Small Update

Small update: I've written nothing. I've been busy working and enjoying my Christmas presents - books and movies. So, I've done no writing whatsoever. I also would like more reviews. I was so excited to have posted something and I only get one review on mediaminer. :( However, I've gotten seven on fanfiction. :D So that's something. I don't get the tremendous imbalance between the two sites, but damn if it doesn't bug me. So, I'm not really motivated to write more write now, although I'm working on that. I have, however, thought of a cute one shot I want to write and post. Whenever I get to that, I guess. Have a great weekend everyone!

Tchao!
BoxingKing

New Post!

Yeah! I finally got a new post up! It took three sessions of writing for me to get it done, but it is finished. :D I think the chapter is pretty good this time, too. It is longer than normal - almost eight pages, and it is actually only two scenes, so less cutting around. That should make it seem longer, too. :D I'm glad it is done. I was getting some support and reviews, and I just had to get more. It will be like Christmas all over again when I get online tomorrow - later today, and look and see all the stats. Yeah! I love reviews! That's pretty much all I have to say. I have a to-do list tomorrow of a variety of things, including cleaning my room (and responding to some emails that have just been sitting in my mailbox, so that's why no one has gotten a reply.). My bed takes up too much space in my room, so things pile up on available space pretty quickly. :( I hope everyone had a nice Christmas. I did. I got to spend it with family, who are all still here after a tenuous year. We were all kind of bitchy from lack of sleep and stress, but we still love each other. I don't work today either, so that is good. I get to finally sleep in. :D I probably won't get too much writing done tomorrow. I'm catching up on a whole bunch of books, too. So, I'll talk to you all later. Enjoy the chapter, leave a review either here or there, preferably both. :D I would love feedback of all kinds!

Tchao!
BoxingKing

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas everyone! I got on a little bit before I went to bed - during the wee morning hours of Christmas! As an update, I started the next chapter. It's kind of slow going, but I am starting with a memory, sort of. :D Until then!

Thcao!
BoxingKing

Writing Slump

I haven't written in days. I guess that isn't as dramatic as it sounds - it has only been like three, four, something like that. I've been working. Generally, after I work, I don't want to 'work' and do some writing. Rather, I would just sit and relax and read. The problem with this is that I don't have an extremely good book (we all know how hard those are too find) to read right now - I'm reading a so-so that is an earlier book of an author I like. So the book isn't catching my attention and lifting my mood. And nobody has really updated. It's like a slump in the fanfiction world of things I like to read. That is so depressing. So, I have nothing to get me out of my moods. I was doing good about an half hour ago, looking forward to playing some games of some kind, and then I got a phonecall. I probably shouldn't be saying this on the internet, but I'm pretty sure the person in question doesn't read this - why would he?, and I'm not trying to be cruel. So, this phonecall made me depressed. His phonecalls always do. I don't know why I keep taking them - I need to just break things off. Yet I am weak, and a bit of a coward it seems, in the department of hurting people's feelings. I just feel bad about it, period. I'm sure it would be worse later on, but how do I do it now without being a total hag? That is the question. I don't want to talk to him now, because talking to him now is like looking back with '20/20' hindsight, and I realize all the things I never did, and the way he talks and acts just makes me damn depressed all over. And I don't have a book or a friend to call right now to get myself out of it. So, I am going to write, and get myself out of this slump. I know vaguely where I want to go, I have the direct next part planned out in a really cool manner that I thought up at work - that day I wanted to come home and write, but I got a phonecall from somebody what was either drunk or disturbed, and they ruined it.

So, after lifting my emotional burden a tinsy bit with this blog, I am going to go write. I had a review today, and that helped things. More will do even better, and to get more I need to write more. So here goes, out of the emotional and writing slump and into the groove. Huzah!

Tchao.
BoxingKing

Questions Answered!

Ok, this post is going to be dedicated to some questions that have popped up in some reviews. I consider them valid questions, but the answers too long to simply post at the top of a chapter without making the chapter seem longer than it was. If you guys are reading this, then the message got out successfully.

