Hello, Jen!

Hello, my name is Maurice Moss! I'm currently typing this up on an old phone- Android Operating System version Gingerbread was a great operating system! It's a shame Vista didn't follow in its footsteps. Anyway, I just thought I'd come back to the internet while my lunch is being made (a bowl of Smarties cereal won't keep me going for the whole day). Anyway, should I come up with an idea for a proxy to allow computers such as the IBM PS/2 an adequate way to get online, as well as build my own network card? I'll let you guys point me in the right direction. For now, I need to head back to the office and check to see if my email has made it to the fire department about the fire that has started over an hour ago. After the last extinguisher caught fire and 0118-999-881-999-119-7253 didn't correctly connect me to the emergency services (how hard is it to remember 999?), I thought I would just send an email when there was a fire. All the best, Maurice Moss.

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Okay, now that Moss is back in the basement with the rest of The IT Crowd (hopefully the fire is being dealt with this time), I'm more than a little curious to see how some of my earlier stuff might come to an end (namely, in high school, I'd leave class with my laptop, go into the library, get a cup of coffee and write for most of the block. None of those stories ever could finish, a plague that affects some works even now). Part of the reason, I'm guessing, is that I would associate finishing a story with the death of a chapter or universe, though I guess I'm growing out of it now because I can bring things to a (for me, at least) satisfying close while keeping the fact that they are still there well-known, though its hard when you don't draw lines just right.

Eh, nobody's perfect, so we all make mistakes and learn from them.

Hidden in Plain Sight is on the home stretch, but its finishing is being plagued by the above text (me thinking about the lives of George & Julie outside of the window of the novel, to be specific). When you write something in the way that Steven Universe was written (namely, leaving the story open-ended with the knowledge that they have their own lives to lead) and you can relate to its elements on a fundamental level (the characters, story, struggles, etc), it makes it hard to stay on topic, especially if you're internally having to weed-out the other stuff, most (if not all) of which would simply be filler and nothing else. Granted, if you're willing to branch off to multiple things at a time, you'd likely have a hard drive full of bits, pieces, and snippets that don't quite go with themselves. The first part in June, I'll be on leave from everything, so my goal is to have Hidden in Plain Sight finished and published by May 31 so I can start bringing Penelope and Jaden (Derpy) to life.

Apart from the first part of June, nothing here is really set in stone- these are just my plans. Some days, I can sit down to my computer and get 5k/+ words typed in just an hour or two… others, I can sit for sixteen hours and get a sentence written.

Whelp, anyway, I don't know what else to put in this post, but if anyone has any suggestions for what they might like to see in a story, I'll be open to ideas. At least I think that's what the comment section is for? Gotta remember- oldschool and ADHD here, so I'll probably come up with something crazy if anything gets put down there.

Anyway, with that being said, I guess I can send this up to the W3 for you guys to see now. All the best to all of you!