Go Subscribe to the Continuation of Starcrossed! · 11:19pm Nov 16th, 2014
Seriously it looks like I chose someone who knows what the hell he's doing
Seriously it looks like I chose someone who knows what the hell he's doing
First, I have changed my avatar picture to something more fitting of my solid bronze medal for national holidays. I'm digging the spirit of Halloween this year and thought my profile picture should reflect it. Thus, ye now have a skeleton for a captain.
Sorry, guys, but it's time to pull the plug on Starcrossed. I just can't write it. I have tried to keep going, but ever since- really right after I published the first chapter or two- it has been an uphill battle. And you know the worst part about this? It's not that I lack time, or skill, or energy, or even the attention span to continue this. The problem is for worse than that.
I just don't care.
I'm back, guys. Sorry I had to devote a lot of my time away from the site. Luckily family issues are resolved and I can get back to work. I appreciate the support and understanding from y'all.
I'll be taking a short leave of absence for the next day or two. I don't want to get into specifics, but my little brother and mother are both facing problems and what little time I have left with them before I go back to university should be spent helping them with their issues. I apologize to my followers who were looking forward to Part III in the SAO Review or a new chapter on Starcrossed, but family comes first. I might check in periodically, but don't expect any in depth work over the
Commander on deck!
So, I haven't told you guys, but I've been on vacation in the great Gulf of Mexico the past couple days and will continue to until this Friday. Now, the strange thing you might think is, "Gee, The Commander sure has been active in that time for someone on vacation."
Yep, I'm back.
Some of you might have noticed that I wasn't able to do much or even get online here for the past three or four days. This is because my new apartment, which is actually kind of nice, has no interwebs. So for the next month, I'm likely going to be checking in pretty infrequently. Just a heads up.
I am seriously frustrated.
What's up wasteland? This is three dooowwwg and you're listening to Galaxy News Radio-
Whoops. Wrong personality matrix. Instead, it's your friendly neighborhood Commander reporting in with some news.
So, before I'm bombarded with this question, yes Chapter Three of Starcrossed is coming along well. Slow, but well. I estimate I am somewhere around the 60% complete mark with the rough draft and will soon be handing it to my proofreader when it is finished.
So, as some of you might have guessed from my comments or even my title, the Commander loves going out on the boat. As a matter of fact, I spent all day today working with my dad to get her shined up and sea worthy again after putting her away for the winter. So we gave the engine a dry run on land for about an hour, deep cleaned her, cast her into the water, and continued to give her a sea trial for another hour and a half. We even gave it a bit of a stress test by letting me take the helm and
So, I'm finally back. Sorry I got pissed, ranted, and subsequently left. The straw that broke the camel's back was a teacher failing work I had done that was not fail worthy as deemed by multiple third parties, thus making me unable to keep my scholarship. Ironic how I pulled an April Fools joke and it comes back to bite me in the ass by being a reality.
Fuck it all! Fuck everything! Fuck Troy! Fuck the system! Fuck Communications! Fuck General Studies classes! Fuck autonomous professors who like to exercise petty authority by playing God with motherfuckers' lives! Fuck people who don't understand that I have problems too that are just as important as their problems and theirs aren't even my responsibility in the first place! Fuck having my dreams shot down at every fucking corner! Fuck the universe!
Ladies and gentlemen, I have some sad news. I'm stopping it. All of it. Not just Starcrossed, but my whole involvement in fanfiction. I received news that not only am I below the grade to keep my scholarship and therefore unable to go to college, but my chapter of my fraternity is being shut down because of a loophole with our charter.
So, I've been getting asked a lot about chapter release dates. First, I want to say this isn't an angry/annoyed letter. Believe me, I understand you guys's frustration. I have some things that I'm a fan of that just don't update fast enough (looking at you, Hellsing Ultimate Abridged). Honestly, a lot of it is on my shoulders for starting things that I know I can't finish in a timely manner.
... Which sucks because I have spent a third of my spring break on bed rest. Also the drugs are messing with my head/sleep schedule/appetite/writing schedule/social schedule/everything I hold dear! Silver lining? My little brother, who has been helping me out, asked if I wanted anything and I recited the entire "Glass of Water" song from Three's a Crowd. Almost made being sick worth it.
This time I promise it will be ready. Sorry again for the delay.
Well, actually bloody awful news for me, but good news for you guys. I'm sick. What I thought was just a tickle in my throat three days ago and a slight cold yesterday turns out to be an alien parasite that will slowly eat away at my insides until only a husk remains.
On the bright side, no class! Which means plenty of time to write.
As some of you might have noticed, I've gone dark in the last few days and there was no update of my story Starcrossed, even though I said I would have a new chapter out in a week. While I do want to sincerely apologize for being waylaid by unforeseen circumstances, I would also like to explain said circumstances.
I swear, through half of the last chapter, as well as the one I am working on now, this was playing on repeat through my head.
Damn you, Boondock Saints.