So, here we are. · 10:12pm Aug 2nd, 2015
Well, it has been sometime, hasn't it? Frankly, I can't say much other than I'm sorry. I abandoned my stories, and thus abandoned my readers. You guys.
Personally, I feel awful for it. A year has now past. A year of silence. Granted, there have been some major changes and major improvements in my life over that year. I went off to Marine Corps Boot Camp, I found the love of my life, and my over all happiness has reached a level far greater than I could have ever imagined. But in the end, I can't help but think at some point every single day back to the event that set it all in motion, what gave me the strength to continue on and not give up. This community.
It once brought me such joy to bring my stories and ideas to life before your minds and give them to your imaginations and let them roam free. I loved it. Every word, every letter. The worlds I created. The characters I invented. The thoughts I conveyed. Writing is such a brilliant and beautiful tool. I guess I just forgot to appreciate it more.
I always thought that I wrote for myself, to make myself feel happy. To enjoy my own stories; because as I wrote them, I discovered their worlds just as much as you guys did. My stories only ever start out as a small idea: a sentence, a word... a fleeting thought I scramble to write down. Never at once do I ever imagine the entire thing. And even when I do, when I finish a story and look back on it, I always see the small pieces of spontaneous entertainment that had been created without my conscious thought. Things I put in because they felt right, they felt natural, not because I meant or wanted them to happen. But in the end, after a year, looking back, I realize: I wasn't writing for me... I was writing for you... I fed off of your happiness. Hearing what joys my stories brought to you was such an incredible feeling. It gave me the strength to go on. But after awhile, the comments started to become sparse. They faded away. And with it, my aspirations. I lost sight of those whom I had been writing such amazing things for.
So come with me, on a new journey. Where I make it up to you. Where we can bring these creations back. To bring back Aurora, and Phantom, and all my other characters. To tie up the loose ends, and connect new rope to them. Let us continue this legacy.
This is what I ask of you: Give me your inputs. Bug me. Nag me. Harass me to get these stories done. Throw countless ideas at me. Criticize me. Critique me. Push me to deliver what I say I will. Don't give up on me, and I won't give up on you. Because even the most Loyal of us all need some returned.
I plan on bringing back Skyborn. I have some unfinished business with it. Over my period of silence I wasn't completely idle. Right now, there's over 2,000 words of the revised version of Skyborn just waiting to be continued. Desert Storm has over a thousand words in its newest chapter. The Four Horses begs to be continued.
But I can't do it without you guys. My biggest inspiration of all.
For hopefully not the last time, and for the first of a new era, respectfully,
-Sam.
That was beautiful ^○^ it's great to see you back, I was just scrolling through some of the stories that I really like here on Fimfic and I saw yours and yeah..sorta was wondering where you went and then I remembered you were doing manly stuffzz..anywho! It's awesome to see you back, I really really really would love it if you continued with your stories. They sorta inspired me to try and write some stuff of my art before I realized that writing wasn't really my thing and I should leave it up to the pros
but still I had fun! And maybe someday I may even start writing something and come back to your amazing work for inspiration ^○^ so please continue writing and do what you apparently rock at lel.
3289858 Ladies and gentlemen, a prime example as to why I write. One of my favorite and longest readers.
Thank you, for it all.
3289878 Haha, it's nothing
thank you for these amazing reads ^○^ super excited to see what you have in store for the future ^~^