Jashley13

The next chapter is up! Hope you all enjoy

Chapter 165 is up! Hope you all enjoy

Hey everyone! Well, I’m back from sea and I’ll tell you what, nothing like having your feet back on solid ground I appreciate your patience and hopefully four brand new chapters help to make up for the time away This is a shorter message right now as I’ve got quite a bit to take care of after so long away but I shall be working hard to continue the story. I hope you all enjoy in the meantime. Hope you had wonderful holidays and that you’re healthy and safe!

Hey everyone! So, I know it’s been a while and I apologize for that, but Chapter 160 is finally up! Unfortunately, it’s that time of the career again and this will be the last chapter that I will be posting for a while. However! There is good news in this, as this will be the LAST time that I go out to sea! Once I’m back, I’m back for good. Should not have to worry about any more long delays, barring vacations and life. But yes, this will be the last chapter posted until I return, though I promise to be working hard while I’m out to bring you more! I’ll miss you all and shall be back as soon as I can. Take care, have a wonderful Thanksgiving, a very happy holidays, and a wonderful new year!

And Chapter 159 is up! Hope everyone is having a good first of Halloween season and that you all enjoy!

All right, Chapter 158 is up! Sorry about the confusion earlier and I wish I had been able to put it out instead of the previous announcement, but all is well and I hope you all enjoy reading

Update again! Got the issue fixed so all is well Sorry about the previous post. Hope you're all doing well!

Hey everyone! So, attempting to log into my profile has given me information that the old account was not registered. I contacted technical support to try and get this information retrieved. If anyone has any further information on this, it would be greatly appreciated. Don’t want to have to completely recreate and repost everything if possible!

Chapter 156 is up! Sorry about the wait everyone! Big week this week – moving and getting married – but I hope the wait is worth it and I shall continue working as soon as everything has settled down!

Hey everyone! Chapter 156 is up! Hope you all enjoy! Sorry about the wait but been working hard and making sure I have time to write as I can. Thank you all so much for the congratulations and I shall see you all again as soon as I can!

Chapter 155 is posted! So sorry about the wait, everyone, but lots of stuff has been happening and it’s all been good hope all is well with all of you and I will continue working as soon as I take a short breather!

Hey everyone! So, just letting you all know that the next chapter might take just a little bit longer. Finally got the chance to go on vacation to see my family, so taking some time for that. Oh, also, I just got engaged! Wedding will still be a while off yet but been having a good few days so just wanted to keep you all informed on where the story is and that I’m working hard to keep it going so you're not waiting too long!

@wetwilly17I apologize for taking so long to respond to you! I just now checked the forum again and saw your comment about the old ‘Reality Checks’. I admit, I do miss them a bit. What I found, though, was that when Jack moved into college, so much of it was based off of real people and real things that I did that to do a Reality Check would require a post on here almost as long as the chapter! It would almost be easier to do an UnReality Check for the things that didn’t happen. For example, I didn’t break up with my girlfriend because of an accident, the accident I was in didn’t happen between my sophomore year and junior year, and I’ve switched around the order of plays that I auditioned for/was in. Perhaps I will bring them back again when Jack is out of college and I can perhaps get him into a situation where I am only tangentially living through him, rather than funneling so much of my life into it. But thank you so much for mentioning them. It’s nice to know that they are not completely forgotten

Chapter 154 is now up and ready for reading! Work has smoothed out and hopefully now I can churn work out mroe regularly. Hope you’re all doing well and I hope you enjoy the chapter!

Next chapter is finally up! So sorry about the wait, everyone! Work still manages to be hectic even when we return. But shall be working hard at the next chatper here soon and I hope you all enjoy this one!

Hey everyone! I am so so so sorry about the long wait! Believe me, I was waiting on pins and needles to get back for many, many reasons, not the least of which was the fact that I left you all somewhat hanging! Which, I suppose, happens with a story like this, but I never like that fact. However! I have returned and am safe and healthy and, not the least, I have something that hopefully makes up for it: five new chapters! Would have liked to have more but work and everything. I shall be returning to writing soon once I’ve gotten myself settled back on land, but hope you enjoy the other chapters in the meantime! I’ve missed you all!

Hey everyone. Less than happy news, unfortunately. That time of work has come up again, meaning that I will once again be away for a while. I can’t give dates or exact times, but this will most likely be the longest I’ve been gone yet. I apologize that it comes so soon after my sabbatical and I wish that work would have been a little more flexible so I would have had that time to write more so you wouldn’t be left with one new chapter before I left, so I apologize once again. I will be working while I am gone and hopefully should have something worthwhile to show for it when I’m finally back. I want to thank you all once again for being such amazing fans and readers. All of you are amazing, whether you love the story or find plenty to critique about it. I always want to hear what you have to say, positive or negative. I’ll end up writing these next few chapters without feedback so hopefully they will be up to your standards. Unfortunately, can’t really affect the timeline of when I will be back, so I will post the second I can get back to my computer I hope you all stay safe and happy and that this new year brings you joy and happiness aplenty. Take care of yourselves and I will be back soon! Love, Joe

