A word to everyone.

Hey, all of my followers and everyone who has read my stories.

I thought I'd make a blog post to talk about a few things. The first, and probably most important, is that I'm not dead, not by a long shot. I know many of you are probably waiting on me to upload a sequel to "Dawn of a bright, new life", which I promise I'm working on, and many are waiting for updates to ".hack//Secrets of Equestria" and "Assist Me!! Princess Luna!".

The truth is, my life has become far more complicated than I ever wanted it to be. People at my job are being more dramatic than they need to be, I screwed up my second semester of college and my family is... well, I'm not going to talk about that. Suffice to say, my writing has been extremely off and I've been overwhelmed by a lot of stuff. To combat it, I've taken to writing out ideas for yet more stories I could work on and to an extent it does help, getting those ideas out and on paper. Despite that, it's all of you have also suffered from lack of updates and word on what I'm doing because, let's be honest, I'm not a guy who blogs about every. Single. Thing. I'm not vocal. So I apologize for lack of communication.

Time to talk about my stories.

Concerning ".hack//Secrets of Equestria"... it's good and popular enough, but I read it and think about what I wrote as opposed to what I had planned and I realize... I screwed up along the road; there's too much exposition where it doesn't need it and not enough where it does and it's bogged down, both in location and time frame. So my solution is to put it on hiatus and start from scratch. I'm leaving the prologue up, as that's exactly how I wanted to start the story, but the rest of the chapters will be taken down and reworked to have better flow. For all of you have read and liked this story, I both thank you and apologize, but I promise the story will be better for the reconstruction so I beg for your patience in this time of transition.

"Assist Me!! Princess Luna!" is going to have an update soon, a kind of PSA episode announcing future plans for the story. I have a fun little idea planned and if it pans out, I may do something extra special. I'll also move to rework some of the episodes to have better writing.

Last but not least, "Dawn of a bright, new life". There are numerous fixes and tweaks I'm going to make to this story, such as a uniform chapter title format for each, reworking the story for better flow and so on. This will be done in preparation for the sequel, titled "Dawn: Wayward Hearts"... sounds cheesy, I know, but isn't that the point of romance story titles? Regardless, I will do my best to improve the quality in the time I can spare for it.

Now... this next bit is going to be hard for me, but I feel it must be done. A while back, I made plans for something I couldn't follow through on. Frankly, with everything that had been going on at the time, I shouldn't have even considered attempting it, at least on the scale I wanted. For those that I had gotten hyped on the idea, a group dedicated to bronies gaming with each other, I deeply apologize for not following up on it. I've also made a number of promises that I wasn't able to follow up on either, and that bothers me on a scale of epic proportions. For that, I'm not sure I could apologize enough. You deserve to be helped by someone who doesn't simply try to help but by someone who can, and by someone who is actually capable of keeping their word. I am deeply, truly sorry and I ask for your forgiveness. I will make efforts to be better, both for you and for myself.

With that out of the way, I'd like to end this post by doing something I haven't done in a while.

For everyone who has read my stories, regardless of whether or not you liked them, I thank you immensely simply for giving them the time of day. For those of you who favorite them, I thank you for thinking they looked interesting enough to want to read and track. For those of you who like my stories, I thank you greatly for your appreciation and for believing that my stories are good enough to draw your attention. For those who follow me, I apologize again for making you wait to see more stories from me and I wish to thank you and I am eternally grateful to you for taking an interest in me and my work. Finally, for those of you who have disliked my stories, I am sorry they were not to your satisfaction and I thank you for thinking they were at least interesting enough to warrant a look. I am grateful to each and every one of you, thank you.

And with that, I'm off. Have a nice day, everyone!

- Hallowedsoul

Edit: I almost forgot, if anyone has any questions, feel free to ask. I know I typically don't make it clear in my stories that I want people to comment and ask questions, but the reason for that is because I don't want to make it seem like I'm begging for attention, which is also why I don't make a lot of blog posts. Have a nice day, everyone! Love ya!