From Ashes to Dust

by joecola00

Remnant is a world housed by the remains of a people constantly warring with soulless monsters that would see them extinct. Yet they aren't the only remnants on their planet. Remnant is far older than any of its denizens could imagine, older than even their Brother Gods. One of these relics of their past is not as dead as the rest, and its awakening will bring fate to its knees...

64. Announcements

Hey everyone. It's been a while. Like, a really fucking long time. Over a year. A decent amount of that is my own fault. This'll get posted on FAtD on FFN and AO3, and OEaA on AO3 as well.

So, I got three things I wanna talk about:

First, Rooster Teeth fucking imploded. Kinda expected that for a while now. As of me writing this, the fates of all of RT's animated series are up in the air, RWBY included. It is entirely possible that we'll never see a conclusion to the series, which is a real fucking shame, but at least Volume 9 ended things on a high note, both in-world and in terms of quality. (If RWBY makes a comeback I really hope they don't forget Neo exists). That being said, RWBY was one of a small number of things in RT that was profitable, so I'm all but positive that once the rights to the show are up in the air, that someone will end up buying the rights to RWBY and will at least attempt to continue the show. Whether or not that will do well, and whether or not they'd recast characters, I can't say, although I really hope they don't recast the VA's. If I was a betting man, and I'm not because my luck is shit, I would bet that after the Justice League Xover, that Warner Bros will end up purchasing RWBY, and I'd also bet that they'd at the very least look into acquiring Red vs Blue and/or Gen:Lock.

Second: I've been having a really rough time churning out the sequel. I've gotten to chapter 31, and I've almost exceeded the word count of the prequel before getting to Haven, so my stubborn ass doesn't want to give up after all that effort. Sunken Cost Fallacy and all that. Part of its down to a lot of IRL BS, mostly problems of the 1st world variety, and part of it is down to constantly fighting my chronic plasteel shortage in Warhammer 40k: Darktide (please let me sell my thousands of diamantine in exchange for plasteel FatShark, I beg you). So this kinda brings me into my third point.

I don't think it's fair to you guys, gals, and whatever-the-Izalith-you-identify-as's that it's been this long and I haven't given you guys anything. At the same time, I'm really loath to start publishing before I actually finish the 2nd book in its entirety. But, on the third, mutant hand with a mind of its own, I distinctly remember that the earlier chapters of the sequel were written with much more ease because I was motivated by feedback in the form of reviews and comments on From Ashes to Dust. And I am very much out of any ideas to break my creative deadlock. So after a LOT of internal deliberation, I've come to a decision on a compromise. I have 30 chapters dead and done, and a 31st a third complete. The next 8 chapters, including Haven and the shitshow at the Belladonna Manor, are outlined, with a concrete plan of what I want to happen, if very lacking on the how of it happening and details in general.

I'm gonna start uploading Of Embers and Aura. But only biweekly (on Fridays), with no bonus chapters per 100 reviews. If I did the math right, that gives me about 15 months of backlog to work with while I can push myself to keep going on the sequel. I'll make chapter 1 an exception, publishing that the day I upload this and then I'll wait for 2 weeks after that week to publish chapter 2 (March 29th, to be precise), and then continue on every other week (April 12th, April 26th, etc). I'm also gonna admit that I'm a very forgetful person, and will sometimes forget stuff even if I set an alarm for it. So, if I forget to upload on a Friday that I was supposed to, feel free to PM me so I get notifications in my email to tell me off for forgetting. But only do that if Saturday rolls around and I haven't uploaded. Because depending on when/if I remember, I might upload a chapter at 3:00pm, or at 11:53pm as I go "Oh shit!" right before midnight. When I finish the story, I'll go back to a weekly upload schedule

Oh yeah, I almost forgot I'm on the funny Pat website… because FFN doesn't let you type out its actual name. I'll be putting the next chapter up there, and will continue to have 1 chapter ahead over there, if anyone's interested. Keep in mind that that's not a paywall in the literal sense, because if you just wait you'll get that same content for free, but at the same time, I'm not gonna say no if you're so impatient you're willing to pay me a couple dollars a month to read some text a bit sooner than the plebeians you look down upon.

So uh, that's it, I guess. Within a half hour of this going up, I'll have the prologue to OEaA and Ch 1 uploaded on both FFN and AO3, and will then upload every 2 weeks starting from the 29th onwards.

Wish me luck with my writing, I suppose… no seriously, while you don't have to send me a good luck PM, my luck is crappy enough that I'd appreciate a quick mental 'Good luck writing' in your thoughts.

Have a great day everyone, and don't you dare go hollow.