*Taps microphone*

"H—hello? Is this thing on?"

*crowd glares angrily at the nerd up on stage who tapped the damned mic*

*swallows thickly shakily holding speech, again like a nerd*

“So uhh—h-hi there, my name is KarlSaintClaire and I've been—“

*dodges a big- tomato thrown*

“-uh...been gone for quite a while. And I know got a lot of 'splaining to do so if you'll hold all the projectiles you have ready I'll try to explain myself real quick okay?”

*Crowd disappointedly lowers hand held bricks, flaming spears, flying chipmunks and grenades with pins already pulled*

*sweats nervously*

“T—thanks”.

“So a hell lot of things happened over the past year, and I mean a lot; for one I did my internship, graduated college last March (finally after 5 years), I took the summer off, I had a brush with a minor panic attack, then my folks both went down and got hospitalized and I had to take care of them (again since I'm an only child it was really difficult). And now for the past two months I've started working. Yay?

So those things really tend to have eaten up all my spare time and due to my bout of extreme laziness and lack of inspiration I haven’t been able to finish writing my latest long form project; Creek.

For those of you who were wondering why they can't access it, I've placed it under draft status for the time being since its a real mess right now. I really want it to be  perfect when I publish it again. Creek was the very first writing idea that ever came to me way back freshmen year of college. It's my legit 'baby' so to speak and so I really want it to be as close as to perfect since you guys deserve only the best work from me as a FF writer.

I've also been exploring other writing styles and have actually accumulated and written a few multi-chaptered stories under different genres and with different sets of characters. Some of you may or may not have seen my Jeonghan x Joshua semi-series "DNCE ft. Joshua x Jeonghan" which also isn't finished

I've written so far two slightly more mature Seventeen-centric stories, a spy thriller and a sci-fi adventure type that I really hope I can finish someday and let you guys read it. I've put it on hold because, again, I've slightly lost inspiration to it and because of the demands of already working I can't fully focus on it.

As of now though I went back to my roots; BTS, specifically TAEKOOK, and even more specifically Gang alternate universe. I have in the works a medium length multi-chaptered story with a more matured tone than my previous works. (Though in retrospect I don't think my first multichap He Turned Me Three-Sixty was too fluffy and childish)

I plan and really hope to be able to finish that one before 2017 ends and be it like a mini-series for the start of 2018. So now my plead of help;

I'm looking for around 5 BETA READERS that can help me beta-read and edit the GANG AU story. If you guys are interested (if any of you have even reached this point in my blog) please direct message me here so we can talk.

So this little blog post serves like a "Hey I'm still alive" update to my most awesome readers (if any of you are left). And a promise that I'll finish Creek, hopefully, and realistically maybe sometime in 2018 I can finish it.

Thank you for reading and you may now commence throwing. “

-karlsaintclaire (^)_(^)