Update on Things (as of 10/2022) · 3:08am Oct 25th, 2022
Just wanted to pop in and comment on what projects I am currently working on and what their present state is.
Just wanted to pop in and comment on what projects I am currently working on and what their present state is.
Earthpatriot117 reminded me that I hadn't given any updates on my situation lately, so let's fix that, shall we?
Since a new chapter for "Grief is the Price We Pay" isn't getting uploaded today like normal, I've decided to go ahead and upload a new and edited version of the latest chapter, "Degree of Trust," which I've done in working to improve a few prose-quality related issues it bore, most especially in the first parts of the chapter, adding an additional 1,089 words in the process. These problems are
So back around the start of this month, I made mention of how my financial situation was starting to become...problematic. I now come to announce that it has unfortunately not been improving a great deal, and I have reached the point that I have decided I cannot presently afford where I am currently living.
So..."Grief is the Price We Pay"...
...at the time of posting this, it stands at...
...98 chapters...
...609,417 words...
...802 upvotes...
...63 downvotes...
...4,572 comments...
...took a year and a half to write...
...and now it is finally finished.
So you know how I had said I wouldn't be writing a sequel to "Grief is the Price We Pay?"
Well, I'd argue that is still the case, because in terms of continuity this is, technically, not a sequel.
A WARNING: The following blog post features many key SPOILERS for "Grief is the Price We Pay," and would SPOIL many major plot points of the fic. If you have not yet read the fic and wish to avoid these SPOILERS, turn back now!
AGAIN, there are major SPOILERS ahead! You have been warned!
So if you've been following my blog for awhile, you've probably caught wind that I've been working on a sort of "final edit" of "Grief is the Price We Pay." To clarify, this edit would leave the core plot of the story mostly unchanged (so yes, the ending and the events concerning it would remain largely the same), however, it would:
So I've been thinking about "Grief is the Price We Pay" lately.
Since starting "Grief is the Price We Pay," I've successfully been able to post new chapters regularly on a Monday/Friday schedule, thanks to planning ahead and always having a notable buffer of six to ten completed chapters between the posted chapter and the chapter I would be presently writing. I've been able to maintain that schedule for far longer than I feared, to my great joy, and I was starting to think that
So apparently even though I still have some mixed feelings about the fact that it of all stories was first to do so, "Overlooked" hitting the feature box seems to have worked to my favor, as it seems to expanded the number of readers likely to read my future works.
So of course, right when I only have two more chapters to go on "Grief," we hit this point...
MASSIVE SPOILERS AHEAD FOR "GRIEF IS THE PRICE WE PAY!"
DO NOT KEEP READING IF YOU HAVE NOT READ THIS FIC TO COMPLETION FIRST!
IF YOU STOP HERE AND GO READ "GRIEF" NOW, THAT...WILL BE THE END OF IT.
BUT IF YOU DON'T, I WILL LOOK FOR YOU.
I WILL FIND YOU.
About a week ago, I posted a blog seeking to survey you all about how much interest there was in seeing a "final edit" of "Grief is the Price We Pay." It was my hope that, once I tallied up all the responses, it would definitely decide whether or not there was enough cause for me to continue with the project.
Today's Valentine's Day! To celebrate, I had originally planned to release a relevant fic today. However, after taking a large change in approach to said fic and now in the process of rewriting it, it's obviously not going to be ready in time. But considering that my past two fics, both posted earlier in the month, also feature that romance tag, I'm not too especially worked up about it.
For that spook month-themed fic I mentioned in the previous blog post.
Happy Hearth's Warming to all, and to all a good night, day, morning, evening, brunch, mid-afternoon, tea time, lunch break--whatever time zone it is you happen to be reading this in!
'Tis spook month!
And as such, I was looking back at that spook-month-themed fic I wrote back in 2019 that I was adamant at the time HAD to be formatted in a one-shot format.
But this year I concluded doing it in one-shot format hadn't really done anything for it, so I decided to retroactively go back and break it up into individual chapters instead.