The Slipspace Juncture

Hiatus Over... Again

I'm just going to delete the previous, useless post and reuse this one until it is no longer needed. I am attempting to write again, my poor work ethic be damned. It is slow, and I took wayyyyy too long, but I am going to be trying to actively pick things up with this and other things I am actively working on. Expect the next chapter in the next one to two weeks if I actually stay on damn task.

Anyways, there's still the applicable extra information down below in case you're curious about how I feel in regards to this little side project I've started working on.

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If you couldn't tell from the varying quality of each chapter, the weird mix-mash of POV's that I have no idea if it's good or bad but I FEEL like they work so I've stuck with them, and some potentially questionable (I don't know what it's like reading from your guy's perspective) choices in my writing, that this is actually my first attempt at properly writing something. This whole experience though, despite my complete lack of understanding on how to do this, has been honestly really nice, and I feel I have gotten better from doing this. However, I will state here, a lot of things are going to change about how I write this story throughout it's lifespan, due to the fact that, well, this thing is kind of an experiment for me and I will probably be trying to do different things to see how they work. So don't get surprised if POV's change in the future or I try writing the text differently out of nowhere with no warning. Only thing I ask is that if there are concerns or issues, voice them. I can only grow more as a writer if I can learn from my mistakes. If I don't even know that I made one, how the hell am I supposed to fix it and/or learn from it.

Another thing I'd like to disclose. I REALLY want to keep this thing as realistic as I can, HOWEVER, either because hindsight is 20/20 (Marine ears probably should've been ringing like hell or damaged when going in/out of that damn VERY violent in atmosphere and unusual slip-space jump) or because it would damage the reading experience, (realistically, all of these marines would get fucking ran through by like, the first transmissible disease they come into contact with and that wouldn't be fun or interesting to read. Or write for that matter. "Oh yeah, the main characters of the story haven't done anything for six chapters. Why? Oh, they caught this world's version of the common cold and are now on death's bed.") I will miss or avoid certain things. If you think I missed something, go ahead and point it out though, would be nice and make me glad that I could fix and keep a mental note of something.

Something I'd like to touch on, the direction of the story. As I'm sure everybody has noticed, this thing had a VERY strong Halo theme both told from the description and from what the prologue started it all off with. In fact, it is what I had PLANNED when I first came up with the idea and just started writing. However, things evolved, and pretty quickly too. What started originally as a gag idea that would have just been used as a joke among a friend group quickly spiraled into something I grew connected to as I began to develop deeper ideas and actions and plot for it. I didn't like the idea of making something that I personally felt I could have made better. And so it went from a short, basic story to suddenly having an entire world built from scratch and characters who now have planned character development. Basically, what all this rambling is getting to is that this story grew way too large for me to keep up with, and thus the focus of Halo shifted to a focus point of it's own, independent story with its roots from Halo. I don't know, I could be making a bigger deal than I should be out of this, but I felt like it had to be brought up.

Last thing I'd like to bring up is the amount of appreciation I have for my editor, who's always there to keep me in check and to ensure that the millions of mistakes I make only end up being hundreds. He's helped me develop the story since the beginning, and has been an integral part of the quality and function. This story wouldn't be the same without him, and for that, I wish to give him public thanks that I know he will complain about later when he hears I wrote this. (He's not looking editing this chapter.)

That's all, you guys have a great rest of your day, and work will resume shortly.