Ugh, I'm so sorry about this, but IAR has to take another hiatus. RL is seriously kicking my ass right now, so it's hard to keep track of IAR. I dropped my math class because everything was just getting to be too much, and that was without trying to update IAR on a regular schedule. I hope to be writing in the meantime, but I have a story due for creative writing on the 22nd and I need to study for my biology midterm on 19. After May 24, I should have free time to work on IAR. I only have one final so far, so all is well. I hope to have the first season completed before I start summer school and my job. After it's complete I will post the story and get your feedback. I will be editing the story for submission to light novel publishers or self publishing. Please bear with me.

I'm fighting the urge to edit extensively again. Don't worry if the actual text hasn't been changed yet, it is noted on my laptop and I will go back and fix the small issues when I get the chance. I'm holding off on a major edit until the first season of IAR is finished. The first season should be roughly around 24 episodes. The story will undergo an extensive editing process during the summer where I hope to send it out to a few light novel publishers. I know publishing things to the web is probably not the way to go, but I figure I'd generate interest first, then see if I can go about publishing. If it falls through, I still have a fanbase who hopefully will want to buy the book if I self published the story through Lulu or something.

Hey thanks for putting up with me and my lateness. It was a very busy week for me and the this upcoming week is going to be pretty busy this week as well. I know the April 27 should be a less hectic week. Anyway, I hope you liked the point of view for Episode 3. It was fun to write Sirod in all her vulgarity. XD. There are two comments I would like to address from Episode 2, but first...

Thank you

Thiana                    Maringa                       Cent
Usagi                      Steph                          The Mournful Duck
Asajii                      Alucard the Unchained   Adam Kamerer
Lilith                       Kitty Otaku

You rock my sox!

The first comment I want to address comes from Kitty Otaku:
Ooh! Geez, this is really good! If you want people to be able to read it in other places too, though, may I suggest fictionpress.com? Every story is automatically copyrighted to you as our penname. Just letting you know. You could gague reactions and more people would be able to read this amazing story! Then again, I suppose this is why you made this website. Keep going! This is amazing!

Author: Thank you for reading. Back in the day, I did have a fictionpress account. The old first chapter from 2004. When you mentioned fictionpress, it reminded me of the old chapter. It's still there too, you can click here if you want to read it. (It has a few spoilers, so if you don't want to know about certain things, I suggest you wait until later in the season.) I hope everyone can see the improvement in the writing.... Sometimes it's just fun to look back and be like "Wow, did I write that?" I was around fourteen or fifteen when that chapter was written. I got a website because it was cool. The other website (if people remember) was cheap, but this one is free. It's really cool. I recommend getting a website to keep all your thoughts together, that's the original reason why I got a website so I could keep all my world building notes in one place in case my laptop crashed.

The next comment I wanted to address is from Thiana:
I use to be able to see these much earlier and now...I barely make top ten. Good job, again I like the fleshing out. BTW where did you find your beta? I need to find one of my own.

Author: Thank you for reading. I'm glad you enjoy these new chapters. In fact, the comments you left on the old website helped me come up with the orientation chapters. At any rate... I used to use a beta when IAR was just starting out. I also used to go to writer's critique groups on Livejournal as well. My betas were amazingly helpful and some of the people on LJ helped alot as well. However, my betas were having some issues in RL, so I decided to go it alone. I found my betas on Livejournal and a few times I had a couple of friends beta it for me when they had the time (thanks to Usagi and Taiyo). There are  few communities on LJ that are dedicated to finding betas:

http://community.livejournal.com/beta_readers/profile
http://community.livejournal.com/beta_search/profile

These are the ones I used and I found really good writing buddies there as well. I hope these help. Good luck on your search and thank you for your comment.

Thank you for reading and thank you for all your support. ^_^

Coming Soon: Character Spotlight
  Sasuke Kohakume

I'll be repsonding to all comments in the blog now because it's cool and I want to respond to some of the comments more in depth. When I started to write this, I thought "Oh hey, this will be fun". I didn't realize how many comments I received. I like interacting with my readers and this is a really fun way to do it. I don't think I've done things like this before. It pumps my ego (lol, XD) and allows you guys to see my thought process when writing IAR. I'll keep writing up these episodes (no matter how late they are), so keep those comments coming. ^_^

                            Thank you:

Taiyo                      Lora Hibbard         Thiana
Usagi                      Alexis                  The Mournful Duck
Asajii                      Darrigo                Adam Kamerer
Anonymous            Kitty Otaku

                    You Guys Rock! ^_^