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Okay, so if you read my journal(and why would you? It's terribly dull), you know that friends have been hounding me to write a novel. They're all convinced I could do it professionally, yadda yadda. I also said in my last journal entry that it wasn't likely to happen because I have a hard time staying focused long enough to actually work on things like that. It takes timing, planning ahead, and inspiration to actually WANT to sit down and do that kind of thing.

Well... turns out I might have been wrong about the whole not a chance thing. I created a new RP character recently named Vadoma. I created a group for her where I was going to store the journal entries I've been writing from her perspective(I've been trying to get in to her head, as she is entirely out of my comfort zone personality wise). While putting the group together to post things on her in, I decided I would make it a quick go-to place for things like her character sheet, bio, pedigree info, etc... basically anything about her I might possibly need or want to save, I was going to put there.

And then... it happened. I sat down to write her biography, expecting a typical RP bio. Glossed over, summary, not terribly indepth. Instead... I really didn't watch myself and instead of writing a bio, I ended up starting a story. The story of her life. Starting with the day she was born. I wrote around five or six pages in the first couple hours alone, not to mention the journal entries I had done that day as well.

That was three days ago. Today, the 12th, I sit back and close the book on Chapter One of her life's story and smile. It's a bitter sweet feeling, getting to that first "mile marker" in the long road to writing a whole book. I am beyond simply smiling at how well this is going and how eager I am to keep writing, to write chapter after chapter until I've told her whole life's story up until the present. I am nearly breathless with the excitement of it all, but I keep repeating to myself that I must temper my enthusiasm... I must take my time.

I musn't burn myself out trying to write this all at once. The ideas... the inspiration... they will come to me. The energy, however, must be consernved and carefully built up at the right times.

Here's to realizing that it might not have just been you that was the problem. Maybe it was just that you had to wait for the right story... the right character... to come along.

So it's been brought up by a friend of mine that I need to finally sit down and write. Not roleplay, but write. I've wanted to have a novel published for years, problem being... I never find the time to work on it. I have the storyline for atleast five or six different novels that all tie in to each other in my head... could sit down and map them out chapter by chapter, volume by volume, with relative ease. But will I ever actually sit down and put it in to a written format? Probably not. Still though... It is tempting and Seth is pushing awful hard to see it come to fruition.

Now if only I had the drive, and that it would last longer than a week...

Kheiri has found a home in Shebalba's storylines... Claire is about to discover what happens when one loses half of their soul and meet her inner demon... Rea has found a cause, and a companion to fight for outside of merely trying to stay alive.... Rhys has brought new life to bloom in Shebalba through the love between he and Rose, heir to the throne.

And here I am, with all this stuff going on in this RP, with five million pictures in my head. I will have to make time soon to illustrate some of the more focal plot points... such as:

The death of Adonis
Claire threatening Death himself
Claire's transformation in to her demon
Kheiri and Varten making red roses
Rhys... doing something Rhys like(and thus more than likely blatantly sexual)
Rea's part in the battle to save Adonis
Kheiri and her mirrors

I can't believe how long it's been since I opened photoshop for something that wasn't work related. But, I find myself in need of a new avatar and signature set for a forum a RP on, and a friend has been kind enough to let me use her character in the pictures if I can get them to work well enough, so hopefully you'll be seeing some new stuff from me soon. I absolutely love her character! She's so cute and adorable and evil. Reminds me of Kheiri, but less twisted. ^^

I swear, I haven't been this absolutely exhausted in ages! In preparation for the move coming up in early November, I have been putting in hours upon hours upon hours cleaning and packing and organizing my house. So far I've gotten both mine and my son's bedrooms (mostly) packed, my kitchen is 100% done, and so is my living room. All that should be left after tonight is a couple closets and the bathroom.

I'm planning to get all the non-essential furniture out of the house this weekend, as I only have 2 days off between now and when I have to move out of the current house. I get my keys for the new apartment on the 11th, and will be off for about a week starting that day, after working for a week leading up to it.

Hopefully I'll get my internet turned on the day I move in. That would be awesome. <3