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
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- Seth
Saturday, 27 April 2019
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!
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