Hey Everyone!
I'm finally done, just in time for Christmas! The book is published and you can buy it on Amazon now. Last time I posted I mentioned that I wasn't sure what I should do with this website from now on. I've finished Babel, and will be doing primary releases on Creative Novels in the future, so this site would be left in a kind of limbo. I decided a few days ago that I may as well keep updating here, as a creative diary of sorts.
The original point of Babel, and this site, after all, was to catalog my sanity and to write, so there's no real harm in continuing to do what I was already doing. Rather than writing about Babel, though, I will be releasing pieces of information about my new story (it finally has a name by the way: The Three Rings). That's all for the new year though, as until then I'm going to try and focus on writing things I've not been focused on for close to half a decade at this point, and instead just write some fun short stories.
Either way, you aren't here for the update, you're all here for the conclusion! Here you go:
Chapter 71 - The Call to The Void
Chapter 72 - Ayna's Reprise
Chapter 73 - Meeting the Mother
Epilogue 1 - The End of Avalon
Epilogue 2 - The Boy, The Man, The Tower
Thank you all so much for joining me on this journey, and if you feel like supporting me then you should be able to buy the entire series from the Amazon link on the side! At the time of writing there's an issue with the series compilation on Amazon's end, but it should be sorted soon. Happy holidays everyone!
- Seth.
Saturday, 21 December 2019
Friday, 8 November 2019
Second Last
Hey everyone!
So this will be my second last post with regards to Babel's publishing, as the series is NOW COMPLETE (In a rudimentary form, I still have to edit it a fair bit). What does this mean? Well I am releasing five chapters today, and then five chapters on release day (hopefully some time next week), before moving on to my next series! My next series I intend to fully work with my publishing company on, as with Babel I haven't been, I've just used them as a few extra views for the series. That series will be starting as soon as I finish the body of the planning, and I'll probably be releasing it two or three chapters a week, depending on my plans.
So what does that mean for this site? I'm not sure, honestly. I might start releasing bits and pieces of worldbuilding on here, like character bios, designs and such, but I don't really know. This site has been a section of my life for around four years, so I'd be remiss not to use it for something. The big question is what?
But honestly, that's a thought for another day. Here are the five chapters I owe you all. Enjoy!
Chapter 66 - Blood and Sand
Chapter 67 - Sea of Wood and Metal
Chapter 68 - The First Wish
Chapter 69 - Fury and Loss
Chapter 70 - Wishes and Failures
And if you've enjoyed the series, if you want to support me properly, then don't hesitate to buy my books on Amazon. It's the price of a coffee, and it goes a little bit of the way to showing your support for the journey so far. Thank you all for reading!
-Seth
So this will be my second last post with regards to Babel's publishing, as the series is NOW COMPLETE (In a rudimentary form, I still have to edit it a fair bit). What does this mean? Well I am releasing five chapters today, and then five chapters on release day (hopefully some time next week), before moving on to my next series! My next series I intend to fully work with my publishing company on, as with Babel I haven't been, I've just used them as a few extra views for the series. That series will be starting as soon as I finish the body of the planning, and I'll probably be releasing it two or three chapters a week, depending on my plans.
So what does that mean for this site? I'm not sure, honestly. I might start releasing bits and pieces of worldbuilding on here, like character bios, designs and such, but I don't really know. This site has been a section of my life for around four years, so I'd be remiss not to use it for something. The big question is what?
But honestly, that's a thought for another day. Here are the five chapters I owe you all. Enjoy!
Chapter 66 - Blood and Sand
Chapter 67 - Sea of Wood and Metal
Chapter 68 - The First Wish
Chapter 69 - Fury and Loss
Chapter 70 - Wishes and Failures
And if you've enjoyed the series, if you want to support me properly, then don't hesitate to buy my books on Amazon. It's the price of a coffee, and it goes a little bit of the way to showing your support for the journey so far. Thank you all for reading!
-Seth
Saturday, 14 September 2019
Ten
I'm back again! With EIGHT chapters this time.
I know it's been almost four months, but hey the struggle is almost over. Writers block came back in a pretty big way, but I pushed through it and am on the home stretch now. I can see the scenes; eight full chapters and two epilogue chapters, hence the title of this update. Don't worry though, there's still a few twists and turns left for you to see, as well as a few combat scenes and what I hope people will find is a satisfying conclusion to Laurence's story.
