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In/Exhale: S3 – Flashback: September 28, 1988
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In/Exhale: S3 – February 11, 2001
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Hey, all! I’m so sorry I fell behind in updating S3 of In/Exhale on my site. I’ll be updating regularly until the end of the season over the next few weeks. Catch up with Season 3, or scroll up for ebooks of Seasons 1 & 2 (all available to read for free!) Hit the break to read the latest episode.
Share:Happy International Disability Day
Today is a day to spread awareness about disability and the disability community. Obviously, this is an important topic for me, dear to my heart, but there are so many great disability activists out there than can address it better than I can.
Perfect World, Vol. 1 & 2 Review
Title: Perfect World
Author: Rie Aruga
Available Digitally?: Yes
Genre: Josei (Romance) Manga
Series Complete?: Ongoing
Final Verdict: Buy
Preview?: Read the first chapter here.
My take: A surprisingly heart-wrenching, realistic exploration of romance with a paraplegic.
I’ve been reading a lot of manga lately, because I’ve missed reading so much over the past four years (due to my constant headache), and the advantage of graphic media is there’s less text (and thus less eye strain), yet I can still enjoy stories. I’ve fallen in love with manga in particular because it’s long enough to tell a meaty story and it’s serialized, and I hate having to say good-bye to my favorite characters.
I was pleasantly surprised when I stumbled across Perfect World, a manga about a young woman (Tsugumi Kawana) who runs into her high-school crush (Itsuki Ayukawa) and is surprised to find out they not only work in the same industry (he’s an architect and she’s an interior designer), but that he’s now a paraplegic.
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Tagged Josei, Manga, paraplegia, Perfect World, Rie Aruga, Romance, SCI
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Still Here!
Hey, everyone! I know it’s been ages since most of you have seen me around (unless you follow me on twitter). I’m really sorry for not updating this site in all that time, but the past couple years have been really rough on me. In addition to losing my father very suddenly last year, I’d also gotten sicker, and so updating was the furthest thing from my mind.
However, I was recently diagnosed and have a new treatment tailored for my specific disease that I should be receiving for the first time soon. I’ll post a more detailed update(s) later, but just wanted to leave a quick note for any of you who might actually see this, lol.
In addition, I’m nearly done with the final two days of Season 3 of In/Exhale, and I’m going to make sure to post here the remaining days that are missing and have been posted so far. I’m also trying to get back to finishing Love UnSeen. My hope is I will start posting both this summer.
Additionally, my publisher closed its doors on May 7, 2018. I will be re-submitting UnConventional on Amazon soon, although I most likely will not have it available on other platforms (at least not immediately). However, I should be able to offer a paperback version for the first time ever, so those of you who like having something to hold in their hands can do so.
Thanks to all of you who have continued to follow me despite my long absence. I still have a long road ahead of me, but there’s finally a light at the end of the tunnel.
Share:In/Exhale: S3 – February 9, 2001
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Share:Reworking Last Year’s NaNoWriMo
So it’s hard to believe that NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) is almost here. I’ve been thinking lately of reworking last year’s project (Love UnSeen) as my current (unofficial) NaNo project for 2016.
I’ve been stuck on this story for months, and I thought about how easily In/Exhale comes to me (relatively; I still do plenty of rewrites and shuffling of scenes there) and thought maybe it was worth rewriting Love UnSeen and posting it on a regular basis (not sure if I could manage weekly, but that would be my goal), then taking your feedback to help me shape the story until I got a first draft finished.
The problem is that the blog where I post I/E won’t allow a single author to post on more than one day of the week, and I honestly am not sure if I could manage posting both I/E and Love UnSeen at the same time, especially with having to actually write and format each episode of each story weekly.
However, historically I haven’t gotten a lot of feedback here, and I don’t know how helpful the process will be without it.
So I’m kinda stuck. I’m also stuck because the current way I post stuff here (via a google docs plugin, that little window you see when you read an I/E chapter here) doesn’t play well with mobile, and I know that nowadays most people actually use their phone/tablet more than their computer.
So if I DID post here, I’d have to figure out some way to make it more mobile-friendly, too.
Sorta rambling to myself, I guess, but just wanted to give a kinda heads up that these are the things I’ve been working on lately, in addition of course, to continuing to work on I/E as always.
Share:In/Exhale: S3 – February 8, 2001
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