First, since this one has come up a couple of times, the use of the word revolution. By no means am I telling people not to point out possible mistakes like this - I would rather know and fix the mistake. So thank you to people pointing it out. The thing is, revolution is the word I wanted to use. I should have explained it better, and looking back revelation would have been a good word to toss in there. But Kagome underwent a revolution within herself. She threw away the guise she had adopted and changed herself, for better or for worse, based on a revelation. So that definitely can be cleared up in the future, if I ever go back and do a revision. I'm afraid right now if I go back and do revisions, I will never write something new again, which means no posting. I can become overly critical very quickly. Maybe if I ever finish the story I'll go back and make some serious, serious revisions.

Second, the use of the word magic. Yeah, I know Kagome's and the others' powers aren't really magic, but I need a variety of words to use, and powers doesn't quite cover it - and I don't really like switching into other languages too much. Magic sounded better than something like spirit, which in my head doesn't work at all but can be considered a possibly translation of priestess powers and such, especially since (in Yu Yu Hakusho) spirit powers can draw off of life force. I guess if people really don't like it, I don't have to use it. So if more and more people have a problem and let me know I won't use it anymore. Part of a story is that it flows with the reader, so if the use of the word magic stops that flow I don't want to use it.

Third, the pairing is Hiei and Kagome, just in case I had to say that yet again.

Fourth, concerning explaining the past. If I had had this better planned out, I wouldn't have to be explaining this, so I blame myself (doubly so, if you think about it, for writing it here now too...) for possibly giving away some future part of the story. What I originally had wanted to do was reveal some piece of the past or memory at the beginning of each chapter, but damn if I couldn't figure out how to continue the story in the past. So I dropped that off for the fight scene. I kind of figured the dream took the place of a memory after the fight scene, so after that I am going to try (stress try) and put more memories in and definitely go more into the past and the story with Inuyasha. That is a huge part of the story - it's why Kagome tried to commit suicide! To give a bit of a hint, I don't like character bashing of any kind, no matter how much you hate a character. And I don't hate Inuyasha, so this isn't going to follow the typical Inuyasha hurt Kagome fic. So, the past is definitely going to play a part in the present. Kudos to that.

Fifth, which doesn't happen to be a question but a point of consternation with me, is that I kept referring to my 'erotic' scene in the beginning as a lemon. Damn if I've forgotten all the lingo for not reading for a long time. I know it's not a lemon, although I did want to write one for those who have read the last post, it's more of a lime, though that's also stretching it. They just made out! To the beat of drums! So yeah, forgive me if I use incorrect lingo, or have a lot of trouble with abbreviations and acronyms. There are still some I can't figure out at all... I'll probably post those here with a question now that I have a blog. :D

Sixth, another point. I apologize for every one of my grammar mistakes. When I read stuff, I read fast, and if I wrote it I sometimes don't realize that I skipped a word or two, or combined two thoughts badly. Or I just plain suck at grammar. Pick your poison. ;D To point it out, and now that someone has I will do my best to work on it, I suck at tenses. We never, ever, went over them in school until my fourth year of French in high school. Needless enough to say, I suck at those in French, too. So, that is one factor that I will work on improving.

I think that's it for now. I don't have any comments pages up, so if I forgot a question similar to the ones above, sorry! Leave a comment here and I'll do my best to answer it, or at least tell you I'm not going to. ;D I hope this cleared things up for some people. I hadn't realized some of the confusion until now. As always, thank you all for the reviews, both here and there. Read and enjoy!

Tchao!
BoxingKing

P.S. I told you it would be too long for a chapter! :D

Success!

Success!

No, not at adding a new chapter, but at successfully putting a link to my blog in both of my profile pages. :D I couldn't figure out which link to use, and then I went into help to try and get a different question, and that directs me to settings where I discovered a whole bunch of new things! Like, how post the proper link. :D Anyways, I feel better about my blog. Maybe now people will look and comment...

