Update Link: The Black Dog – Begin

Well, I didn’t get back to do a double update, but I do have something else for you — the VERY long overdue first story in the Tortured Poets collection. I’ve been working on it for Patreon as part of our $1 summer special, and I finished it a little while ago.

I’m posting it in four parts so that you have something new from me every day while I’m in Baltimore. Each part will link to the song on three different platforms. I didn’t finish the TTPD subsite so it’s not as pretty as I want it to be, but I’ll finish it next weekend.

My plan for the TTPD album is to drop the stories in collections, but it’s been so long, and I managed to finish it before I left on the trip, so it’s a special present for you. The other seven songs in the collection will be added in one update. Those include:

• “imgonnagetyouback”
• “The Albatross”
• “Chloe or Sam or Sophia or Marcus”
• “How Did It End?”
• “So High School”
• “I Hate It Here”
• “thanK you aIMee”

If you want to read them as I write them starting when I get back later this week, I write in 25 minute sessions on Mon/Wed/Fris. You can check it out over on Patreon.

See you guys on Friday!

Update Link: You’re Not Sorry – Part 7

Phillies aren’t playing tonight because we’re on the All-Star Break. I’m not watching the Home Run Derby because none of my boys are hitting in it, so I might come back later tonight for a bonus update since this is the last you’ll hear from me until Friday. I’ll be down in Baltimore for a work conference 🙂

So see you tonight or see you on Friday!

Update: You’re Not Sorry – Part 6

What you’re seeing here, my friends, is what happens when you plot the story out in great detail before you start to write, lol. Because I know exactly where I want this story to go, down to how the ending is going to happen, I am absolutely just going to update whenever I want outside the schedule. I’m sure you won’t complain 😛

That being said — tomorrow I have to do a massive update my Patreon series, Malice because I overslept this morning, and missed the window. I’m going to do a two hour writing session in the morning for that and then the Phillies play in the afternoon.

I mean, there’s always the evening–NO. I am not updating again tomorrow.

Probably.

Update Link: You’re Not Sorry – Part 5

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Hey! Hope you enjoyed this week of double updates! This is the last Phillies west coast trip until mid September,  and that’s the third week of classes, so not even sure I’ll be able to write much less stay up late. We’ll play it by ear on that.

I’m glad everyone is enjoying the new story. I don’t usually like to do the same time period back to back like this, but when I’m actively watching GH, I’m always thinking — how can I make this about Jason & Liz, and that was really clear with the Agent Cates murder last year which was really good — until it just stopped. Sonny got away with murdering Cates in cold blood on the Q property and Michael got away with covering it up. I really only kept the plot elements of Cates being murdered while the Qs are having a party. Everything else is pretty different. I think at this point on the show, Jason was in Africa saving Lucky, and well, I’m good. We don’t need that, lol.

I don’t plan to update this weekend because I completely blanked on updating my Crimson Swift story on Patreon today — I need to make that up, and write the other Patreon stuff. I also really haven’t touched These Small Hours. It’s not really any good reason other than energy. It’s been a while since I’ve read Books 1 & 2, so I actually need to reread them both before diving in for real. I plan to do that while I’m at the conference. I’m going to take my iPad, a PDF copy of both books, and a notebook and just really focus on that in my downtime.

Just a reminder that I’ll be leaving early Tuesday morning and will be mostly incommunicado until I get home on Thursday because I don’t know what the wifi access is, and I somehow got signed up for an extension activity on Wednesday night. (Please kill me; I have to be social.)

However — just because I don’t plan on writing Flash this weekend, that doesn’t mean I won’t. I’m reallly enjoying this story — it’s one of the few where as soon as the plot clicked in my head, I wrote a huge plot sketch, and it’s just flowing in a way that I don’t think a flash fiction has in a long time, maybe since Hits Different or Warning Shots.

So stay tuned — I post on Twitter when I start the timers, and I’m also going to start using the Patreon chat above. You can download the app and it will send notifications to you when I update in the chat. It’s completely free. I might even use it for regular updates.

See you when I see you 🙂

Update Link: You’re Not Sorry – Part 4

Will be back later tonight since it’s a Phillies After Bedtime Start 😛

Update Link: You’re Not Sorry – Part 3

Updating a little early today, because honestly, the new Sims 4 Expansion Pack comes out today and there’s no Phillies game today, so —

Tomorrow is a 9:40 Phillies start so there’s a small chance we’re looking at a double update which might be nice going into the weekend since next week is my Baltimore trip for a work conference. I will not be updating at all Tuesday-Thursday next week because the schedule simply doesn’t allow it. I have to drive to Baltimore in the morning, and that’s like a 2 hour drive, so I gotta get up at like 5AM and be on the road by 6AM, and then I don’t even get finished at the conference until like almost 1 on Thursday. I will be dead by the time I get home.

 

omg I was starting to think everyone hated everything this week, lol! I hadn’t gotten a single comment since Monday night! The comments are fixed now, so if you wanted to leave a comment on anything I’ve posted this week:

Dear Reader – Part 48 | Dear Reader – Part 49 | Dear Reader – Part 50

You’re Not Sorry – Part 1 | You’re Not Sorry – Part 2

Update Link: Dear Reader – Part 50

Updated a fair bit this week, so if you’ve missed anything —

Dear Reader – Part 48 | Dear Reader – Part 49 | You’re Not Sorry – Part 1

Update Link: You’re Not Sorry – Part 2

Phillies are playing at 9:45 again and I am draggging. I went to sleep late last night because of the game not getting over until after midnight, and I had to get up early to move the car to avoid a parking ticket. If I stay up again, and the Phillies lose, you’re gonna see me on the news.

Last double update until (maybe) Friday.

Update Link: Dear Reader – Part 49

In Case You Missed It: You’re Not Sorry – Part 1

Also updated: Flash Fiction & Recent Updates

Hope everyone is having a good day! No melatonin overdose for me last night, and shockingly, I woke up on time at 7 and didn’t have to drag mself out of bed.

If you missed it, I launched the new Flash Fic last night as my bonus update to keep me awake (the Phillies lost, but we’ve decided to blame the umpire). I’ll update the new story again tonight if the schedule works out. Either way, Dear Reader finishes tomorrow, and I’ll be posting the new story.

I don’t usually like to write the same time period back-to-back like this, especially since I know a lot of you aren’t watching regularly. I’m working on plotting out a few other stories, and taking care to avoid 2024 next time. It’s just this idea just clicked, and it’s been a while since a story came together in my head like this.