The Price of Loyalty Chapter One Release Date

Hey folks! Been a while since I updated ya, so I wanted to take this opportunity to make a big announcement. I'm going to get the extended Prologue and Journal One of The Price of Loyalty done by Friday, November 9th. I should explain a few things though before I talk about the release.

The first, is that I've been really depressed and unfocused over the past month. I haven't been able to convince myself to keep working on PoL because I expected, what I was hoping would be the story to make my name on, to be a colossal failure, and one of the most juvenile and idiotic things ever written the more I kept working on it. I was only able to write about a few paragraphs every week or so, and I kept hating the story the more I wrote it. In fact, I still kinda do, and I still expect it to fail. Who was I kidding from the outset with the nightbreeds? Or that people could take a dark-in-tone MLP fanfic seriously? Or that I could seriously believe I was making a good OC character that was memorable and make people wanna read about? Reasons upon reasons why I thought the story was the worst piece of literary trash in history kept piling up and I didn't want to work on the story anymore. I decided to play games, watch shows, dwell, and various other things instead of accomplish my stupid and broken story.

For a good while, I considered abandoning it, as well as my short stories and putting other ones on hold like .hack and my Trotting Dead project, in favor of a story I wanted to write intended more for myself than to be some big, ambitious work that PoL is, just to see if I could get into the swing of things again and get my negative emotions out, in the form of a story.

What's changed? Welp, I have a musician friend, goes by the name of Stormwolf. Some of you might know him and his music. It's pretty good. I sat down and had a talk with him the other night, cuz I was frankly very depressed, and lonely, and needed someone to talk to, so he was my confident for the night. During the conversation, Price of Loyalty came up. He said he'd read it when he wasn't busy, which I told him he didn't have to. Eventually, me being tired since it was 7AM in the morning after I had stayed up all night, I started rambling about how important it is to get the intro right or nobody would want to read the rest of the story. I just didn't wanna shut my tired self up, so I ended up trying to show him the first page of the Prologue just to give him an example of what I was talking about. I expected him to just kinda read it so I could continue discussing my half-assed point and quit reading altogether.

That's not what happened.

He went quiet, and I went to check on the Google Doc, and I saw the anonymous viewer sitting there for a good few minutes. He read my entire Prologue, even though I told him he didn't need to.

He did anyway, and he said he liked it. Better yet, he wanted to read more of it.

This felt like the most honest feedback I've gotten on the story that didn't feel like a friend of mine was just being nice and trying to spare my feelings, this felt truly genuine.

I felt the fire light up again for the story, and I thought, "Maybe, just maybe it might be at least a little bit decent." So with this new inspired and now-confident self, I decided today that I'm going to make a release date, and get this first chapter done by then.

So that's that folks. November 9th, the day I finally show all my hard work to the world... and also my judgement day. In the eyes of all of you, my very patient readers who have been waiting for more on this story for months now, as well as any strangers who come across the story, I'll see just how good or bad my story truly is. You guys are my judge and jury, as well as my executioners if need be, cuz frankly if this doesn't go well in the slightest, I may never work on this story again, or write at all for that matter.

Anyway guys, thanks for reading. November 9th. Mark it on your calenders!