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January 2026 Update

Upon coming into the New Year, I looked back at all I’d accomplished throughout 2025. The hectic moments of 2024 crept into January starting with me losing my Car as the clock struck 12 that night. Numerous plans I had for the year were swiftly pushed back with no definitive time frame for recovery in sight. Yet this January has been the complete opposite as life had given me new opportunities toward the end of last year. All planned releases for 2025 had obviously been delayed. However, the process of working on them has become more efficient than it had been in the previous years. Though I plan to release at least two of the projects this year, I won’t give a definitive timeline for the release of my projects this time until I’ve at least finished the second draft of my projects.

To put it bluntly, no real progress was made with the High Fantasy Novel. I don’t know what percentage of the story I was able to work on, but only two scenes were written the entire year. My Urban Fantasy Horror Novel has had a decent amount of progress made with the first half of the story being completed. Whereas at one point this half was meant to be its own novella, it is now considered only the first half of the first novel as it has the strongest ties to the second Novella I was writing for this project. Though progress may seem very slow in theory, its actually going much faster overall with the first draft currently being 60% done.

The Adult Sci-Fi Novel had the biggest improvement as it is now entering the second draft phase. In the previous update, I talked about how the only change I’ve made was the terminology and lore. However, I decided that the fastest way to tackle this project was to write the entire first draft like the Fanfiction Story it was originally meant to be. In December of 2025, I began a read through of the story, taking notes of the numerous story beats that I would need to change to make it fit into an original universe. This involved rewriting the backstories and histories of various alien races, recreating the power system, adding and removing characters, as well as expanding the lore to allow for more standalone stories to be told in this new universe. This is where a decent amount of time has went in the last month and it was not in vain as I am now 20% done with the second draft of this story. At my current rate, I expect this to be my debut novel in the place of my Urban Fantasy Horror Story.

The final piece of good news is that with my new job, I’m able to move towards writing full-time now. This improvement to my work-life balance was best demonstrated during the month of December where I was able to make real progress with my projects to even make this update relevant. This also allows me the opportunity to make due with my plan from last year of posting on this website more frequently than I have in the past. I will be working on redesigning this website as well. Currently, the look of the site is very bland. I’ve been doing some test designs to see what what best fit the direction I’m aiming for, but the process has been slow as it is not a major priority at this moment in time.

2025 New Year Update

Evening everyone! I hope you are having a great New Years! It’s been a little over three months since my last post as I am continue toward committing to a quarterly update on my projects as well as the website. This last few months have been pretty hectic, and writing has been much slower than I wanted it to be. However, not all that time and work has been in vain. I typically determine the progress of my story based on the number of chapters I’ve completed, but over the last few months I have been writing chapters out of order, with pretty much all of them being half-finished—the additional chapters I’ve written that is. The updated progress of each of the stories are as follows:

  • The Epic Fantasy Project had a minor increase to being 15% completed. This is a story that will require a lot more time and attention than the others, thus the progress will remain slower until the release of my Urban Fantasy Horror.
  • The Urban Fantasy Horror project is still coming along at a reasonable pace. While I didn’t reach my goal of being 50% done with the second draft of the project, I have progressed much faster than I was beginning to anticipate. I’m still on track to release this story by Summer time this year. One change I’m making with this project is turning it into a duology. Unlike the Epic Fantasy Project which was split into two books, this story is being merged into two books instead of four short novellas. This story is currently 40% complete, however this percentage is taking the new second half of the story into account.
  • The Adult Sci-Fi Novel is in the exact same spot as the previous update. Changes is terminology and lore have been made for the story, however those changes have not been implemented into the actual draft as of this post.

One change I plan to make this year is to be more consistent in posting onto this site. I have plans for topics to speak on including fanfiction, my writing process, and discussions on stories in different types of media. I also want to post a few short stories here as well from time to time, but those will be few and far between. My goal is one post per week, except on weeks in which I will be had at work on a book release.

By the end of March, I plan to reach begin revising the final draft of my Urban Fantasy Horror story as will as have the title of the book be revealed. I plan to increase progress of the other two stories by 5-10%, with better progress to come during the next quarter.