Musings of an Otaku

This quick piece was originally for the writing group started by Scithian File. The first exercise was to do the voice of an inanimate object and I jumped at the chance to give voice to Venya's (the original counterpart to Kikyou in DGL) swords. I never got to post it because I didn't see it until after the date so I couldn't post it. I'm hoping that they'll give us more time for the next exercise.

For those of you who actually read this - enjoy!




This is proof that I am writing again, I'm just having difficulties finding motivation. Inspiration and plot bunnies are rapid and abound. It's that pesky motivation that is hard to come by when you are unemployed and depressed.

Hopefully I'll be able to do some volunteer work at L&M. It would be a great help for getting out of the house part of my depression.

Ok, I got the rewrite for the prologue finished a couple of days ago and now I'm finally posting it.

I swear I'll get back to posting on Sunday. I mean it this time.....

after it's not like I have a job....or a life.

Gagh! I'm getting depressed again.

So here is my Sunday updates. I'll be transferring all of the most recent writings sometime this week to the hard drive on my computer. Hopefully next weeks updates will have a bit more meat then the most recent ones.

It's better then the last couple of days even though it isn't much. Think of it as drabbles.

 DGL: 2 of 3

I'm glad that I finally have DGL completely posted. Now I can finally start working on other stories that I've been neglecting because I wanted to finish it. More then half of them are fanfiction, but I don't know when I'll actually get the time to work on them enough so that I can actually post.

Well, DGL is the second fic that I completed, and it is the first multi chaptered story that I ever completed. Because it is my first fic it has a very special place in my heart, and I will continue to work on it. There are a lot of things that I couldn't put in the initial post, mostly because they were never an original part of the story. Some of the parts wrote themselves.

One thing I was unhappy about and it is one thing that I will fix in the original 'rewrite' was the way it ended. I did not want a happy ending. Happy endings are nice and all, but they are overrated. I wanted something that could qualify as a happy ending, but still left the reader with a bitter after taste, and I don't feel that I accomplished that.

Inuyasha isn't the type of character to silently endure the burdens that would come with ruling a kingdom. He's the type of character that rushes forward and doesn't really think about the consequences until afterward. He's entirely suited to be a ruler, and that's where the bitterness that I wanted for the ending was suppossed to come from. I was never able to capture that the way I wanted, and the ending is one of the biggest disappointments. I can only hope that in the recreation of this fic in an original form that I am able to create the character to replace Inuyasha with the correct nuances so that I can create this kindo of an ending and be satisfied with the results.

Also, I just checked my stats to see how many hits I got for the final chapters....I had no fricken' clue that I broke 1k reviews. *Is in awe*

I have no idea when I'll be getting back to my Inuyasha fanfics. I want to get Chapter 1 of Amazonia started, and I've hit a block for that. I also want to at least finish the prologue for the DGL rewrite. Before I go back to fanfiction. Then I have the Ouran fanfics that I'm working on and want to finish at least one before I go back to Inu.

I'll probably finish the sequel, Eternity, though before that.

Well, it looks like I didn't get the job. There was no call from Bob's today, so I can assume that's what it means. My mom seems to think that because of the snow storm today that they may have been delayed a day. I find that really hard to believe. After all, why would they wait until Monday? the class starts on Tuesday.

*sigh*

The good news is that I'll be able to go to Anime Boston as originally planned.

The bad news is that I still don't have a job.

It's gotten to the point where I'm desperate enough to work at CVS. I need a job so bad. I'm going to the mall probably sometime next week to get some more applications. If I can get a retail job it will at least bring in some money until I could get a decent job that doens't involve retail.

Fortunately, my Utena boxed sets came in so I have something to distract me. Utena really is such an original anime. Daisuki.

I'm also going to try and finish my writing tonight. We'll see if I can have that final update for DGL up on Sunday.

Let's hope.

DGL - Prologue
2.25

You know you're pushing the limits of procrastination when you're rushing to get the Final paper finished before work is over for the day because you have only a half an hour of rest before you need to rush to Geography class.

I am very lucky because of three things:

1)Today was as slow as Black Friday. Giving me plenty of time to surf the web, while I worked on my paper. Even the shitload of Catalog Requests didn't slow us down. Yay!

2)Paper length? Five pages!!!

3) Topic: Anime!

So in short I got pretty damn lucky considering how much I procrastenated. Of course, there were also the chance that the paper wasn't due until next Monday. In which case...who gives a damn.


I also got a considerable amount of DGL written. It will be posted next week! I'm actually working on some of it now.

I'm going to work on the Dancer as well, but first....

Time to download Vampire Knight onto my flashdrive!!!