What have I been up to for the last few months? Mainly sweating. It's been really goddamn warm in the UK, with it only cooling down over the last week, which has not helped my ability to write. You'd think doing something mostly sedentary would be easier in the heat, but it just becomes rather uncomfortable to do anything that isn't living in the shower in a country that simply doesn't use air conditioning. I think I need some kind of fan. My mental state has been okay though. I've been happy with things, or at least content about how things are going with my life, which is better than this time last year when I was in the depths of a profound depression. I've not made too many stupid choices as of late, other than not writing enough to finish Babel, and am mostly sleeping better. I'm improving. Either way, here's the chapters:
Chapter 58 - Like Father Like Daughter
Chapter 59 - Returning To The Maelstrom
Chapter 60 - Familiar Faces
Chapter 61 - The Path To Ascension
Chapter 62 - The Well
Chapter 63 - Cross and Double Cross
Chapter 64 - Fated Enemies
Chapter 65 - Mind Games
As a final note, I finally got to use the subtitle of the series as a chapter title! That gives me infinite amusement for some reason. Anyway, have fun, and I intend to finish everything by October, but we shall see. I'm not exactly known for sticking to a deadline.
-Seth
I know it's been almost four months, but hey the struggle is almost over. Writers block came back in a pretty big way, but I pushed through it and am on the home stretch now. I can see the scenes; eight full chapters and two epilogue chapters, hence the title of this update. Don't worry though, there's still a few twists and turns left for you to see, as well as a few combat scenes and what I hope people will find is a satisfying conclusion to Laurence's story.
What have I been up to for the last few months? Mainly sweating. It's been really goddamn warm in the UK, with it only cooling down over the last week, which has not helped my ability to write. You'd think doing something mostly sedentary would be easier in the heat, but it just becomes rather uncomfortable to do anything that isn't living in the shower in a country that simply doesn't use air conditioning. I think I need some kind of fan. My mental state has been okay though. I've been happy with things, or at least content about how things are going with my life, which is better than this time last year when I was in the depths of a profound depression. I've not made too many stupid choices as of late, other than not writing enough to finish Babel, and am mostly sleeping better. I'm improving. Either way, here's the chapters:
Chapter 58 - Like Father Like Daughter
Chapter 59 - Returning To The Maelstrom
Chapter 60 - Familiar Faces
Chapter 61 - The Path To Ascension
Chapter 62 - The Well
Chapter 63 - Cross and Double Cross
Chapter 64 - Fated Enemies
Chapter 65 - Mind Games
As a final note, I finally got to use the subtitle of the series as a chapter title! That gives me infinite amusement for some reason. Anyway, have fun, and I intend to finish everything by October, but we shall see. I'm not exactly known for sticking to a deadline.
-Seth
Friday, 17 May 2019
Well I'm good at this
I'm back again!
Don't worry, I've not given up, and I'm still here. I'm just really goddamn bad at... everything. I messed up the release link last time, so I fixed that today, and then I posted on twitter that I would release a chapter or two on Wednesday. Soooooooo, I decided to release three to make up for it! With the bonus of the chapter I should have released... two weeks ago...
Either way, there's only 16 more chapters till the end (I think), and I'm going to be working on that while I also continue to work on the bits and bobs for Ramp. I might post a link to the to-do list of stuff I have left on its own page here, but be warned; the world-building is massive with this one. I have a lot to do, and a TON to prepare before I'm happy with what I have, but I'm actually really excited about starting to write the series. There's already so much groundwork that I cannot wait to see the details form in front of me.
Anyway, you're all here for the chapters!
Chapter 54 - Reunion of a Sort
Chapter 55 - Yveth
Chapter 56 - The One Left Behind
Chapter 57 - The Mirrors of Madness
Enjoy! And a quick update, I've taken the Patreon down for the moment, because it looked like trash and needs to be reworked as I finish Babel anyway. I'll also be updating and releasing my Discord server in a few weeks, so you can bug me about chapter releases and oddities in stories there.
- Seth
Don't worry, I've not given up, and I'm still here. I'm just really goddamn bad at... everything. I messed up the release link last time, so I fixed that today, and then I posted on twitter that I would release a chapter or two on Wednesday. Soooooooo, I decided to release three to make up for it! With the bonus of the chapter I should have released... two weeks ago...
Either way, there's only 16 more chapters till the end (I think), and I'm going to be working on that while I also continue to work on the bits and bobs for Ramp. I might post a link to the to-do list of stuff I have left on its own page here, but be warned; the world-building is massive with this one. I have a lot to do, and a TON to prepare before I'm happy with what I have, but I'm actually really excited about starting to write the series. There's already so much groundwork that I cannot wait to see the details form in front of me.
Anyway, you're all here for the chapters!
Chapter 54 - Reunion of a Sort
Chapter 55 - Yveth
Chapter 56 - The One Left Behind
Chapter 57 - The Mirrors of Madness
Enjoy! And a quick update, I've taken the Patreon down for the moment, because it looked like trash and needs to be reworked as I finish Babel anyway. I'll also be updating and releasing my Discord server in a few weeks, so you can bug me about chapter releases and oddities in stories there.
