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I haven't updated in so long. So in brief, here is what is going on.

I completed my Junjo Romantica story, "The Big Fight," a week ago. I got lots of nice attention and also constructive criticism for it over at Junjo Fanatics comm at Live Journal.

The next day, I started working with my new Junjo beta, Alexandragun of livejournal, on a story idea she gave me. Because one of her critiques for me was a need for more consistency in character development and tone in my stories, I decided to work with her to finish the story before posting any of it.

So we finished Chapter 4 yesterday, and I'm to start Chapter 5 today. She keeps saying it's an epic, and I keep hoping it will be under ten chapters.

I have never worked harder on a story. Alexandra is very energetic and is willing to review my work section by section, so I get pretty frequent feedback from her. She's also hungry for material so she really encourages me to work.

I've written 14,000 words in six days. That's unheard of for me. That's thirty-five pages in the font I use.

Well I didn't realize I'd go on so much about this new story. Right now it's called "The Man Without a Name."

Here's an excerpt:

He was awakened four hours later when Hiroki Kamijou got up to get ready for his day at the University. Hiroki told himself that he always took care to avoid waking Nowaki, but the truth was that Hiroki Kamijou was not a naturally considerate man. He was a man wrapped up in his own thoughts, and while he was so occupied, his body went on ahead with its activities, making just as much noise as was necessary to get those things done without unnecessary disruption to his thought processes. Therefore, Nowaki woke up when Hiroki did most mornings.