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Latest News: (Nov. 22 09) At the risk of sounding dangerously like a fangirl...uh...I've been watching the new Inuyasha: The Final Act anime thing, the subs in English are on Hulu every Saturday, new episodes, and I just watched Kikyo die tonight, well done, I actually tried to cry. BUT...considering my latest story, more importantly: NEXT EP HAS SESSMOM! Full color! HA! She looks like Sesshomaru in drag, which is exactly as I hoped and imagined. HA! I'm so pleased I could puke with excitement. I should probably go eat something too because I'm hungry. Anyway...yeah SESSMOM NEXT WEEK!

( 11/19/09): Nearly Thanksgiving everyone!! I have been away at college, arranging an Internship and such. Phew. And struggling to plan my wedding! I think I will go insane!

I also heard a lovely rumor that Inuyasha the anime series has started up again in Japan! Woot! Will we finally see Naraku bite it in animation? I'll be off to Hulu to check this out and probably spend most of my time giggling and hoping that the later series stuff doesn't completely disprove something I've written, like, God forbid, Sesshomaru is actually a 1,000 years old, but I don't think he can be that old. (Not that anyone cares but me, you know. We can pretend.)

But I finally sat down and made a decision regarding The Way of the Sword. So I uploaded the chapter I settled on (new content and all, check it out!) I decided on mixing 1st and 3rd person. Beginning each chapter with a brief little blurp in the voice of the main character of each part. So for Part 1 the main narrator is Shiroihana/Sessmom. She will open each of her chapters briefly in first person, just for fun. Then the rest will be in third person. I decided on 3rd person because I think my 3rd person prose comes out easier and overall better quality. I have more practice at it. It made sense to choose it. Okay, more info on the new story.

The Way of the Sword is Inutaisho's story, but not told by him. Instead expect 3 narrators. Shiroihana/Sessmom first to reveal her past and Inutaisho's past, as well as Sess's early childhood and conceptoin. Izayoi will tell (arguably) the most exciting portion. Inutaisho's infidelity, Inuyasha's conception, and her scandalous pregnancy and how she managed not to be KILLED by Sessmom or Sess before Takemaru got to her in the 3rd Inuyasha movie. (YES I watched that movie and took notes and planned with it in mind!) Then expect Sesshomaru to take over. A younger, (more innocent?) Sesshomaru, tormented and torn between his parents. (Sesshomaru is the child of DIVORCE!! Not just any divorce, INUYOUKAI DIVORCE! Where they might KILL each other!) This part allows me to expose my theories on why Sess was such a douche to his dad at the beginning or movie 3. Sess is a yoyo. We will all feel sorry for him by the end (er, at least I do). The final few chapters will probably have each narrator covering the aftermath of Inutaisho's death, and how they contributed (or not) to Inuyasha and Izayoi's survival. B/c to me that's one of the biggest questions I have to answer: Why didn't Sess or Sessmom come out and kill Inuyasha as an infant?? How did Izayoi survive as long as she did? I get the chance to answer a LOT of questions and have a lot of fun with these characters and discovering Inutaisho through them.

Anyway, so check it out! Also, not that Innocence and Return have been finished satisfactorily, I have been considering some fun stuff involving Akisame/Tisoki pranks, Inuyasha struggling with infertility as he and Kagome try for baby number 3, and Masu/Saya and their ongoing struggle. AHHHH!! Exciting!!

(9.29.09) The last bits of Return are coming soon. I have most of the chapter I'm working on done (there will be this one and then the promised epilogue and we are done). So expect it soon I have been delayed with it because of a paper which I procrastinated on and despised and just avoided. And with that over my head I stagnated with a lot of other projects. So...eek!

