Well, 2024 was certainly a year, huh?

All things considered, it was actually a relatively decent year for me personally! There were some periods of downtime or busy-ness, and my classes have been ramping up now that I'm well-into the upper level requirements - but I still got a lot done. I actually wrote and posted more stories this year than I did last year, which I'm very pleased by - and it would have been even more, had I not gotten sick last month.

Or, well, sick with a string attached. I haven't had any big symptoms, just a week with a swollen throat and then just mouth oddities. Not sick enough to sleep it off, but still sick enough for it to bug me mentally. It sucks! :U

I'm still kinda annoyed that my holidays got thrown so outta whack (I had some stuff I really wanted to work on and finish/post!), but considering how much I got done the rest of the year, I can't really complain. On the other hand, that frustration has also helped motivate me to set up doctors' appointments and whatnot... soooo hey, I'm being proactive in taking care of my health!

As for 2025, I want to keep writing and doodling and comm-ing and whatnot, but I do have one particular goal this year. One bad habit I got into this year was starting various lewdfics or doodles, and then getting distracted or torn away from them for one reason or another - which has left me with a lot of half-finished WIPs sitting in my folders. Most of them I did end up finishing and posting (such as The Lusty Librarians Laid), but there's still a few things left for me to tackle, so I want to get those done and shared with everyone.

Either way, here's to a new year, as always!

Another year, another journal. :V

2023 was a very strange - but not bad! - year. I spent the first half of it still kinda struggling to kick myself back into gear; I was doing writing very slowly, but it was often more reliant on whatever hyperfixation mood my brain was in day by day. My classes didn't really help, since my statistics professor was... flaky, to put it gently. :y I had to take stats since it's a hard requirement for the upper-level PSY classes, but make no mistake, I don't remember shit about it. At least not off the top of my head, right now.

Once I left on my family's summer trip, though, the mental blocks and barriers that were holding me back seemed to crumble completely. I'm still not entirely sure why - maybe it was revisiting a place I hadn't been to in years, maybe it was not having many distractions since I only had my Switch and tablet/phone, maybe it was something else - but it was both exciting and also a relief. In the past six-ish months, I got more writing done than I did all last year and longer. I did hit a bit of a slump this December, but everyone else I know seemed to slip into winter lethargy also, so I'm confident that I can get back to things pretty easily.

Either way, I'm actually happy to admit that I don't really have any specific resolutions in mind for this year. I just want to keep the winds blowing at my back like they have been: completing more of my PSY-major classes, doing more writing and/or doodles, etc etc. I'm feeling optimistic about 2024, and I want to make sure that optimism pans out, come what may.

So, here's to a new year, everyone! I hope it's good for all of us. :3

Well, that's another year over and a new year up ahead. Somehow, it felt like it went by in a flash and yet also dragged on forever.

2022 was strange for me, both in a good way and in a bad way. Most of the good ways were life-related - I finally got enough credits to receive my associate's diploma, and I ended up turning Ring Fit sessions and evening walks into regular habits, thus fulfilling my resolution to exercise more. I spent some time over the summer taking care of the house on my own, and I've become more aware of both my own mental health and my general work-life/online-offline balance.

When it comes to creative pursuits, on the other hand, this year kinda felt like a lower-key rerun of 2012. I started the year off alright, drawing a few pictures and coming up with writing plans while also keeping in mind not to pressure myself too hard... but ultimately, I barely wrote, drew, or *did* anything at all. Part of it was being busy with classes, of course, but a lot more of it was me getting too wrapped-up in my own head - getting so wrapped up in details and future-thinking that I just couldn't reel myself back in (which meant I had a lot of half-finished WIPs in my folders). Even the little one-page drabbles, the things I'd usually hash out at the end of the day just to keep myself sharp, stopped happening after a while. It was hard to just let myself be... myself.

Back in 2012, when I was in this very same situation, I ultimately made a resolution to simply... do stuff. Write a little each day, doesn't matter whether I think it's great or it's eh. If I delete it or revise it later on, that's fine, but just do stuff instead of sitting there like a lump. Find ways to make myself write (or draw or etc), and find ways to make it easier or less daunting to think about. "If I'm going to sit down to write, I want to see results", so to speak. And while it took some work, and sometimes was a little hard, keeping myself in the present like that really helped me back then.