On another note, I got reviews today. :D I thought maybe I would get more with my half-lemon, but it seems to just be the regulars - who all happen to be awesome! Thank you! I had another point I was going to make with this blog, but I forgot what it was. >D An a completely different note, I finally found a cd that I had been looking for for a while. I was worried I lost it! Here it was sitting in my backpack in a blank cd case. For the life of me, I have no idea why. Oh well. Now, I'm just waiting for a cd that has been two weeks in coming in the mail. I can't wait to get it, I'm giddy! I'm done now... I have nothing more to say. I don't feel much like writing today, and I NEED to clean my room. It will get done, or at least started. OH! I made a gingerbread house! That's what I wanted to say above. One of my authors (I read a serious of blogs daily of authors. They don't all update daily, but I check. First, I get news, and second, they provide great inspiration.) posted a pic of her gingerbread house. If people want I can post mine, but it is seriously pathetic. It was my first one ever! It kept collapsing. I should have let the frosting dry and hold before I started decorating the house, but damn if I was impatient. So the roof became a flat one, and the door got moved around. My dad said it looked like an ice house, I call it a shanty like in the prairie days, complete with chinks in the walls. :D

Ok read, review, and enjoy! Have a great day!

Tchao!

BoxingKing

Lemon

Well, I got another chapter out today! Go me! I actually sat down and wrote it all today - not all at once since I had some interruptions, but it was within a couple of hours. :D How cool is that? And it is 7 pages, a little over 3000 words. I hit a stride today where the words just flowed and they felt right - better than they have been in the last couple of chapters. I lost it when I had an interruption, but I got it back. Where I was going changed again, but I think that is a good thing - it means my writing is taking on a life of it's own and that it can do things like flow. And when it flows on its own, it generally means it is better than if I had just structured it. :D Woot. This is big for me, it means I may someday actually write a good book. I'm so excited!

Anyways. The entire reason I got this chapter out at all is because I decided I wanted to write a lemon. Earlier I said that I figured I would suck (no pun or gutter thoughts intended...), and I'm like, well, let's practice writing them, then. I had figured I would write one for the story I thought up, involving a kinky demon and a witch, but I didn't want to do that for some reason. So I decided I would just write a lemon of Hiei and Kagome, out of the blue, no story attached yet. But then I'm like, hell no, why waste that writing. So I put it in my story. No, it's not a full-fledged lemon, but it was a heated, passionate moment. :D I'm proud. I think I could have gone farther, but I didn't want that to happen between them just yet, so I held off. What happened is actually just a twist of what I wanted to happen with the Jagan going off, anyways. That's good though, because it means that I can use that idea later. :D

To finish this blog, I'm so excited I posted. I can't wait to get reviews!!!!! I can't wait! I think that my description must throw people off. When I get a better grasp of the story, I will change that, and maybe the amount of readers and reviews will go up. Worth a shot. Anyways, thank you anyone who bothered to come and read this. (I am only a mite pathetic at times...)

Tchao!

BoxingKing

Incentive

As an incentive to get people to look at my blog just once, and maybe just maybe leave a comment, so that I know it is working, here is the pairing of all my fics so far, a.k.a. Ultimatum:

Hiei x Kagome!

The best pairing in the world, that's what this is. :D I love Hiei and Kagome. I can suffer through Kurama and Kagome if the story is really good, but damn if Hiei isn't better! Woot!

Anyways, I haven't started the next chapter yet, as of posting this four o'clock at my house, because this is my first day off from work in three days, so I've been wrapping Christmas presents, cleaning, and sleeping! I hope to get a start on it later today. I looked at the sites, and I had even more reviews! How exciting! I just love getting reviews. They make me so happy. In fact, they make my day. It shows that people care. It made me want to start writing something, anything, so that I could get more. Unfortunately, I had to carve a path through the layer of junk sitting on my floor in my room to get to my laptop charging in the corner. Me thinks that means I should clean my room. :( How depressing. But, I won't be dusting (I haven't in at least a year, maybe two - seriously), even though I have a crapload of shelves with knicknacks sitting on them that need to be dusted desperately. I hate to dust, and I would need to get a ladder to reach most of the shelves. *Sigh* So, finished with the blog today - I'll probably post another one if I post a chapter, but I probably won't. G'night everyone, have a great day, and if anyone looked at this blog, THANK YOU!

Tchao!

