RiverAlpha

Hello everyone! It's been a while! I just finished taking the JLPT N3 (god was it hard) and since I have a bit of free time, I might try to write a bit for the ToG story.
          
          For the meantime, I've unpublished it since I've made quite a few changes which I need time to write down. I can't edit it in one go, so I decided to take the story down for the meantime.
          
          When I look back at what I wrote, I thought to myself: "Wow. I wrote this? This is such substandard shit with no life in it." So yeah, as short as it was, I decided to write better characterization.

If anyone's reading my ToG fic, I'll be making some changes. It's been a while and after reading some of the more recent chapters, I feel like I can take stuff in a direction different from what I originally planned.

Some updates coming up:
          
          1) I'm taking the JLPT N4 in around 6 weeks and after that I expect some degree of freedom for a while (maybe), so you might hear from me soon.
          
          2) Unfortunately, for the near and forseeable future, I might not be writing anything related to COTE. This is due to the fact that I have not touched anything COTE for the vast majority of the year. I have written some stuff for the next Returners chapter but I might just wait until Y3 before I write anything more.
          
          3) I have a new fanfic planned and am currently writing a chapter. Unfortunately, it's not COTE, but it is of a rather well-known fandom.  It's rather action-oriented so I hope I can do it some justice. (Hint: It's not Japanese in origin).

Just an update on what's been going on with my stories.
          I'm not in (much of) a funk anymore but I've been really busy (yeah yeah, same old same old) learning Japanese (I'm taking the next JLPT N4 exam). In addition, my interest in COTE has been at an all time low (until something really big happens).
          
          If I ever do go back to writing, it'll strictly only be for Returners and maybe the quality will be a lot lower since I'll be releasing without much beta (meaning you might see awkward sentences, spelling mistakes, etc that I miss).
          
          I do have half of the next chapter written but it's not really at a point where I can even partially release it. Maybe sometime this year.... maybe.

Dude…. You updating returners
          

I don't want to sound pesky at all, but I was wondering if The Returners fanfiction was discontinued?

I updated my personal discord link (available for 7 days).
          Occasional writing streams for updating and writing (mostly on Returners for now. Secrets gonna take a backseat for a while due to time-constraints).
          Maybe even reactions on other fanfics.

Returners Prologue has been updated and edited with new content (and some content being deleted).
          
          Other chapters will be edited in turn when I get around to them.

Returners likely to get some updates soon (probably edits deleting parts).

Hello everyone.
          
          It is with great sadness that I am officially placing all of my fanfics on indefinite hiatus. As it has been over a year since I last updated, I thought it would be best to just tell you that I may not be back to writing for a long long time.
          
          As some of you may know, I'm a working adult, so I've had to deal with a lot of stuff in terms of work which made it hard for me to update (or even write at all). 
          
          Work aside, I recently also got diagnosed with clinical depression. Adjusting to learning I was depressed was and still is one of the greatest difficulties I am experiencing. It has affected all aspects of my life, especially writing. Because of this, I haven't even touched anything remotely related to COTE for the longest time and I expect I will not be touching anything related to it aside from the summaries of volumes and the upcoming anime.
          
          I hope everyone can understand my situation and I wish all you guys the best. I still do have a Discord channel where you can drop by and chat for random things. I also do give life advice (and probably writing advice too) there.
          
          Anyways, that's all. Good luck to the rest of you out there. River signing off (for the foreseeable future).
          
          PS: Please note that I am NOT letting any other author continue my work as I do one day wish to continue them when I am in a much better state, so if anyone does, please notify me so I can talk to them about it.