College graduation, summer school, Lasik vision correction, getting my heart broken by yet another man, three deaths in the family in under five months, getting a job at Disney World, and learning that I will be moving to Australia next year-
These are just a hand-full of the things that happened to me this past year as I wrote the latter half of chapter five of RRDC. Hence, the reason it took so long wrong to write (I'm not going to mention that the latter half of this chapter wound up being ninety-one pages long; that had nothing to do with the waiting period at all). But today is a good day; despite life I have managed to plow forward and post the new chapter, just like I said I would. Well, not exactly how I said I would. But after learning from my experience last time, literally like five minutes after I posted the new chapter, I went outside to my writing spot (sort of like a laughing place) and I began work on chapter six. Since I'm writing the next three chapters at once, the wait won't be quite as excruciating (like waiting for a new season of the Venture Bros.) and will provide me a bit of a buffer for writing the remaining chapters. I have no idea how long it will take and I have no idea when it will be finished. All I do know is that I'm not giving up writing this story until I can write that last word of the final chapter. Though I have a strange feeling that this whole thing might surpass the entire Harry Potter in terms of page count. For those wondering, I do know what the last word of the last chapter will be: "bless."

... and posted the first half of the new chapter of RRDC. I promised myself I wouldn't do that but I went running this morning and I came back to my dorm and found absolutely no new emails on my computer and I thought, "Hey, why don't I release the new chapter in two halves like Tarantino did wiht Kill Bill? That would cool!" Grr. I'm mad at myself for succombing that easily. At least I hope my readers will enjoy it. You hear that, readers? Please enjoy it. Please?


Clubs (or at the moment "Club") I belong to:

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I've got finals in two weeks. I've got two portfolios of my written work to submit. I've got one term paper to finish. But after that, I'm home free. Go me. I noticed that I had not submitted a journal entry to this page in a long time and I thought that this might be a good opportunity to answer a question that seems to follow me around wherever I go: when will RRDC be updated and/or finished? My answer: I'm working on it. My personal method of writing is to handwrite everything in a journal (a Moleskine to be specific; yes, I'm a brand snob when it comes to journals) and then I type it all out on my computer. This is great because I can't always have my computer in front of me when I want to write something, so this way whenever I feel the urge, I can just reach into my purse and write to my heart's content. It's also a great way to eliminate having to go back over what you've written with a fine tooth comb after I'm done with the chapter; by the time I start typing, I already have a sense of what I want to eliminate, what mistakes I made, and what I want to add. I recommend this process to anyone, but as such there's a downside: it takes freakin' forever. It doesn't help that chapter five of RRDC is really, really, really long. I'm serious. I didn't think anything could surpass chapter three (which was 97 pages). Chapter five is already at 90 pages, and I don't even consider this chapter two-thirds of the way completed. What's a girl to do? Keep on truckin' and pray that people stop submitting reviews asking why I haven't updated in a year. Well, I am working hard at writing this motha but I'm also trying to get through my junior year at school while having SOME semblance of a social life. I really shouldn't complain, though. This story has been a lot of fun to write and the response to it along with the people reading it have been wonderful. Hearing people say how much they want the next chapter is really great to hear and both encouraging and discouraging.

In the future to avoid these long-ass waiting periods between chapters, I'm going to handle the next three chapters Lord of the Rings style. Because the sequence of events that occur within the next few chappies take place so close together, I'm just going to write all three of them before I post any of them. I have no idea when they will all be finished, but at least, the story will be updated faster.

Some of you who are X-Men: Evolution fanfic readers may or may not recognize me. Anyway, I am asking for artists who enjoy doing illustrations for fanfics. I have this story on Fanfiction.net located right here at [link] If anyone feels at all inspired by my words, please, please, please, send me whatever pops into your brain! I will accept anything!