Revival:

Hi guys, I know this has been a pretty long hiatus on my end (and certainly far, far longer than I'd intended), but I am finally back and ready to start writing again. However, over the past couple of years, and especially with re-reading and experimenting with the comments of my beta (White Heron) I've found my style of writing change quite a bit, to the point where there are parts in Fallen Heights that I now cringe at when I read.

So I'm going to reboot the series - tidy up the prose, purge the ridiculously and randomly shoehorned-in Japanese, etc. This shouldn't take too long for the first few chapters, since I think the bulk of what I wrote is still good enough to stand with only a bit of tinkering around the edges. I've decided to stick with my original plot instead of conforming to Kishi's, so everything that's happened in Part 2/Shippuden, and especially from the revelation about the Akatsuki Leader onwards, might very well not happen or be referenced here. As an example, I'm using the (Acknowledged as fanfiction) "Legend of the Tailed Beasts" by Dyroness for my Bijuu, rather than Kishimoto's (awesome as Killer B's Oxtopus is, most of his Bijuu have failed to impress me), since quite a few events in the future of the fic as I'd planned it used those instead of the Canon Bijuu.

I'm going to keep up the old Fanfic, if only because the reviews in it never fail to get me inspired to keep writing (I know it's pretty much a cliché, but we authors do really like waking up to see we've got a bunch of new reviews overnight : D), but the first chapter of the reboot should be up hopefully over the weekend.

Hope you're all as excited about it as I am - I promise to make the fic worth the wait.

He Who Writes Monsters