Cacoethes scribendi!

Currently Writing: Kimya's Silence Chapter 11, TLOC 1 brush-over/rewrite (which wasn't supposed to take this long ._.)

Rewrite uploaded up to chapter 6. Critique on the first chapter would be appreciated.

I'd just like to apologize in advance for any long update times. Unfortunately, I'm so easily distracted that I tend to end up messing around rather than writing. D: Currently, I'm trying to cut down on the amount of active stories I have. Another one of my "virtues" is publishing too many fics at a time (I am currently at a grand total of seven), so I'm spread a bit thin right now. To any fans of my stories, thank you for your patience.

As for potential readers, I hope you enjoy my stories. I love reviews, so if you want to leave one, it'd be much appreciated, and if you have any questions feel free to ask. :D Also, criticism is very much welcome. I'd rather know if there's something wrong than continue on oblivious of it.

Oh, and one last thing. If I ever mention my musical inspiration, it's always a YouTube video. The video shouldn't be hard to find if you just stick the title into the search bar. Play it while you read if you like; it tends to fit the tone of the story and may add some extra emotional effect.

Anyway, enough of my prattle. Sit back, get a drink, and have fun reading.

Update 5/8/13: Whenever I feel not-lazy enough, I'm going to be removing the dedications from my stories because meh, I don't feel like writing them and it'd be weird if I just stopped. But anyone who I did dedicate a story to, or planned on doing, you're still awesome. xD Also Kimya's Silence is taking forever and I have no ideas. And the TLOC brush-up is also taking a while... Possibly because I'm pretty much rewriting it again instead of, you know, brushing up. -_- I also wrote a new, less embarrassing first chapter, which I will probably upload because I feel like the current chapter isn't very hooky and sucks. I'm just afraid that it might suck more because it's in third person, which I'm not as good at. But come on, it makes a lot more sense, the current chapter doesn't at all. If you read this chapter, you'd probably be like, "Oh, that makes sense! I think I'll read more to see what happens! *hook, line, and sinker*" but the current chapter is just like, "...What?! \(ºдಠ)/" Except now you're probably going to go read it just to see how bad it is which will embarrass me. (Except I replaced that chapter with the third person one already so ha.)

You know, maybe I shouldn't do these update things, I just end making a rambling paragraph wall. *goes to hopefully write*

If you want some music to listen to while you read my stories, my usual musical inspiration is this, this, and this. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Segq7WgomRA&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zX5gIcr-76s http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jSyVFRW6eM Last one's particularly good with final chapters and sad scenes. If I have a different song for a story, I'll tell you in the first author's note.

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Made For Me

Please do not use any of these anywhere without the artist's permission, and definitely do not claim these as your own work. The first six were all drawn by GoldenGriffiness.

http://oi39.tinypic.com/34ijxi8.jpg The first picture Gold ever drew me.

http://oi42.tinypic.com/5xn787.jpg Picture of Maggie.

http://oi41.tinypic.com/vor11z.jpg Picture of Theresa.

http://oi41.tinypic.com/fp9dt5.jpg My avatar and favorite picture.

http://oi40.tinypic.com/16b0ml0.jpg Larger version of above, without the name.

http://oi42.tinypic.com/1ig66v.jpg Picture of the scene in TLOC: The Darkest Hour, Chapter 17.

http://fc07.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2012/151/8/6/lion_cubs_by_ccococ-d51qie9.png Two adorable lions. Drawn by DragonGirl10188 on DragCave. Link to art thread: http://forums.dragcave.net/index.php?showtopic=136945&st=0

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The Darkest hour is right before the Dawn...

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I decided to remove Golem Just Wants a Friend. I'm not sure if it could be considered a disregard for proper spelling/grammar, but better safe than sorry. You can read it here.

Deer Diaree

I lik malifore. He giv mee life. But he no teech mee how two spil. So i hav too spil miself. I cant yoos papir tho. Bicuz it burns win i tuch it. So I yoos bark and skrach the wurds in. I wil go now. Gudbi diary.

Golem

Deer Jurnul

I think i wil hav a jurnul now. I lik them betur then diarees. Ther is a orng cristul in my room. Ther ar sum draguns in it. I hop they wil bee my frinds. I lik malifor but he wont be my frind. And the grubleens ar stoopid. I am tird so i think i wil go now. Gudnite jurnul.

Golem

Deer Jurnal

Thos things in the cristul are meen! As soon as the grooblins got them owt i came up too say helo. i triid to giv them a handshake so many tims but they kept hiting mee. Then sumthing hit my i. Now i cant see owt uf my i. Maybi i got a litle mad and triid too kil the chetah who hit me. But i didnt meen it. I think i wil tri two say sory in a litle bit.

Golem

Deer Jurnal

I went two say sory. I piked up the piler they wer on and brot them to my fase so i culd say sory propur. Then win i was dun i put them in an alcov in a wal so they wuld be saf. Then I breethed fire becus i had hicups and whin i hav hicups i breeth fire. But I am so happi that i sad sory. Now we can be frends.

Golem

Deer Journul,

Whin i fownd the draguns, i axidentily smashed a piller, but i didnt meen too. When i trid to grab the draguns so we culd play, they kept mooving. I think we wer playing tag. But my arm got stick in the wal. When i puled it out i lost my arm. Now im sad beecuz now it wil be hard to play with my frends and writ in my journul. But its okay.

Golem

Deer Journul,

I fownd my frends. But i think they wer tring to leeve and i was sad. I trid to tel them not to leeve, but i got hicups and breethed fire. Then i grabed the blac dragun, and just as i was abowt to say hello, the purpul dragun draged her back. At first i was sad, but then i reelized that wee were playing tag agin! I trid to tag the purpuhl dragun but i missed. Then i trid to tag the black dragun but i also missed. After that they didnt com back so i thot the game was over becuz they went down a hal and i culdnt reech them. But then i reelized we were playing hid and seek. I slamed the wal in so they culd hide. Maybi i shuldnt hav done that, but ill find them aniway. Im going to go cownt now. Goodbi, journul.

Golem

Dear Journal,

My speling is geting beter! Im so hapy. But I cant find my frends now. They must be reelly good hiders. I loked everywhere and I stil cant find them. I think maybi they left the catacoms and hid somewhere else. So Im going to find them.

Golem

Dear Journal,

Finally, I've fownd them! I can only stop for a secont. I went under the erth and stoped to write this. I'm going to go play now! Me and the dragons can be friends forever and ever and ever, just like I always wawnted.

Golem

Dear Journal,

I got an idea to make my arm better. I had to destroy a bit of the citi but now we can play propurly! My tal waves when Im happy and its waving a lot rite now! In fact, its goin al over the place. I think Im vary hapy. Im trying to play with sum of the moles and dragons here, but none of them are as nice as my purpl and black friends. A bunch of mean dragons tried to hurt me and that mayd me sad. But its alrite. My friends are around here and they can play! We can be best friends and finally, finally I will have sombody who cares about me!

Golem

Dear Journal,

I'm just like the grublins. I'm so stupid. I thought they were just playing a little rough when they started to hurt me. I thought we were having so much fun. But then they tried to kill me. Then they betrayed me.

Now, when I think about it, they nevir really liked me at all. I always thot we were playing, but now i reelize that they were just triing to get away from me. I loked in sum of my other jurnal entrees and i cant beleev how stoopid i wus. Now Ive faled so far that i cant evin writ gud animor.

Why nobudy lik Golem.

Whi malefor giv me life if he no everithing wil hate me.

whi cant golem hav frinds

And that's all. But one more thing before I go...

May all your bacon burn.