- Seth
Saturday, 27 April 2019
Returning to Form
Hey everybody!
So new week, only one chapter this week, because I'm bad at life and I'm still getting back into the roll of things, but I am persisting with releases at least once a week. Hopefully I'll be doing 3 or 4 a week by the time I'm back to form, but we shall see. The depression really took the wind out of my sails about everything, but life is finally looking up for me.
Not much to really talk about life-wise, other than my helper/editor is finally back with internet, so we can work on things together again. She's helping me with a ton of stuff for Ramp when I finally start working on that beyond the ultra-detailed planning phase I've got going. It's cool, because while I'm hyper creative and good at broad strokes in world-building, she is absolutely gifted when it comes to the minutiae that makes a universe tick. Honestly, her talent blows me out of the water, so I'm very happy to have her back after WAY too long.
I want to get back into gear with the writing in a big way, especially now that things are starting to work out again, so you will see more from me, and perhaps when I'm really on top of things, you might even get DAILY updates (We live in hope, haha). Either way, here's the chapter! Enjoy:
Chapter 54: Reunion of a Sort
As per usual, if you want to support me, the best way is to buy my books on Amazon. Following that, sub on Twitch, or Patreon, and if you don't have the money to support me then it's simple; just tell people about the books and review them well! Have a lovely day, and thank you for reading.
- Seth
So new week, only one chapter this week, because I'm bad at life and I'm still getting back into the roll of things, but I am persisting with releases at least once a week. Hopefully I'll be doing 3 or 4 a week by the time I'm back to form, but we shall see. The depression really took the wind out of my sails about everything, but life is finally looking up for me.
Not much to really talk about life-wise, other than my helper/editor is finally back with internet, so we can work on things together again. She's helping me with a ton of stuff for Ramp when I finally start working on that beyond the ultra-detailed planning phase I've got going. It's cool, because while I'm hyper creative and good at broad strokes in world-building, she is absolutely gifted when it comes to the minutiae that makes a universe tick. Honestly, her talent blows me out of the water, so I'm very happy to have her back after WAY too long.
I want to get back into gear with the writing in a big way, especially now that things are starting to work out again, so you will see more from me, and perhaps when I'm really on top of things, you might even get DAILY updates (We live in hope, haha). Either way, here's the chapter! Enjoy:
Chapter 54: Reunion of a Sort
As per usual, if you want to support me, the best way is to buy my books on Amazon. Following that, sub on Twitch, or Patreon, and if you don't have the money to support me then it's simple; just tell people about the books and review them well! Have a lovely day, and thank you for reading.
- Seth
Thursday, 18 April 2019
Coming Back From The Dead
Hey everyone!
So this is awkward... I'm back, and I'm hopefully back for good. Aaaannndddddd.... I owe you all an explanation on my disappearance.
I've never made a secret of the fact that I'm probably not the most mentally sound of people in the world, and the last few months have been a pretty good example of that.
Last year sucked. A lot. I was never in the best place mentally, and everything just began stacking upon me until it was too much to bear. I was in physical pain thanks to a root canal that needed to be done, my mind was everywhere that it shouldn't be, and the long term relationship I was in ended which cut out the small net of support that I felt had left. I couldn't think, couldn't write and couldn't do anything but go through the motions at work. Then I got the flu and that lasted through all of January.
I was in an absolute malaise.
Thanks to the support of friends, some very old and some rather new, as well as lots of time, my mind slowly got back into the mindset where I could actually focus on things again. I'm still erratic, as is my work, but for the first time in maybe... two years I think I can say I'm feeling a bit better. I wouldn't say I'm well, but I'm nowhere near as bad as I was.
Now, onto better news! I'm back, which means more chapters! I've got 10 to drop here, and more to come. I estimate that there's probably 16 more before the end of Babel, but depending on chapter length and me changing plot on the fly, that might increase or decrease. Just know, we are in the final fifth of the book after SO LONG!
What does that mean? Well... while I was absent, I wasn't just on my arse crying in a dark room. I spent a lot of time planning what would come after Babel, whether I wanted to pick up one of my scraps or work on something completely new, and my answer happened to be a concept I had been playing around with since I was nineteen. It was never even a fully formed concept, but I refined it, and am continuing to refine it, and now have a MASS of detailed plans for the novel. The tentative title is Ramp, and it's a LitRPG. I haven't given up on Xianxia and Xuanhuan as genres, but I do need a rest form them. I've been writing in that genre for three and a half years and I need to switch things up. I have also not given up on From Ashes, but there is a lot I want to work on with that before I'm comfortable writing more of it.
Finally ASAP, I'm going to do some housecleaning for my Patreon and Twitch pages. I've not looked after them properly and I need to actually make them professional, and functional. (On a side note, big thanks to ShadowDragon10565 for reaching out to me on Twitch and anyone else who was wondering where I was. Even that small amount of support was enough to make my day, so thank you. Seriously.)
