Hey, decided I should make a final post instead of just disappearing. It has been a while since I last posted a chapter, and one won't be coming for quite a while. There are a lot of excuses I could cite. I just started college for engineering, and it's a lot of stress and work, more than I expected. I've also had more personal responsibilities to manage and tried to put more work into maintaining a social life. But I still have free time to screw around. I could use that time to write, and I don't.

I've been having difficulty getting motivated. When I first started writing I didn't really understand how difficult it would be to finish a story, really see it all the way to its end. I hammered out the first 200 pages of TBoHL and then realized that the story wasn't going anywhere, just towards some dead-end meanless MC kills the final boss sort of ending. A similar thing happened with Consciousness Unbound. I haven't done enough planning, or enough thinking about the story to really make it good. And while vanity makes me wish the story had a higher rating, if I were to rate it myself I'd give it at best 3.5, and honestly, that's being generous. I might not even read it myself. I want to go back, revise, edit, plan and think more, and take my time to write a truly good story.

So I guess that brings me to my next point. I'm going to quit Royal Road for a while. I'm not going to start publishing some half-baked epic with no endpoint in sight, as I've tried and failed twice. Instead, I'm going to plan, write, revise, and really take my time to make a complete story before I publish here. And yes, if you think you're misinterpreting, that means I'm going to write the entire story before I publish it here. I might not be back for years.

If you've stuck with me for this long and are still checking this, thank you. I feel like I owe it to anyone that actually read my works to publish this. I'm sorry for not being able to deliver this story to you on a weekly basis. But while it may not be done any time soon I promised I would write it and someday I will post it on this website.