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January 31, 2009: While on break between semesters, I installed so many new mods that I decided to began playing a new game from the beginning yet again.  Some of you are likely getting frustrated with all my new game restarts, as every restart means at least a minor rewrite to this journal - which adds a major delay to me being able to release new chapters.  I'm really sorry for the delay, but a large part of my Oblivion Journal is my mod list.  Besides, my story is written about my actual game experience, and part of that experience is starting a new game from time to time (although I will admit that I do this a bit too often . . . before I ever get very far in my game)

Ok, so my rewrite is well underway, using my new site design . . . giving my fantasy story the appearance of an old hand written journal (which was my intent).   The only problem is that there's no easy way for me to just replace my previous chapters with the rewrites, without having some major gaps and discrepancies between the new versions and the older ones.  I was trying to keep the two compatible at the same time, but that's just causing me major headaches (and taking way too long).

So this is what I've done:

1.) Only my rewritten chapters are linked in my Journal Index (below).
2.) But I've also provided a link at the end of the index that will take you to the 2008 version of my Journal ( all 17 chapters). 

Please note that this is a rewrite, of my original text.  I'm following the same story line as best I can, so my character is pretty much repeating what she did in my earlier game - in the same order.  So the main story is mostly unchanged . . . but there are some minor changes, which resulted in some deletes, and in some additions.  The format is however totally new (and hopefully much better than my old style), and my Gaming Comments section at the end of each chapter contains a lot of new material.

I love to get email feedback . . . Writing is a very slow process for me, and it literally takes me several days just to write a single chapter . . .  so it really helps me to know whether my efforts in writing this journal are still worth it, or are people getting sick of my journals by now?  What do you think of the rest of my site?  Any suggestions for how I can improve things.