It has been one month and fourteen days since I set out to get down 25,000 words of my story.

As of today, I have hit 25,020 words.

What does this mean? Well, for starters, it means I'm taking a break from that story. It doesn't mean I'm going to stop writing. There are still plenty of other things I want to do. The 25,000 word mark was meant to give me a clear place to take a break as well as give me a goal so I could motivate myself to keep moving forward.

So, what's next? I'm not completely sure. I do, however, have a list of priorities, one that goes something like this:

1. More of Not the Fall
2. Translate another doujin (the most recent Ahobaka scylla one comes to mind)
3. Finish the dragongirl short (there is no smut in this if you are wondering)
4. Write some fun smut

I don't know how long of a break I'll be taking from my primary project. Once I pick it up again, I plan on committing to another 25,000 words in much the same fashion as before. At the very least, I think I'll be releasing another chapter of Not the Fall and translating that doujin before I get back to it. If I keep my current writing schedule, another chapter shouldn't take too long.

Speaking of Not the Fall, I kinda cheated and wrote a Liess side-chapter already. I posted it on my pastebin a week ago. Here's the direct link if you want it: http://pastebin.com/n9Ew6niR

That's about everything. I may do regular Sunday updates like I used to while I'm on this break, or I'll just update whenever I finish something.

Thanks for reading.

It's been a few weeks since I started working on my other story. With my 25000 word goal in mind, I have made it a little past 12,000 words, and missed 2 days of writing out of 21. I'm pretty happy with how close I've stuck to my plan and with the progress I've made so far.

Any monstergirl content is still on hold. I did notice there was a new slapstickstrike doujin scanned, but I have no intention of translating it, as I don't have any interest in any of the girls.

That's all for this update. Depending on my progress, you may see another update in another 3 weeks.

I'm not going to pretend like I tried to get any work done this week. I was watching Dota 2's The International all week.

Now that it's done, however, I've decided I need to be more regimented with my writing. I'm not happy where I am right now as far as output and skill, so I'm going to start working to change that. While that does mean I'll be writing more (a lot more, if things go as I plan), it also means that what I'll be writing won't have anything to do with monstergirls or the story I have in progress (Not the Fall).

The fact of the matter is, people probably won't be interested in seriously critiquing/editing monstergirl stories, and I'm was never planning on getting serious with them either. They've always been on the 'hobby' side of writing. But I've been writing for years always with the intention of eventually writing something more marketable, both in subject matter and polish. So that's what I'm going to do.

As of right now, the plan is to write up 25,000 words (approximate) of this other story. This is hardly the entire story, but I don't want to mentally commit to doing the entire thing at once. I've got my daily word counts planned out, a calendar to mark progress, and a wealth of notes I've accumulated over a long period of time. It's possible when I get to that first goal, I'll decide to tackle another chunk of the story or maybe the rest of it. It's also possible I'll want to take a break and come back to something like Not the Fall or even finish up that dragongirl short.

As far as translating things, C88 is right around the corner and maybe I'll see something I'm interested in. Can't say for sure. Translating's a bit easier than writing so it's something I can do alongside writing. In other words, I don't expect to completely stop translating monstergirl things.

I know the few of you that follow my monstergirl writings may be disappointed, but I always knew I was going to have to make this choice sooner or later if I wanted anything serious to come out of my writing. Now just feels like the right time.

Thank you for reading.

Finished up the translation of the moth doujin and uploaded that to sadpanda. Next I'll be going back to editing Great Monster Journey. Still quite a bit to get through. I also think I'll be adding another scene to the end of the story. I'm not intending on getting back to Not the Fall just yet, still have to figure out a few things concerning the ending.

More translating work on the moth doujin. Updated progress on the side.

Stepping away from writing for a little to translate the mothgirl doujin. Progress on the side as always.

More writing and editing of Chapter 8 of Fall this week. It's done, I'm just waiting a little bit to post it.

I've also been editing GMJ (Great Monster Journey). It's something I've wanted to do for a long time and with Fall being so hard to write, I figured it would be a good time to step away and find something else to do. My plan is to make GMJ much shorter, remove storylines I didn't like and strengthen the ones I liked but didn't execute so well. I will probably also write and least one more scene toward the end of the story.