The age of my last journal was beginning to bother me.

There have been a few updates. I went through some of Gargoyle and graced Wendell with an update. I've outlined and sketched out the next few pages of a few projects, but nothing else has really taken form.

I must confess - summer school drained me. I worked so much that I plan on enjoying this small vacation while I have it (classes begin on August 31). But writing and reading are my hobbies, not work, so I've fit in a few things.

I also want to thank everybody who's gone over to *Aurelian-Shade's page and said hello. It really means a lot to me, and to her, and it's good to know I've got some amazing friends!

I wish you all a Happy Fourth! Celebrate safely!



I finally managed to talk my mom into getting a page here on dA (like I said I would when I uploaded her poem "Lament to Loki" [link]). She's a total technophobe and is having trouble adjusting to the internet. But she's excited to be sharing her work, and she's having fun going through her piles upon piles of poetry. Personally I like watching her be happy; it's a nice change, and hopefully it'll stick.

She is, however, nervous about how people will respond to her work. So please please please stop by her shiny new page and make her feel welcome!

~Aurelian-Shade



In other news...

Only two more weeks of summer classes, and let me tell you I'm looking forward to getting my vacation back. I've never worked this hard for school. Ever. But I'm doing well so far. I'm just counting down the days until I get my vacation back... and then maybe a month before the fall semester starts.

But like I said it would, school has eaten my free time. I've got absolutely no updates to show for the last month. I was expecting to have at least a little free time on the weekends or between classes to maybe scribble a few lines of something, but no such luck.

This week I also caught a super bad cold.

Needless to say, I haven't exactly been enjoying myself.

But it won't last, thank goodness.



Be well, everybody!

Thank you to everyone who voted at TheDeviantAwards ([link]). What a rush! And still what an honor to have been nominated! Congratulations to =SocraticSynapses for the victory!

Another special thanks to for her kind feature! Be sure to check out her amazing gallery! She’s truly one of my favorite authors and one of the nicest people around (her novel jon.com has earned a spot in my stamp space). And go see her latest journal to take a look at the other wonderful writers she featured!



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You know how when you’re depressed you have to force yourself to work, but your heart isn’t in it and everything you produce just sucks? I think I finally beat it. I’ve been writing whatever I could, just to keep busy. Needless to say, updates on my novels have been like a worm-crawl, and when I got sick of trying to force out a good chapter I started something new. So now I have a few one-shots and a short-story that I want to finish, and I expect this month to be the perfect time for me to do so. These small projects are things I can work on idly, whereas Wendell and Gargoyle must be taken seriously. And I won’t be able to seriously focus on anything other than school, which starts this Monday.

I’ll want to work on something for fun, but school has to be the only thing that really matters, and I won’t be able to work on my novels effectively as long as that is my mindset. So thanks for your everlasting patience, guys.

Again, a special thank you to for the TheDeviantAwards nomination for Best Fiction Writer! It’s such an honor to be up there next to such talent!

Voting for TheDeviantAwards has begun!

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Instructions for how to vote are located in their latest journal (the link to which is located above). So go visit their page, send them a note, and cast your vote!

Remember to vote fairly, for those of you who are familiar with more than one nominee. Good luck to all of them!