Update Link: You’re Not Sorry – Part 9

Hope everyone is having a good weekend! I was exhausted after the Baltimore trip — the convention center was half a mile from the hotel which isn’t so bad — unless you’re lugging your laptop and materials every day in 88 degrees. I was boiling, lol. The conference was a lot of fun — a rare occurence for professional development — and it’s nice to know there’s another paycheck coming along AND that I’m getting reimbursed on the mileage and food I paid for. I crashed hard when I got home on Thursday thanks to a three-hour drive home (traffic, ick), but I’m starting to come out of the coma.

This will probably be the last Saturday Flash for a few weeks. I have a ton of things to do around the house, and I also want to add some more time to work on These Small Hours. I’m insanely overdue on Book 3, which I know most of the audience here isn’t going to mind. I think I disappeared after February and didn’t give you anything at all, it’d be worse. But I’ve been pretty consistent with Flash updates in that time period, so I hope that helps tide you over.

See you guys on Monday for more Flash 😛

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Update Link: You’re Not Sorry – Part 8

In Case You Missed It: The Black Dog – Inspiration | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4

Rushing to make this post because a UPS package got delivered like 3 minutes ago, lol. Enjoy! More chat later (not that you’ll miss it!) The Recent Updates page is now, well, recent.

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Update Link: The Black Dog – Inspiration | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4

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Update Link: The Black Dog – Inspiration | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3

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Update Link: The Black Dog – Inspiration | Part 1 | Part 2

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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!

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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!

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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.

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Update Link: You’re Not Sorry – Part 5

Patreon Chat: Flash Fiction Notifications (FREE) You can sign up on Patreon for free membership.

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 🙂

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Update Link: You’re Not Sorry – Part 4

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

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