Hello everyone! I have two things I want to say.
1. I wanted to let everyone know my new penname, VyStarlit, has launched its first story today. It's a LitRPG called Wayfarer's Guild. I'll add a link in the author's comments for those who are interested. Some people were curious about it so I thought I would make an official announcement.
2. What's going to happen to Illusion/Core?
The short version is that Illusion/Core will be launching under the new pen name of VyStarlit but probably not for a long while
The long version:
Illusion/Core is a passion project of mine. I love the story and fully plan to continue it. Before I do I want to spend time making it a stronger, better story. The story is supposed to follow Raven as she grows into her power and several of the mysteries surround it and the post-apocalyptic world she lives in. When I started writing this story, I was in a tough time in my life and several personal things happened to cause me to take a hiatus. On top of this, when I felt like I would be able to at least start writing again the pandemic happen. I think we can all relate to how the pandemic has affected our lives.
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In any case, I decided to focus on writing a different story while working on developing Illusion/Core. I have had a lot of times where I started writing and had to stop because the things happening in my life. So when I decided to launch VyStarlit, I wanted to make sure I had a story I felt I could write reliably with a backlog in case I have tough times. This is why I decided to write Wayfarer's Guild.
Why not Illusion/Core? The story has so many layers to it that it takes a lot more time to write and develop so instead of rushing the story and causing the quality to fall, I rather be patient and develop the story into something I'm proud of because Illusion/Core means a lot to me. In the end, that means that yes I will be continuing Illusion/Core and I will definitely put it on RR but it will be a while before I have enough backlog to release it since I want to make sure it is a quality fic. How long that will take? I'm not sure but when I do release it you will at least know that it won't fall into another hiatus.
I will be keeping this version of Illusion/Core up until the new launch is announced. So those who follow this story, I will make one last announcement on this account when the new version of Illusion/Core comes out but it won't be for a long while. Thank you all for reading Illusion/Core. It has given me so much joy to have you as my readers and I hope when Illusion/Core comes out once again you will find it is an even better story than you imagined.