Dark Lightning

by WinterRuneWolf

Kura Rai was born different from other faunus. It was unusual enough that his father was human, but he and others would eventually see that he was much more than just a faunus. Under threat of being used for his power, he flees the life he had always known and is eventually discovered by Salem. Could their meeting be life-changing for more than just him? AU Villainess Harem fic.

9. Hiatus Update

Hello everyone WRW here. I wanted to provide for you a quick update about the hiatus I announced at the beginning of last year.

Now before anyone panics, this is not a cancellation announcement. I still very much wish and intend to continue writing and producing more chapters of both Fallen Snow and Dark Lightning. That being said, life has been very adamant about not letting that happen.

Last year I began a new job and it allowed for me to move, a wish that I had been striving for several years prior to this change. However as a result, my creative time was drastically reduced. I had fully intended that I would get used to the new job, get the beginning learning pains out of the way and return to writing at the start of this year... which has obviously not occurred.

This job has turned out much more stress-inducing than my previous employment. Which first I will say not in the way that it has negatively impacted my health in any meaningful way, but it has made being productive on my creative ventures basically impossible. Even writing this update has been done with purposeful intent away from time that I traditionally have been using for de-stressing. Though I have been putting this off long enough as is and you all as the readers that have giving me drive in the past for continuing, deserve to know the reason behind why I have failed to provide on the long awaited update to my stories.

I had fully intended that even if it was slower, I would manage to write chapters during my hiatus and be able to provide a resounding return of multiple chapters at once. That... did not occur at all. I can't say I have been able to put a single word to page for what comes next in either of my stories. Even when a muse has struck me over this past year, it was all for jotting down thoughts on original story ideas outside of my published works; but even those have not become anything meaningful outside of some general worldbuilding and framework smoothing.

It is still my hope that I will be able to break my hiatus sometime this year, and hopefully if I manage it once then the chapters that follow will be easier to continue flowing. Even managing this update is a big win for me in breaking past the cycle of stagnation I have found myself in. I do deeply and sincerely apologize that you all have been in the dark for so long on this.

I hope that this announcement provides some assurance to those that feared my stories would end in the 'cancelled in all but confirmed by the author' category of stories that inevitably grow to countless numbers on any story posting site. My stories will never be given that indignity.

I will be back, and next time...

You'll be seeing it with a new chapter number.

Stay awesome everyone. WRW, out.