Well, I bet the last thing most of you expected today was to hear from me after six years of (relative) silence. But here I am! A lot has happened in the past six years.

Let's get right into the meat and potatoes of this announcement. Basically, I have come to the decision to rewrite the Breath of Creation. Completely and utterly. My technical skills as a writer have improved, I like to think, and after much deliberation I decided to revisit a few old projects of mine and rework them. A few were duds, but self-indulgent. Some I scrapped entirely. A few were relatively successful for what they were and what I did with them. This one was among those I revisited, and I surprised myself by how quickly I fell into writing it again - the ideas were there, I just don't think my technical skills were up to snuff for how I wanted it to be when I first started writing this.

That said, the official RoyalRoad release will start on January 14th, 2025, though I have been and will continue to post a few chapters on SpaceBattles and Scribblehub under the name RE: Deity - The Breath of Creation until that time.

If you come across this story on Amazon, be aware that it has been stolen from Royal Road. Please report it.

Hilariously, at least to me, this is completely contradictory to my previous announcement. I did return. But I can't say I regret dropping it, either...I needed to grow as a writer and person. I don't think I was ready for a project of this magnitude, and that was intimidating. In some ways it still is, but...well. This time, I intend to finish. I've always known how this story will end. I'm confident now I can write it in a way that's pleasing to me...and I hope is pleasing to you all.

I will be available to answer questions for the next few days and such until I sink back into writing. I want to get a good backlog going this time, rather than just writing chapters and immediately posting them, and I've got a fair amount written but not as much as I want. Ideally, after an initial chapter dump, I'll get to posting two or so chapters a week.

See you soon!