Lawren

Hey All, still around. No major life updates. Still living the married life. Still fighting for free time. Did start writing again. A little. Funny, but I think I say that every time I get on here... lol... Anyway... To anyone who hasn't seen it, but grew up with the American Pie franchise: Don't listen to the Reviews!!!! If you loved the original series your going to love Reunion even more!!! The wife and i went to see it this past friday, I was hoping it was going to be good, but come on, it's been a long time since Wedding. I practically drug the wife along, and we both LOVED IT!!! It's two weeks since the premiere, the theater had moved it to one of their smaller screen and you know what? The place was packed! Almost no empty seats! CHECK IT OUT!!!

Come gather round people, wherever you roam
And admit that the waters around you have grown
And accept that soon you'll be drenched to the bone
If your time to you is worth saving
Then you'd better start swimming or you'll sing like a stone
For the times, they are a changing

Come writers and critics who prophesize with your pens
And keep your eyes WIDE, the chance won't come again
And don't speak too soon, for the wheels still in spin
And there's no telling who that it's naming
For the loser now, will be later to win
For the times, they are a changing

Come senators, congressmen, please heed the call
Don't stand in the doorway, don't block up the hall
For he that gets hurt will be he who has stalled
The battle outside raging will soon shake your windows
And rattle your walls
For the times, they are a changing

Come mothers and fathers, throughout the land
And don't criticize what you can't understand
Your sons and your daughters are beyond your command
Your old road is rapidly aging
Please get out of the new one if you can't lend your hand
For the times, they are a changing

The line it is drawn, the curse it is cast
The slow one now will later be fast
As the present now will later be the past
The order is rapidly fading
And the first one now will later be last
For the times, they are a changing

~Bob Dylan~

Hey all....

Not too much going on, I know I've got something around here to post, and I'm gonna do that just so I have something new up on the site. No one around here probably even has any idea what I'm writing about anymore, and I guess that's probably my own fault.

So, a breif synapses. The Clearing is about vampires. Cam is a rook, a child infected with vampirism while still in his mothers womb. Wren's are masters. To them, rooks are like bugs. Swifts are changelings. so far, none in the story, but at least one appears later. Then you've got the Ravens. These are the vampires that belong to no one. They were turned as humans, and so, are considered pure bloods. They do not however, belong to a flock. They are loners, and so, essentially wind up going insane in isolation. They turn into monsters, who basically murder to survive.

A rook, like Cam, is pretty much the bottom of the food chain. They stay out of the way. Don't stay in any one place to long. They are basically wanderers. People who aren't people, with no connections. Normally.

The Wrens, Or Wren, since there is only one to each flock, is the master, the leader of the flock. Each new member is the lowest of the low, and slowly, through each misdeed, they move upward in the flock.

Last, but not least, Are the wolves... I think you know what they are. They are linked to the masters. Perform whatever is requested of them, and thrive on pain.



My new posting isn't the beginning of the story, thsi is about seven chapters in, somewhere in there. If your new, skip back through and look for chapters on The Clearing...

Hope you all enjoy...

First journal in a while. Sad to say it, but I think I may be the last. The last of my friend list, that is. I've drifted far away through the years, but I get on when I can and try to see how things are going. I know some of my old friends are still around, but now they're all like me, moving on. At least, that's how it seems. Granted, most of them have moved on to better jobs, and better lives, but we're all moving on...

I wrote my first short in over a year last night. I haven't proofread it, don't know if I will, so that probably makes it absolute agony to read. It's not that I don't want to people, it's simply that at this point, I don't have the time.

If anyone out there has a few bucks in their wallet, check out Firefly. It's an old t.v. show from fox, and it's really good, the character aren't exactly unique, most are cliche, but it's a series by Joss Whedon that Fox cancelled after 11 episodes aired (There are 14 in all) and even with it's moments of Corny campiness you still grow to love everyone. If yo've got a few more bucks, by Serenity. It's the movie that was meant to reopen the series, but failed in the box office. Everyone returned from the show, and if you watch the special features, they all say that the experience, making the t.v. show firefly, was the greatest moment of their lives. That they'd all drop everything, if they could have it back. And they did, to make the movie, in the hopes that Fox would reopen the Firefly universe... But alas, it wasn't so...

Don't ask me why, but the best series to me, are the ones that were never finished. They leave you hanging, and leave you sad, always wondering what happened. Where did they go. Where did life take them. Just like here on dA...

Where did they go, where did life take them...

If any of you are still around, and read this, I'd like to start communicating via email. I think I'll have much better luck staying in contact with you that way, and it would be nice to catch up... If you want, note me

Hey Everyone! Yes, I am still here, shocking I know, and please, stop auplauding... lol...

Well, 2 weekends in a row... this has got to be some kind of record...

Anyway, it's thrusday night and I htough I'd see if I could get on. See, my internet is dialup, and if that isn't bad enough, my phone line sucks... I can only get on the net from 11 at night to 7 in the morning after that there's too much static in the phone lines... Someone explane that to me... I've got to get someone out here to check the lines...

Well, it's turning cold in Michigan and I' about ready to start working my ass off again. It cost us $700 a month last year to heat our house... which is almost half of my girlfriend and I's salary. So, I'm about to start working on an addition to house a wood furnace... which I have to design and build... Yeah, I know... 'burnin' down the house'

No, I've already sketched the design, I just have to find the materials, then get some more welding wire and put myself to work... As for this weekend, I get to measure twice and cut four times, cause somehow the boards are always too long...

Then i get to build some heat ducts, dig holes, and tunnel under a foundation....

Man of many skills, master of none, that seems to be my pedegree these days...

Anyway, just a look into my life right at this moment...