So for 2023, my resolution is to find ways to make myself write again. Find ways to make it easier, find ways to brainstorm ideas, and find ways to minimize the smaller issues my brain gets hung up on. In the short-term, this simply means writing a little bit each day, ideally finishing the various half-finished WIPs I've left on the backburner for so long. In the long-term, I'd like to set the goal of finishing at least one lewdfic per-month this year. And if I'm struggle to keep up... well, I'll just need to start reaching out to people for help more often. What a novel idea, eh? :y

Anyway, I hope everyone else has a happy New Year! Here's to a good 2023!

Well, it's a week into the new year and only now am I making this journal.

That's probably a good indicator of how I've been feeling. :v

Last year was very weird. I had flashes of creativity and energy, where I was writing lots of stuff one after another, and then I had long periods where I just felt drained of inspiration. There were moments where I had tons of ideas and was able to hammer things out, and there were moments where I figuratively crashed right into a brick wall.

I get the feeling that most of these issues are just plain ol' burnout, mixed with the general life stress and school stuff. I really do want to be writing and doodling and creating stuff, but whenever I open up a paint or word program, I just draw blanks. I have some ideas, but not enough energy or excitement to pursue them.

A lot of that probably comes from a weird feeling of responsibility for it, if that makes sense. When I start a project, I want to finish it, even though it's probably unrealistic for me to stick with every single thing I come up with. But then I start pushing myself to keep going, pushing myself to keep going even if it's really not going anywhere, and that's where a lot of my tiredness comes from. I think that's why I've been doodling a lot more the past couple years - it's a lot easier to relax and enjoy myself when I'm just making an individual, standalone picture.

As such, I don't really have any plans writing-wise this year. I'm not going to push myself to continue certain things unless I'm really, really feeling it, and I'm going to try and relax as best I can, universally.

...of course, while I might not be making stuff as frequently, that doesn't mean I'm going to stop getting commissions or having smaller ideas. So I'll still be active in that sense! Bill, Rose, Cyan, Erin, and all the rest aren't going anywhere. :U

Either way, here's hoping that 2022 is a little less crazy than 2021 was, huh?

Well, nothing about last year's journal has aged well, huh? :y

All things considered, 2020 was a pretty screwy year (to put it lightly). It seemed like it started fairly well for most people I know, and it started well for me, too - I was getting out of the house and doing things just for fun more often (after my school semesters in 2019 put my anxiety into crunch-mode), I was getting into some new hobbies, and I had some really neat games to look forward to. Not only that, but I was motivating to keep going on Melemele ke Ola, and had managed to make decent headway into chapter 12 during February.

Then the pandemic happened and the entire world was basically upended. I actually felt pretty okay at first, mostly because getting to stay home and do Zoom sessions for class instead of driving to and from campus was way, way more relaxing than it might sound. Bonding with friends and classmates over New Horizons helped too, and slowly growing my island in-game gave me the inspiration to start on an Animal Crossing fic I posted to my AO3 and FF.net accounts, the first purely-SFW story I've written in a long while. Once the semester ended, though, I started to feel the cabin fever. It's a little ironic: I spend all of 2019 worrying about my finances and feeling like I can't take time off or go out to do something fun because I've got work to do, and then in 2020 I feel ready to get out and live life but end up having to coop myself up for safety's sake.

It also meant that my creative block from last year didn't quite go away as much as I'd like, which is why I haven't doodled a lot of stuff and why I haven't written many lewdfics or anything. It has, on the other hand, been a pretty okay year as far as worldbuilding goes, though I'm still having trouble figuring out how I want to post it and present it. Tumblr was very good for making little pages for worldbuilding and organizing it in a straightforward way; I'm less inclined to upload what amounts to a long Notepad file to FA without any images or anything to go with it. I may post some of the stuff I've worldbuilt later on in 2021, but we'll have to see. Either way, I actually rounded out and expanded on the whole "horny sex-positive anthro Pokemon world" thing a lot, and I really do want to share it with folks.

I also think the pandemic helped me put less pressure on myself as far as creative stuff goes. I have a hard time of worrying and nagging myself to write this or that and get overwhelmed by my own planning, which then ends up manifesting as undue self-criticism. With the way the world was this year, though, it was much easier for me to consider how crazy everything was and to tell myself "it's alright to put things off, just try your best to get through things". On some level it might have just been laziness, but again, maybe that's just the self-critical part of me speaking. Hard to say. :u

I can't really promise anything super-major as far as lewdfics or doodles go in 2021, but I have had a bit more creative energy since the winter semester ended, and I have made progress on both Melemele ke Ola, a couple of doodles, and a tiny bit of progress on the New Horizons story. But given how precarious things still are, I'm going to continue taking it easy and just doing things whenever I have the energy and drive to do them. The stuff that I have worked on I've enjoyed working on a lot, and as long as I can keep my anxiety in check, I'm sure I'll improve more and more. So here's hoping that my 2021 goes well, and I hope everyone else's 2021 goes well too! :3

So, we're at the end of another year, and at the end of the decade to boot (some might argue the decade ends in 2021, but semantics).

