My dear friends…

Neopoleon is going to change.

I’m getting burned out. I feel like I’ve become the Anecdote Machine. I think this happened because I got so much positive feedback on the anecdotes that the attention-seeking, approval desiring, being-loved loving part of my brain (which is most of it) slowly converted my fingers into instruments for publicly shaming my family to get a few laughs.

Don’t get me wrong. I have no moral compunctions whatsoever about using my family as fodder for funny stories, and I will continue to do so. I actually love it. Knowing that thousands of people are reading embarrassing stories about the people who are responsible for turning my brain into the criss-crossed mash-up of an emotional mess that it is can only be described as TOTALLY EFFING AWESOME. However, there’s more to me, you know? Like, I do more than just write anecdotes.

I’m also afraid that I’m going to wear myself out. I love writing, probably more than anything else I do, and the last thing I want is overdo it. I don’t ever want this to become formulaic, and it’s been slowly getting there.

So, I’m going to change it up a little around here for a while. You’re going to see serious posts mixed in with the funny. There will be short useless blurbs mixed in with the big useless blurbs. Believe it or not, I’m actually one of the most serious people you might ever meet. I think about things. I have ideas and stuff. It isn’t all just stories about my transvestite father.

Also, with the Coming of the New Site, I’m going to have a whole new outlet for the Rory Funny. I’ve been wanting to do fiction for a long time, but feel that Neopoleon.com is the wrong place for it (there’s no fiction on Neopoleon – just lying). The New Site is going to be nothing but fiction, and Dave (my co-author) and I have worked our asses off to make sure you’re going to love it. We have about eighty pages alone written up just on what the site is going to be. It also would have been up sooner, but the Lithuanian UI design team we were working with stopped responding to our emails. They sent us one last message about “The Ukrainians” and something that was happening with Them. Then… silence. So, I’ve been doing all the Community Server customizations myself.

And that’s that.

And it’s taken up a hell of a lot of my free time. Time that I normally would have spent writing has been spent wrestling with CSS.

It’s going to be worth it, though. And I’m quite serious. We’re going to have a bloody good time. If we can pull off the site the way we have it planned, then it’s going to be something Very Different.

While that’s going on, like I said, Neopoleon is going to head back to its roots. My personal life will be back up here. Random thoughts will get dumped. Meaningless comics will be created. And I will be relieved.

I hope you all support my decision. The attention-seeking, approval desiring, being-loved loving part of my brain (which is most of it) would like to think that this will please you.