I, Griffin Gryphon, am sorry. When I first started writing the Misfits of Alter, I came into it like all my other projects. And like those other projects, they ended up falling off due to my own waning interest and self deprecation. I wanna state before anything else that I am incredibly humbled by the positive reception this story received. The idea of cultivating some kind of audience for myself was one that I thought was impossible, but now, I can happily say that I was wrong, that my writing managed to make some people happy. That's all I ever wanted. Unfortunately, I can't look at the writing I've posted up to now with anything else but disappointment. My writing process consisted of writing whatever came to mind and doing some simple editing before posting. There was no outline, no consideration of future events, nothing. Once I'd realized how awful of a process this was, I felt as though I couldn't continue the story until I could figure out how to write myself into a better position. Unfortunately, that never happened. I'm a very private person, so I don't really like talking about myself, but I will say that a big reason why I couldn't think of anything was a lack of self confidence. I have depression, and don't really see myself in all that good a light. That also goes for my writing. No matter what it is, I find myself doubting my abilities to tell a good story and beating myself into giving up. I don't want you to think of this as me calling for pity; It's not. This is all to explain why I've stopped updating this story, and giving you all an apology.

As of late, I keep thinking back on why I wanted to write this story in the first place. I feel like I had a good Idea of where I wanted it to go, until I started writing. From there, I could never get a concrete idea of what I was doing and where I was heading. After taking this time to mull things over, I believe I've come to a conclusion. I want to start over. By that, I mean this story will be staying on hiatus until I've gotten my feet on the ground. As such, you probably won't be hearing from me for a while. Don't worry though, unless I say otherwise I'm not dropping the series. Once I have a good amount of the story done, I'll be deleting my old chapters and will start uploading again. That may be awhile, and I'm sorry for asking you to wait, but I know that if I want to make a story worth people's time, I'm actually gonna have to give it time. So, to all those who have supported this series to now, I thank every last one of you, and I hope you'll stick around to see where this series goes. Until then, do have a lovely day.

-Griffin Gryphon