Update
Hey everyone! It's been a while.
Sorry about the unexplained break from the series. I was okay, just had some family stuff come up and it took my attention away from writing, and when I came back, I realized I was having some severe motivation issues with Minute Mage. I'd always assumed these issues would solve themselves after taking a short break, but that has not seemed to happen. Unfortunately, writing Minute Mage has simply gotten harder and harder as I continue to do so. I think this is partially because of the fact that the beginning of the story was something I wrote several years ago at this point, and I've grown a lot as an author since then. There were foundational mistakes I made when writing early chapters that continue to make aspects of Minute Mage difficult to write today, and, while I enjoy writing something that puts my skills as an author to the test, being forced to constantly grapple with these issues every time I sit in front of a keyboard is mentally taxing.
Ultimately, I ended up making the decision to say this: I am taking an official break from Minute Mage. It'll be on hiatus, and I don't know when I'll return to it. I hope to continue the story someday---I still have a lot of ideas for what will happen next---but I'm not sure when that might be.
However, I am not quitting writing.
I waited a bit to make this announcement because I wanted to ensure I didn't leave you all without anything from me to read. And as of today, I finally have something for you---a brand new series, and one that I think is some of my best work yet.
A while back, just for fun, I decided to try spending some free time between chapters writing some new stories. And it turns out, I had a far easier time writing them than I did with Minute Mage. One of those ideas I decided to continue to develop, and it's recently reached a length of over 100,000 words---about an entire novel's worth of content. It's something I'm very proud of, and that I've been eager to share for a while now.
This story is posted elsewhere by the author. Help them out by reading the authentic version.
You can find the story here. As of me writing this announcement, it has ten chapters available on RoyalRoad, but as I said above, there's a lot more that I have ready to upload that'll be releasing in coming days.
Here's the synopsis: