Hold On To Your Butts, People.

Cause s**t's about to go doooooooown.

No, seriously though, I'm really excited to be unveiling to you guys (all four of you) something that I've been working on for the past couple of weeks.
Now, as you're probably aware, I fancy myself as being something of a writer. One day, I even hope to make a living writing and as improbably as such a dream is, it's one that's been with me for quite a while now. Writing, to make use of a few cliches, is my dream: my passion. The urge to tell stories and entertain has been with me since I penned my first ever tale at age six, a charming story written for Father's Day about a lovely, friendly robot who gets smashed to pieces by some villagers (it's okay though, it's a magical robot: it puts itself back together at the end).
But hand in hand with the urge to write, is the urge to share. And with that in mind, I am with equal parts excitement, trepidation and sheer, pants-soiling terror, sharing with you my first ever public work: Were the World Theirs.

Yaaaaay, fireworks!

"Oh, woo," I hear you thinking, sarcastically. "That title means so much to me, I've literally wet myself with excitement. Also, I'm not entirely sure what 'literally' means."
Firstly, wow. So rude. Secondly, if you'd just shut up for a second, Mr Totally-Not-An-Externalisation-Of-My-Own-Self-Doubt, I'd get to explain.
Were the World Theirs is a serialised dark-fantasy novel set after the end of the world. Written in the vein of Robopocalypse or World War Z , the story is framed as a series of first-hand accounts chronicling the near-extermination of the human race at the hands of the enigmatic Cold Ones and their thralls.
The entirety of the story has been plotted, with a definite ending already established, so this isn't some Lost-style "Hey, let's keep it going forever and raise a bunch of questions we'll never answer!" type of deal. The story will be updating in addition to my regularly scheduled posts, rather than instead of, and its content is currently living in a separate tab up the top there: anyone not interested in reading can simply ignore it entirely. So saying, for this fortnight, I'll be uploading one of my older posts from my previous blog in the morning, since this has been a fair bit of work already.
The story posts will be updated as completed, rather than on a fixed schedule: I'd much rather it be a high-quality story delivered slowly than a "Crap it's update day, give 'em the draft" affair. So saying, a positive response will ensure faster updates, so don't be afraid to comment if you like it!
For realsies though, I'm crazy-excited to be doing this: it's a risk (especially since the first time I shared my stuff the response was so underwhelming I didn't write for three years), but I'm hoping that everyone here is kind enough to take pity on a first time writer testing the waters.
See you all after the end...

...hopefully.