Hello again my hopefully safe and healthy friends,
I figured some people might be getting antsy, so it would be worth putting out an update on the last update. Can't believe it's gotten to the point where I'm that kind of fanfiction writer I once thought was only the stuff of stories and legends, but here we are.
To make another long-ish story short, about three or four days after I put out that last update I actually wound up getting a promotion at the video game news site I've been working at, Game Rant. That threw a much more hefty quota of stories I had to hit per-month onto my plate, and as a result much of April has been dedicated to me getting used to a new work schedule. It's not super easy to go from casual freelance work back into multiple hours of writing and editing a day, especially when all of it is being done from the eternal prison that my house has become during all this coronavirus pandemic goodness.
But even so, I thought it was worth at least coming around to let y'all know that I'm pretty much past the point of not wanting to write stuff here. I put out a more 'fun' piece not long ago called "Battle of the Beaters" based on Pokemon Masters, and just yesterday I published a feature for Game Rant about how Link should be able to date people in the Breath of the Wild sequel. Yes, a not-so-subtle plug, but I do get paid extra by the click so I figure it's worth putting it out there for anyone who might be interested in searching that out.
That said, the TL;DR you should take out of this whole babbling session is that time willing I would like to start up this story again next week.
I don't know that I can promise I'll be on that weekly new chapter grind that I was able to keep up when I was unemployed, but I love this story and I know a lot of you do too. There are some fun moments I have planned out that I'd like to see come to the page eventually. I'll be aiming to try and have at least one chapter every other week or so, just don't crucify me if I have to be a little more flaky to keep my real-world endeavors from falling apart.
These little update posts will probably stick around just so I can have some kind of written account of when the world fell apart, as silly as they may be, so just consider it like an interlude before getting into the good stuff if you're reading this 30 years from now when it doesn't matter anymore.
Thank you guys so much for being patient. I know there's been continual traffic since I stopped writing, so also thanks to all the newcomers who managed to dig this thing out of the trash bin of history. The story's on the cusp of hitting 30,000 views, and that's just wild to me.
Look forward to more soon. Please, be safe and find fun things to read!
- Jason