Final Blog Post of 2014!

Well, here we are. My last blog for 2014. It’s been a long and winding road that I’ve been on this year filled with defeat, victory, tears, smiles, sunlight, and moonlight. I want to take this opportunity to post my reflections on my 2014 year and look ahead for 2015.
I did it. I did what I said I was going to do. That was: publish my first novel. I did it with a smile as I proved to myself that the people who dragged me down and put me down were wrong. I can do something in life. Honestly, storytelling is my best asset, but I’m getting a little off track. An accomplishment like this is both easy to do, yet hard. Long hours of writing, editing, and arguing with myself lead to the completion of my first novel, even if it’s rockier than a stone quarry (Trust me, there’s a lot I’d change in retrospect). My highest point was seeing the errors in the book and laughing them off as a mistake of mine. My lowest… My lowest point was when I was sitting in the basement of a church, chugging soda and talking to a chalkboard, all while trying to rewrite the twelfth chapter of Rising Seas. It came along eventually and I persevered.
In my personal life for 2014, I started a wonderful relationship, met lots of great friends, connected with new people, learned more about myself, told stories, and went to Otakon in Baltimore, Maryland. Heck, I even got the courage to cosplay (dress up) as the Green Power Ranger. I met fellow authors, artists, musicians, craftsman, and all sorts of crazy people! I wouldn’t trade any of them for the world. I made enemies, found courage, fought demons, challenged myself, and fell short so many times only to have the people around me drag me back to my feet. It’s been one hell of a ride that I would repeat again anytime!!
For 2015, there’s Otakon again (Cosplay ideas flow like water for me, unfortunately), concerts, adventures, and any manner of silly things going on. I plan to finish Regolith, my work in progress, by year’s end with all the bells and whistles crammed into the pages numbering between one and one million! I’ve slowly begun investing my time into making an RPG game using software I bought. I decided to make something entirely new.
So with all this shoved into my short and sweet blog post, I bid you fare-thee-well until 2015. May your New Year’s be excellent and filled with wondrous gifts from the world around you. Thanks to everyone who made this year awesome and blessed.
See you around, lords and ladies!