For me, this year has been... weird. On the one hand, I've done very well in my classes, learning a lot and generally being very productive. On the other hand... I only wrote three or four major things this year, and while I did some doodles I'm proud of, overall my creative output felt extremely stagnant. I'm sure there's a correlation here somewhere. :y

Obviously, part of my lack of writing is because of the classes. Mainly the Japanese language courses I took, which were no joke; for anyone interested in taking such a course, keep in mind that they're probably very quick-paced and you're always going to get a decent amount of homework, regardless of whether you have one day before your next class or whether you have the weekend. I planned my semesters to focus around those courses (my other classes were more leisurely), and even then they were much tougher than I anticipated, which meant I was putting a lot of effort into not falling behind. Make no mistake, this year was tough - it almost felt tougher than when I was working retail, though I'm sure that my memories of working retail are a little fuzzy by now.

That said, I'm also willing to admit that the chapters that I did write this year were very... unengaging? Difficult to envison? It's hard to say. Chapter 9 was basically a lewdfic and it was easy, but Chapter 10 was hard to outline and even harder to write. Genuinely, I have no idea why; the idea of the team meeting up with Professor Kukui and discussing things with him while rounding the corner of the island was my idea from the start, but there were so many ideas I wanted to try and get across that, much like Chapter 6, I ultimately had to leave some things on the cutting room floor. Chapter 11, by comparison, was nearly as easy as Chapter 9 was, though it helps that I was able to loop the ideas I cut from Ch10 back into Ch11. Plus, introducing the whole "cultural nudity" thing will make it a lot easier to throw in all the lewd stuff I do have planned. :3p

Unfortunately, it also didn't help that, come summertime, I was in the midst of a pretty bad depression. It's nowhere near as bad as it was in 2016, but it was pretty bad, and there were a lot of things playing into it. Being left in charge of the house for a good month or two in-total, caring for our aging dog, my homework and school schedule making it very difficult to actually go on adventures and explore the islands (which is a big part of what made the first batch of Alola ke Ola chapters so much fun). Of course, once I headed into the second semester things started to clear up, and the fact that I was actually able to get out and do things here and there was quite the boon.

So what are the plans for 2020? Simple: do my best to fix the problems I had this year. In terms of depression, I've been taking medicine to help with that, and in terms of getting out of the house, now only do I have plans to go and do a lot right after New Years, I have ideas for both Chapters 12 and 13 from a trip I took up to the north shore back in autumn. So I plan on getting started as soon as the year turns over! I'd also like to get some more side-stories done, like the spa-themed lewdfic from a few months back. In particular I've been wanting to focus on fleshing out the apartment more, so I may be doing stuff with that between Alola ke Ola chapters.

Anyway, here's to a good year and a good start to the decade! :3

Well, that's the end of 2018. A rough year for some, and a decent year for others.

For me, I'd say I land more on the decent end of the spectrum, though not without some faults here and there. My plans were to get started on Melemele ke Ola and really kick into gear with writing a multi-chapter story again, and on the surface I think it's safe to say I succeeded in that goal: I wrote eight full chapters, and also did a little worldbuilding and a few side stories (one of which has yet to be posted) on top of that. I went into 2018 having not written a proper adventure-y story for a couple years, and the last chapter I wrote before the end of the year is arguably one of my best adventure chapters I think I've done. For all intents and purposes, I really managed to sharpen and refine some old skills and generally get started on writing an expanded Alola like I wanted to.

On the other hand, I only wrote eight chapters in the spawn of twelve months, but perhaps even more importantly, the lewder aspects that the story started off with seemed to fizzle out over time, despite the fact that the entire point of the story was to both combine both the lewdfics and the adventure stories in a way that would allow for both at the same time. So while I did succeed at really getting my foot in the door with Melemele ke Ola, it later came at the expense of writing the lewd stuff that I enjoy so much.

