Chapter 963: Dominique's Prowess

CREATORS' THOUGHTS

Dreyerboys

Hey, everyone. I come bearing bad news.

I regret to inform you all that, I may have to go on an indefinite hiatus for all my writing projects, including Ice Empress.

The past month has been... something, to say the least. Rather, 2024 has been rather chaotic for me, with each week worsening. Now, it's reached its breaking point.

There are already numerous personal and family problems that I won't get into here, but they make up for most of my stress.

I've been doing a lot of thinking these last few months. About my future, my career, and things of that nature. And I've come to a conclusion.

While I do love writing. I like to think of it as one of my passions. I enjoy the creative process, weaving plots and stories together, crafting characters and watching them grow... It's not wrong to say that I consider Mira, Maria, Dominique, Mika(from my other novel), Zayzal(from another novel), and the rest as my own little children.

But... it can't support me. Not just financially, but spiritually and physically.

Writing as a job takes up a significant amount of my time and daily brainpower. So much so, that other aspects of my life are severely limited and are failing. In turn, my own writing becomes more difficult and inconsistent.

My mind is cloudy, my body is heavy and getting unhealther by the day, and I'm not making enough money from it to make up for the losses.

(No joke. Over the last month, my average daily steps is below 750, with many days not even making it over 100. I'm not looking for sympathy or anything like that, this is just the reality.)

So, I've come to the conclusion that I need to change. I don't think I can write full-time anymore. Whether I can do it part-time remains to be seen, but right now, with how things are, I don't think I can do it at all.

Thus, I came to the difficult decision to go on a hiatus.

I know some of you may not like this decision, and trust me, I understand. I hate it too. I want to finish the story, to see Mira bloom into the character that I wanted her to be, but before that...

I have to get my life in order first.

I'm sorry that it's come to this. Thanks to everyone's support, I've been able to continue for this long. Honestly, I never thought I'd be doing this for so as many years as I did.

In the beginning, I wrote Ice Empress on a whim to help pass the time and because I wanted to read a specific type of FL novel, but it's grown so much that I can hardly believe it.

Thank you, everyone, for sticking with the story for so long. And I apologize for suddenly dropping this on you.

Best regards,

Dreyerboys