NaNo/ADAM - I'M BACK! (Paradise by the Keyboard Light)

Ok, ok. I know. I've been gone for almost a month from my blog and everyone is DYING to hear from me.

Well, I'm here; and I'll give you the lowdown on the whole adventure.

So right after my last post I began thinking that it would take a great toll on me to do two jobs, write, and blog. Hell, I even gave up on playing video games entirely. I played a few short things here and there, but only for a few minutes. I basically made the sacrifice of not blogging and assuming people who follow other authors would realize that I'm not dead. Hopefully.

I gave up on blogging for a while and devoted all my evening time to writing ADAM. ADAM, for all its worth, if finished and written almost to completion. I'd say this is version 0.5 before reaching Final Version 1.0.
Why?
Simple. I wrote in such a blinded state (despite having notes) that I have to go back and read the whole thing again to make sure its consistent and not insane. Which, I am sure its pretty insane. The current, unaltered word count is (according to NaNo) 51,157. Word claims its 50,097. Who knows?
Basically, I'll let it sit for a bit while I relax and let myself get caught up elsewhere. I also have a house guest until the 13th of December in the form of another Russel Terrier. My girlfriend asked me to look after the crazy goof for a bit.

NaNoWriMo was a whole new experience for me, and yes, I stuck with it! I made it to the end and posted my finished word count on last Saturday. Most of my region didn't finish, which is somewhat upsetting, but life happens.
Did I learn anything? Eh, no.
Did I develop new skills? Eh, yes. I developed a better consistency.
Will I do it again? Lord, I don't even know. Problem is, it was easy to just do ADAM because that was next in the pipe for The Storyteller War. But in a year, where will the story be? I figure I'll drop ADAM into the water next spring sometime. After that, I'll start on The Storyteller MAYBE for NaNo next year.
That seems like a long way off, but considering I start online college in January of next year, ehhhhh.
Also, it allows me to give more attention to Regolith's marketing (which has been nonexistent) and ADAM's working around (which has a long way to go.)

Also, no, I didn't forget about Dragonsbane. That got shelved since November first as well. I mean, yeah, I did take notes on some ideas I had, but that is it! That's it. I'm still confident in what will be my first venture into the wide world of big time publishing. Fancy stuff here. I should probably work on Dragonsbane instead of ADAM or... yeah.

So, here's the list of games I neglected in order of earliest release: Tales of Zestria, Assassin's Creed: Syndicate, Fallout 4, Sword Art Online: Lost Song,and Xenoblade Chronicles X. I have some bitter times ahead. In the rare instance, I begged my parents NOT to even mention games for the upcoming holidays. I may just hurl. (Kidding)

There it is. My Lazarus blog. I'm back, I'll keep posting, and I'll extend beyond just writing again someday soon enough.

Sayonara, kids!