Now here are the chapters!
So this is awkward... I'm back, and I'm hopefully back for good. Aaaannndddddd.... I owe you all an explanation on my disappearance.
I've never made a secret of the fact that I'm probably not the most mentally sound of people in the world, and the last few months have been a pretty good example of that.
Last year sucked. A lot. I was never in the best place mentally, and everything just began stacking upon me until it was too much to bear. I was in physical pain thanks to a root canal that needed to be done, my mind was everywhere that it shouldn't be, and the long term relationship I was in ended which cut out the small net of support that I felt had left. I couldn't think, couldn't write and couldn't do anything but go through the motions at work. Then I got the flu and that lasted through all of January.
I was in an absolute malaise.
Thanks to the support of friends, some very old and some rather new, as well as lots of time, my mind slowly got back into the mindset where I could actually focus on things again. I'm still erratic, as is my work, but for the first time in maybe... two years I think I can say I'm feeling a bit better. I wouldn't say I'm well, but I'm nowhere near as bad as I was.
Now, onto better news! I'm back, which means more chapters! I've got 10 to drop here, and more to come. I estimate that there's probably 16 more before the end of Babel, but depending on chapter length and me changing plot on the fly, that might increase or decrease. Just know, we are in the final fifth of the book after SO LONG!
What does that mean? Well... while I was absent, I wasn't just on my arse crying in a dark room. I spent a lot of time planning what would come after Babel, whether I wanted to pick up one of my scraps or work on something completely new, and my answer happened to be a concept I had been playing around with since I was nineteen. It was never even a fully formed concept, but I refined it, and am continuing to refine it, and now have a MASS of detailed plans for the novel. The tentative title is Ramp, and it's a LitRPG. I haven't given up on Xianxia and Xuanhuan as genres, but I do need a rest form them. I've been writing in that genre for three and a half years and I need to switch things up. I have also not given up on From Ashes, but there is a lot I want to work on with that before I'm comfortable writing more of it.
Finally ASAP, I'm going to do some housecleaning for my Patreon and Twitch pages. I've not looked after them properly and I need to actually make them professional, and functional. (On a side note, big thanks to ShadowDragon10565 for reaching out to me on Twitch and anyone else who was wondering where I was. Even that small amount of support was enough to make my day, so thank you. Seriously.)
Now here are the chapters!
Enjoy, and wow... It feels good to be back!
Friday, 7 September 2018
Roadmaps and Roadblocks
Hey everyone!
New week, new missed week, new chapter releases. I finished an arc last time, and as I get closer to the end of the story it is harder and harder to finish it, partly because I don't want it to end (I also really want it to end so I can focus on other projects), but also partly because I don't want to mess the ending up. There's a lot I have to close off, and I don't want too many loose ends to hang about with the story. Some of it will be left in the air, because Laurence's story will be over, but that doesn't mean everyone's will be. Either way, there's an old face showing up in a few chapters, the final member of the crew before the eventual final arc. I wonder if anyone can guess who it will be?
On a side note, I saw the comment that someone left where they were wondering about what happened to one of the characters who was a focus of a side story. Generally I like the idea of their path once the story ends being left up to the minds of the readers, so really unless I specify that they died or they lived happily ever after it's up to you. Anyway, here's the chapters!
Chapter 41 - City In Sunlight
Chapter 42 - A Child's Origin
Chapter 43 - Homecoming
Have fun, and as always, if you feel like supporting me then buy the books (book 2 has like 10k words that you'll find nowhere else) or subscribe to me on twitch.tv!
- Seth
New week, new missed week, new chapter releases. I finished an arc last time, and as I get closer to the end of the story it is harder and harder to finish it, partly because I don't want it to end (I also really want it to end so I can focus on other projects), but also partly because I don't want to mess the ending up. There's a lot I have to close off, and I don't want too many loose ends to hang about with the story. Some of it will be left in the air, because Laurence's story will be over, but that doesn't mean everyone's will be. Either way, there's an old face showing up in a few chapters, the final member of the crew before the eventual final arc. I wonder if anyone can guess who it will be?
On a side note, I saw the comment that someone left where they were wondering about what happened to one of the characters who was a focus of a side story. Generally I like the idea of their path once the story ends being left up to the minds of the readers, so really unless I specify that they died or they lived happily ever after it's up to you. Anyway, here's the chapters!
Chapter 41 - City In Sunlight
Chapter 42 - A Child's Origin
Chapter 43 - Homecoming
Have fun, and as always, if you feel like supporting me then buy the books (book 2 has like 10k words that you'll find nowhere else) or subscribe to me on twitch.tv!
- Seth
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