A Long Hiatus... · 3:57am Nov 16th, 2018
Hello... again... I'm back!... Again...
It's definitely been a while, hasn't it? I guess I owe those of you who are still around an explanation, don't I?
To start things off, college was a bust... Dropped out after the first semester because I couldn't handle the stresses of affording books, the loneliness, or the fact that I needed a laptop for a class. It ended with me having a nervous breakdown and convincing myself that dropping out and returning later would be the best course of action. Well, that was three years ago. Obviously there's still plenty of time to go back and finish my education, but I'm almost certain that going back wouldn't be my best option right now, because my financial situation isn't any better than it was in school!
Anyway, school gave me the free time I needed to continue working on My Little Life: The Beginning. I wish I had more free time to work on it, honestly, but I've grown to realize that my family is rather... needy. I ended up hopping from job to job, just looking for something to help me sustain myself, but I was still just a kid, and I didn't want to work. I kept quitting at the first sign of trouble. There are still some jobs that I think I made the right call on, but at the same time, there are some that I wish I'd toughed out. Right now I'm an Assistant Manager at my local Domino's, but the pay is pretty terrible. I honestly think I made more as a driver getting tips every day. Almost all of my jobs have been full time, so that eats away at a lot of my time, but having such a "needy" family means that any day I'm not working is spent doing chores or errands or babysitting or fixing something that I know nothing about. I don't want to pass on the impression that I wish my family would leave me alone, but it's almost gotten to the point where I can't relax for more than an hour at a time without feeling like I'm wasting the day away because I could be doing something more productive to help my family.
With that said, I don't think I'm going to tell anybody that I decided to pick writing back up as a hobby. I honestly don't think anybody cares what I want to do anymore. My family, especially my mother, has a way about making me feel like my hobbies and interests are a waste of time, as if I should be spending more time doing errands or helping them do their own chores rather than playing video games or writing. I've begun feeling guilty for leaving my nieces with my mom or my brother to spend some time alone in my room. But to put it bluntly, they're exhausting.
But that's the quick summary of my sad tale, that I've nearly given up on any of my hobbies or aspirations because my family thinks my life should revolve around what they think is best for us as a family. You know, because family is all you've got in this world, right? You should never try to achieve anything more than what you have, because that makes you greedy. If you ever do anything for yourself and your own benefit, then that makes you selfish. Yada yada yada...
Putting my whiny rambling aside, I've decided to take writing back up as a hobby, starting with continuing My Little Life: The Beginning. I can say without a shred of doubt that that story is my proudest achievement. Why is that? It's something that I enjoyed making. I didn't do it to make anybody else happy, or to make any kind of profit. I'm the only one of my friends and family who enjoys MLP:FiM, so I didn't write it to impress anybody. I wrote it because I wanted to. And you know what? I'm proud of it. It has 78,671 words. That's a novel. I wrote a novel. And it's not even remotely finished! How many people can say they wrote a novel? How many of those people can say they wrote a novel that they are genuinely proud of? I don't care what anybody has to say about the fact that it's a pony fanfiction. I'm proud of my novel-length pony fanfiction. I'm going to finish it. I don't know how long it will be. I don't know how it will end. I don't even know what will happen next. Honestly, I haven't even read it since I wrote the last chapter three years ago, but I love it.
Hopefully I won't be the only person who reads this, but even if I am, I'll write this fanfiction until I've decided that I want to stop. I don't know when that will be. But enough of my nerdy, passionate rambling. Nobody ever got anywhere by skipping a step, and the next step for me right now is to read the whole thing. I can't very well continue writing something that I don't remember, can I? I'll try to read it as quickly as possible, and get the next chapter out soon after that. I hope all of you are as excited as I am, but I don't think that's possible! 
Well. I enjoy reading your stuff.
It's always a bright moment when you see an author returning after so long.
Welcome back
It's nice to see that people are interested in my return! Thanks for the quick responses everyone! It actually means a lot.