I think part of it was, for lack of a better term, ambition - I like, and need, to brainstorm ideas for the story, but once I begin making an overall plan, my mind has a tendency to run away with itself and start coming up with many different ideas that sound good, but take a ton of effort and energy for me to really... well, do. Introducing Hau, for instance, made me want to have him show up every so often to give him a recurring arc as well, but that means dedicating at least a few more chapters to "trainer battle filler" instead of lewd stuff or fun stuff. Prof. Kukui is another example, though I feel like having him show up is a lot more flexible.

All these little ideas and arcs and foreshadowing and whatnot does make for a good story, but it also turns the story into such a mess of micromanagement that it sucks all the fun out of the process of brainstorming. I was still enjoying the story as a concept, and I was still enjoying writing each chapter, but having to set all of these things up was exhausting, and that was on top of all the life stuff that started to pile up later on this year (finally going back to school to take some classes in particular, but also my parents traveling more often, putting me in charge of all the house stuff).

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All that said, I get the feeling that finishing the first full arc of the story was a good thing, since it means I've put down all the stakes and generally set everything I wanted to up - now all that's left is to do more brainstorming and try to re-incorporate the lewd sides of Alola that I wanted to include from the start. The second arc of Melemele ke Ola was always planned to be a lot lewder anyway, with an OC trial captain and a side character who are both better suited to that sort of thing, and a much bigger stretch of time and distance to write.

So, to tl;dr it, my 2019 resolution is to re-focus my efforts and get back to lewding up Melemele ke Ola, just like I had always wanted to. And hey, I might even be able to write more side-stories, too!

Happy New Year from Rose, Cyan, Erin and I, everyone! :3

So, how about that mess with Tumblr?

I'm not really sure what to post here, since I don't really make journals all that often, but here's a welcoming message to everyone who ended up jumping over from SkyLewdFox and decided to follow me here instead! There's a handful of things that are here that I either forgot to post or just plain didn't post on my lewdblog, so if you're interested in my content then hopefully you'll feel right at home. :3

FA isn't as easily interactable as Tumblr was, unfortunately, but someone suggested making "ask a character" journals sometimes, so if anyone has any thoughts about that, feel free to share your thoughts! I need to get back in the habit of being more talkative on here anyway, so that'd help, eheh.

First off, did anyone notice that I updated Gushing the Girlfriend and Friendly Greetings? They're shaded now! :U

Anyway, it's almost New Years' Eve, and that means time to reflect and resolution and all that business. To put it bluntly, none of my writing plans for this year really ended up panning out: I started on a PMD-esqe story based around anthro Bill and Rose's backstory, but ended up losing motivation for that very quickly. I started a proper PMD story to serve as a sequel to Beyond the Sky, but after a couple chapters ended up losing interest in that, as well, despite the fact that I want to go back to it and the idea at some point. While it wasn't a terrible year overall at all (it was certainly a phenomenal year for videogames, I'll say that much), in terms of the stuff I actually wanted to get done, I didn't really end up doing much of anything. I'm probably proudest of Camping Trip, both for being a multiple-part story that I actually finished (a good omen!), and also for being the first time I've written Cyan and Erin as anthros in any major capacity. They even got some lewd scenes for themselves. It's a nice hurdle to finally jump.

As for 2018, I think things are finally settling down. Life isn't quite as turbulent as it was going into 2018, and I've gotten back into a nice routine between work and life, so I'm planning to capitalize on that by starting work on a story based around Pokemon Sun/Ultra Sun, starring the anthro characters and set in an expanded Alola, with a lot more locations based around the actual islands (rather than the very tiny, condensed game islands). I've lived here for years now, and in particular driving around for work this year has given me a better appreciation for everything that the islands have, so I think writing a story that combines both the game and living here will be nice. The true Alola ke Ola, if you will. It's been a long time since I last revisited the main-series setting, and I think actively getting into it will be just the change of pace I need.

So starting right on January 1st, I'm going to start working on the first chapter of that, and that's the main project going to occupy my time. It might get lewd at some points, but for the most part I just want to start something and stick with it in the long term. Having a goal like that will help me get back on my feet faster and better, and it means all of you folks will (hopefully) be getting more anthro stories and more often - though even with that as a main project, you're likely to get some other lewd oneshots and lewdfics all the same.

So here's to a great 2018!

I woke up late (1am closing does that to you), but I'm a bit curious - would anyone be interested in doing a TMI Tuesday question thing here? I do it on Tumblr every so often, but I realize not everyone has that (and with Skylewdfox auto-marked as NSFW, you have to log in to ask me anything anyway, anon or not).

If you are interested in asking something (whether it's about me or about my characters or whatever), just toss a comment down below!

