What is Corpus Aegis? This mysterious...novel? I've been working on? The book that stands a shot at getting me noticed, at getting me famous? The book that...hopefully will bring home the prize in the Random House First Young Adult Novel competition?

But what does that tell you? That I'm writing a book?

I'm here to tell you what this book is all about.

>A mad corporation's quest for eternal youth.

>The victims they create.

>A severed heart.

>An Achilles Heel.

>The livelihood of a god.

>The strength of a man.

>The battle between the heart and the mind.

>Brainwashing.

>Matilda "Alice" Walker.

>Immortality.

>Safety shattered.

>Genocide.

>Carlos.

>Love.

>A sentinentality.

>Suicide.

>Depression.

>Insula Vita

>Hope.

>The Third Voice.

>An army.

>Helen.

>Kidnapping.

>Tokyo.

>A knife in the chest.

>Cyrus Wright.

>A transplant.

>The weight of the world.

>Chad.

>Mild.

>The encore.

>Biological weapon.
>And, most important of them all--the sinister corporation known only by the name..."Corpus Aegis."

I am seriously debating posting my greatest pieced of literature on my deviantart. In the past, I have been cautious, unwilling, because of how easy it is to steel text on the Internet. I'm also worried because I've given this story as a sample writing to a couple of teachers, and it would look suspicious if a quick google revealed some results, whether I have "E. Bell" on my profile or not.

But now, whatever I achieved with that story is worthless to me. Whatever it is pales in comparision to the soon-to-be-completed Corpus Aegis.

I want all you guys to be able to read it like so many of my teachers and classmates have. I want all you guys to enjoy it, to see the story unfold, but I'm just unsure.

But I'm thinking about it. I really am.

So, if you guys cross your fingers, I just might pop it on here. It's been far too long since I've submitted anything decent for my gallery.

...I did it.

Sorry folks, I'm very much alive and kicking. I just haven't been on deviantart in...forever? Perhaps an update is in order.

It's not that I'm not making art, it's that I'm making art that I could not possibly pop onto my deviantart. While it is difficult to copy an image with an embedded watermark and pass it off as one's own, it is far easier to copy written word, and, considering then fact that my projects going to be entered into a contest, I don't think it would be tactful if googling part of the text would lead here.

So that takes me to my point. I'm writing a novel--or wrote, really, I'm just now most of the way through the second draft--by the name of Corpus Aegis. I *could* give you guys the tag line for it that I've been giving out to most everyone who asks, but I think I'll take a moment to come up with something a bit more creative. It would be, if you will bear with me, the autobiography of Matilda Alice Walker. She narrates the greater part of the book and plays the role of the main character.

A central theme to the book is an old but true one, the battle between the heart and the mind. Yes, perhaps it's a bit cliche, but I feel that I express it in a creative way (that will be even clearer come the book's sequel, Prosthesis).

This book, Corpus Aegis, is to be my entry in this year's Random House Young Novel Competition, so, wish me luck, or I will write you into the story and kill you off in some horrible way.

EDIT

I removed the bit about the blog I had written here...I've decided not to pursue it. A blog just isn't the right medium, you know? Also updated the information at the bottom 0

I have been idle for about 4 days now and I received 70 pageviews. I have to wonder where all these are coming from! Just a month ago I was receiving about 5 per day!

I have decided that, by the end of the year, I am going to fold 1,000 paper cranes.

This came along from multiple things. The first is that when I was in second grade, I read the book Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes. In the book, a twelve year old girl discovered that leukemia had lain dormant within her for ten years since the Hiroshima bombing. She proceeded to attempt to fold 1,000 paper cranes before she died. She finished over 600 and her classmates folded the rest.

The second was an early Christmas gift my grandmother gave me. She gave me a small paper crane accompanied by a card talking about Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes.

I want to make her 1,000 paper cranes this year for her Christmas gift and arrange them in a large mobile with the one she gave me hanging above the rest.

In Japanese tradition, folding 1,000 paper cranes is a prayer for peace and health, and while I am not religous, I like the idea and am moved by the signifigant of a little folded sheet of paper.

I will be uploading each and every crane I make to my scraps and add deviations every once in a while of them. Eventually, I will submit a few images of the mobile.

Also, if you keep an eye out on my scraps, you may see a compilation of all the doodles I have drawn during the last semester of school pop up in coming weeks.

Wish me luck!

(Also, my week-long trial subscription is over...)