After a long — excruciatingly so — journey through the great plainlands, I’ve returned home. Sadly this isn’t for keeps, and I have to make the drive again Sunday night. The work of a hyper-reality engineer never ends.

Hopefully, this time the power cord for the laptop will get packed, and I’ll get chances to wander online. Three days was long enough to go without.

Prior to my little trek into the void that is cow-farming central, I submitted a new story. In truth, it’s an old story, but it’s gone through enough reworking that I hope it’s worth another look, just to see how my writing has changed/improved over the time I’ve been in hiding.

What started as a simple Thursday Prompt has morphed into a fun series. Each is a story told from one of the characters participating in a gypsy-esque dancing troupe, and the adventures of their love lives. There’s lots of characters to play with, and in theory I could write these stories, for as long as I find them entertaining.

This are also another opportunity to explore all sorts of exotic species, and I have a long line of creatures waiting to have their tale told. The next will be from the fruit bat, Azalee’s POV.

One thing’s for sure, bats are extremely hard to put clothes on properly. Bats are complicated in general, since I’m insisting on sticking to realistic body types ie. Hands encased in wing membrane with thumbs as the only free appendage.

It took hours (and some rather interesting miming gestures) to figure out how much one could do with limited use of the fingers — a thumb is not a finger. As a result I’ve got a rather complex bat culture. Figuring out how to dress them became a query into how they evolved enough to wear clothes.

Realistically, most of this planing won’t show up in the final story — but it helps me understand the characters more, and lets me explore their world. Plus, the endeavor provided for a fun brain teaser.

Because of my obsessive nature, I won’t post until I’ve achieved some level of happiness with it, and it’s far from that stage. Though progress is good, it’s still slower than I’d like, but at least I’m moving forward.

Thanks again to those who’ve read thus far. Working on these stories take quite a while, so I love to see that there are those that seem to enjoy what I do.

Take care,
Tyvara

Hello all you watchers,

By my activity over the past year . . . or so -- it doesn't seem like there's anyone over on this end of the interweb tubes, but I guess this rules that out.

First off, Happy New Year to all, I hope yours was better than mine. I moved, I've just recently moved into a new house, but things are crazy. I hate moving. Grrrr.

So this is my first day with internet back since moving, and I'm sitting with my monitor propped atop the tower -- because my foray into gorilla gluing my rickety desk together proved futile. But I'm determined to absorb every last ounce of my computer before my eyes dry out and I'll crawl off to bed.

I am busy working on projects, only one is strictly furry in nature, but all feature animals in pivotal roles. I will be posting them eventually, but only one is on its way to be ready to post.

I've completely revamped To Woo a Feline, and it's exploded into a series of short stories entitled From the Dancing Trails, with prospects of a bigger project if everything works out. I peddled a draft of it through Critique Circle, and am working on final edits now.

To those writers out there, if you're on CC, you can find me under Tyvara. To those of you who aren't, hop on over, it's a great place to improve the writing muscle. Critique Circle is where the bulk of my drafts make their first rounds.

My novel project Lure of the Alicorn is my other obsession next to the Dancing Trails arc. It's my attempt at a Slavic-themed unicorn fairy tale.

Writing does come slow, since tendinitis has decided to attack my hands, and the metal rod in my back has sent the sub zero temperatures of my state lancing through me like an ice-covered knife. Thankfully I have a notebook and a right hand that has no problems using a pen, so I've filled a couple with ideas.

I also have a rib growing in that has created a new level of pain for me, but there are more important things at stake here -- like writing, so I'll keep the focus on that.

I can't wait until summer, and the pain will recede with the cold. Let's hope the groundhog sees a fast approaching spring.

I want to try and keep this journal updated more regularly. I don't want to turn my back on the fandom. I like it here -- despite all the drama. I'm just glad Mercury is back on course, and communication seem to be back to normal. It's good to have my computer back.

More is coming, There are stories to be had, and I hope to be able to share them soon.

Take care, and best wishes,
Tyvara

Some folks have mentioned that they've wanted some samples of my writing, well my novel Behind the Curtain is finished. I will be posting the chapters every Friday on Yiffstar and upon completion I will be posting the full story for view on FA.
I hope you all enjoy! ^^