Update Link: You’re Not Sorry – Part 20

First, thank you so much for your patience and support as I scaled back on flash fiction for the last two weeks. I was feeling really anxious about the upcoming year, especially as I’m adding a third subject to prep when we all know I didn’t exactly nail down the art of prepping two at the same time last year. I’m hopeful I’ve built some systems this summer that will keep me grounded and organized. Every year is an opportunity to learn more about what works, what doesn’t, and the best way to spend my time and prioritize what matters.

I’ve managed to fully prep the first two weeks, down to instructional slides, for French I & II. All that I have to do is make copies when I go into the classroom on August 25. French III is nearly there, and my goal for the next two weeks to focus entirely on French III since it’s the brand new subject doesn’t have any previous material to use as a base. I worked my ass off the last two weeks to get myself into that position, and I’m ready to go into my last two weeks much more confidently.

I also feel comfortable enough to do one last marathon. Beginning today, August 11 and ending on August 24, I will be updating You’re Not Sorry every single day, including weekends. That’s fourteen straight updates. Help me say goodbye to the summer 😛

Update Link: You’re Not Sorry – Part 19

Getting off to a tough start today — couldn’t sleep and woke up late, but the Phillies don’t play until 7 tonight, so I should be able to make up ground. I’m hoping to add in some extra updates over the next two weeks so we can get through this part of the story a little faster; otherwise , we don’t get to the bail hearing for almost a week, lol. I promise, I have my reasons for drawing out this part of the story 😛

Because I’m not sure I’ll get These Small Hours, Book 3 out this year, I wanted to take one of my finished flash fiction series that wouldn’t need a lot of work to clean up, expand or adjust in some areas to publish (the way I did for Signs of Life). You can vote in the Patreon poll. The choices are Chain Reaction, Dear Reader, and Watch Me Burn, all of which you can check out on the Flash Fiction page.

Update Link: You’re Not Sorry – Part 18

Hope everyone’s having a good week. 🙂 I’m moving slowly and unwillingly towards the end of my summer break (only two full weeks left!) but I did finish the textbook rewrites for French I & French II which is the base of what I need for September. Throw in some instructional slides, and I’m prepped about 80% for both classes. I feel so much better than I did last week. Still a lot to do, and then devoting the last two weeks to French III.

I did some housekeeping — Recent Updates and Flash Fiction are both current (moved Dear Reader to completed). You might note that Masquerade has been removed. It’s moved from on hiatus  to rewrite planned. As I wrote, I realized I needed to do a lot more world-building, and it’s being worked on in the background. My problem, as always, is too many ideas and not enough time.

I’ll see you Saturday! You’re Not Sorry is taking my Malice Flash time slot at 11AM, so post should happen around 12PM noon.

Update Link: You’re Not Sorry – Part 17

This would have been up two hours ago, but around 1PM, I started to feel exhausted (probably because I’m working myself back up to school stamina and was out doing errands this morning) so I took a nap instead 😛

See you on Thursday!

Update Link: You’re Not Sorry – Part 16

Happy Saturday! I know this part of the story seems to be moving slowly — I had originally planned to jump straight to Liz’s bail hearing much faster. But as I did more research about the way federal gov runs their cases, and what they can do, and what pre-trial detention could look like, I got some ideas to really flesh this out and torture everyone. 😛

And so sorry, I meant to have this much earlier this afternoon, but just before I started to write, Lizzie laid in front of the keyboard and decided to start her afternoon nap. I moved her a few times, but she kept coming back, lol. So I decided to wait until after the Phillies game, and now she’s left me alone 😛

See you on Tuesday!

Update: You’re Not Sorry – Part 15

Happy #Liason scene day! Can’t wait to watch it 🙂 Make sure to check it out if you have Hulu. Let’s make sure we get those ratings up for Liason scenes whenever we can.

Very sorry for disappearing a few days. I looked at a calendar and realized that I’m less than a month away from returning to work for staff development week and I just generally felt like I hadn’t done enough. I looked all the work that still needs to be done, and my brain just shut down. This usually happens — especially since I write curriculum now for my district as paid hours. That means even when we break for classes, I’m still banking countless work hours. Plus I had the trip to Baltimore for my aunt, then my aunt passing three days after we came home, then I had to go BACK to Baltimore for work, and I just–I never get done what I want to get done mostly because I overpromise myself and others. It’s a familiar lesson that I learn every summer.

ANYWAY.

I have to revise my August schedule to deal with that nasty habit of over-delivering.  Why I was like — let’s rotate three Flash fiction projects, write a novel, prep three courses — one of which never existed before and watch every Phillies game while reorganzing the house–yeah that was insane.

August 1-24  (all times are EST)

• Mondays, Wednesdays, Sundays — Crimson Swift 25 minute sessions, still around 12 PM. Right now working on imgonnagetyouback on Patreon.
• Tuesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays – Flash Fiction, posted here at Crimson Glass, still writing at 2, posting at 3 unless otherwise posted.
• Saturdays & Sundays – 1 hr Malice on Patreon, 60 minutes. Story is really progressing well.
• M-F – These Small Hours for at least 25 minutes.

Now that I’m not trying to fit four projects into seven days and trying to do three of them three times a week along with, you know, living, we’ll be better off.

Once we get into Staff Development week, we’ll talk about the academic year.

Update Link: You’re Not Sorry – Part 14

I swear — everything about my schedule for the last three days has been the most annoying, infuriating mess. You ever work for hours, turn around, look at what you did, and you’re like — nothing got done??? how??? That’s my life.

Anyway. See you tomorrow.

Update Link: You’re Not Sorry – Part 13

Hello! Hope you’re having a great week! I’ve been having so much fun this week working on creative projects — I’m building a six-day lesson plan for my French III kiddos to compare Native American Boarding Schools and the children of La Réunion island who were forcibly taken from their homes and “given” to rural families in France from the 1960s to the 1980s. They’re going to do a Socratic Seminar, and I’ve been writing their prep material. It’s the first year that I have French language students far enough along that we can tackle more challenging topics in French. And if you don’t think writing active viewing guides and discussion questions is fun — well, you’re probably right but I’m still enjoying myself.

Today, though, after I finished writing the first update, I’ve been working on plotting this story out. I know the big movements, but it’s time to get down to the nitty gritty now that the big event has happened. I’m soooo excited about this week and next, and where this story is going. I feel like Dear Reader was a guinea pig to see if I could write this era, and this is gonna be the magnum opus 😛

In other news — Part 48 of Dear Reader is now properly in series order. Sorry about that!

Update Link: You’re Not Sorry – Part 12

I’ll be updating again around around 8, 8:30 to make up for missing Tuesday’s update.

Update Link: You’re Not Sorry – Part 11

Whoops! Unintentional day off! I think I mentioned last month that we had a water heater issue because of a chimney collapse (I had no idea we even had a chimney since we don’t have a fire place and Dad’s like, yeah, it’s been like that since at least 1993, we just worked around it) and they came out to fix it yesterday. They didn’t leave until almost 3:30, and by then, I had a sinus headache from allergies thanks to the entire world cutting their lawn and me running errands before the chimney guys got here.

I’m going to make up yesterday tomorrow — the Phillies don’t play, so I’ll update around 8. See you then!