UPDATE JULY 2009

July 6 2009

… I swear to God I’m not dead lol

Question: Why the heck don’t you update, EA??

Answer: Because I fail at life.

I have a list of reasons but I will give you the main one that isn’t too personal for me; Concerning the stories I have posted here, I have moved on with a lot of the characters’ timelines and lives so its very hard to go back in time for me and continue writing them as younger people. Ie) take Matthias from A Textbook Case for example. This dude is older in my mind now. I’ve already got half a sequel brewing in my little evil writers brain and this kid is currently sitting at 20 or 21. He’s a lot more mature. Going back to A Textbook Case and writing him as a 17 year old is… difficult for me. I have to make him more immature and remember not to reference things that haven’t happened at that point lol.

This whole process of posting for me is getting a bit sticky. I don’t have easy access to high speed where I live so even being on the internet is a long process for me. Also, I’m at a point in my life where I’m trying to start things and trying to settle things. I don’t have time like I used to. I took an entire year off to write and work part time right after high school and it rocked but now I have to move on with my life. I will always write and always try my best to post, but there’s no way I can post like some of my favorite, old time readers were used to. I so, so appreciate everyone’s support and I am still so impressed to see the story favorite or author favorite or the odd review waiting for me every week in my inbox. I would love to keep posting for you guys but its hard for me too.

Another issue I have is I really only like to write novel or novella length works and my life doesn’t allow for the mental concentration those works demand. So, instead, what I write (but unfortunately cannot post) these days, is short pieces to accompany the occasional MSN RP with a friend (lol Deaths Requiem and her Kade stories). I don’t feel that posting these would help anything because they wouldn’t make any sense lol. What it really all boils down to is:

I need to make time for writing and at this point in my life I can’t afford to.

I'm going back to University in the fall again to start my second year and I hope I'll actually have a good schedule this year so I will have time to write. All I'll have on my plate in fall is school, part time work and my shabby personal life. If I'm smart and stay away from an intimate relationship of any sort, I think I'll be able to successfully date my fiction. lol.

So.. I love you all? I look at my favorites, alerts, and especially the reviews pages and I want to do something for you guys. So many people have supported me and encouraged me and I appreciate that so, so much. I feel sorta like I've thrown it in all of your faces by not being here and not updating for you. I hope all my favorites who have been here from the beginning (lol old school A Softer Sin and the beginning of ATC) are still all doing okay. Thank you all for supporting me when my grandmother passed away as well. That meant so much to me.

All that being said, I will do my best to get back into writing and update here.

Lots of love,

- ErrorAuthor

Well, I don't know if anyone actually reads these things, but I thought I'd make an effort -grin-

I scribbled up a silly profile using an animal classification as a model. Laugh at it because its dumb and because it might help you to understand the extent of my crazy.

Error-Author- Commonly known as ‘Kayla’

Order: Writer

Family: Fiction

Species: Man-love

Habitat

The ErrorAuthor enjoys a solitary living, preferring to spend its days wandering in quiet contemplation. It is a ‘diurnal animal’- that is, active during the daylight hours. At night, it attempts to rest for eight hours before beginning its daytime routine.

At daybreak, the ErrorAuthor awakens and begins its forage for food and creative materials to add to its collection of fiction. It is a passive animal prone to random outbursts that are usually result of excess caffeine.

Food and Feeding

When the day breaks through the window of the ErrorAuthor’s den, it immediately begins its routine. It awakens to consume its first meal of the day. Most of the time it enjoys a balance of cereals, fruits or toasts. Some days, however, it deviates to chocolate or chicken noodle soup. After its meal, the regime of coffee consumption begins and continues until midday when its energy supplies run low and it feeds again. Occasionally it will repeat this cycle for the evening but it often ends up too spent from the morning effort.

Did You Know?

- The ErrorAuthor can consume 8+ cups of coffee a day without passing into unconsciousness or caffeine-related coma.

- If disturbed while in its moments of caffeine induced creativity, the ErrorAuthor can become either aggressive or completely unaware the visitor is even there.

- The ErrorAuthor is often very shy about its work and is hesitant to explain it to old people in cafés that approach, asking about it.

Related Species

The ErrorAuthor is closely related to the hetero-romance writers in the category of original fiction. The difference lies in its typical protagonist and love interest characters- they are both male as opposed to the more common fiction containing one male and one female character.

Natural Enemies

Being a passive species, it tends not to make a lot of enemies. One of the few it actively peruses with aggression, however, is the species of Fan-Fiction Writer. Researches are not sure why, but they have speculations the lack of originality and mangling of the original fiction the Fan-Fiction Writers tend to butcher is what sets the ErrorAuthor off to become aggressive. Again, as it is found the ErrorAuthor is a passive species, it tries to avoid the Fan-Fiction territories all together.

Statistics

Born on January 5, 1989, this particular ErrorAuthor goes by the real name of Kayla. She continues to reside in her birth place of Manitoba, Canada.

She took a real interest in fiction in 2004. Since then, her interest in the hobby has increased exponentially until it becoming what it is today: A strange obsession.

Oddly enough, the writing has slightly warped her mind- even so far as to allow her to believe she may one day make a living out of her writing. Researchers, however, know from other studied cases that writers who follow this outlandish belief often perish under bridges, huddled in cardboard boxes, chewing on old shoes for sustenance. The lack of income they tend to experience is often their downfall- following their craft loyally to the bitter end.

Hobbies

ABJD's (Have two with another on the way), horses (er, four lol to be fair, my dad is the cowboy of the family), Writing (... Yeah, that's something in common with a lot of people here on FP hey?), drinking eight cups of caffeine a day, lighting too much incense in my room and getting ill, leaning over candles and accidentally setting the tips of my hair on fire, slipping into multipersonalities, suffering from frequent retarded anxiety over stupid things, and many more.

FICTION WARNINGS

Disclaimers: Unrealistic happenings, mysterious lacks of plot, dodgy characters, a suspicious lack of female characters, a surplus of homosexual romance, often confusing proceedings, uneven chapter lengths, disappearing secondary characters, people with issues, odd male PMS, stuttering, and quite a lot of gay.

Warning: May cause nosebleeds, squealing, character attachment, and/or itchy, tired eyes. The author does not endorse an unhealthy lack of bathroom breaks and uneven nutrition/hydration while reading. Not for the following people types: Ignorant, Close-Minded Types, Homophobes, Younger Audiences, Older Audiences, and Caffeine-Sensitive Individuals.

I appreciate any criticism and will do my best to fix anything suggested. Add me on msn if you want, I'm friendly, if a little insane, heh. ( error_author@hotmail.com )

I do not respond well to flamers. I think flaming is a utterly childish act. I will not try to justify myself nor will I get angry and flame you back. You will recieve no reply and will be blocked and reported. Please, let's be mature adults here.

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