Hey there

I did some thinking and realised that my profile isn't substantial enough and that I'd actually forgotten some infomation that I wanted to include in the author's notes. All this relates to Mou Ichido.

- Whenever I write the chapter to this story, intense work goes into fiinding the song with the right 'mood.' This then enables me to create the right atmosphere. I realised that I do this with the music playing so now I began worrying whether you, as my loyal readers, were getting the full benifit of the story. As a result of this thinking, I am in the process of creating a playlist of videos on my Youtube account for use during the reading of this story, if it is wanted. My personal recommendation is that you read the story with the music playing. Read the song with it playing and follow along with the words. I find that I enjoy reading like that and wanted to pass that little tidbit of infomation on.

- As promised here's the translation to the song Kira was singing. It's Wheel of Dawn or Akatsuki no Kuruma by Fiction Junction. I appologise, the spacing doesn't work too well.

English Translation

Shaded by the trees, calling out to the wind, I'm lying face-down crying

I saw a version of myself I didn't even recognize

On this guitar I'm playing the melody of someone who's passed on

A star falls in the grief of someone who'll never be seen again

Please don't go, no matter how much you scream,

all it will do is quietly stir these orange petals

Saved on my soft brow,

I send the memories in my palm far away

An eternal farewell as I keep strumming

The heart of a child clinging to a gentle hand

The blazing wheels cast it off and continue on

On this guitar I'm playing the grief of someone who's passed on

The strings in my heart being plucked at violently

In the pure white unstained by sorrow,

the orange petals stirred in a summer shadow

Even if my soft brow is lost,

I'll cross over the far off, red-stained sand

The rhythm of farewell

Branded into my memories, on the ever-turning earth,

there is something sprouting in remembrance

Sending off the dawn's carriage

Those orange petals are stirring somewhere even now

The peaceful daybreak I once saw

Until it is placed in my hands once more,

please don't let the light go out

The wheels are turning

- The playlist should be completed by Friday at the latest and can be found under lupinblanche's channel. That's me if you didn't catch it. It will continue to grow with the story until its completion.

Thank you for bearing with me in my worry of your reading pleasure. If anything major happens in regrads to any of my stories, all the infomation will be found here so it would be wise to check once in a while.

See you around :-)

Update: 18 January 2010

Hey peoples

The new chapter's up and so is the livejournal. Problem is I don't really know how to use it. I tried posting the chapter but then it's all there not a link to a separate window, which is what I want. If anyone can help me that would be great otherwise it will be a bit longer until chapters are posted there.

Thanks for bearing with me.

Update: 20 July 2010

Hello!

I'm still alive and writing; Mou Ichido is not abandoned,don't worry. I've been battling the worst case of writer's block EVER; it's been very annoying, especially when I'd get inspired, write a paragraph and then the muse leaves and I'm stuck once more. Chapter 6 is complete though and , as the story now has 51 reviews, I'm finishing a side story for your reading pleasure as well. Yeah, I'm just that generous, and excited. Still don't know how to work the livejournal, any help would be very appreciated, so there's not much on there at the moment.

Thanks for sticking with me, I know it must have been frustrating

Watch this space for updates!:-)

Update: 15 March 2012

Hello, anyone still interested in this story?

I know, its been ages; way too long actually. Various things happened, all of which I'm sure you don't want to read about, but now I am back here, working on this semi-full time. No more two year waits in between chapters. As stated previously, song translations and miscallaneous things will be happening over at the mou ichido live journal, accessed via my home page. I can actually use it now so kudos to me:)

So in short, sorry for the long wait; it won't happen again

DM4LS

P.S. And because for some reason the home page feature has disappeared from profiles, well I can't find it, here is the livejournal address: http://luving_

Update: 17 May 2012

Nearly two months to the day since my last update. Mou Ichido readers will be happy to know that I have inished the next chapter and it has been sent for beta'in. Yay!!! I hope to have it up soon but unfortunately it'll be the last chapterfor a little while. I'm writing as of next week and I cannot give this story my full attention. Sorry :( But to tide you over I want to launch a competition.

Mou Ichido will eventually become available in pdf format once I'm done writing it and stuff; which hopefully will be end of this year/ early next year. As a result I'm going to need fanart/banners to title each chapter. Now your author is many things but she is no artist. Don't believe me, see for yourself; my art is over at deviantart under shipahoy but it's bad, you don't want me illustrating.

So I'm putting it out to the readers, someone out there must have some talent with photoshop. The scenes to be illustrated are up to you, pick your favorite from the chapters that are up and draw, it's as simple as that. Just remember, each chapter needs an illustration so try spread it out over the published chapters. Pics will be judged by myself and sister- who has no interest in this story at all so will have no bias. Finalists will be put on the live journal and voting will be done here on my profile via poll. Picture with the highest number of votes get the honour of being the chapter illustration. Front cover I'm holding out on since I want to open that once more than half the story is up so keep your eyes peeled.

So what do you get as the winning artists?

- The honour of being a chapter illustrator of the pdf version of this fic. Credit for image will be given.

- The honour of having your pic used as the playlist video image

(Once I'm done writing I'm going to make videos-not AMVs, just normal song videos, for the featured songs in the story. This will be the final version of the playlist I started- which I know cannot access thanks to youtube. Winning pic will be image used in video as song plays. Credit for image will also go to artist)

- A 3000 word oneshot written by me on any Gundam Seed scenario of your choosing.

And what of the pictures that do not win?

Since there is never enough gundam seed fanart I can either (a) host your pic on my deviant with credit going to you as the artist or (b) host your picture on the mou ichido livejournal under a fanart section. A third option is in the works but that depends on how much time I have to code *hint hint*

How do you submit?

If PMing me the pic doesn't work- and I have a feeling it won't- email the images to me at destinyballetdancer@. In the subject line say Mou Ichido fanart comp: Chapter x with x being the chapter number you've illustrated.

Hope this is exciting enough to get some artistic muses working and to tide you over while I slave over my books. If not then, no matter; at least we still have fanfiction:)

So I say until Chapter 8 is up

Ciao