The DOOM Chronicles

MISERABLE UPDATE

I screwed up and this is me owning up to it and apologizing.

I'll just rip the band-aid off right now: I am going to be deleting the chapters I've written so far for Episode Four.

To be completely clear: I am not destroying or abandoning The DOOM Chronicles.

I thought about this for a long time. Obviously, I've been having troubles writing for The DOOM Chronicles this year. Unfortunately, after a lot of debate with myself, I've come to the conclusion that this is the best option.

This is probably one of the biggest fuckups of my 'career', such as it is. If you have decided not to just throw up your hands and walk away from me because this was the last straw, then please keep reading and I will explain what happened.

A few different factors went into this decision, but the part where I fucked up was twice over. In the beginning, I originally intended for there to be three protagonists for The DOOM Chronicles. Ultimately, I opted to axe the third, but went back on that decision. That was my first fuckup. The second was that I very much wanted to novelize The Callisto Protocol, but decided against it, and then decided to make Episode Four have the same energy The Callisto Protocol was going to have...and then I began novelizing The Callisto Protocol anyway. And now I've got two stories that have the same energy and atmosphere and I don't even have enough time for one.

If this sounds stupid, I do apologize for that, too.

Those are my fuckups and I am sorry.

I honestly feel really bad about this, and I didn't want anyone to think that I did this on a whim or easily. This was not a decision made lightly.

Now there's the obvious question of: so what happens now? I at least have a list there.

-I will wait some time, between 3 - 7 days probably, and then I will remove the chapters.
-I will add this message to the end of the final chapter of Episode Three.
-In some time, I genuinely don't know when but I'll say at minimum six months, I will fire the story back up. Episode Four will pick up six months after the end of Episode Three and feature Jack.

Again, I am sorry for this. I've never had to do it before, but I've been sitting here struggling to write for this all year. And I am just not having a good time, mentally and emotionally speaking. And this is supposed to be my hobby, and it's draining me. Honestly, I am just struggling a lot. If I haven't updated a story for awhile, that's why. Either I'm busy or I'm struggling. Which just sucks.

I don't know how to end this.

I hate this.

-Obsidian