Hey Guys.

This has both been a very easy, and a very difficult decision to make. Over the past two weeks I've been carefully inspecting the story, the world, and the characters, and I've come to a difficult realisation. I have fallen into the same trap that so many isekai novels do (for which I quite rightly despise them). I have created a generic, forgettable world.

I've created a world that is bland, characterless, and most of all, forgettable. The world blends too many elements, and lacks a distinctive character, most of all, it lacks the necessary limitations that a good world must have. By blending together elements of the ancient and the modern in the way that I have, I have built a world that doesn't have character, in exchange for a world that doesn't challenge me to come up with good explanations for being able to do certain things. The world feels shallow, convoluted, and directionless.

The societies, the cultures, and the landscapes I have built are similarly shallow and lacklustre. I have a great story in my head, but not the canvas paint it on.

This is where the easy part of the decision comes in. I want to deliver the best possible novel I can, and in order to do that, I have to rewrite almost everything about the world within which the story takes place, the actual world, the societies, the cultures, the time-period, and the people. But this is also where the hard part of the decision lies.

This is no easy task, nor is it a simple undertaking. It will require that I begin from scratch again, and recreate the world within which my characters will live, and within which the story will play out. This won't be quick to do, and will require that I stop working on the story, and put it on hiatus for several months while I do so.

It is clear from this post, what decision I have come to. And it will take effect immediately. I know how much people dislike it when something they have been following, something they have an interest in, is suddenly halted half-way through. I have been on the other end of this situation many times as well. But I do not feel comfortable with, nor am I able to, continue to work on something I am dissatisfied with. This is something I have to do.

I can promise you, however, that when this novel returns, it will be better, stronger, and more intriguing than ever before, and it will certainly be worth the wait.

For the time being then, this will be the last post I put up. I wish you all of the best, and hope to see you again soon-ish.

Kind Regards

Shojiro