Update IV

    Over the last...week and a half? Yeah, I think it's been a week and a half. On second thought, maybe two weeks. Give me a second, I'm going to double check. Yeah, two weeks. So over the last two weeks I've completely written the back-story to the main story and got a good idea of where the story is going. Not only that, but I also have the character developments done for the two main characters: Simon "Sam" Hawley & Gabriel "Gage" Russak. I can't really divulge too much at this time but I'm getting close. In addition to those two I will be keeping JACINTO and refining his character.

    My main focus for the next few days, possibly weeks, is to completely develop the remainder of the main characters I intend to use and to also flesh out some of the main plot points. I am close, I even rewrote part of the prologue already (somewhat similar to the previous one). Before I continue writing the new prologue and get too ahead of myself I plan on getting everything completed that I need. So it should be soon (trust me, I'm getting kind of annoyed myself that I have to put it off so much).

    I know this won't mean much to any of you out there, but since I started writing the back-story it slowly morphed from one idea I never had before to one that included, and heavily relied upon and built on, a story idea I had about 10 years ago. I tried writing the story back then but because I was so young I wasn't able to properly build the story slowly and it became a mess of me rushing the characters to events I thought were great ideas. This lead me to completely ruining the story and scrapping it. Like I said though, I resurrected the idea to fit in with this one, and fit in with this one it did! I can't tell you how excited I am about getting this out to you guys. Until then I will keep you updated and I hope you enjoy the story as much as I'm enjoying developing it right now.

Update III

Over the last couple days I've gone completely back and started working out the backstory and character details to make writing easier so once I start again it will be a lot faster and easier to work. Unfortunately, this means I am going to have to completely rewrite the parts I've already posted. This will be for the better though. A few of the characters we have already met in the beginning will no longer be there, maybe later on in the story but they won't be as big of a part in the story. The other characters have been renamed (I was always bad with names and never really liked the ones I had originally decided on) and have had some other minor changes to them.

I'm not yet at the stage to start my rewrites yet but I am getting close and am looking forward to how this story will turn out. I don't plan on completely abandoning what I have already written and posted. Although it may no longer be a part of the story I have been trying to tell, I think I can turn it into it's own story.

Update II

    It has been too long since I have done an update or even posted a part of my writing. I am truly sorry to all of those that are interested in this story and my writings. I'm not here to tell you I have abandoned the project, that is not the case at all. Perhaps a little context. Right around my last update my fiance and I began the process of buying a house, now without getting into too many details I'll just say, the process of picking, buying, packing, moving, unpacking, sorting, and settling in has been extremely time consuming. For any of you who follow my poetry blog you will see that it has caused me to not be able to keep up to date with posting my poems on there.

    Today I went back over all my notes and plans for this book and realized I didn't have a clear enough vision for exactly where it was going or the backstory. Since it's my day off I took the time to go over and try to zero in on exactly what I want this book and story to be about. Thankfully I was quite successful today and have a vision that is immensely clearer and will be easier to follow and execute. Sadly, I will have to go over the parts I have already written and will have to do some edits and rewrites.

    Now I'm not promising any actual date of when this will all actually get posted up and I'll be back on track with this but I am promising that I am starting to work on this as full time as I can now. I really want to thank you for your patience and I hope you will all forgive me and will continue to read. I am very excited about where I see this story going and hope you will all enjoy the journey as much as I know I will.

Jason