I'm not dead! · 4:49am Aug 5th, 2013
Holy crap. I just finished chapter 10 of Kraken.
Take a moment to reattach your jaws, if you need to.
God damn. This chapter has been my boulder on the hillside; with everything that's been going pear-shaped with my life over the last year and the constant cycle of one step forward and two steps back, getting this chapter done has been like pulling teeth. My own. But I finally managed it. I've been working on it little by little this whole time; a paragraph here, a sentence there, but Christ it's been slow going. But between moving back in with family (which I'd been trying to avoid having to do, but now that I have there's way less for me to worry about day to day) and actually having a damn job again (a menial part-time one, but at least I don't have to worry about paying rent for the moment), things are actually on an upward slope again which left me with the mental reserves to not only finish, but give it a bit of a spit and polish before showing it to the world.
I can't thank you enough for your patience and support. I know this has been a long wait, and I hated pulling a George R.R. Martin on you guys, but it's done, and Celestia willing and the creek don't rise, chapter 11 won't take anywhere near as long.
PS: I've gone back through the previous chapters and made a couple minor edits I've been meaning to for a while. Nothing major, mostly a couple grammar fixes and changing some names around: Maneopoly > Monopony (credit for that one to Paleo Prints, who used it in one of his stories), Neighcronomicon > Necroneighmicon, and the laundry shop above the Nightmare Files is now Canterlot Laundry Services.
I can't wait to read! And hey, work is work.
Well now that it has been confirmed you aren't dead, I might need to start that story up...
I'm trying very hard to figure out how to do a fanboy SQUEE!! in a dignified manner
It's good to hear your life is getting back on track.
I've always liked the name "Monopony".
Is Laundry Service a reference to Charles Stross?
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Yeah, the shop that conceals the offices of 'The Laundry' is called Capital Laundry Services.
EDIT: "Laundry" doesn't even look like a word to me anymore. o_o