Hello,

Some of you will probably know that I haven't updated the story for nearly three months now. Mainly this is attributed to a new semester at school. I'm in my sophomore year in college, and it's been a crazy time. Living in an apartment (much better than dorms, even if you have to pay rent), receiving monthly DOD stipends at taxpayer's expense, kicking the crap out of college classes, etc. It hasn't been exactly easy, even if I'm doing well.

I recently visited the L4D forums and found that I hadn't been there since mid September. Moreover, I haven't updated the rewrite of the original L4D: Origins since early August. Obviously, a quarter of a year is a long time, and perhaps some of the original readers lost interest in that amount of time.

In other words, you could say that the project was abandoned.

The statement is not entirely untrue – school takes priority, as always (there's more this year than last year), and this November, I'm participating in Nanowrimo, National Novel Writing Month. Google it. Basically, I'm going to write a 50,000 word novel (more of a novella if it's that many words) in 30 days. This is new IP I'm working on, no more of this noobish fan fiction stuff. I've done Nanowrimo four years in a row, and completed the challenge three times. I intend to do the same thing this year.

Mostly I want to lay the project to rest and move on, and forget about it. I'd like to spend more time playing L4D than writing about it, and with other games coming out, there's just little time to write anymore, especially with school. At the same time, though, I sometimes get that bit of nostalgia when it comes to writing. Part of me would like to revive the project.

So…the question comes down to the community. Do you want me to continue the project? Especially with the new DLC that came out recently, that's an extra chapter of wholly new content I can add – and I've got new ideas for the story that won't be as far fetched and strange as the original iteration of the story. I could very easily squeeze time into my schedule to write, especially since I've finished a long batch of nasty midterms.

Option two: I, ahem, leave the project for dead. What do you think?

Best regards,

Lardcake