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I would like to remind all of my followers that I have moved everything over to my new profile! My username is: The Black Monsoon

I have cleared my library because of the following news. I am rebranding my profile/writing persona! Something that I will synchronize across multiple writing platforms (not just Inkitt). I hope you all understand! I will be transferring my library over to my new account over the next eight days. By April 1st, I will have a completely new look, new attitude, and fresh library (with quite a few new updates/uploads you've never seen before). I appreciate the constant support 😄 Hopefully, this decision will set my work before more eyes than it already has been. My new username is: @ShaunJacksonM (display name: The Black Monsoon). You will find one project already uploaded. But I will be updating the entire library over the course of the next week, so look forward to that. Things will be dealt with differently and more efficiently from now on.

I just unlocked the Story Crafter badge! 🚀

Errors & Exclusions
I've made one error among my announcements. I announced the uploading of "Story 15 - Comatose" when "Comatose" is actually the title of Story 16 in "The Lunar Ray Guild" series. Story 15 is actually titled "A Deadly Virus". I will be updating stories 11 through 13 very shortly for "The Lunar Ray Guild" as well as all the stories for "Tales from Lunar Ray". If I fall behind too much, I will post the next story parts tomorrow after work. Which is something I excluded from my announcement about the new posting schedule system. If I fail to upload/update the promised stories on Wednesday I 100% will on Thursday. If they are not uploaded within the next three hours you can expect the next parts tomorrow right after I get off work! :D Thank you!

I just unlocked the Reading Enthusiast badge! 🚀

Stories 1 - 10 have officially been updated for "The Lunar Ray Guild"! As announced in the most recent announcements, I will also be posting the updates for stories 11 - 13 as well as updating each part currently in "Tales from Lunar Ray" all by the end of the day, along with three new parts. Two parts for "The Lunar Ray Guild" and one new part for "Tales from Lunar Ray"! I hope you look forward to it as much as I am!

This is a look into the First Floor of the Lunar Ray Guildhall!

P.S. I meant to post these updates and announcements last night before I fell asleep, but I was honestly too tired, and it was getting very late.

Arc Three (and Previous Arcs)
I was honestly conflicted with how I should handle announcing arcs for "The Lunar Ray Guild" as I didn't want to run the risk of spoiling anything for the readers or giving away too much information that would have them quickly figure out where the rest of the story is going exactly. Especially when it comes to the second arc where we learn a lot more about Shanna Warsia and her prevailing dilemma. So, I have decided to come up with a way to provide information about future arcs without giving too much away in advance. First, I would like to start by recapping the first arc, providing a future outline of how the rest of the second arc will move along, as well as the future third arc where things become a whole lot more interesting, action-packed, and fast.

• The first arc introduces us to the World of Zonia, Lunar Ray, and Xander Prolly, the main protagonist of the series. It gives us a sense of how things generally work in their world, a little bit of guild lore here and there, with some understanding of the shared relationships between guild members! This was Arc 1: Introducing Xander Prolly.

• Arc 2 is called "The Lady of the Forest". We finally get to learn about Shanna Warsia and have a look into that head of hers and the things she's been struggling with for years. This arc is also very important in regards to worldbuilding and lore. So far, we've ridden up to Story 13 - The Devouring Spell. A powerful spell was cast that causes the earth to erupt around them and now Shanna and Xander are running to escape the natural onslaught. Soon I will be posting the next two stories in the series: "Story 14 - Return of the Lost" as well as "Story 15 - Comatose". Then the arc will conclude in three or four more stories.

• Soon Arc 3 will come out. Time will have passed, Xander and Shanna will have grown. And it's a question of whether they're ready. As this arc will define their future, not only as guild members but also as a team in general. Please look forward to "Arc 3 - The Lunar Games".

To go along with this announcement, I have also provided a look into the Lunar Ray Guild's interior setup. I will post several drawn maps to provide a visual of how the Lunar Ray Guild's floor plans are setup, the town as a whole, as well as a possible world map in the far future. (Maps will be provided for other projects as well, such as the World of Zynalta project I listed among the coming additions to my library) I hope you have read each and every announcement and update! Our journey begins anew and I can't wait to polish my name as a writer/author. I hope you guys will appreciate each and every story, poem, book, and piece of prose I write in the future!

Read 4 Reads

I'm aware that I've been absolutely terrible at keeping up with Read 4 Reads, which is why I'm no longer going to ask these authors to read my stuff and react if they don't want to. I honestly don't deserve it if I was unable to keep that consistency required of an author, especially one who promises to do the same in return for the sake of promoting and uplifting the written projects of another. Though, I will continue fulfilling my duty in the Read 4 Read that I had initially promised. As these authors do deserve the praise for writing these awesome projects! But if you do decide that you'd like to still critique, grade, and provide feedback for my works in spite of, I really appreciate you so much! Even when I don't deserve it so much, it means the world to me either way!