This doesn't have much to do with the lewd stuff, but PMD is a big part of both my writing (given all my SFW stuff is PMD) and my life (it's pulled me through dark periods of my life, it's also my favorite game of all time), so I figured I might as well remark on it here in case anyone else didn't know or is also a fan.

Granted, I started with Sky rather than T/D, but the sentiment remains. :V

It's a bit late to be making a journal like this, given it's almost May, but whatever :V

I've been writing bit by bit over the past few months, trying my best to get back in the mix while juggling my new driving job (I do Lyft now), and after hashing out some personal stuff and doing some thinking I've opted to try and set myself on a new plan.

For reference, at the start of 2016 I finished a large-scale PMD story I'd been working on for three years (Beyond the Sky), and the resulting "what do I do now" kind of butt-blasted me into a spiral of depression and lack of drive. I finally pulled myself out of it around Christmastime and I've been getting better ever since.

Right now my plans are to focus on smaller-scale, more simple oneshots and prompts with my characters rather than going for any major Beyond-the-Sky-scale projects right now (though I'm sure there'll be occasional outliers, like that Armello story I wrote in February and the couple of longer lewdfics I've written so far this year). I think it'll be a much easier way to keep myself from getting rusty, and it'll give me more opportunities to build up some of the other characters or pairs that I don't write together as much. I've also got a few things that I technically have been needing to do writing-wise (mostly stuff I've put on the backburner or things for others I've wanted to do), so that'll be on tap as well. And I'll still probably get commissions here and there in-between stories, obviously.

So... yeah. There we go. V:

I don't know if I ever made it super-clear here, but I came up with new, different backstories for the anthro Team Returners (compared to the PMD Team Returners I use in the PMD fics), but most of the commissions I've gotten are still based on them being PMD (the Pillowhumping picture referencing them getting anthro forms, Rose originally being quadrupedal, etc etc, for example)

Maybe I should just swap back to how they always were, hahahah

A good pal   Sugarr has opened commissions, and she needs the cash! If you're a fan of Pokemon or generally cute artstyles (like what I like :V ), you'll probably find her a good person to commish.

I don't really post journals much, do I?

I was looking over my accounts on other webistes over dinner tonight at work, browsing through the pages of writing I've done the past few years. I've been meaning to start uploading a lot more of my work here (all SFW; sorry if you're a lewd-fan! :p ), but I've both felt lazy about it and also felt like I didn't really have much to offer that would be of interest. It feels weird to feel that way, since I recently finished a big story project of mine and everyone seems to really like Team Returners, but it's probably related to the general glum feelings I've been having since February.

Then I noticed tonight the pages upon pages of work I've got, which ends up being a veritable arsenal (or arseload, if you'd rather) of stories to upload here, and I realized - they're my work! They should be here, and other places too, even if they don't catch a lot of interest. I'm proud of them and proud of all the stuff I've done, and I'd like to get it out to more folks.

So starting today, I'm going to slowly start populating my gallery with my older works - a chapter of Beyond the Sky every week, as well as the assorted oneshots and whatnot I've done in the meantime. So here's to that! I hope you look forward to it! :3

Well, I got tagged for Star twice, both by   Appledees and by   RuBoo , so that means it's time for eight more facts about my characters, heheheh! ;3

Rules:
1. Post these rules.
2. Post 8 facts about your character.
3. Tag 8 other characters.
4. Post their names along with their creators' avatars.

Here we go! And of course, here's Star's ref sheet: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/17256425/

1: Star actually owns a fair few sex toys and the like - but since she's not often at her apartment, they're only slightly used.

2: Her apartment reflects her taste for finery - despite her apartment being the same size as the others, her interior decorating is the most lavish.

3: Despite her occupation as a treasure-hunter-thief, she often likes to keep heists just to herself and Vale, as she feels responsible when other Pokemon get involved.

4: Similarly, when she meets someone who she gets along well with, she often ends up having sex with them, sooner or later.

5: Star isn't an illusion specialist like some Zoroark, but she knows how to illusion different outfits onto herself, as well as turning completely invisible for a little while.

6: Star's favorite berries are Grepa berries, followed by Nomel berries.

7: She's the oldest member of Team Returners, at 33 years old.

8: Her butt, and breasts, aren't all that firm. Instead, they're much more jiggly and bouncy, and good for squeezing.

And that's that! I don't think I'll tag anyone this time, since I was kind of scraping everyone up last time. If you think this looks like a cool idea and want to do it, then I tag you! :3

Well, I got tagged by   maxl8 , so I guess it's time for some character facts, huh?

