So...did anyone notice I've been uploading some stuff recently? Sure, it's not hoards and hoards of what I DO have to post, but still...bits and pieces are showing up in my gallery. I'm hoping to upload more, especially since I've been taking a TON of pictures here on campus. For the unaware, I'm finally in college, and I've got to tell you, other than the being sick for over two weeks, life here is great. I'm REALLY enjoying myself. I've started working at the radio station, I'm helping with the costumes for our theatre's next play, and my classes are insanely awesome. It's a blast.

I'm also slowly beginning to write again. It's been really tough for me lately, though the fact that I've uploaded four written deviations in the past few months might not look like it. But with the way life has been for me lately, writing has been...difficult. I've wanted to write about all the great things that have been going on, you know, a change of pace from the usual dreary stuff that not only I write, but so many others. Not that these darker pieces don't have any merit, on the contrary, they're probably the most emotive and well-expressed works of art that dA has seen. But I've felt the need to show a more...optimistic side to my writing. I really can't help that compulsion - I'm in love and life's treating me fairly well right now. Despite all the frustration and depression that I do go through every now and again, I find myself more content with things than I have been in a long time. And I want to write about it.

The thing is? I can't. No matter how hard I try, I'm speechless by it all. I don't know why, but the truth of the matter is that whether I know why or not, I cannot find the words to express it - not even the mediocre cliches that I've fallen into in the past. It's an honest to God blank in my mind when I attempt to write these feelings on paper or a blank document.

-shrugs- I've stopped letting it bother me, though, and I've moved on to attempting other things in hopes of maybe being inspired out of the blue. I manage little blurbs every now and again, and slowly but surely, I'm trickling back into the swing of writing things for The Pyrotes. I think what took a real toll on my fiction writing was the loss of my external hard drive. With that went many of my latest original works, and I had worked really hard on those. Alas, perhaps they were not meant to be.

Anyways... I guess I just wanted to babble on about it. I've noticed that a lot of my older pieces are getting some attention. It's nice, but... Eheh, I'm wondering if I shouldn't clean up my gallery some. I don't feel right about deleting some of these things, but at the same time, I don't feel right about keeping them there either. Hmm...I dunno. Well, I guess I'll update again one day. Until then, check these out:

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