Thinking about I Miss You a bit. It was close-ish to being done. I'm not sure how I stalled. I got usurped by the Hanyou, WOAWO, Runaway, Return, and Innocence. That universe, especially with the kids (Saya, Koinu, Akisame, Masuyo, Kasai etc.,) and those OCs too (Shimofuri, Tsukiyume, and even Ginrei or Hanone and Sessmom Shiroihana) I have simply fallen in love with. I have found myself wanting to do shorts with some of them, or for Innocence, which isn't done yet methinks and needs a proper epilogue (ugh), I'd want to write out scenes for my own enjoyment and humor just because I hate leaving them undone, unwritten. I mean something like, Confessions of an Infertile Inuhanyou or Inuyasha's Quest or along those lines, telling the short, funny story of Inuyasha's fight to conquer his inherent hybrid-caused infertility and have that third pup with Kagome that he wants so badly in Innocence but just isn't going to get it in that story. I might publish that on my deviantArt account for the hell of it and leave a link here. That account gets so little action it might as well be a nun.

Anyway, Return will soon be over. I should finish I Miss You before going off on some other tangent. I Miss You or Women In Black. Oh, responsibilities. Yuck. Oh! Or I could give my deviantArt account some lovin' and put sample chapters up as testers...hmmm...Yeah, who wants responsibilities anyway?

I LIVE!! (7.5.09) Happy Belated Fourth everyone!! I have been on a little hiatus (I know, again, I'm sorry) because my writing lately has been on original works, leading up to...FINISHING MY THIRD NOVEL! Yeah! It was high time this got done. It's been like a year in the making. I'll have to dedicate it whenever I'm published to my fiance who has been pivotal in encouraging me. Life-wise I'm job searching, a taxing and irritating task. Big interview for, of all things, a life insurance company, on Monday. Ugh. Um, I have also been working out a lot (but not enough to lose the 15 pounds I want to take off) and battling Chronic Paronychia, a bizarre "infection" in my toe that came about because I somehow managed to destroy my cuticles on both big toes (probably from bad shoes). So I have this daily regiment of hardcore antibiotic, topical antifungal/Cortisone cream and freaking droplets of bleach on my toes. I might finally be getting results too. Oi.

Anyway, just needed to say I have not forgotten you all! Just been crazy...ugh. Hopefully updates and inspiration will rush in and help me out, tho I gotta say I have been really enjoying writing the original stuff again. Maybe there's hope for me to be published just yet.

5/11/09 At long last I have returned with an update for Return! YAY! I am also now a college graduate major in English Writing, minor in Biology. And I am engaged. Yeah...it's been a busy few weeks! Hopefully Innocence will be finished shortly with its last update.

Good News all! I have been hired by a website as a contributing writer. I have four articles right now and soon-ish I'll get paid! Yippee! I think that qualifies as being published, which will help me in my lackadaisical search for a book publisher and agent. Yay!

UPDATE (6.15.08) I changed information on Innocence because the story has gotten darker and I realized that the genres it was listed under have become inaccurate. I almost, considering my latest chapter, wanted to put it under "Horror" but I decided not to do that because that isn't a key element of the tale. There's a lot of gore in Inuyasha (kinda) to begin with, but it's more about how the characters cope, and so its the same with Innocence. My horror elements will calm eventually. Anyway...I might have to do the same thing with Return as parts of it are dark too but those will improve faster than those in Innocence.

(4.09.08) Updates on Innocence, and Return. They're just so addictively fun. I Miss You is stalling, for that I REALLY am sorry. I have this fear of completing it, like I'm going to fail because I, me, little tiny unanimated me, with no sword and no friends to help me, have to essentially defeat Naraku. Ugh. I got the same way for a while with With Our Arms Wide Open because I had to slaughter my bad guys there, but they were easier and they hung around lingeringly for a while. Naraku just has to die and he has to do it right or he makes me look bad. Talk about pressure.

Stories In Progress: I Miss You, Innocence, and Return.

Completed: The Mirror and So Much for the Hanyou's Happy Ending (hitherto I'm going to simply call that one "Hanyou," kay?) and Somebody's Waiting For Me. Also, With Our Arms Wide Open, and Runaway.

