...etc idea, and I went with it, mostly winging it all.

I don't really know whether my lack of motivation is coming just from time restraints (definitely a huge part though) or because of the story itself. Or if writing was just a one-time thing for me that I couldn't even finish. So I hope that will become clearer to me eventually.

Anyways, for those that stick around, I'll certainly give you an update eventually.

Thank you all for reading so far and sorry for temporarily ending it like this. Until then!