Hey, guys. I said I wouldn't be able to put out a chapter until last week, and I was, but I took that week to blow off some steam and now I am busy again, with no expectation of being able to put out steady chapters until July. So after a lot of thought, argument, and procrastination, I have decided to end Overpowered.

There are a lot of factors going into this decision, and I already gave school as a major one, but the largest reason in this decision is that I felt I've made too many mistakes in the early chapters, to the point where it is impossible for me to salvage/re-spin no matter how much I think about it. Solera is totally helpless for the first fifty chapters. He is completely unable to influence the storyline; things happen to him, and he doesn't make things happen. I underestimated just how frustrating this could be to some readers, and to myself, and have come to realize that this is a bad strategic move as a plot device. I thought it would be necessary if I wanted to set up future plot points and smoothly worldbuild, but those should never take precedence over the present plot. And I have not been able to think up any fixes in the past three months thinking about this.

Another reason is that I never felt any of my writing past the first thirty chapters gave off the impacts I intended them to. I don't know how to explain this, but what I see in my head and what I feel when I read my own chapters feel off. I'm unable to actualize the scenes I have in my head, and it's made me feel my work is really unsatisfactory to myself. Every major occurrence that I've planned out, with the exception of Rasmurnov's first execution, turned out drastically different when I decided to write it, sometimes for the better as with the possession scene, but never in a way that I can predict. And thats been frustrating me when I try to plan for future chapters. Even this piece of writing feels like I've been detracting from my point, somehow in some way.

The final major reason is that though I cannot fix what Overpowered is now, I have what I believe is an excellent rewrite model that addresses all of my criticisms towards my own work, and brings a thousand new things to the table. But the thing is, Overpowered is already a rewrite of another project of mine. No matter how good I think this new rewrite might be right now, I don't actually know if it will turn out to be something I want to rewrite again. With the still-true fact that I won't be able to get out chapters in a timely fashion and my preference to have the power to change all previous chapters any time I want without having to notify any readers, I don't think I will publish this story until/if I'm done.

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I still think Overpowered has a lot of potential, especially in this current arc. But faced with my current schedule and with my inability to actualize what I want to happen, I don't think it can be done by the time I finish college, which was the original plan. So that I can concentrate on school, so that the readers don't get strung along, so that I can pivot to a new story in private, I have to axe Overpowered.

I think I'm ending it for the right reasons, for myself. But that doesn't change the fact that I'm screwing you guys. I wasted your times building this up, thousands of hours lost between all of your lives, and I'm unable to deliver. There's no excuse for that. I'm sorry. I'm sorry to all the awesome people I've met on these forums who gave Overpowered a chance, and to the people who took time to critique my work and give feedback to me, and to the future authors who will never get certain readers because I caused them to lose faith in online publishing. I'm sorry.

EDIT: If anyone is interested in reading the new version of Overpowered if I release it, please PM me a way to contact you. This project could take years to bear fruit and some of you may leave Royalroad in that time, so something like an email would be good for the long term. This is the best I can promise right now. Once again, I'm sorry and ashamed for ending Overpowered like this.