User blog comment:Jerichow/MGE Fanfiction - Chapter 2/@comment-27418445-20160910131740/@comment-25817038-20181017060217

Oh my god man, I'm so sorry about all of this - Life hit me. Hard.

I spent a lot of 2015-2016 between jobs, scraping money by, working as a temp (which is insanely stressful because of how disposable I was as one) and now after getting settled into my new job now I've been at since mid-2016, and finishing a recent move to a new house with a cousin and family friend... I can't deny, it all ripped the time and will out of me to keep this going for a very long time.

I've been working on getting back into it but I'm going to have to shorten the story quite a bit for when I do get back into it. This is almost entirely because I had stumbled into my old bear-trap I set for myself, in that I would always get into this huge, grandiose, over-arching plot that would run several in-story years, cover the points of view of half a dozen people or more, and take thousands upon thousands of pages (by time I decided to cut it down, estimates were putting it at ~3000-4000 pages, 9x11, 11pt font across 100+ chapters) and it was just going to be way too much to do in a reasonable amount of time. At the point I'm "cutting" it down to... I'd say I'm shaving about 30% of the story off, so it's still going to be 70+ chapters and span over 30 years in the story, but I have already compensated for this with events in the story that make this distance a very readable, and smooth-flowing experience.

I still want to get it all written before seriously getting into a 'schedule' of posting - because I used to post a Mega Man X fanfic a looong time ago called 'The Last Maverick' on fanfiction.net and well... Everything went great until I took a 'life' to the face and ended up discontinuing that story. Basically a similar situation that happened with THIS story, but I refused to let it die like I did TLM. It's still saved to my desktop with all of the hundreds of references I gathered for it, and added to it over the years.

The plus side/silver lining to this is that I've never actually stopped 'working' on the plot in my head even up to this day - and as such have put about 2 more years into the actual plotting-out of this story to encompass some extremely serious and tough situations for Adam as well as other characters not-yet-introduced that are going to basically shift the story on its head a couple of times. I also managed to pick up on a lot of mistakes I started to make starting around chapter 3, so I need to re-read it and correct those mistakes. I did this last year and it took over a month to completely proofread and rewrite Ch 3 correcting those original mistakes, but now I need to luckly just touch-up on it one more time, and then it should be off to the races in picking things backup.

I'm also working on finding a place where I can upload with .docx format in tact, because that was, and still is an enormous problem when uploading here because a lot of my work is emphasized in format. It took a few hours just to get this chapter uploaded when I posted it originally - enough so that I remember it to this day, and how much of a nightmare it was. So once that's sorted out, I should be able to get back into it since I do want to see this through.

I'm not even sure you're going to read this at this point considering it's what.... two years and a month almost to the day past when you posted this? But if you do - I honstly do appologize, and intend to start getting things sorted out and get this story going again soon.