Afterword
This work, in particular, took a while for me to finish, as you can see. If I remember correctly, I created the Google Docs document for this story a little over a year ago, in the middle of October (Edit: I checked, I started it October 17th, 2016). If you asked me why this one took so long, I don't think I could answer and still do it justice. Mostly due to the fact that I still don't fully understand why. A part of me wants to believe that it was because of the rather uncharacteristic subject matter, born from an old headcanon of mine, that had inherent ties to ongoing struggles and resolutions in my own life. That part of me wants to believe that I struggled so much to finish this one because the concept and theme hit me hard and made the story emotional and frustrating for me as I dealt with and resolved the issues I presented. However, another part of me knows that it was just cause I'm lazy and kept getting distracted so I just never got around to finishing it. I'd rather not find out which one is right, to be honest with you.
Along with some other struggles in the writing department, that you, my illustrious readers, are horrendously aware of, there are plenty of reasons why I haven't been writing as much, other than the occasional poem or short story here and there when I have free time. This includes the obvious, school, social life, family life, priorities and responsibilities in general, however, it also includes the not so obvious fragmented, so easily-distracted mind I seem to possess. I can't seem to focus on a single project for the life of me. When I returned to this one after a year of barely touching it, It still took me a month to finish. It's my junior year, okay. Cut me some slack, I'm tryna go to college.
Either way, this is by no means a definite promise that I'm going to be more consistent and start writing more, an get around to finishing Blaze of Glory. But, please believe me when I tell you that I'm trying. I sincerely hope you enjoyed the story, feel free to leave any comments or criticism so long as they're positive and helpful! I'm tryna get better here, I want to improve. But please, I'm a sensitive boy, be nice. Thanks for reading!
-Amourable,
A dumbass writer that updates inconsistently