The biggest reason for this is sleep deprivation of my own creation, where in order to not fall behind in my writing schedule I have written late into the night. Initially this worked well because I naturally focus best late at night, but it quickly started to interfere with my sleep schedule and has now hit a tipping point where for perhaps the entire past month I haven't slept more than 4 hours a night.

The severe sleep deprivation, as you might have guessed, is not conducive to focusing and getting a lot of writing done. Consequently, to stick to my schedule that I set for myself, I basically trapped myself in a self perpetuating death cycle where because I'm sleep deprived I get less writing done during the day, and then need to stay up later, thereby losing sleep, to ensure I finish my chapters on time.

I realised all this about a month ago but kept pushing myself because I figured, I would need to take a two week break after finishing book 1 for planning purposes anyway and could fix my sleep pattern then. Unfortunately, it has hit a breaking point where I am getting so little done when I sit down to write that even if I don't take this break I'll be posting so infrequently it will look like I'm taking a break without any of the actual benefits of taking one. So, I have decided even though I would have rather wait till I finish the end of the book, it is better for my long term productivity and health to take a break from posting now since my lack of sleep is severely affecting how quickly I write anyway.

While I've got you here I suppose I'll plug a couple stories which have really caught my attention recently. Those being: Perfect Run, and Desolada. Perfect Run especially deserves it's place in the top ranked for being the first ever super hero story that I have loved and I'm fairly sure basically anyone who enjoys the types of stories on Royal Road (assumedly all of my followers) will enjoy it.