Siphon

Elysium Chapter 10

Heyo! So a few things to take note of, I guess. If you haven't noticed, I update things... fairly constantly as I go, or figure out what I'm doing, or have things pointed out to me. A few of the changes from yesterday to today include: Adding a few minor things in chapter one to make things clearer, changing the PK text slightly, and going back and making sure the NPC name tags all show up the same.  I think that's everything. 

Fun fact: Item slots in Elysi...

Elysium Chapter 9

Long chapter. I got a few hours of sleep after finishing 8, then woke up at 4am unable to go back to sleep, so since that's my new favorite writing time,  I took the next seven hours to work on this one. Go figure.  Leena was a surprise to me. But hey, that's the fun of discovery writing with only a vague vision of where I'm going. 

I think I'ma go back to sleep.  Have a good day y'all! <3 

Elysium Chapter 8

Happy... day. It's a day. I dunno, I've kinda lost track of days and times this last week.  So yeah. Whatever day it is, hope you're having a good one! 

I was thinking about it, when I realized I was on chapter 8 and not even close to finishing this first area. I'm writing a slice of life VRMMO. Not something I realized or intended. Apparently slice of life is my jam. 

Also, ugh, SO MUCH WORLDBUILDING to do. I've literally only introduced two que...

Elysium Chapter 7

Naming stuffs is hard, so I copped out and had some fun. XD Bonus points to anyone who knows all of them! 

I do feel bad for Rune tho. >.< Poor guy is just trying to make friends.

Elysium Chapter 6

Will you be my fren? :P 

One of these days, I'll get back on a normal sleep schedule. Today is obviously not that day. I dunno. 12-5am is just such a peaceful time when I don't have to worry about people messaging or distracting me. 

So, here's my random question of the day. What naming conventions have you seen in MMOs where each IGN is unique? Something I've always noticed is that the first players are all one word names, and it gets progressively l...

Elysium Chapter Five

Hope everyone had a good weekend! 

I admit, I struggle with fight scenes. I'm also OCD enough that I created all of Robbin's stats and items. I don't think I want to do that for everyone, but my brain might not give me the option not to, if Ash is fighting them. 

And I know, it's a ton of world exposition and mechanics. I keep hoping I'll have explained enough of them soon and can stop doing that. 

Anyway, hope you enjoy! Thank you for your...

Insight Chapter 15 - Mirror

Finally got this one done!  Not sure I'm happy with the title Mirror, but I can't think of what else to call it. (side note: this has made me very happy I've opted to not use chapter titles for Elysium, cuz I hate titling stuff, even if it makes it easier to find things later. >.<)

Random aside, please make sure if you like extra communication and with stuff like the new creation of Elysium characters, either follow me on facebook or join the discord. <...

A little explanation from Facebook

I posted this to facebook, but I realized it should probably be said here too for those who don't see it there.

So, this week has been a bit eye-opening for me. When I started writing Siphon, I honestly thought, "This is going to be like all my other writing projects, I'll probably drop it in a week." Only, a month went by, and not only had I not dropped it, I had finished the first book and had a publishing contract, a patreon, and thousands of fans urging me for mo...

Elysium Chapter Four

I know, I know.  It's still not a Siphon post. But my brain is still in "OH SO SHINY!" mode. >.< 

Better than nothing, eh? Also, I hate fight scenes and math, so I have no idea why I love this idea so much. Oh well. I'm having fun! 

I've also started to put this into the tiers too, so until such a point as I have written beyond chapter 12, Beginners will have access to Ch 1-3, Intermediate to 5, Advanced to 7, and Master to 12. At which poi...

Elysium Chapter Three

Whew. I needed something happy to share yesterday, so my brain went overdrive focusing on fleshing out the traits. If you're interested, I've posted some basic character creation on both my facebook and discord, and I'd love it if you guys participated! It's just something fun to see what people pick. 

