Showing posts with label Hiatus. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hiatus. Show all posts

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

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

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!


Enjoy, and wow... It feels good to be back!

Saturday, 18 August 2018

Landmark release, stupid instability.

Hey all!

So do you ever get that feeling where you try to keep up with something and miss the deadline by a day, so you try and make up for it but that puts you more behind? Yeah, that just happened to me for the last 3 weeks. I've been trying to release chapters but was massively behind for the entire time and it's been kinda hellish, but I knuckled down and have now released all the chapters I was behind by, plus a single extra long chapter :D

On the downside I think I'm developing RSI in my fingers because of writing/gungeon (I swear all my offtime is spent playing that). This is not a good week for me D: Anyway, here's the chapter backlog!

Chapter 33: Winoa's Help
Chapter 34: The Hephaistia Tower
Chapter 35: The Buried Cathedral
Chapter 36: Breaking The Trap
Chapter 37: The Origin Of The End
Chapter 38: A Market Deception
Chapter 39: Family Help
Chapter 40: Thoughtless Escape

Here's eight chapters! Enjoy! And if you want to support me, you can check me out on Amazon, or Twitch at your leisure!

Saturday, 23 June 2018

Keeping Up To Date

GREETINGS!

I hope everyone is well. New chapter is out, new week is over, and new things are happening! I'm still working through some situations with my big secret project thing, but as far as my chapters are going, I'm still writing and working on them. The siege is almost at its conclusion, for better or worse, and I will be moving on to the next part within about 3 weeks! Woo!

In other news, as I mentioned last week I am streaming often on twitch, and that is going pretty well. I'm now an affiliate, with my own emotes and everything! Swing on by if you are into that kind of thing, and you want to listen to a deep voiced Englishman talk at you for a few hours. Anyway, here's the chapters!

Chapter 23 - The Pit
Chapter 24 - Promises Made From Bone

Have fun, and as usual if you want to support me then buy my books on Amazon or subscribe to me on Twitch!

-Seth

Saturday, 2 June 2018

100705

Hey everybody!

At the time of writing, that's how many views my site has received. It's not a massive amount, but I'm still quite proud of it. Thousands of eyes have gazed at the writing I have put on the internet, and knowing that gives you a pretty special feeling. It's not as much of an accomplishment as finishing my first book, but I'll be damned if it's not a great one.

I'm still getting back into being regular about anything, so the chapter releases will be sporadic until my routine is in shape, but I intend to keep up with everything. So here are the two regular chapters for this week, and hopefully I will be able to release regularly as of next week.

Chapter 17 - Dragon's Teeth
Chapter 18 - Triple Toxicant

Thank you for putting up with my shit, and sticking by me even with my horribly irregular release schedule. I will get better eventually, but in the meantime you can check out my books (The Golden Children and Heaven) on Amazon if you feel like supporting me.

- Seth

Friday, 25 May 2018

I'm Back...

Hello everybody!

I'm back after a 5 month break, and I'm really sorry about it. Around Christmas I had one of the longest depressed periods of my life and I've only been clawing out of it over the last month or so. I'm back now though, hopefully for good. I've released 5 chapters at once as an apology about just disappearing, but I'm going to try and catch up to where I should be for how long I've been away (35 to go lol).

Chapter 12 - Control
Chapter 13 - Calm
Chapter 14 - Sirens
Chapter 15 - Field of Poison
Chapter 16 - The Solutions Immortal

Have fun reading, and NOW YOU CAN BUY MY SECOND BOOK! (I released it like last week) but I've been so busy trying not to be depressed I've only just worked up the ability to start promoting it.

- Seth.

Friday, 22 December 2017

I Added A Queue

Hey all!

So I'm late, as usual. I'm about half done on the next chapter, but over the next 10 days I am going to be VERY busy at work, because over the Christmas to new year period it's insane. I will try to keep as up to date as possible, but I am just dropping a warning for you all now. This time I might not be releasing not because of anything going on in my head but rather because I'll be working solidly. Now that I've covered that, I have three chapters to release! I'll be releasing the three I owe (2 Babel and 1 From Ashes) as soon as I can, but I've not had the best couple of weeks. My head has not been in a great place most of the time, but when it has been in a good place it's been really nice. Anyway, I'm sorry about the lateness and here's the chapters I owe!

Chapter 9 - Going Home

Chapter 10 - A New Target

Chapter 11 - Misty Peaks

Have fun, and as always if you like my work then talk about it, hit me up on Amazon or buy someone my book for Christmas!

-Seth

Saturday, 2 December 2017

Swingdown Town

Hey all!

Sorry about being AWOL with the chapters over the last week. It's not been intentional, in fact the Wednesday update WAS on time, I was just knackered and forgot to post about the chapter actually being released. I know, so smart of me.