Rules:
1. Post these rules.
2. Post 8 facts about your character.
3. Tag 8 other characters.
4. Post their names along with their creators' avatars.

Here we go! Here's Rose, for reference: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/15398364/

1: Despite being a fire type, Rose absolutely loves to swim. It's her main method of exercise, alongside going on hikes and the like.

2: She's very bashful and modest in personality, but deep down Rose is rather curious and experimental in terms of sex and kinks.

3: Similarly, she owns a secret stash of naughty, trashy novels, tucked away in the closet in her and Bill's apartment.

4: Rose was raised by her mother, and never learned who her father was.

5: Her favorite berries are Yache berries, followed by Bluk berries.

6: Rose's breasts are highly-sensitive; it's possible to drive her to orgasm through breast- or nipple-play alone.

7: Her favorite hobby is reading, mainly fantasy and adventure novels, as well as classics like The Hobbit, Dracula, etc.

8: Doggystyle is her favorite position because she was originally a feral Pokemon before being turned into an anthro.

And now, to tag...

Holly, from   Appledees

Kitsune, from   RuBoo

Elroc, from   elroc

Caroline, from   ajtheflygon

Allen, from   maxl8

Aaaaaand... that's all that springs to mind, for now!

Now that I seem to be using this account more (and I actually mean more than I was before, instead of just halfheartedly uploading a thing or two every six blue moons or so), I guess I might as well toss this up as a primer.

Hi! I'm SkyBlueFox (or SBF1), though I tend to go by Bill or Sky most of the time. I've... been furry, I guess, for a good few years now, but only recently have I realized how much of a furry I actually am, or perhaps it's simply me getting more comfortable with it as a whole (admitting that Bill the Lucario is a Pokesona is proof enough of that). I write. A lot. Last year was a bit sparse for my productivity, but so far this year I've written a whole bunch and I'm feeling really good so far, and half of what I've written at the end of 2014/at the start of 2015 has been naughty stuff, and I've also gotten a few commissions from artists recently, so I've been uploading more stuff to this account now. Lucky you! Lucky me!

I have a lot of other accounts on various other places, though the most pertinent to my writing would be returnerofthesky (personal Tumblr), Traveling Trainer (my fanfiction handle), SkyBlueFox (on Deviantart), and of course right here on FA (where I'll someday be able to change my username). The majority of my stuff is uploaded on my other accounts, but I may start, slowly, putting my other work onto here as well. The majority of it isn't porn, and there's a lot - a lot - of it, but hey, might as well just toss my work here and see what happens. The vast percentage of my stories are related to Pokemon Mystery Dungeon, which I've expanded, brainstormed and worldbuilt quite a lot into its own sort of thing, and if you hit up my personal Tumblr there's a link to the PMD Worldbuilding page on my sidebar. It's not hugely necessary to understand or read my stories (for obvious reasons - what good would a story be if supplemental material wasn't so supplemental?), but maybe you'll find it interesting as well.

Well, I'm rambling now. There we go! First journal since three years or four years or something. See you in another quarter of a decade or so. :p

(seeing as i actually use this account now i may as well make one of these)

Today marks the first full year since I got back into writing.

...looking back at a lot of the stuff I wrote back a year ago now, I've improved... a hell of a lot. I'm surprised I didn't notice it before, but looking at the stuff I write now compared to that old Mystery Dungeon oneshot (Lovers of Time and Darkness), it's quite a big jump.

I already said this almost a week ago on my DA account, but I think it fits better here: Morri (http://www.furaffinity.net/user/zephyrnok/), Writefag Derek, Writefag Alex, SDW, all you fellas from WWYR, old or new. Thank you. Without you I'd probably be spending my time wasting my life away playing videogames. Now I spend my time wasting my life away playing videogames, but I also spend time... well, writing, which is something that can actually be translated into a productive job. It's pretty much thanks to you guys that I've decided to be an English major, since before that I really had no idea what I wanted to go into subject-wise. I'm not even sure where I'd be if I hadn't found you guys, taken a chance despite my inherent shyness, and actually started writing again.

So whether you'll see this or not, or whether you saw my DA post about it already (SDW and Derek I know already saw my DA journal)... thank you. For everything.

As for everyone else that might be reading this... thank you too. You look at my stuff. I don't like to sound like I'm pandering or begging for views, but seeing that people actually look at my stuff feels nice. Even if you don't leave a comment, thanks for taking the time to read the stuff I put out.