Crow Thorne

I had to postpone the SAO story, I've tried rewriting what I've had several times and I'm just not satisfied, so I'll keep you updated on a possible release, may take a while however.
          
          Currently, I have 2 projects I will be releasing instead, that are much more flushed out and have art pre-designed already for both stories, despite one story being concept art not commissioned, I can assure you that these stories will be released, but with slower schedules as not to burn myself out. I'm quite disappointed with how I've handled releases recently, but after working and reworking my SAO story I'm confident I can make better content and deliver it: On Time.

Small update, I've got 4 chapters currently finalised 2 more to finalise before the release - however I find myself wanting to write more and more so here's what I'm planning on doing: Releasing 10 chapters over the day of release and following days doing 2 chapters per day. During that time I'll be working on chapters 11 and 12, so the releases after week 1 will slow down a little bit.
          
          Unfortunately I will say this now, it's very difficult given the source material and the story to gap a 2 year period without it feeling a little fast, however I aim for this first arc to sit at around 25-35 chapters depending on how well the story flows.
          Again I am pulling from the source material of 2 separate canons and trying to mesh it together so please bear with me to start with, just finding my footing with writing full time again. Having said that I am pretty confident that the intro whilst being a little quick will jump to where the real difficult journey begins for the MC so, when it releases I hope you will enjoy my minds recreation in Sword Art Online: Altered Futures

Just waiting on some Illustration work, and I'll be releasing my newest work, and expect it to be one hell of a journey.
          
          Sword Art Online, for me, changed the way I watched shows and read novels and really got me into the whole idea of VR, but for me, I wasn't 100% fulfilled. Since I first saw it, I've read the web novels, rewatched the show and finally decided I wanted to do something... special.
          
          So here we are, with this announcement, I wanted to announce my take on the story, enter Sword Art Online: Altered Futures. This story I'll be telling doesn't follow the show and web novels alone, nah, this combines the Show, The Novels and the GAMES! so get ready for my biggest project I'll probably ever do, spanning over 12 Arcs.
          
          I've been looking forward to announcing this one for a while, just need to sort out some Illustrations and I'll be releasing the first 6 chapters when I have it done, and then I'll be doing weekly updates of a chapter minimum, and most likely 2 chapters.
          
          This is more a passion project for me, more than anything else, but I do hope you all enjoy this.
          
          Crow X

Had some life stuff happen, mid way through April the first 3 chapters of the new story will be released, sincere apologies for the delays.
          
          I've also redesigned some stuff in my spare time in regards to characters and a few new ones that will be introduced later down the line.
          
          And despite however many readers this story gets this is most likely going to be my best work yet, and I'm just looking forward to releasing it fully as it won't have a set chapter amount rather I'll be playing it release to release, it will be longer than 10-12 chapters however.

Apologies I have released it a bit late, it was "supposed" to auto release but I might not have clicked the option. But either way, without further ado, I present the Prologue to Life N' Death: Rotation (Reimagined)

To give everyone an update, I have made a great recovery, my mental health and physically health has begun to improve as I started dieting, reducing my soda intake and other things, my weight is now in a healthy bracket and my motivation for writing has fully returned.
          
          The first part of my new story is already written up, however I won't be releasing it just yet, I have a few people doing some pre release feedback as well as official art being commissioned, so I will post another update when its ready to go. Thank you to you all for sticking by me, and I hope you enjoy Life N' Death Rotation (Reimagined)
          
          (Its reimagined as I actually scrapped the original idea, and rebuilt it with a similar premise but in a different setting)

Due to mental health reasons my work was put on hold, I went through a rough period, but I'm doing better now. On top of that I also revised the whole storyline of Life an' Death: Rotation and I wasn't reading back through it all and thinking, yeah I'd enjoy reading this, so I decided to reimagine it. Keep the premise and events the same, but make it a bit more fantasy than before, so thats been the extra delay. I do intend to have the first parts released by January 1st, which gives me time to monitor my own mental health as well as make sure the content I release is upto the standard I want it to be. Thank you for you're patience and I hope you're all doing well.

So to keep everyone up to date, I am currently timelining and pre planning events in the story, I wanna do this right and make sure its both entertaining and interesting to read so as for a release date I currently don't have one in mind, any artwork for the story will be done within a couple of months as I have an artist in mind and I trust her art capabilities so I am waiting for a good opportunity to commission a character or two.
          
          You can expect actual updates going forward, and hopefully this is a good way of keeping the progress of the story's creation available to everyone.

Starting soon, I will be releasing my new Original Story called Life an' Death: Rotation, I am waiting on some commission work, as I will be commissioning character art for this story. I have been gone for 2 years, I said a lot of things, did even less, but this story will be the beginning of a new era so to speak, an era of my own stories and creativity. I'll be limiting my uploads and chapters done per month as I burnt out after my first story, so you can expect a chapter a month, split in 2, each part will be around 2000 words long, and I don't currently have an idea how many chapters I'll be releasing at this time, it will be over 12 I can confirm. I won't be incorporating smut in my work, but their will be swearing and some gore and action scenes, and aside from that I don't have too much more on the update side of things.
          
          I would like to apologise for the lack of comms, story writing and, in a sense, effort as well in the last 2 years. I was actually writing up new stories, but I kept them as drafts and every time I was 3 to 4 chapters in I just lost focus and interest and I would rather not release an unfinished story.
          
          All in all, I have a lot of work ahead of me, and granted I'm able to meet the expectations I'm setting for myself and from others, I look forward to rebooting my writing. With this all said hope everyone has a great day/night and peace.

You're still alive, it's been 2 years and nothing my dear author!