So, here it is at long last: the final post on my final project.

The end result is a lot different from what I originally intended. I really did just bite off a whole lot more than I could chew – the story I wanted to tell, in the way I wanted to tell it, would have required that I start on this months ago. I also didn’t take into account just how much time this class was going to require for all the other projects and assignments; a lot of the time, after I finished the normal assignments for this class, I barely had time to work on my final project before I moved on to other classes. It just didn’t work the way I wanted it to, which I knew might happen, but was still a bit sad.

But it is what it is, and there’s no helping it now. So I might as well explain what I ended up doing: what I eventually decided on was a story told through the blog of a man whose life is slowly becoming weirder and falling apart. (Evan Carlisle, specifically – I was in an extremely Scottish mood for parts of this.) I wrote up a bunch of blog posts, made edited a couple of emails using firebug into screenshots and shot some poor quality video, as well.

Considering the small amount of time I was able to put into this, and how rushed I was, I’m actually fairly pleased with the end result. But I’d be lying if I said I was really happy with it; in my view, to make this story halfway decent it needs to be ten times as long, and I’d have to spend a hundred times as much time and effort making it so. But that’s just not realistic, particularly since I have extremely limited experience actually writing stories. (Effectively none, outside of a few half-written short stories in my early teenage years.) So this will just have to stand as a flawed, but sincere early work that hopefully I can build on later.

The initial post is here. I suggest going in order by just clicking “Next post” so that it will make the most sense. Enjoy! If you have any particular comments or critiques, I really would love to hear them – I know there’s a lot I need to work on besides just length.