Attention! I have THREE seperate websites now!

Fans of my Valkyrie Profile stories can go visit my website, Asgardian Pleasures:

http://cleoius.wordpress.com/

And for those of you who want to see more of my Voltron stories not on this website, pleased visit my website, Doomed Romance:

http://lotornomiko.wordpress.com/

And finally, for those into Once Upon A time, there is my Hook Belle/Hook Emma website, Hooked On You:

https://hookedonyoublog.wordpress.com/

I think it's pretty obvious both websites are not for children in any way, shape or form. Most if not all my writing is adult orientated, and sometimes the fics get dark with the concepts they contain.

Now let's see if I can't get my thoughts together to write a snazzy new bio for myself!

It's almost hard to believe so many years have gone by since the end of Valkyrie Profile: Silmeria got me upset enough to start writing again. I never dreamed I would write so much. What started out as an attempt to give my fave characters some sort of happy ending (And yes I am Lezard biased. XD) spiraled into one story after another, and here we are several years and many stories later.

Originally when I came back to my first VP story, Chains of Fate, I tried to write it as though VP: SIlmeria had not happened. Just to keep it within the original intent I had when I first started writing it. Lately I've been dreaming about rewriting much of it, and then tackling it's sequel. But I've sorta made a promise to myself I would not start the rewrite project until OSVP is finished.

Ah OSVP, my baby, my beloved pet project. And it still doesn't have a proper name! But I've grown so used to calling it OSVP I almost can't bear to rename it now! It's very much in progress, but I kinda die and get overwhelemed to realize I haven't even hit the halfway mark yet. X_X And the chapters get so long, and the Lezard Lenneth side of things sometimes takes me a week or two to write one whole chapter. Brahms and Silmeria's side of the story is usually much easier to write. I'm not even gonna tackle the Arngrim Hrist side story until the main OSVP story is complete.

I have a lot of VP stories not on this website. Various reasons, some being they're so old now I'd feel funny to put them up here. Some I know if I read them now, it'd make me want to rewrite them from scratch. It's not just Chains of Fate, I want to rewrite Lezard's Triumph Dies at the thought* along with at least three others.

The other reason being a lot of them are too dark and or sexual, and I used to worry too much about other's reactions. That's before I took an "aw f#$%^ it" attitude and decided I am gonna write what I want to write, and to hell with other people's opinions. But I must say, certain people in the VP fandom can be quite rude if you don't write what they want, or use characters they don't like. Not at all like the Voltron fandom which tends to eat up the dark fic except for those few who don't understand that "Yes, I know what Keith is like on the show. But that squeaky do gooder image of him is too boring for me to want to write about. It's more fun to turn things on it's head, and explore the dark and less wholesome possibilities!"

I'll get to Voltron ramblings in a second. Since taking that screw it attitude, I've gotten more bold in what VP stories I will place in this site. A few years back I wouldn't have dreamt of putting something like Inescapable or Spoils of the Heart on here. I'm also thinking of rewriting The Stolen. I've always been generally dissatisfied with it, and a main problem with it is, it was started when I was trying to force myself to conform and please the naysayers. I've since learned no matter what kind of Lezard I write, there's gonna be someone complaining....so I've been giving careful thought to starting over with the Stolen, and doing the initial idea I had, which featured a much more aggressive Lezard. We shall see.

Now let me ramble on a bit about all things Voltron. Back in like 2008, I met Botias of Prince of Doom fame. She had commented on my journal, mentioning she had read my Valkyrie Profile fics and was wishing I would turn some of that creative energy back to Voltron. I'm always tickled pink when a Voltron fan reads my VP stuff, and vice versa, especially if the other is not a fan originally of the other fandom. Anyway! Long story short, I had a wip I showed her, which eventually got to be finished and titled Sweet Surrender. That was my re-entry into the Voltron story verse, and I've been writing pretty nonstop.

Valkyrie Profile is my heart and soul, but Voltron comes a pretty close second. Sometimes I think I write so much Voltron now, cause for all the aggravation a chapter might give me at times, it still feels a lot easier than writing a VP chapter. Maybe that's lazy of me, to fall back on the easier to write fandom. ^^'' But I can't deny Voltron inspires quite a few ideas, and I currently have a list of 20-30 ideas not yet written. I'm starting to feel like I might never get to write them out either.

Why?

Well sadly what started as a medical problems back in October has affected my ability to steadily write. It's mainly due to leg pain and lower back pain making it difficult for me to concentrate at times. I still think up the ideas, but it's not always so easy to ignore the pain long enough to write them in fic form. I went from writing every single day to being lucky if I can get more than one chapter a month written. It sucks, and I stress over falling so behind on my ideas. Pain HAS started to get a little more easier to tolerate, and I feel hopeful, cause as of this update May 8th, 2012) I was able to write several chapters during April. But I'm still so slow, and not up to my previous speed. *pouts sadly.*

I almost never abandon a story as incomplete, even if it takes me a few years to come back to it and finish it. I think about my first Voltron stories and cringe, thinking I've improved so much since then. I also think to finish It Takes Two, I would have to rewrite it from scratch. Just because my writing has changed so much since then, it would feel jarring to have the last few chapters in my current hand compared to early 2000 writing. I always felt It Takes Two was two chapters away from being completed. Course I fear that if I started rewriting it, it would spiral into a much longer fic. And with two Lotors to play with, it would be so tempting to explore the things I hadn't when I first started this story a decade ago.

Thanks for reading this far, and a big heart felt thank you to all who read me. I especially adore the fans who take the time to leave a few words for my stories. I don't think I can convey how much it means to me if you enjoy one (or more!) of my stories, and that you all keep coming back. So thank you from the depths of my heart. :)

----Michelle a.k.a. Lotornomiko

May 8, 2012