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JonManWrites

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So yeah... It's been eight years and some change since I made this account on DA, and life's changed alot since then... back in 2010, I was just a junior in high school with alot of things on my mind, not really knowing where I was going. 

Fast forward a couple of years, and DA became a central part of my social life well into my first year of college, I met alot of friends and I had alot of writing aspirations, stories and ideas that kind of never got finished because I just couldn't focus down the story direction's alot of the time. A stable of original characters came about from this time, though a few have become persistent enough to become characters that should have a sheet by now, but of course I never really cared to write those details down (I probably should). And of course, I was alot more active in dAmn chats and story role-plays, many of which I still have transcripts of from back then. 

Nowadays, I'm working through to finish my bachelor's in Cyber Security, I have a successful YouTube channel with 13k+ Subscribers making gaming videos and the occasional music upload, but of course, it meant that I drifted away from being active here and onto places like Team-speak and Discord, as internet browsers became more and more updated and dAmn being kind of neglected by not only dA seemingly, but also the community who made dAmn worth using.

Getting to the point: I've been spending the past few months on and off working on getting back into a few writing projects for November as my own way of doing NaNoWriMo, but I'm going start with the one that has the most pre-planning and plot points done, Shattered. 

What started as a roleplay between myself and :iconheuring: with original characters for Red vs Blue became its own Halo-based story mostly detached from RvB. Most of what I want to consider the first "two" parts of the story are planned out and just need to be inked in. 

For now though, I have a preview of a secondary prologue ready that you can see here from my Sta.sh (which may come out with the first chapter): Shattered: Prologue - Reassignment (Draft)

The other story that I have been wanting to finish is the original story that for a lack of a better term, had a million sub-plots come up in my head and a relationship web so thick it could be used as a blanket, and that is Minus Human. 

Again, another RP-based one that has sat in the back of my mind for so long at this point, a sci-fi slice-of-life kind of story with some seedier things going on in the background... that is, if I could fully settle the plot-line beyond a few chapters. 

Anyway, the short of it is that this month, I intend to get back into writing and releasing stuff here on dA. I'm hoping to get a few chapters into Shattered at the least, and maybe the whole first arc of the story at most. I also have a pile of odds and ends that may be put out this month as well, as it helps me to write one-off bits to warm up for writing the bigger stories. 

I hope everyone is doing fine these days... I miss chatting with all the friends I've met here. 
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Yeah, I've left a few groups, particularly one that I was co-founder to without any permissions to promote or do really any real administration in other than folder management.

Also closing up shop with my own group simply because it's kind of useless nowadays since most of the major Halo groups around here allow screenshots, which wasn't always the case when I first created the group.

And with that out of the way, more time for me to devote to well... alot of things. Like making YouTube videos and writing. 

Also programming homework, that too, very important. 
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Another year to either slack off or maybe have something come this very way soon. :meow: 
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Cleanup...

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So I finally did it: I cleaned the living crap outta of my profile, things were stored away or placed in scraps, folders deleted, some comments hidden (might do more of that actually).

And as for what I might post in the future well... I really don't know other than eventually getting around to re-doing and finishing up my original story and getting started on a new fan-fiction story.
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