Either way, you have two new Babel chapters for your perusal and one new part to chapter 1 of From Ashes! I'll try and get two babel chapters out on Monday to make up for the missed chapter and then we should be back on track. The next update will have a milestone attached to it by the way. It will be the marking point for 10% of the story, so we should only have 70 odd chapters to go from that point on! Woo! Anyway, here's the chapters:

Chapter 5 - Potential

Chapter 6 - Discourse

From Ashes Chapter 1.5

Have fun, and if you feel like supporting me then check me out on Patreon or Amazon. It would help me out a lot!

-Seth

Friday, 10 November 2017

I'M BACK BABY

Hey all!

I return, and will be posting something tomorrow to make up for me disappearing for way longer than I intended to, but jeez, I needed the time off. I'm going to work now, but I wanted to release at least one thing before the end of this week. Today I am releasing Chapter 1 of Babel 3, and tomorrow I will be releasing the prologue of my new series From Ashes! I have a good base for that, so I will be sticking to releasing one of From Ashes and 2 of Babel a week until whenever I finish editing Babel 2. Anyway, here's the chapter:

Chapter 1 - The Man on the Mountain

Have fun, and if you feel like supporting me then buy my book or drop me something on Patreon!

-Seth

Wednesday, 18 October 2017

Two Down...

Hey all!

Sorry about the radio silence yesterday, I've been a bit frazzled the last few days for various reasons. Most of it is done with now. If I hadn't been so messed up I would have had the release ready for you yesterday.

THAT'S RIGHT. BOOK 2 IS COMPLETE! You can read it in its entirety now, and experience the journey of act 2 of Babel in full, but now onto act 3! As you all should know, I'm giving myself a week or so off to prepare for book 3 and to chill out before I start up again, and will be releasing two other stories simultaneously at a slower pace. 1 chapter of each a week at 1000 word intervals. This should allow me to write to my heart's content without being worried about being either hemmed in by short chapters or the constraints of releasing something every day. I've done one set of experiments and now want to see if it will turn out better or worse if I try a slightly different path. I'll still release Babel regularly, don't worry! either way, Here's the chapters:


Have fun, and I hope you've enjoyed the ride so far! As usual, you can get a copy of my first book on Amazon now, and you'll be able to get the second book in a few weeks, once I've done the editing and changed a few things. I really screwed up a lot of interactions between Law and Cleo in the early parts of book 2.

-Seth

Friday, 13 October 2017

Bugger This Week

Hey all,

You know when you have those weeks where nothing you plan goes the way you want it to? You're late to work, you burn your mouth on your dinner or you cut it open on some food that should not be as sharp as it was, minor stuff. Minor stuff that keeps happening and stacks up until you're a fucking mess and everything feels like it is falling apart? Well I've had one of those weeks. Nothing I've planned has gone the way I wanted it to and because of that I am behind on chapters, behind on everything and it's infuriating. I have the chapter that was supposed to be out on Tuesday done, but nothing else I have written has been worth keeping, not even stuff for my side stories that I don't publish. It sucks! I didn't want you guys to go without the chapter though, because I should have finished Heaven this week, so I'm going to try and write it over the weekend, and do a double chapter release with a chapter of the story I am writing at the same time as Babel, something I've tentatively called From Ash to Diamond. This is my present to you guys to make up for flaking. Either way, here's the chapter:

Chapter 73 - The Valley of Kings (10)

Have fun, and if you want to support me, then tell people about my amazon stuff!

-Seth

Thursday, 7 September 2017

What's That Rising From The Grave?

Yes, I am not dead!

I am back, and I intend to stay that way, all the way until the completion of the third book and beyond! Sorry about my 4 month disappearance, to cut a long story short I have something called bipolar disorder and can be rather erratic because of it. I know it doesn't excuse me from disappearing but it is an explanation.

Either way, I'm back now and with some pretty massive news! First, you can now buy an edited and fully compiled version of the first book on amazon! I know it's rather late, but it was something I could actually focus on doing while I was dead to the world. I've also got a MASSIVE present for you, that of 9 chapters tonight and another one tomorrow! WOW RIGHT?

Also if you feel like chilling with me and chatting with me while I write, I'm going to be streaming my writing during the mornings my time. I know it's not the best time for all of you, but if you feel like popping in and saying hello I would much appreciate your feedback! You can find me on twitch here. Anyway, here's the chapter dump!

Chapter 42 - Seal

Chapter 43 - Pillar of Trial

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Chapter 49 - Tiphereth

Chapter 50 - Samael

Have fun guys! If you've enjoyed the story so far, grab the full edit on Kindle and read it through properly, it's actually a surprisingly different experience to not read it chapter by chapter.

- Stormeater

Friday, 31 March 2017

I Hate Being Ill

Hey all!

So I've been ill for the last couple of weeks and it's been a real drag, but I'm finally getting back into form with things, and have a triple release for you to make up for it! I'm going to try and get back on to things, so Monday WILL have a release, and it could even be the double release that I promised. I just really don't want to be ill anymore @_@ It sucks.

The new chapters are building up to the first major twist of the current book, I hope it terrifies you, because I'm really not sure how people will take it. More to come soon! Either way, here are the chapters:

Chapter 36: Escape

Chapter 37: Hod

Chapter 38: Collapse

Have fun, and if you want to support me, click some adverts and upvote me on reddit!

