This is not a cancellation. The story will return.

The story doesn't have much content at the moment, so I know most of you won't care, but I'm leaving this update here for those of you who do care and are looking forward to more.

For those of you who aren't following my Patreon, there's been a bit of a change of plans regarding when The Crystern: Heart of Adventures will return. As I mentioned before, this story was an on-the-spot thing I came up with for the April 2021 RoyalRoad Writathon. However, the story grew into something different, becoming much bigger than it was originally intended.

Originally, my plan was to spend most of this month (July 2021) working on TCHoA in order to get it ready for the August return I'd mentioned.

However, this is also my newest story, and I have about 10 stories including it that need working on, including several others active/hiatused on RR or with promised rewrites. There are six rewrites promised and five active stories that need continuing from what I can think of off the top of my head. This list only includes stories that I have actually posted at some point, whether they're still up or not. It does not include any stories I promised, but never started posting.

This story was, again, also not supposed to be a longer one - maybe 20-30 chapters was the original intent. Now it's looking like it might be hundreds. As such, I've decided to put TCHoA on hold for a bit more to get working on these older stories that need continuing or their rewrites done.

I'm going to focus on getting a few of these shorter ones out of the way first - I've actually already started one of them. Once I've gotten a few of them off my plate, I'll resume TCHoA, as it's going to end up being a much longer one, and that will allow me to devote more time to working on it.

I don't know when this story will return, but I do plan on returning to it - I enjoy writing Skyler's story and have a ton planned for it. When it's ready to return, I'll post an update for those of you who care.