YourHeartbreakinApril

Just updated Doki Doki: Dusk to Dawn for the first time since March! If you enjoyed it, please read the latest chapter.

Wow, it has been a really long time. Since I last wrote here, I've finished secondary school (high-school as some of you might call it) and started an Arts degree in college (university) with an English major!
          
          While I would love to have been here with you all during the time that was taking place, unfortunately, my priorities needed to be elsewhere. However, I'm finally starting to settle and I've been thinking a lot about Your Lie in April again for some odd reason.
          
          Here's what I've come up with. I was not happy with the way "I Found You in April" was going, in all honestly. I was rushing stuff to get chapters out and I feel that came across in my writing. As of now, the original is on an indefinite hold.
          
          What I've done in the meantime to try and combat that is a revision of the original. I will go back through every single chapter, re-publishing them as I finish editing them to the standards I hold for myself. I understand that some of you may not care anymore but if you do at all, please follow the new book. It will smooth over plot-holes and the writing, once I catch up to where I stopped, will be nowhere near as dark but it will retain its emotional edge.
          
          Some parts of the original will also be revised. I won't say what as I honestly won't know until I'm rewriting the chapters but the structure (the constant swapping between perspectives I did) will be fixed and little mistakes like that. I don't aim to change anything major right now but anything could happen.
          
          For those who might worry about it, I am not deleting the original. The work some of you came to love and always supported (which I will forever be grateful for) will remain as it is.
          
          Anyways, if you could make sense of all that, thank you for reading and I hope you'll give me another chance to make a half-decent story that is worthy of all your support and kindness!
          
          Thanks again,
          JJ

5 months have passed since the last chapter.
          
          I'm not promising regular updates but I decided to go back and make some edits to the chapter I had started ages ago and I came up with what I just published.
          
          It is not fantastic by any means but it's all I have for this story right now. I hope you can at least semi-enjoy it.
          
          Thank you for your support!

Hey! It's been a bit. The whole website has changed since I was last here! How amazing is it that you can support your favorite creators even further if you wish!
          
          Anyway, I'm not here to talk about that. I'm here to talk in general. My life, what's been going on, what kind of headspace I'm in and that kind of thing.
          
          So a lot of you have left comments or messaged asking me for updates. I'm glad to say, I have shaken most of the issues that had a hold of me. I am in a much better headspace and for the first time in years, I am genuinely happy. I'm almost finished in High School which means I can move on to college but that also means exam season is coming, fast. I may not get to make the comeback I was hoping to but we'll see.
          
          As of now, my main story is Dusk to Dawn. I'm considering changing the title to just that. I will remove any reference to Doki Doki and make it a story of its own with its own characters, world and plot as was originally the case. I don't want it to be a DDLC fanfic just for tags to get traffic so it won't be.
          
          That means that the IFYIA hiatus will continue indefinitely as I view that as being best for my health.
          
          I am hoping to get into an Arts course in college and Major in English so I can fulfill my dream of being a published author. It is ambitious and I have to get better with deadlines but I'm going to give it everything I have! Most of my one-shots and whatever I write will likely end up here for criticism so be ready for that.
          
          As I said in my last announcement, I do not intend on setting strict deadlines and then I won't enjoy writing. When I feel creative, I will write my heart out until it is gone. That is what I intend to do. If I don't publish anything new for a bit, I've likely hit a slump but I will get out of it!
          
          I do hope you can bear with me as I try to get back into this!
          
          Thank you for your continued support,
          JJ

Hey we both belong to a demographic that has been colonized by the Brits

Hi! How are you? 

Heya! It's me again. So, I know its been a while and I'm done making excuses for myself. I can't set deadlines when it comes to my writing. I just dodge it and keep dodging until the last minute. It isn't fair to tell you guys to expect something when you and I both know it probably isn't coming.
          
          I don't know how I'm going to do things from now on but I want to better my writing style. I want to write stories because I want to. Not because I feel obligated to. Don't get me wrong, sharing IFYIA has been a great opportunity to get some feedback and improve my writing but I also associate it with a dark time in my life and the 1 year anniversary of the first chapter being released is soon. I don't know what I'll do regarding it but I would like to do something if I have the time/inspiration to do so.
          
          For right now, I have published a new chapter in my DDLC fanfic which technically isn't even a fanfic as it could very well be a standalone story with no ties to anything if I wanted it to but it feels better to think of characters I already know when writing so I get a bit of inspiration.
          
          IFYIA is not dead but its hiatus is still pretty much continuing until further notice. I don't have a lot of inspiration for it and, if I'm being honest, most of the time, the headspace I need to get into to write for it is not a good one and it is something I've worked hard to remove myself from over the last 6 months.
          
          I might rework it eventually and I will definitely get around to finishing it but I also have new projects I want to work on.
          
          If you want to leave now or hate me for leaving something, temporarily, unfinshed I completely understand but if you do stick around, please know just how grateful I am for your support!
          
          Thanks again,
          JJ

Secondly, for those of you that actually see this, I'm not sure if I have already said this or not but I have been working on a little project that isn't writing related behind the scenes and I'm trying to move it from the pre-production stage into production!
          
          If anyone reading this is interested in creating a community of sorts on Reddit, you can message me here or on any of my social medias. The project is ambitious but I am hoping beyond hope that something good might come from it.
          
          As I said, I'm just getting it together in my head so I still need to come up with a name and admins and all that good stuff which is why I am appealing to people to help make this idea a reality. If you have any geeky interests at all in mediums  such as anime then message me and we can talk about this stupid idea of mine!

Heyyyyyyyyy! So, I'm working on the next chapter in my YLIA fanfiction and I'm officially putting an ETA on it! I am planning to have my next Chapter, "Remembering", out the week of Christmas! I'm not sure when exactly but I'm predicting either the 23rd or 24th!

Heya. So I know it has been a while and I disappeared again without trace and I really am sorry. I know I always say the same thing over and over but I really do mean what I say.
          
          Writing is always a therapeautic thing for me whatever I write. I don't always publish what I write and sometimes I just don't have time to flesh out a chapter for a story. When I do, I write. You might notice a new chapter I posted for my Your Lie in April fanfic which took 3 weeks to get together and I have not updated in at least 4 months I think.
          
          If you people are still here, reading this, waiting for an update, thank you so damn much. I really am trying to find more time to write but I'm in my final exam year and school is kicking my butt. I also recently got a job so I have even less time. 
          
          I hope you will stick with me and you can always message me here, on my twitter @yourlieintokyo or on my instagram @yourheartbreakinapril if you want updates or to ask me where I've disappeared to but I promise I will try to behave myself.
          
          Thank you for sticking with me! <3