Ben Hughes

Hi, can you check please my new story "A Family Affair"?

Fare thee well fellow Wattpaders, I bring joyous news!
          Many of you started following me because of my Game Reviews and do you know what, that's awesome and you people are great! Always keeping up to date with new reviews as well as voting and commenting, I mean the thing is nearly on 31,000 reads and that's all thanks to you guys!
          But for those of you who have been around for longer, or maybe ventured outside of the game reviews may have noticed a zombie story called The End of Days: Viral. Now for two years I have been working on editing and tidying the story (especially over the last few months with a very good friend of mine) to a point where I am happy with it and today is the day that I can say the entire first act (out of two) is pretty much done. It's been completely rewritten with loads of new chapters and detail absent from the original version.
          Act 2 will be worked on in much the same way shortly after Act 1 is completely finished with the final edits and will replace The End of Days: Human Nature, creating one story that will simply be called Viral.
          If you're a video games fan then be sure to check out Viral once I start uploading the new & improved version as there is plenty of reference to zombie games & films as well as a hopefully enjoyable and gripping story of a band of young survivors swept up in the chaos of the apocalypse.
          Not only that but it's only 8 days until Fallout 4 *throws party* so expect to see a review of that in the coming weeks (not release day though, give me at least a week...maybe longer, you'll know when it happens).
          So that's me signing off for now, may you all have a tippy top (quite possibly Fallout filled) November!

Morning all, another update. Again delays with Viral and there is no excuse besides that I'm finding it difficult to write it at the moment, with several instances of not knowing what to write or how to write it. It is still coming though but it may be a while and for that I am sorry.
          Next up I have decided to not adapt Condemned: Criminal Origins into a story as I feel at this point in time I dont particularly want to. The last of Us will still be in production but in the mean time whilst I'm sorting out Viral I will be adapting a new game into a story for you and that game is Hotline Miami. Out of my normal genre of horror and into a thriller and mystery kind of story, set in the 1980's and a conspiracy behind a contract killing company.
          Its a fun game that doesn't take itself too seriously but has a good and dark story that keeps you guessing so I thought it would be fun to adapt.
          Of course reviews are forever incoming (including one of Hotline Miami actually) so you'll never be short of gaming opinions.
          Hope you enjoy Hotline Miami and you will be seeing some Viral by the end of the year...I pinkie promise.

I think its about time I got to telling you all what's going on and why I'm not updating. Lets start with The End of Days.
          The re-writing is going to be starting very soon as I am now happy with the direction the story will head in and has many significant changes to make it the story I want to tell, so expect to see the first few parts soon however this is a big task for me and will take time for the whole story to be ready.
          Secondly with The Last of Us, this will also be continued as and when I have time because it takes a long time to analyse the game footage and adapt that to words.
          Thirdly short stories are currently on hold for the foreseeable future until I get the remake of Viral out of the way.
          Fourth and finally this is all going to take a while because I have my final exams for my first year of Uni coming up, but once they are done and I dedicate more time to writing I will be simultaneously writing Viral, The Last of Us and another adaptation of the Crime/Horror game Condemned: Criminal Origins (and later its sequel Condemned 2: Bloodshot).
          So sit tight, more content will be on its way soon I promise :)

Evening all! Thought I would just give you a little update on things.
          As you may (or may not) have seen, I posted a new short story to my 'Mind of a Murderer' collection titled 'Love?', a bit of a departure from the kinds of things I usually write but what is life if you dont take risks sometimes?
          Secondly, regarding The End of Days, after many nights sat editing, re-reading, re-planning & then more editing. I have decided to temporarily cease work on the current version to practically re-write the entire story as I am unhappy with the state I left it in; it will follow the same basic story with the same characters however to say a lot of work needs doing to it is an understatement so starting again is, in my eyes, the best option.
          In the meantime I will still do my game reviews however due to time constraints mainly due to University it may be a while until you see anything big from me, whether that be one of my bigger stories or another short story; however I do aim to have at least two or three things posted by the end of my Christmas break.
          Happy Christmas everyone and have a great New Year's!

To my followers...all 4 of you (Well shit this seems a lot less important now I think about it) anyway I bring good news and bad news!
          Bad news is TEoD: Human Nature is taking considerably longer to edit than I first thought, so it will be a while before you get some more zombie action.
          Good news is that my brain has been busy thinking up new & exciting stories that may (or may not) be making their way to this very place soon...huzzah!...Does anybody say that anymore?
          Anyway, just you know...keep you're eye out for more stuff from that ginger guy you may or may not read stuff from.
          P.S. Any chance of perhaps you know, telling freind's about my stuff? (That sounded awfully like I was trying to shift some drugs) These things aren't going to read themselves you know.
          Over and out, may the force be with you, hasta la vista and all that jazz :)