Hey everyone! So, I know I usually publish a list of my ten best and worst films of the year...but I shall not be doing so this year. Mostly because I have not had the chance to go out and see a lot of films. At least, not enough to the point where I feel I can get a good view of the year in terms of film. If you really want to know, the best film I saw this year was Nomadland and the worst film I saw was Trump Card. That’s as much as I can give for this year. However! Because I don’t want to leave it at that and because I’ve been working on it for a while, I’ve decided to do something else: The Top Twenty Best and Worst Films of the 2010s. This list was a long time in the making and I was still adjusting it up to the 11th hour. I ‘m sure there will be things I change my mind about down the road but this is as concrete as I can make it. My basic rules for the lists were I would only put one film per director, one film per genre (animated, superhero film from a particular studio, etc) and I also avoided easy films like Birdemic for the Worst Of list. It’s always so much worse when someone has all the resources to make something worthwhile...and then doesn’t. Top Twenty Best Films of the 2010s 20. Roma 19. Moonlight 18. Wonder Woman 17. Black Panther 16. Star Wars: The Last Jedi 15. They Shall Not Grow Old 14. Inside Out 13. Django Unchained 12. Get Out 11. Parasite 10. A Ghost Story 9. Cloud Atlas 8. Zero Dark Thirty 7. 12 Years A Slave 6. Mad Max Fury Road 5. The Social Network 4. Hugo 3. Inception 2. Boyhood 1. The Tree of Life Top Twenty Worst Films of the 2010s 20. Collateral Beauty 19. Mordecai 18. Pixels 17. The Devil Inside 16. Winter’s Tale 15. The Haunting of Sharon Tate 14. Battle Los Angeles 13. New Year’s Eve 12. United Passions 11. The Amazing Spiderman 2 10. The Emoji Movie 9. Cats 8. Branded 7. Jack and Jill 6. Kirk Cameron’s Saving Christmas 5. Death of a Nation 4. Movie 43 3. The Last Airbender 2. Transformers: The Last Knight 1. The Life Zone

Chapter 147 is finally up! I apologize for the wait on this one. A combination of work, easing back into the writing, and the emotional toll of the chapter itself were contributing factors but I really hope that it was worth the wait. It’s interesting to get back into it after so much time away but I’m glad to be back into it and hopefully will be giving you more soon! I hope you all have a very Merry Christmas, a happy holidays, and stay safe and happy wherever you may be. Thank you all again for being the best fans ever and for believing in me and giving me the encouragement to continue. I love you all

Hey everyone! So sorry it took me a while to post again but I am hard at work on the next chapter. It should be out by or on Christmas Hope you are all having a happy holidays and staying safe wherever you are! Thank you all so much for all your support.

Hey everyone! Just looked at the last time I messaged and couldn’t believe how long it’s been! I hope you’re all doing well and have had plenty of time to relax and take care of yourselves and find the joy in your lives. This hiatus has actually been very good for me. Free from the self-obligation of attempting to get out a chapter at least every two weeks, I’ve taken a step back and can kind of look at the scope of everything and while I can honestly say I wouldn’t change anything up until this point, I’m going to be reevaluating how characters are and so forth from here on out. What does that mean? You’ll have to wait and see. I don’t know that I will be starting the next chapter this month but I almost certainly will be by December, hopefully ready for Christmas! Thank you all so much for your support and criticisms and comments. It really means so much to me. I miss you all and I promise I shall return soon!

Hey everyone! So, I wanted to give some time for people to read the chapter before posting again. To settle the first matter right away: no, this is not the end of the story. Not at all! There will be more to come. However! I will be taking a short sabbatical from the story. After six straight years of working on it, I’ve yet to hit a point where writer’s block or exhaustion has kicked in, but just to ensure it doesn't actually hit, I’ll take some time away, let the story stay as it is before returning to it. I’ve got another project that I’ve been starting and I want to focus on that for a little while. Having two big writing projects at once is a rough prospect and isn’t much good for my mental faculties. Never fear, though! I will not be gone forever and I will send updates when I have started working again. I’m not gonna leave you all in the lurch! Second matter: after careful consideration, I have decided I will not be publishing this story. There are a few reasons for it, first and foremost of which is that this story just would not work as a book. Or as a series of books for that matter. Critics of the story are correct: it is rather rambly and follows its own format in terms of narrative. An ongoing online series works well for it but trying to constrain it to bindings and separate books is not truly feasible and I feel would hurt what I’ve done. This story has become a form of therapy for me and however much it might be improved by trimming back on the details and streamlining the story, I don’t want that to happen. It will stay as it is. My project that I will be working on may be published, but that is a story I am writing specifically for a book format, so we will see what happens there. So once more, this is not a goodbye. Just a ‘till we see each other again’. You are all the best fans and readers a writer could hope for. I promise that when I return, I will be putting just as much effort into the story as I have so far; hopefully a little time away can help it feel fresh and I can return with a new flourish. Take care of yourselves, stay safe, and I will return soon! Joe

Chapter 146 is up. I’m sorry.

Chapter 145 is up! The next chapter will be the last chapter in the saga and I will be pushing through to get it done as soon as possible! Hope you are all well and happy Enjoy the newest chapter!

Chapter 144 is up now! Hope everyone is staying safe and taking care of themselves. I know things can be tough and annoying at times but if nothing else can cheer you, just know that I love and appreciate you all and that I will continue to strive to keep this story worthy of you