Aside from that, I did actually make some progress on chapter 15 of Insight too, but it's not done and I'm exhausted, so I'ma go to sleep now. <3 Thank you for...

Elysium? Chapter Two

So yeah. I've been working on this for most of a day, and let me tell you, creating a VRMMO is haaaaaaaard work. However, I think I've finally got most of the mechanic basics and stuff that I need down, so I was gonna go to sleep, and then my brain said "No, you need to write chapter 2." So I did.

I have -very- tentatively put this one on commenting mode for the first time in ages. Please, please don't make me regret it by being trying to change the font size or goin...

Elysium? Chapter One

Hey guys, Happy New Year! Hopefully everyone had a lovely holiday season! I know this isn't exactly what you were hoping to see, but I took a bit of a break for the holidays, and when I was ready to write, my brain only wanted to work on this idea, so I figured I'd get it mapped out a little bit and get the itch out.

Honestly, I know this book isn't going to be called Elysium, and there's a bunch of random names running in my head that involve some combination of C...

Insight Chapter 14 - Legendary

My sleep schedule is so messed up right now. I was watching fruits basket the other day and there was a conversation that went something like this. "Morning." "It's evening. Maybe you should try getting your sleep schedule together." "Writers don't have to do that, which is why I became one!" And I just kinda stared at it, feeling like it hit a little too close to home. So yeah. I'm posting this at 6am because I fell asleep at 9pm and then woke up at 2am to write.  2020-12-17 13:58:55 +0000 UTC View Post

Sale on Siphon!

Hey, I forgot to include this in my post, so here's just an fyi for everyone. Audible is having a huge member appreciation sale until 12/17 and has put ~1000 books on sale for 5-10$. I have to admit, with so many books to choose from, getting Siphon on there is a fun affirmation for me and a nice jab at my imposter syndrome. There's also a surprising amount of LitRPG on there taking over the sci-fi/fantasy sector. But really, I just have a ton of friends whose books deserv...

Insight Chapter 13 - Trills/Briar/Soon

Hey guys, hope you had a good weekend! Any votes on what this chapter should be called? I can't seem to pick titles I like lately. 

Anyway, things are going. My sleep schedule is a bit messed up right now because I'm just tired all the time. Something about two diseases making me fatigued at the same time just makes it so I go take a nap at random moments in the day, which then throws everything else off. It's so fun, let me tell you. 

Hopefully you'r...

Insight Chapter 12 - Infected

This was an interesting chapter.  It wasn't quite where I had pictured it going, but it started with the onslaught of my own symptoms. It's funny, looking back on certain chapters, I can pinpoint exactly what was going on the day I wrote, what class I attended, what story I was reading. 

So, fun story. I got covid during Thanksgiving, along with basically the rest of my family. We all seem to have gotten fairly mild cases, thankfully. I'm feeling mostly oka...

Insight Chapter 11 - Swarm? Shelter?

I'm having more of a problem with titles lately, but eh. This was... an interesting chapter for me to write. I guess I've had a lot on my mind, especially with everything that's going on in the world lately. It might feel a little darker than normal with that said. Book 4 in generally seems to be coming from all the wonderful gifts covid and 2020 has given me. Despite that, hopefully everyone is doing well! <3

I'll probably be doing a thing that I'm not allowed to...

Zooooooooom zooooooom

Hey guys, 

I posted on facebook, but as not everyone sees that, I'm posting here. I'm just gonna host a random zoom call in like 20 minutes,(3pm PST) for probably like an hour. If you want to drop by, you're more than welcome. I'll probably try to do this more in the future (with slightly more planning in advance.) 

Happy Holidays! <3

Insight Chapter 10 - something?

Yeah, I dunno what to title this one. Any suggestions are welcome, as well as suggestions for whatever the House family should be called, as I haven't decided that yet either.

Hopefully everyone is having a lovely holiday season! <3 Thanks for your support!

