Shadowfoxmoon

My book is finished! I'm now at the editing stage! I'm so excited!!! XD EEEEeeeeeee! *happy dance* 

If you would like to read the first chapter, click here! : www.kaylalavan.com/betray-my-k…

It's been years since I posted anything on here. I'm currently working on my book: 'To Betray My King' A Ya Fantasy Romance. I only got on here to look for someone to do my book cover, then I saw my journal on here cause it was on my front page and I was like OMG that's so old!

Since my last journal my mom is currently doing alright, and I have a full-time job I've been working at for about four years now. Within those years, I bought my first car and my house, but don't think I'm rich or anything, I just have debt up to my eyeballs on a job that barely pays me above minimum wage where I'm living. I just had good credit and got a very cheap car and a very very cheap house that I can't actually afford on my own at the moment. 

So obviously now is the perfect time to pursue my dream of writing! XD

But in all seriousness, my life isn't bad, but it isn't good either. I was cursing through life and working too much. Next thing I knew four years went by and I had nothing to show for it, living paycheck to paycheck and working my ass off at a job that didn't care about me. I know I'm preaching the same shit everyone says, but I think I deserve more then that, and if you can do better, why not? I and started working on something I knew I would enjoy and what I've always wanted since I was writing fanfiction at 13. 

I had to sacrifice my work efforts, (AKA I couldn't pull everyone else's workload anymore on top of my own) and I think they have noticed and are talking behind my back, but my give a shit meter is broken for the moment. My book is almost done and I need a life other then my job. I realized working 10hrs a day and doing nothing but sleeping on my days off was a terrible way to live. 

Writing makes me happier then anything else in the world. 

Hey guys, thought I would give a quick update on what's going on. I don't think a lot of people read my Journal, but I thought I would let you guys know what's been going on.

I'm not going to tell you my entire life story, but to make a long story short: My mother is very, very sick. She has been for quite some time now, but as of late its gotten much much worse.

I believe I have already told several of my friends this fact, so they already know this, but this just happened today, and as a heads up I'm posting it here first: (I know I haven't been on IM lately, but I will be on yahoo later.) but today I'm buying an advance airplane ticket for next month, I couldn't get anything sooner, because I had to get the cheapest I could get without waiting forever— We don't have much money. So on the 28th of April I'm going back home to West Virginia, to take care of my sick mother, and I don't know how long I'm going to be there.

I'm leaving my husband here, and going on my own, maybe bringing my dog. My husband is very supportive and knows I should be with her.

I don't know what this means for my writing. There's no internet back home, which might kill me—I've gotten so use to it here—but I'll cope. Good news, I have a laptop, so I can write whenever I can, and in the very small town there's a library, so whenever I finish a chapter I can go there and post it online.

But that is the future, and right now I'm just taking it one day at a time, and I'm not really sure right now. My mother, and taking care of her, in my opinion, is more important. How bad she is, and how much I need to tend to her, along with time to myself, my family—I'm not sure how much time I can squeeze writing into that is well, but when we come to that bridge—well… we will see…

I finally got my replacement USB cord for my tablet! Yay~

I'm taking extra precautions so that my dog will never be able to get to this really expensive cord again, unless he grows opposable thumbs and can open drawers.

I had a drawing itch that needed to be scratched so to start off I drew a fanart picture of my fanfiction, Fun N Games. The first kiss Kagome and Mori end up sharing, in front of everyone

It took a while, but I finally fished it.

I got to say a lot of surprise came from this picture while I was drawing it and when I looked at the finished product.

While I was drawing I just shut off my brain and my hands were mostly moving on their own without me thinking, and as if by magic everything just happened and when the line or the coloring on something was done I would look at it and go "Did I just do that?" It surprised me in a way, but I hope it happens every time I draw to tell you the truth because I think this is one of my best pictures yet.

That comes to the second thing that came out while I was drawing this / when I finished.

I noticed that my drawing skills have vastly improved over the small time I have gotten this tablet and have been drawing and posting on DA. I mean look at my first picture, which coincidently is of Kagome from Fun N Games just standing there.  There is a nice gap from then and now. It makes me happy, to know that I don't have to draw 8 pictures a day to get better, and even at my slow of maybe 8 pictures a year, I can still improve and get better at my skill.

I've mostly figured out nice tricks and shortcuts to drawing on the computer now. I still experiment but I got my niche and my style and I got to say I'm liking it.
I wish I was a heck of a lot better... but I'm satisfied with how/what I'm drawing. After all it's just a fun hobby, and that's what it is... fun

Both when I draw, and when I write.

I love writing, and I love drawing. They brighten my life, and don't think I would pick one over the other. They are both fun and I enjoy doing them both equally.

It's really great! I got out of my stump completely! I wrote a chapter of Fun 'N 'Game at Ouran and soon it will be posted!

I'm so excited!

I'm going to keep writing while I'm still in the groove!!