Sporadic updates... check

Well, it seems that I'm about as useful as ever when it comes to keeping this thing up to date (not that anyone really cares anyway).

So the main reason that I am updating is to express my own personal satisfaction for having outdone what I have always considered to be my best story-

http://thebridgeburnerstories.blogspot.com/search/label/S%202.4%20Through%20the%20Looking%20Glass

At least from a personal perspective I have always considered it to be my best work, even when accounting for all the non TBB stories. The new story isn't yet finished, it being part of the After The Legacy series (or the TBB Novel for short), but two days ago I decided that I was leaving the main antagonist to appear far too late (which made the earlier chapters look like filler) so I have written an entirely new opening for section 1.2. This new opening is my source of pride for several reasons, the characters, the struggle in the face of inevitability, the last taste of humanity, plus it's about Mashed who to this point was never properly developed as a character. I might post it up at some point, and will at least certainly be sending it to Aven in order to get his opinion, if I'm writing about TBB I can't think of anyone whom I would rather reading it.

So, any other news in the world of your humble narrator? Not really, have been to the States again, and am still of the opinion that if the right opportunity opened up I would be away like a flash.

The only other thing is that I found out today that I young lady who used to work for me, and whom I will admit to having had a crush on, went to the US and got married in Vegas last week (yeah, the married in Vegas thing certainly sounds tacky but the wedding pics looked very tasteful). I've found myself bothered quite a deal since discovering this, not about the wedding you understand (that's in the past), but the fact that this girl younger than I, whom I once was attracted to, is now married. I can't help but feel that I've once again let life pass me by, again I'm not talking about the girl here, I feel that I've drifted a lot between the relatively easy options and have never really done anything to define myself, to have given my existence meaning. I don't know, perhaps I'm rambling and just feeling melancholy because another girl has been taken off the market, but at present it feels that I just lack accomplishment.

Novel Update 2

The plot main plot outline and most of the sub-stories have been finished, plus I've already completed the ending. I had hoped to make a trilogy and I think that I've got enough potential storyline left over to do just that, so I present 'The Broken History' trilogy:

-Mana: The Shadows of Destiny
-Mana: Shattered in Time
-Mana: Fate Rising

Novel Update

Keeping in line with the new storyline for 'Mana: The Rising' I have changed the novel title to something a little more appropriate to the story, it's now 'Mana: The Shadows of Destiny' (somewhat cliched I know, but I'll probably whittle it down to something that's less of a mouthful nearer the time of seeking publication). The revised version has a pretty high body count already and the main adventure really hasn't even begun yet, but I'm aiming for 'bleak' so its all good.

As a small aside I have written a short children's adventure based on a historical event from the same world. This is a surprisingly good creative tool for building legends that may or may not get referenced in the main story but certainly help to add more depth to the world.