Insight Chapter 9 - Husk

Hey all! Hope you're doing well! This chapter, I'm mostly doing a shoutout to Ryan DeBruyn. Dude is one of my really good friends, and he's the one who honestly got me back into a writing schedule and writing every day.  The next week might be a little iffy cuz I've got family coming into town for the holidays, but I'm hoping to keep up the good vibes and feelings of actually writing daily.  I hope you're all having a lovely weekend! <3

Thank you so mu...

Insight Chapter 8 - ??

Haven't thought of a title for this, cuz it's been several months in the writing. I finally got back into the full swing of writing today, with hope for a good routine that will finally help me get more done. 

Hope all of you lovely people are doing well. Thank you for your love, support, and most of all, your patience with me during hard times. 

I'm still alive!

All right guys, I'm sorry. I know it's been a -very- long time since I posted. I've kinda been spiraling down with my health and the move and everything else with the world going crazy. However, I am slowly clawing my way out. Thank you for your patience, your support, your love. I'm still working on getting into a new doctor so I can get my medications balanced again, but things are finally starting to look up. 

There's a few authors who have been especially he...

News

So, today brought me the unfortunate news that the new bed I set up two days ago has been newly infested by bed bugs. I thought they were gone, but they're not. So I'm on to round two of getting the whole place treated, throwing out a bazillion things, and washing everything else as many times as I can. Add onto that my AC stopped working late last night and it has been a FUN day. And then came the news that Patreon just lost a major lawsuit, and I am not actually sure if ...

Insight Chapter 7 - Sigils

Whew.  I'm sorry guys, I know it's been a while again. Good news though, my nephew is out of the hospital and doing so much better!  My family came to town and I helped Xan move out of town, the boy abandoned me! But eh.  I've honestly been struggling to write, and seeking whatever I could do keep my spirits up. 

I finally gave up the notion that I would ever trust that corner of my bedroom again, because I'm just psychologically unable to trust i...

Math is a Nightmare

I'm exhausted. Xan is moving out of state and I was helping him, and it has thrown off my schedule. Really, family being in town this week and my nephew coming home from the hospital threw me off. Lots of driving and family time. So when I took a nap yesterday, I wasn't expecting the nightmare that haunted me. 

I lucid dream every night. Most of the time, I have fun ninja magic dreams. Siphon started as a dream. This story however... was horrific. I woke up shak...

Insight Chapter 6 - Master or Marked

Whew! So, a lot has happened recently. Aside from the fact that just updating the sheet itself takes several days, I had the great fun of also needing to work on the audio for Sense. That's done, and it's been submitted to ACX, so hopefully audible will release it sometime in the near future! 

Apart from that, I had a few personal crisis happen- my room was invaded by bedbugs from my neighbors.  So I spent a good chunk of time completely sanitizing my house...

Insight Chapter 5 - Guards

Whew. Okay. I think I'm finally getting back into the swing of things, but next up is the stat boxes, so...yay. Not sure how I feel about guards as the title for this chapter, it started as temptations, and I just don't know what I like better. If you've got ideas, feel free to share. <3 Hope you're all doing wonderful and having a great Memorial Day! 

Keeping Jay sane.

So the past few days have been interesting, but one thing I've noticed is that I tend to feel better when I have more human interaction, and talking to people about my books generally makes me more excited to write.  So, in the process of figuring out what I could do, I decided that I wanted to talk to people. Unfortunately, discord only allows video calls of up to about 10 people, I don't have a zoom account, facebook isn't great for large numbers either, and that le...

Insight Chapter 4 - Dragons

Okay guys, I think I'm finally mostly happy with this chapter.  Huzzah. Hope you're all having a good day. <3 

Update

 Hey guys. Hope you're all doing well. I wanted to say sorry. I haven't been doing super well, as you probably guessed by the lack of chapters. The whole corona self-isolation thing hit me a lot harder than I ever thought it would. My physical state got really bad because I don't really cook, so instead of eating out and eating things like salads, I'm subsisting on things like ramen and microwave dinners which royally screw up my digestive system. That plus lack of co...