Others/On hiatus: Was It All A Dream?(it was too evil!) Mad Season (it's a oneshot for now that will likely be expanded later) and Women In Black (again, more later, I do about two at a time.)

Future Ideas: I'm going to list my thoughts for potential stories here and their titles and such, if you really like one email me or review one of my other stories to tell me so, or to make a suggestion, kay? FYI: I name all my stories, if I can, after songs...can you recognize them all? (grins)

You Are My Only One
Genre: Romance/drama
Rating: PG-R (not sure till I write it!)
Summary: A companion to "Hanyou" but this time telling what's become of Sesshomaru and Rin...When the dog demon clan sends Sesshy its idea of the proper mate and mother of his heir, Rin suddenly finds her life as "concubine" too much of a torture. She runs away to the only others that just might take her in--Inuyasha and Kagome. (there that's just a slice of what I have planned out...(winks))

The Origins of the Dog
Genre: Not sure
Rating: PG-R
Sum: The story, as I would imagine, of Inutaisho's beginnings, becuase the question of WHY he was so powerful always plagues me, I mean, what made him so different? That would be the question I'd answer here...

Had A Bad Day Again
Genre: Humor/Romance (maybe)
Rating: PG-PG13
Sum: Kagome's birthday has come around with surprising swiftness...but it's not the merry time she hoped it would be, especially when Inuyasha loses his temper on her special day. Poor Kagome!

Gifts and Curses
Genre: Humor/romance
Rating: PG-R
Sum: When Inuyasha angers a monkey god with a sense of humor he curses the hanyou, making him live as a mortal for one week. But powers can't simply disappear into thin air, so Inuyasha's abilities are passed to Kagome for one week. Can Kagome handle the changes? Can Inuyasha handle Kagome!

Hungry Like The Wolf
Genre: Romance/Humor
Rating: (PG equivalent or) M
Sum: What happens when, after the defeat of Naraku, Kagome and Inuyasha become mates and Kouga comes to collect "his woman." How can the couple finally get the wolf demon to catch the drift? Literally...(snickers) (Likely a one-shot)

One-Shots
Genre: anything...
Rating: Anywhere from T to M
Sum: A series of short chapters that are in themselves one-shots. It might flesh out back stories, or continue old stories or just certain characters from those stories. (If you want more info on this one see my above paragraph).

(Don't know yet, but somehow related to SWFM which is already completed)
Genre: Romance/Drama/Parody?/Humor?
Sum: In my story Somebody's Waiting For Me Kagome is left with amnesia and cut off from her friends...this story would be like it only in the amnesia department. But instead of Kagome losing her memory...waht if it was Inuyasha? What's our favorite half dog-demon to do when he can't remember anything...(including things like Kikyo and Naraku...? hehe)

About Me:

WHO I am: A college graduate! English writing major. Minor in Biology. Many of you have noted or will note that I use biology in my stories. That's common for me. Also you may note that in With our Arms Wide Open I use paleontology (the villain is a creodont, an extinct group of carnivorous mammals). And in Return I call on modern genetics to turn Sesshomaru into a human with a virus. Yeah! So yes, I try to shake things up, make them creative.
WHERE: I live somewhere between Hell and Paradise. Literally. I mean it. They're both towns in this part of the world, as is a place called Gay.
MORE: I'm trying to get myself published.

Interests: Right now I'm only doing Inuyasha fics. If anyone wants me to do other stuff write me...but I couldn't promise anything. These days I don't have too much time. I enjoy the character interactions of the Inuyasha anime, but I haven't been able to watch much of it, especially lately. And I'll confess I've never really read the manga. But I'm still here, still writing from what I know...feel free to correct me.

Enjoy the stories, I hope to be here to continue to please and delight. If my writing can bring pleasure, than I am rewarded. Always feel free to write to me or review with a comment, I listen and often respond.

Shilyn