Musings of an Otaku

Title: Mountain Lion

Challange #2: Words, words, words

Length: 856

Source: One of the many moments out of the life of Kaiyla, one of the main characters out of a two part series. This should be book 2: The Hunted. We'll see if I ever get book one finished....

Emotion: Unease and stalling.

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.

Well, a call from AccountTemps, a division from RobertHalf, sure lifted up my spirits today when I finished my last day at work until Febuary 4th. I have to go to their office in New Haven on Tuesday, but the job they would like me to do is in New London. I still have to meet with one of the accounting reps to make sure I can do what the client wants on Excel and it's only data entry, but it sounds like the pay is good. It sounds like it might be better then Godiva which is $10.50 per hour.

Things are starting to look up just a little bit and it has pulled me out of my depression and has even started to help get the creative juices flowing. Although I'm still in a rut in regards to getting things running again with my fanfiction (curse the new plot bunnies!), I'm getting back into writing the original version of DGL. My problem before is that I was trying to do it from the same version as the fanfiction and start with King Leonard's death. I decided to summarize that and Javeska's life growing up into a once upon a time thing which is turning out rather nicely.

I've also decided to make the new husband be a little better then Naraku and not objectify Javeska (who is the original version of Kagome) as much. I like the thought of him seeing her as an idea rather then a possession, and not quite understanding why she cries and has desires.

Now I'm getting excited again, like I normally am when I first start a story.

I'm going to post what I've rewritten on Sunday, and try to start writing on more regular basis and updating. A special shout out to seducedbydreams for critiquing the original DGL and giving me feedback and a thanks to "Buffy" & "Angel" for the inspiration.

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.

I had the most bizarre dream when I went to take a nap. I'm seriously think of writing a story about it, an original story though, not fanfiction. (Although I'm sure turning it into an Ouran fic would be highly amusing.)

I was on this luxury plane that was five stories (why do dreams never make sense?) and involved me, a person, and some big shots of some company in Southeast Asia (this part was obviously influenced by my Geography class in the fall). There was something to do with a special gun (obviously influenced by the "Heart of Gold" episode of Firefly)and I wasn't suppossed to be there. Then there was a some sort of Terrorist attack where Naraku was the head and they were trying to find me and them finding me would be bad. I was using the gun to get off and down to the first floor. I think there was a way off on the first floor, can't be sure as to why I was trying to get there, but I only got to the third floor....

Then I got lost....

I was almost caught at that point, but then I woke up.

Very strange dream, but I definately plan on making a fic out of it.

And as it should be no shock....I lied about getting DGL up today. Blame Utena. I spent the past two days watching the entire series. I swear...the reason why Utena is so dark and bizarre is because it's a psychological series. I love it.

I did manage to get the holes in Chapter 40 filled though. I just have to edit. Gomen ne, minna-san.