Saturday, 11 March 2017

Well This Is Awkward

Hey all!

So I missed a few releases, and I'm a chapter or two behind where I was supposed to be, but I'm back on track and managed to write a lot I'm actually happy with over the last few days, which means that I have four chapters to release, and I'm trying to get two out on Monday and two out on Friday to make sure I'm actually up to date with chapters again. I've been writing two chapters a week for over a year now, so I should be a little better at releasing on time by now. Oh well.

Either way, there's four chapters out today. We're finally moving on from the eleventh floor and I cannot believe it! It's taken forever, but we are finally out of the frying pan and slowly moving into the fire of the main plot of book 2. I hope you guys like it, because it's going to be pretty crazy. Either way, here you go:

Chapter 31 - A Discourse In Arms

Chapter 32 - Repercussions of Successful Plans

Chapter 33 - Twelfth Floor Intermission

Chapter 34 - The Monologue of a Madman

Have fun! And if you're feeling like supporting me, click on some ads or upvote on reddit. It would go a long way to spreading the word about the novel.

-StormEater

Thursday, 16 February 2017

I RETURN FROM THE DEAD

Hey all!

Well this is a surprise, it's been two months since I last updated and I'm really sorry about that. I've just been super busy with work and being sick. It's not been fun, but I'm back with several chapters to boot, and hopefully a regular schedule to get back into shape with. That should be fun.

So there's four whole chapters coming out today, with another coming out on Friday. I'm not just dying, and I WILL be finishing Babel no matter what, so don't worry about it being dropped. I just took some time off. Anyway, here's the chapters:

Chapter 25 - Ascension
Chapter 26 - Running Down The Mountain
Chapter 27 - The Golem Returns
Chapter 28 - Heaven

Have fun, and if you feel like supporting me or celebrating my return, check me out on Patreon or click some adverts. It would really help.

- StormEater

Friday, 2 December 2016

Two weeks later...

Hey all!
I'm so sorry about my disappearance, I've been ill, sick and struggling to find the end of a chapter, which was a real pain. I have done it now, so I'm doing a triple release of chapters (2 babel, 1 pandora) for you to make up for it. The first Babel chapter is the longest one so far, and all Pandora chapters are of a similar length, so that's why they take so long. I'm going to make more of an effort to update more often, but atm I have a lot on my plate so have no time whatsoever to get buffer chapters. Anyway, here's the chapters for today!

Chapter 21 - Ringing

Chapter 22 - Gifts and Preparations

File 1.02 - Level One

Have fun! And I'm going to actually update Royal Road tonight, so sorry if you came from there >_>

- StormEater

Tuesday, 15 November 2016

What is this sickness?

Hey all!

Eventful couple of weeks for me, and by eventful I mean I've been juggling illness, lack of sleep and 6 day work weeks since just before Halloween. I've not had the time nor been in the right state of mind to write, but I am BACK baby! To make up for my missing-ness I am going to release 5 chapters of writing today! Parts 2, 3 and 4, of the Fall of Biqiril, the first chapter of the week, AND the first chapter of the tentatively titled Pandora Experiment. I hope you guys like it, as it's not going to be coming out weekly, but there's a LOT more plot behind it, albeit just as little editing.

Chapter 20 - Slight Enlightenment

Side Story 4.2, 4.3 and 4.4

File 1.01 - Robert

Okay, so the formatting of the first chapter of the Pandora Experiment is still not all there, but I really like the story, so I hope it goes down well. Have fun with it!

- StormEater

Saturday, 22 October 2016

This Is Getting To Be A Habit

Hey all!
I'm really sorry about being so shite about my release schedule recently. I don't know why I've been having such trouble keeping to the regular release schedule, but I have been working loads over the last couple of weeks. I'm trying to knuckle down and get more written, but I also seem to be writing longer chapters now than before. Seems to be a little bit of a perfect storm. Either way, here are the two new chapters!

Chapter 16 - The Rip

Chapter 17 - Dissent

Have fun, and if you feel like supporting me, then hit me up on Patreon!

- StormEater

Friday, 14 October 2016

I don't know why I suck at this so bad.

Hey all!

Triple release! I decided to release the first part of the Fall of Biqiril with the two chapters that were supposed to come out this week. It's the diary that Laurence found inside Aledia in the most recent couple of chapters, and will be several parts long. However the chapters will also be much shorter than normal, as they are literally just diary entries.

The most recent couple of chapters would have been out earlier on in the week, but Chapter 14 is almost double the normal length of a chapter, so it took me a bit longer to do. However the chapters are done now, so have fun with them!

Chapter 14 -  Operation
Chapter 15 - Co- Operation

Side Story 4 - The Fall of Biqiril (Part 1)

Hope you enjoy the chapters, and if you feel like supporting me, head over to my Patreon and drop me a couple of bucks, pounds, yen or whatever floats your boat!

- StormEater