Funnily enough, this random book was supposed to be like an online journal full of my daily thoughts. That didn't go too well lol. I figured I could give the original idea a shot by sharing what I've been thinking about lately.

My dad retired from the military after 22 years of service in early March then had to travel back to our future home state (most of his family's side lives there) for a new job. Don't worry any because he got it without any problems ^^ He's living at the new house a few states away while my sisters, mom, and I live here until I graduate.

I graduate June 15 and move literally the morning after around 5 AM. It's a day's drive away to my family's new house. Our final house. It's bizarre to think that I won't have to move anymore; I've been moving every 2/3 years across the country for my entire life. Settling down is a foreign concept, to say the least.

The town I'm moving to is microscopic. It's your typical small town that's surrounded by hundreds of corn/soybean fields where everyone knows everyone. There are people there, like my cousins, who've never moved or even traveled off the mainland USA. It's difficult for me to relate to that, to relate to my cousins. I try to, but we don't have much in common.

Not to mention I'm extremely awkward. My socialization skills are disastrous when I can't find common ground. Oof.

I won't enroll into college until the spring semester of 2019 because my dad's disability perks from the Navy don't kick in until September-ish. I'll be working a part time job until then and learning how to adult.

I never wished to grow up fast, to be honest. I'm not scared of it, but I am intimidated by it. Like college. I'll be fine while going to school, but what happens after is up in the air.

Do I fear the unknown? Maybe. My deepest fear would be applying myself to a profession I end up loathing, but it would be too late to back out so I'd be stuck. And clowns. Clowns are terrifying.

But back to talking about the future, I can honestly say that The Isles of Gracidea won't be finished this year with the rate I'm writing it. For the first time ever, it's not due to writer's block. Writing the fic is fun and easy, but I keep on buying new games or getting into new KPOP groups instead of typing up chapters I've written in my notebooks.

My motivation is at an abyssal low right now. Here's my plan to fix that: I'm going to post the prologue. Getting feedback always makes me excited to write. I strive for praise too much XD

The main drawback to this is that readers might get their hopes up and think that I'll start posting regularly. That's untrue. I've written 2.5 chapters excluding the prologue.

TIOG has turned into a personal challenge of mine, so I spend a lot of time on each chapter trying to perfect it. Like outline/character creation process took over a month itself to create back in January, but I'm still tweaking things all the time.

Here's my list of goals for TIOG:
• Do a great job with my world building
• Write clear, vivid descriptions
• Publish chapters with correct grammar
• Have a kickass, threatening villain
• Create an interesting antihero
• Don't accidentally portray any stereotypes concerning my agender character (if curious, I'm using xe/xem/xyr pronouns)

Yup, August is an antihero and one of the main side characters is agender. If anyone has any tips on how to go about writing them, please do share. I've done research myself, but the more you know the better.

I can't think of anything else to say, so this is it for now ^_^