So on October 28th I suffered a stroke while at work. In denial, I stayed at work, then drove 60+ miles from Orlando to my home in Lakeland. I stayed in denial (it's just a pinched nerve) right up to the point where I lost control of my bladder and the right side of my face went numb. By that point there wasn't anything they could do to mitigate the damage. You have 4 hours people. I didn't even get to the Hospital until 8 hours had passed. End result; right side was fucked. Through some

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See title. Work is work, and not a lot of time to write. I'm still around, I'm just as tired of answering the when is the next chapter coming out question as you are of asking them. I know it's shitty, I know I've let it sit too long, but it is what it is. This is why I don't accept donations for fanfiction. It remains a hobby, and thus very low on the to do list of my wellbeing.

That being said, I have been tinkering. Here's some stuff that I have in my notes for QC future stuff.

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I've received preliminary 2nd draft copy from a beta reader. I'm currently performing my first hard read out loud edit of the whole mess. Initial reports are about what I expected. Part of the difficulty of writing this chapter is that it was always going to be a set up, explanatory type chapter. Making it interesting is a serious challenge, but I felt as though if I DIDN'T show the characters reasoning that it wouldn't be true to the characters and the narrative as I've written it.

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Hey folks. Just a quick message to anyone who still cares, I have tentatively finished the rough draft for a new chapter of Quantum Castaways. Current draft weighs in at right around 12000 words, and that WILL change as the editing process moves along. Bear in mind that it has been a long, hard road to get this material out. It is a Frankenstein nightmare of bits and pieces jumbled together from the last three years of banging my head against it... when I say it's a rough draft I am fucking

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So as everyone who pays any attention to the comments and blog posts and what have you knows, I've been having a really rough time of it. This last year has, frankly, been hell. I've had a couple of people offer to donate money, for which I am extremely grateful, but it actually brings up a topic of some interest to me.

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So I was going over my characterization notes and I found some interesting stuff I'd done based on personality type testing. I actually use the Meyers Briggs test to get a better feel on the kind of people I'm writing about. Nothing set in stone mind you, people tend to be more complex than a personality test, but as a definite guideline.

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This apology/explanation is lifted pretty much verbatim from a comment about one of my comments in reply to a readers comment (wow, that's confusing) about the lyric removal from the story. Since sometimes comment updates on certain chapters don't send out notifications, I am posting this in my blog in the hopes that the reader in question will see it.

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Well, after looking over the site rules, and the recent posts by the mods, I've decided, with very heavy heart, to remove the lyrics where they appear in the story. The mods decision is... well, I don't agree with it, but I agreed to follow their terms and conditions when I signed up for this site, so I have moved to comply. I want to stress that at no point has a moderator told me to remove the copyrighted song lyric material from the story... this was a move I made so that no warning or

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Several of you, mere hours from the post of my blog about the state of Dusttraveller land, offered sympathies and even offerings of donations. I am deeply touched at the gesture, folks. From the bottom of my heart, thank you all very much. However, ethically speaking, I can't accept donations from you. As a writer of fanfiction, it would be immoral of me to profit off of someone else's intellectual property. Writing fanfiction for no profit skirts the edge of the moral conundrum enough as

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I've gotten numerous requests for updates as to the state of the story, enough so that I decided it was time to give you my reasoning for the silence. Folks, I'm unemployed, living hand to mouth and looking for a job. What little free time I have, I split between friends, hobbies, and some small amount of writing when I have time.

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