BoxingKing

Inspired

Even though I don't really have anything to post on my fanfiction, I was inspired to write anyways by Laurell K Hamilton. She has started to post again every day, and it isn't just about her new car. While I am happy for her getting a new hobby (she's a workaholic), I am not a car person and I got kind of sick of reading irregular posts about her car. But then again, it is her blog, so who am I to bitch? Anyways, I have gotten seven reviews on fanfiction.net, and 2 more on mediaminer.org in the matter of one day of my story being posted. I am so excited by this. However, I know that those numbers are the peak/high of a chapter for me. The few regulars I have reviewed (bless you all!), so any more are going to be few and far in between. Oh well. One day I hope to get hundreds of reviews, just like other popular authors. It is then that I will know I am a good writer. That or having a story published, and to be honest fanfiction is going to happen first. The two questions I want to put to you all are these. First, why do fanfiction readers review more than mediaminer? In my head, these two sites are the most popular for anime fanfiction, so it is kind of like a competition. It bothers me that fewer people read my stuff on ff.net, yet review more. Why can't everyone just review? :D That would be awesome, and at the same time a pain, because I'm one of those people that doesn't review that much. Second question, how is mediaminer screwing up my word count for chapters? It goes almost a thousand over for each chapter, it seems like. For example, that last one was only a bit over 3000, and mediaminer has me over 5000. What's up with that? If anyone knows, and if anyone even reads my blog, I would love an answer. On a different note, I think that this blog is therapeutic for me. I pretend that I'm like a big author, and that people care about what I'm writing, especially on updates of my chapter, and suddenly my blog is no longer a rant or a tear-fest, like all my previous blogs had been. It's an improvement. And finally, the one line on updates: I haven't even started writing the next chapter for Ultimatum. And if anyone ever reads my blog, they will discover long before I ever post it on either of the two sites that yes, the pairing is Hiei and Kagome. That is the ultimate pair in my head. :D I don't know if I will have lemons yet, because while I would love to have them, I am thinking that I will suck at writing them... How sad...

Anyways, Tchao!

BoxingKing

A New Update!

It took me forever, but I finally sat down, finished the chapter, and updated. I was getting lonely, not having gotten any reviews lately, and I wanted to cheer myself up. It worked, even though it's only been one minute since I posted and I haven't gotten any reviews. :D I'm proud of myself, and I think that that counts for more. I got somewhere in my story - I moved past the fight scene. I'm still kind of stuck on where I want to be in the past - like all of the memories and stuff that I had going at the beginning of the chapters, but those will come to me. I had an idea at the end of the chapter that will be seen soon, and I kind of have planned on how I want Kagome and Hiei to "meet". The funny thing with my writing is that I started at one point (A), thinking to end at point B, when instead I end at point C, completely changing how I had things going. That's pretty cool, because it means that things "flow" for me, but it means that all my planning was for nothing. Shucks. My laptop is dieing on me, so this is going to have to end soon. On another note, I think I mentioned either in my first post or my second post replacing the deleted first post that I was trying to come up with a story idea for a real book. I think I have one. I'm so excited. It happened when I was at work. I'm like, that would be an awesome love triangle and such here with these types of characters, and poof I have a vague idea. I don't want my story in the romance section though, so it definitely needs more than that as a story. :D I'm excited. Once I get an idea, I can build and day dream and have fun. That is my goal. So we'll see how it goes. Read and review my new chapter, enjoy, leave a comment here, etc.

Tchao!

BoxingKing

The First

Well damn if I didn't delete my first post already. I am so not very technically advanced. So to begin again... I already forgot most of what I was trying to say. And all for a typo.

Ok - now that I don't want to write a long post, here is what I have to say. This is my first post/blog as an author. I'm writing fanfiction - my name is BoxingKing. As an author wanting to be rich, I can't think of a damn story to write. Woe is me. I forget what else I wrote. I know that I said I'm only writing Ultimatum - makes it easier on me, and my story. I'm trying to make my chapters longer, so it's taking me longer to write - go figure. My chapter just sits there with me thinking it needs to be bigger, it needs to be bigger. And that is all that I can remember of what I originally had written, even though the original post has been much bigger. Maybe I was just more superfluous in my writing. Oh well. Review here or there, I don't care, just tell me what you think of anything!

Cheers,
BoxingKing