If you've been browsing my account in the time after this bulletin was posted, you may notice that certain areas of my profile have changed drastically. This is mainly the characters section, where projects like Forged From Dust are now listed under my Addendum subfolder instead of directly under Stories. Long story short, I've been burnt out with FFD in areas that fall outside of characters and (some) worldbuilding-related areas. At least for now, I'm putting the story on an indefinite hiatus as it just isn't fun for me and I don't want to keep stressing about it. I do these projects because I love creating, and while some parts of the creative process are messy, the process as a whole shouldn't be this stress-inducing. Especially with my projects, as they're passion projects and the chance I'll make them legitimate is still up in the air.

So... What now?

I've recently shifted my attention to a relatively new project that I'm dubbing as STITCHED TOGETHER!. It's meant to be a meta project/ARG, being about a fictitious show and treating said show like it actually existed. The show itself was a kid's cartoon airing in the mid-2000s, but was canceled due to complications and controversy. So another layer to this will be the reason for cancelation, the idea of having scrapped/changed story beats, and a few characters being intended to be part of the real world. I don't know where this project will go as it'll be relatively self-contained. But this is something that I've missed in story creation for a while, and this really hones in on my passions.

Thank you for taking the time to read this. I promise the FFD characters aren't going anywhere, they're just being shelved as I'm completely burnt out by that project and can't expand more on it. MotW is still around, though has always been intended to be a secondary/small project, so it's relatively unaffected by this change.