I never thought I would reach this point, but wow, here I am. Since December 2009, I had been struggling to complete "The Unifying Force" for nearly four years. So many things have happened to me, as I have lived my first five years of adulthood, that I could have never foreseen, and as such, there were long periods of time where writing this fanfiction would be the absolute least concern for me. Events ranging from dating woes, to shit happening at work, to losing a good friend of mine in a car accident only two years ago. Most of those had caused long hiatuses where my motivation was zero, but nothing compared to when I was helping my parents take care of my loving grandmother.
She passed only two months ago, but for the seven years prior we had her in our home, her survival as her memory and motor functions degraded from Alzheimer's Disease was our top priority. Even now, I still have trouble remembering how she was before the disease fully set in. Her care took up much of my time in the recent years, and we had put our literal blood, sweat, and tears into making sure that her final years would be the best we could give her, refusing, even in the hardest of times, to put her in a home. She had done so much for us, even before I was born, and she was my third parent as my mother and father both worked to keep a roof over our heads. She was constantly a bright spot of hope and love into our lives, and even though I, myself, am an atheist, she took her Christian values to heart and used them to be the best person she could be, which I find rare and admirable in this day and age.
I don't write this because I expect anything out of it. I never expect this to every make me money or famous or renowned in any way. This is all a project I do because it's fun and it's my hobby, essentially, but I can't deny that my life events have helped shape the certain parts that I write for the story. Nor can I deny that when I see my view ticker go up, that I get a little jolt of excitement from seeing that there is someone out there who is at least a bit interested in checking out what I have done in my spare time. That, and my willingness to please my anal-retentive side and finish this goddamn fanfiction (haha) are what keep me driven to see this story through the end.
I, of course, will be going though the stories and proofreading as much as my eyes and fingers can pick up. This will be low priority, however, as I will post one chapter of "The Unsung War", the third and final installment of "Twilight: The Jasican Allicus Chronicles", and then I will break from writing for the rest of 2013. If you're reading this in 2014, congratulation, you won't have to wait long to wait for future chapters, and before long, the final ending of the trilogy. I sincerely hope you have had as much fun reading both stories, and my future story, as I've had writing it.