Reconfiguring Library & New Post Schedule
There are several works I will be updating, revising, adding, and deleting to my library as I see fit. I've created a new posting schedule for myself with hopes that I won't overwhelm myself this time with both writing and life. I will now share these updates in succession:

• Updates & Revisions | Of course, I will be first updating my two main projects: "The Lunar Ray Guild" and "Tales from Lunar Ray" before everything else. The Lunar Ray Guild will witness a revision of all current chapters (fixing of small errors, both grammatical and structural). Five chapters will be update each day for the next three days. (Yes, I know there are currently only thirteen chapters. In addition to updating all thirteen chapters, I will also be posting the next two stories in the series as I had promised a few months ago). Tales from Lunar Ray will witness revisions across all stories as well as an addition of one new story. All of these updates and uploads will occur by the end of Wednesday (meaning when I go to sleep Wednesday, which is usually by 2 to 3 A.M. CST on Thursday)

• Deletions | The only works that will be witnessing major changes are "Monsters Are Watching Me" as well as "Poetic Paradise". I am not happy with the current collection of "Monsters Are Watching Me" as some stories/poems were added for the sake of meeting the standards of a challenge several months ago. There may be mostly deletions to the work itself, but also uploads of one or two new parts. Of course, all of which will still fall under the theme of being revived poems and stories I wrote a while back. Poetic Paradise will witness the entire deletion of its first part as it disrupts the regular flow of the differing randomness of the second part where I had restarted the order of poetic forms via the list I concocted. (The poems in the first part may be included in a future project I have in the works). "The Love Note" will be temporarily unpublished and unavailable for a while until I reinstate it once everything else on my new writing schedule falls into line where I need them. "The Crimson Letters" and "Poetic Tributes" will both be deleted entirely from the platform. Of course, I have nothing against any of the poems I've written in both of the series, but there are so few parts in them and have met so little updates that I no longer find it feasible to keep them available. At least, not until I start updating them again, which probably won't be for a very long time.

• Additions | I plan to participate in both current February contests as well as the Sci-Fi contest due at the end of March. This will bring about the debut of three new projects: Heart and Soul (Forbidden Ink submission), World of Zynalta [name subject to change] (New Year, New Story submission), submission for Reach to the Infinity to be announced.

As for my new posting schedule: I will be introducing a new system of introducing new projects to my library without overwhelming myself completely with keeping up with everything all at once. Roundup Roulette will be something I work on each week. Five new projects will be announced at the start of March. On Sundays, a story will be chosen at random among the five. Whichever project it is will receive a new chapter/episodical update accordingly. At the conclusion of every arc/volume, a new project will be introduced to replace the one before. That way, it keeps a story in view of the reader to always enjoy. Of course, all projects posted in this manner will remain in the library, even after I switch to the next project. There will also be both weekly updates and monthly uploads/updates. Each week, I will upload new parts to "The Lunar Ray Guild" and/or "Tales from Lunar Ray" by the end of Wednesday. Contest submitted projects will also receive chapter updates by the same timeline. Each month, I will take time to update all poetry collections according to whatever new poems I wrote that month. Poetic Paradise will always be updated each month with a new upload of poems, at the very least with four new poems each month. The weekly uploads are effective immediately. The monthly updates and roundup roulette will begin at the start of March.

Ending Hiatus & Apologies
Salutations, readers, followers, acquaintances, and friends. My hiatus is officially over! I've slacked off long enough. Initially, I wanted to end my hiatus back in January but then I slacked off a week and then we got hit by the snowstorm which caused many power outages across our state. It took a whole week before we even got the power back on, but it definitely rekindled my flame for writing. And now I'm thrusting myself back into it full force! Which is why I would first like to begin by apologizing for the hiatus. Things were hectic toward the very end of the year and I couldn't deal with both the weekly updates and life at the same time during that period. Which is why I said I would hopefully have those things resolved by the start of the month and be able to continue along with my normal schedule. I'm sorry for my lack of diligence and consistency. I want to be much better this year about keeping up with schedules I set for myself, so please bear with me! For those of you awaiting my return (if there even is any) I really appreciate your patience. And for those who happen to find their way back toward my profile I am grateful for you giving my writing another chance! It means the world that I can have even a single reader at all. So, I ask that you keep reading and keep looking forward to more content out of me, and once again don't be afraid to give me your feedback and opinions. It will only help me to become a better future writer after all! I got a plethora of announcements to make to solidify my return with a strong start.