REEDIT:


THIS IS VERY VERY IMPORTANT!

So you all know, it's been kinda difficult for moi to do much on this account, but for reasons unknown. To make life a heck of a lot easier, I've created a new account. I'll leave this one up for a month so mah watchers can see this and watch my other account and switch over. I'll repost all my old work and all that, and IE can continue to live on dA! And I can post journals really regularly. ^^ So...

I'm moving over to . I'll start fixing up the account ASAP. Thanks, everyone!



Okay, so yes, I AM working on Chapter 3, I swear. It's just being tricky. But I do have a tasty tidbit for those who have been waiting so nicely and patiently. ^w^

SPOILERIFIC INFORMATION ABOUT CHAPTER 3:

1. This is primarily one of Liyal's chapters, so we'll see a lot of him.

2. A couple of new characters will be introduced.

3. The chapter title is going to be "Reflections".

Just to whet your appetites and stuff...keep you waiting, and making sure you all don't leave me!

End of Edit. XD

So I need to get back into the regularity with posting journals and such. I already knew that, and yet I still procrastinate. What a great dA person I am. -__-

Anyway...

Things have been going pretty good. Right now, I'm reworking Chapters 3 and 4 of Idyll's End, because the pacing really needs to be reexamined. I might just redo them completely seeing as how the first few chapters move awfully fast, and I think I need to wait a bit before things start to happen.

Also, a bit of warning. "Idyll's End" is not a very nice story. I mean, there's romance and love and friendship and humor (got a nice bit of that in Chapter 1), but there's also a fair bit of death and ugliness and violence in there as well. Anyone who was expecting a cute and fluffy story doesn't really know that I've grown as a writer past doing stuff like that. Fluff in large quantities doesn't really interest me anymore. An actual plot does. (Drabbles do NOT count, Art. XD)

I'd also like to unveil something that's been official in my head for the past week or two (I honestly can't remember XD ). When this IE concept is finished (whether it be one book or two) I'm going to release the "Imperial Records", which are a set of appendices full of stuff that happened during the story or after, or customs and traditions of Draza, whatever was important in my mind to the overall story but couldn't be put in there. Things like naming children, weddings, funerals, the life of Lia's mother, the political career of Liyal, the lives of the three Empresses after Lia, what happened to Lia and Ike, all of that will be in the Records. This will be released after the story, though, because if I did it before, there would be some major spoilerific information in there.

I've also contemplated splitting IE into two. It's growing in length by the day, and I can't keep up. I'll keep everyone posted on that. To that end, I'd also like to say that if I feel like it, I'll write a series of short stories/a small book or prequel of stuff that happened before IE. It's a small possibility, definitely not set in stone yet. We'll see what happens.

Yaaaaaaay....more writing. I'm trying, I really am. ^^ Thank you everyone for being so patient.