So, I made a statement that I would finally post up some tentative chapters seeing as it has been so long since I've displayed anything. This would be that post. I've spent many hours before writing this post reading my work and doing an intensive edit (since my Editor was kind enough to dedicate the past two days to helping me with the push to get some chapters remotely presentable), and I am too tired to be eloquent.

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... been down a vehicle due to it being melded into the engine block of a Honda CRV?

I'm still trying to ascertain what fault of mine there was in this scenario, considering that it being declared a "total loss" basically only pays for the down-payment on another vehicle to replace it.

It was just paid off at the end of September 2013 too. Ain't that a kick in the head.

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So, 26 days since I've written anything at all. Beyond just not having the ability to seek out the words I need to put together this second novel, I've not written a blog post, a short one-shot, a caption for a picture/photo I've seen... I don't even know if I've even written an email.

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... Because they sure do smart when you take 'em out!

But no, seriously, the past two days have been pretty terrible because of that. All four extracted at once. Between that and having my foot shot up with steroids, and my ear shot up with steroids, and fillings, I've been doped up a whole lot this last week whilst in and out of doctors' offices. At least it's almost over, as is my move out of this state on the first of November.

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Today was going to be a day like any other, I thought as I stepped into the deli/convenient store this morning. Planned to order some breakfast, pick up an energy drink for the dual-purpose of waking myself up and shortening my life a little, and then head into work to question what I'm busy doing with my life and wondering if I will come up with good ideas during the eight hour grind that I may be able to put to paper (or... to harddrive, I suppose).

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I have spent a good portion of today wrist-deep in RAW files trying to make heads or tails of how to make dwarves into ponies again in the newest build of Dwarf Fortress (since the mod version I was using previously is not compatible anymore), and I ran across something really neat!

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I cannot reveal much of what I've had on my mind because it has to do with something in my story at this point. It is something that is far from being written, but understanding what will happen will help me set the groundwork early on and foreshadow it properly. At this time, I think it may come down to a matter of opinion, because I can only see each one of the options being extremely powerful in their own way with what I can do with each, but only one can happen reasonably. So, to anyone

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Good morning, everyone!

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Hey there folks! I had a question today that I just can't seem to answer, and to ask you all for help would have to be done verbally since I can't seem to put it down in words. As such, I've made up an audio file and put it up on Soundcloud in hopes that someone out there might be able to help me out of a little bit of a literary bind.

Ever wanted to hear J make a jackass out of himself on mic? Here's your chance!

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With the first novel out of the way, it is now at the time where I get to fully reveal the background of how certain sections came to be. I can warn ahead of time that none of what I will write here holds any true significance, it's mostly just facts that I think will be considered interesting to some viewers. Quite a bit of it will be discussing how I handled the hurdle of turning the nonsense of a procedurally-generated game with sadism coding into a flowing and coherent narrative.

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