User blog:UltimateTORINOR/A reintroduction...

Greetings once again,

I doubt you expected to hear from me again, which, I suppose, is a justified stance. I haven't edited the wiki since August of last year, and haven't really contributed anything of worth in about a year. I suppose you're all wondering why I came back? Or, why I left? And just what have I been accomplishing in this span of time? What of my fanfiction?

Well, the last question is probably the easiest to answer: simply put, my fanfiction is dead, and honestly had been mortally wounded for quite some time. Now, that's not to say that my career as a writer is dead (quite the opposite), but my time as a serious fanfiction writer has come to an end, I believe. Total Drama the New Challenge was stalled for I-don't-know-how-many months, and that's completely my fault. A combination of school and writer's block kept me from doing much with it until I graduated high school, friends and work kept me from it until August, and by then it was time for me to head even farther north for college, which has kept me sufficiently busy.

So, if I'm not writing fanfiction, what exactly am I writing? Well, I've been writing a story completely of my own design. It was originally going to be a nice, tidy short story, but I've managed to complicate things so much that I'm 12 pages in at this point and have been counseled to shoot for a target range of about four times that number. Of course, at this very moment I'm dealing with a severe case of writer's block (surprise, surprise), but that's my current project. If I finish by the end of my fourth year of college (hopefully my last), I'll consider that an accomplishment.

With that, I suppose I should talk a bit about my college experience (very limited, mind you). At first, I was very nervous, but eventually relaxed. I don't have many friends, but that's how I like it. College is...freeing in a lot of ways.

And now, we've come back to me as a person. Have I changed very much? I'd definitely say some, but not too much. I've made some decisions that my liver doesn't especially thank me for, it's survived, and so have I.

And why did I come back? Does anyone need a reason to say hello to old friends? I might get in the habit of reviewing stories (for real this time), but we'll have to see.

And that, comrades, is the end of my tale. Unless I'm forgetting something. Which I probably am.

Oh well,

Ult