Um...shit.
I'm stopping Entering Desolation.
The TL;DR version is that I'm admitting to myself earlier rather than later that I am just not feeling this series. The suffering it would cause me to write this for an entire year means the juice is no longer worth the squeeze.
I'm really sorry to have to do this, but I figured I'd just nip it in the bud here and now, rather than lie to you and to myself that I can do it, get three torturous episodes out, and then pull it down. This way, most of my readers won't know it ever existed, so there won't be as much disappointment.
I hate doing this, and it's largely why I push back against my desire to talk about upcoming projects. I usually follow through with what I announce. I have very few abandoned projects, even among the stuff I haven't talked about. But it does happen. And it always sucks.
I'm genuinely sorry if you were really looking forward to this one. I think the biggest problem is that this story was created to fill a need, which typically does not go well for me. Down the Rabbit Hole was kind of the same way, except the difference there was that it was initially created to fill a need, then abandoned, then left to marinate and strengthen for over a year into a much stronger idea. When I came back to it, it had become an idea unto itself.
So...yeah. That's my announcement.