Retirement Afterthoughts and Book Progress Reports

Yu-Gi-Oh! Uncensored: Editorial

So chances are if you visit "Yu-Gi-Oh! Uncensored!" you have read my goodbye editorial by now. If you haven't read it yet, then surprise, but I've retired from "Yu-Gi-Oh! Uncensored!" Maybe some of you reading this didn't know I ran "Yu-Gi-Oh! Uncensored!" Maybe some of you don't even know what the heck "Yu-Gi-Oh! Uncensored!" even is. Oh well, regardless of the situation I've retired from the site. I tell you, it feels weird. VERY weird! I know I haven't really updated the site all that much recently, but that doesn't mean it hasn't been part of my life since I opened it on January 14th 2003.

Three years. Yep, that seems to be about the average amount of time to run a hobby website. Guess that means we can expect The Comic Book Guy.com to go belly up January 9th, 2007. Heh, just kidding...though with that said I do need to update that site with a review soon. If I don't, chances are I'll lose some weekly visitors. Oh but I'm going on vacation for two weeks starting April 30th, so I'm going to disappoint anyway. Maybe I'll just start my vacation now and be fully rested when I get back May 18th, ready to write reviews again. One thing I HAVE been motivated to work on is my book!

For those who don't know what I'm talking about, I explain it in detail in the editorial above. The long story short though is that I'm writing a book. A novel. Hopefully it will be good. I've actually been working on it for awhile now, but I've just kept it a secret. Why I've kept it a secret I don't know. If I want to get people excited about it, I need to start promoting it now. So what do I need to share about the book now? Well, so far I've written over seventy pages of the book, and am on Chapter Eight. Yes, a couple of the chapters are short. Keep in mind "The Da Vinci Code" had multiple chapters that were less then three paragraphs long, and that's a best seller.

The book is going to be a fantasy book set in modern times. This works out well for me because I can have wizards and witches blowing the crap out of each other with powerful spells in the middle of Sacramento. You won't see that in the upcoming "Eragon" movie that's for sure. Not only that, but I don't have to create different races and species for my series. I can just have the book feature everyday cops, homeless men, and crime lords with some wizards thrown in for the mix. Oh, and swords. I've got swords in the book too. So what good will swords do in modern times when people have guns and nukes to play around with?

Well, you'll find out in book two. Oh by the way, this book I'm writing, it's book one in a series of ten. You heard me: TEN! Yes, I'm insane. While this may be aiming a bit high (and I might chicken out of it at some point), but I want the series to be kind of like Harry Potter, in the sense that things develop over time, and that the main conflicts aren't known until later on in the series. While my book won't feature any kids as the protagonists, years will have passed by the time the series ends. The main characters name is Bruce. I know, Bruce is a plain name, but I like it. So deal with it.

As I write this I just finished writing the first half of Chapter Eight. I cut off from a scene. If I didn't have to work this morning I'd just stay up late until I ran out of juice for the time being. Actually, considering that my cousin got into an accident and broke his neck, I'm surprised I have any juice to write at all. I keep thinking of him in bed, in pain. He got into a motorcycle accident. I'm so thankful to God that he's not paralyzed. And people say that there is no proof God exists. He exists and works miracles everyday. Heck, he worked one yesterday with my cousin.

The doctors are perplexed because at the speed he was going, and at the height he flew off the motorcycle, he very well should be paralyzed by now. But he's not, and I'm so thankful to God for that. Wow, this part wasn't planned to be part of this post. Eh, just goes to show how much I love spreading good news. I'll catch up with you guys later. Hopefully with more progress reports.

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