Depends on what you consider writing progress. I know, I've been rather absent from my webpages. I've been brewing still with a little bit of writing here and a little bit of writing there a LOT of story building and most of it is designed to make writing fun for me again. After all, if I don't have some fun writing it how can I expect anyone to have some fun reading it? So, I've been having fun creating stories, even if I can never publish them. I've been playing an online roleplaying game too and this has helped my creativity immensely. It combines two things I love, the creation of stories and acting. One of my favourite ways to come up with stories when I was younger, even before I started writing some of them down (thus beginning my interest in writing), was to play Barbie dolls (don't be fooled, I was never the let's go to the mall or the school dance type of doll player. In fact, when I was 15 I created a doll story while playing with my cousin that resembles what I've heard of the plotline from a recent horror movie about a Valentine's Day serial killer). This is like playing dolls but cooler (for one thing I don't have to do things like duct-taping the wings of my brother's alien action figures to my Barbie to make her look like something other than human). That and it makes the characters I come up with a little more real to me.

Anyhow, when you do start seeing proof of my writing, it will likely be about the adventures of my world of warcraft characters in a fanfic form at first probably, but as happened when I started a story about one of my EQ characters back when I played that, I will likely eventually change the story enough that it would be my novel and not a fanfic.

For any who don't like this approach, please, I'm not doing it for you to get back into writing, I'm doing it for me. This is my way. For a long time I've felt I needed to put the fun back into my story telling, and this is my way to do it. So I'll never be able to sell it, but if focusing on selling my work keeps me from enjoying every moment of it then I guess I'm just not cut out for selling it. Also, be aware that even though you see no evidence of it, I AM writing, quite a bit. So don't worry about me getting so involved in a game addiction that I forget the main reason why I play the game (writing ideas, story telling fun).

I've also taken to not tracking my writing the way I use to, it feels freer, I don't feel as guilty when I report a low count and I feel like I can better calculate in things that have nothing to do with word count but everything to do with writing (like technique studying, just sitting and thinking about a story--something I love to do in the shower and while doing dishes when I can't write it down--reading books based on writing, etc).

The only thing I'm unhappy with is my slip on upkeeping these webpages, which I plan to change and the amount of crits I put out in a month for DII. These are both things I'm working on as well.

This is just an update though to let you know that I'm still alive, still writing, and pretty content too. I don't hang around online much to talk anymore, though I'm also looking to increase my time doing that as well. It's just that anymore now I have so much around me to distract me that when I want to sit at the computer to write and create, chatting gives me one too many more things to distract me and I end up getting little to nothing done. I miss my online IM friends, yes, which is why I plan to, on my own time figure out which time periods would be best to allot some time to log onto the IMs to chat with them. Though I do wish more of my writer friends also played wow hehe, oh the stories we could come up with then!

Be patient with me, soon you'll begin to see evidence of my progress. The only thing to hold back my progress now is pressure, I know I need to learn to deal with pressure, but there will be time for that when I'm ready, for now the pressure takes out the fun I'm trying to put back into my writing. I think this is definitely how my writing will get better and make it easier for me to write under pressure at later times.

Catch ya later~