User blog:Magma-Man/Doing Something Different

I have been teasing you all about my book ever since I started the planning stages, and despite the fact that most of you probably don't care and never will care until it's actually finished, I'm announcing that I'm taking a break from it. The reason for this is I feel I'm taking too large of a leap. I want this to be the best it can be but as for writing an actual novel my previous experience comes only from essay sized short-stories, which earned me good grades but I don't feel are enough practice to truly make my first novel as good as it can be. So I'm halting production on it momentarily, and am instead going to create a short story that doesn't need to be secretive and I can release on teh internetz for your enjoyment most likely in a month or two. It will be planned out and written in the same way I have been planning and writing my main project, and I hope you all could give me feed back when it's released.

While I have several ideas for this short story currently the main one I'm thinking of going with is set in the Halo universe, not long after the events of Halo 4. The basic summary of the plot is that on a scientific research ship nestled in the farther reaches of the galaxy, secluded and away from other UNSC/Covenant presence, there is a flood outbreak, after some cryogenically frozen materials from before Halo 3's ending are unfrozen and it turns out there was a flood spore. There are only a few inexperienced Spartan IVs on the ship as the flood start to overtake the crew and ship it is up to them to destroy the ship before the flood and spread further and hopefully get out with as many lives as possible.

Oh yes, progress is coming along well for my Youtube show as well. The script is written and the intro is finished, meaning I have to record the rest of the dialogue, edit it so that the audio quality is as good as I can make it then put it together, then I only need to get clips of the game I'm reviewing together to show while the audio plays and add a couple of text boxes at the end. I hope you all watch it when it is finished and give me your thoughts on that as well.

Also thanks for reading all of this assuming you acctually did. I hate staring at text on a computer screen so I feel your pain.