User blog:Sonasaurus/Hey, you awake in there?

Yes, I know it sucks that summer's almost over. I hope everyone had a good one, and apologies once again for having spent most of it out of the country. Anyway, I'm going to be having a shift in priorities come September, as I'm sure will also be the case for many of you. But first I'll give an update as to what I'm up to now.

Sorry to say it, but writing on Halo Fanon has been dull for me lately. Most of you probably have read my previous rant-blog about how everything's going downhill what with the short supply of active veteran users as well as the ticking bomb soon-to-detonate known as Halo 4.

In short, I don't sense a great flow of give and take among the community, just users occasionally working on their own stuff and not giving a crap what anyone else is writing. I'm not going to go on about that since I've already done so, but I'll just say that when I don't feel like people are reading my hard-worked efforts, I eventually stop trying. And it's taken me almost a whole year to get to this point, but here we are.

Not that I'm blaming my writer's blocks on anyone. When you write about Halo for years on end, you dry up on interest and new ideas sooner or later. I don't mean plot ideas, because those are the easiest thing in the world to come up with, but ideas to make me interested in writing it. If I feel bored writing something, then you're sure as hell to be bored reading it.

But no use crying over spilt milk. There comes a time when I have to get away from writing about Halo, and I guess this is one of those times. Not that I'll be inactive or anything, I'll still be here most of the time (hell, I'm still planning on updating SotF, but I'll add more about that in a bit), but I realized my predicament when I planned out a 5-part Lion King fanfic and am in the process of writing it without the road blocks I encounter with Halo fanfics. If any one of you feel like you've been wearing away your interest in writing about Halo to nothing, try writing about something else for a while. Don't force yourself to something you struggle with doing.

Now, onto the subject of SotF. I'm not giving up on this season, because it's not that hard to write about different ways to kill people, and I've already planned the whole deathmatch out to the end. But, what I need right now is for my guest writers to check in with me so I don't have to kick them off the team and replace them with someone active (I can currently account for only one of you three, and you probably know who you are). Because if we are to get this season done before 2013, I need all of you to be at the top of your game and be able to make posts when I ask you to. Be honest with me when you tell me how much I can count on you. Don't worry, it won't be personal...unless you tell me you claim to be reliable and end up bullshitting me by keeping me waiting for weeks to pull your weight. That's a delay I actually can't tolerate at this point.

As for everyone else in the community, a friendly reminder that the 5th Annual Halo Fanon Wikia Awards starts December 1, hosted by yours truly. I know we have quite a few new friends this year, so you have a few months to prepare your articles for nomination. For those of you who don't know, these awards are given to only the best of the best of the best, so I suggest you touch up your articles to the point where it's not just good enough for you, but good enough for the community to vote for you. To our older users, a reminder that "recycled" articles are not accepted (old articles that haven't received enough addition/improvement for the year of 2012). Best of luck to everyone, you have little more than 3 months to prepare.

I think that's about all I have to say for now. I don't know how much I'll be doing on the wiki outside of my "obligations", what with my starting university soon and all, but if you ever need me, send me a talk page message and I'll get back to you in a short period of time. I'll most likely become a lurker too, so I'll be here even if you don't know it, unless you're Athena32.