Sorry for disappearing the last two weeks. I caught a cold from either one of the germ-infested students I teach or the dirty children my sister gave birth too. It’s really a toss up at this point. Anyway, I’ve spent the better part the last week hacking up a lung and binging Grey’s Anatomy because that required no brain power. I stopped watching that show somewhere in the fourth season and I’d forgotten how good Season 1 and 2 was. Anyway.

I’ll be back sometime tomorrow or Thursday and catch up with the last two weeks of Fiction Graveyard. I hope to bring back The Best Thing in January, but my writing energy has been sapped. Every time I get a cold, I go down like death. I’m the worst sick person. See you guys in a few days. Have a great holiday!

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I’ve updated the Fiction Graveyard with three new chapters of Tangle. I’ve been asked if I plan to continue it or simply leave it unfinished as I move on to rewrite the story. I have the ending completely outlined, so for the moment, I’ll be posting the planned scenes in their outline form so you can at least visualize how I intended to end this version of the story. Whether I come back one day to complete that version, I can’t say.

Your Christmas throwback: Noel, a Jason-centric story set in 2005 as a response to a challenge to write a version of A Christmas Carol, and A Second Chance, a Christmas story set in 2002 where Elizabeth rewrites her past.

I’ll be back next week with more of Tangle, some more Christmas throwbacks, and possibly, a new site feature. We’ll see how my week shapes up.

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Well, here we are at the end of November, and I’m not sure where the days are going. It feels like just yesterday that I decided (very nearly on a whim) to see if I couldn’t finish some of the fanfiction I had abandoned six years earlier. I was only just beginning a year long sojourn in London for a masters program that wasn’t nearly as rewarding as the year spent living in one of the most amazing cities in the world.

So much of what I write now was plotted and planned as I walked the streets of London that year, listening to the soundtracks and writing dialogue in my head.  In fact, the very chapter I’m writing in The Best Thing this week — I can really remember exactly where I was when I came up with the scene — across from Euston Station, at the corner of Euston Street and Upper Woburn Place.

Anyway, the point of this is — I know the updates have been sparse since August, particularly if you’re not following Damaged, and I apologize for that. That’s not a situation that will be changing this month as I’ll only be posting Fiction Graveyard updates.

However, starting in January, the plan is to have at least one fresh update of something accompanying the Fiction Graveyard updates. In January, the final chapters of The Best Thing. Then Bittersweet starting in February, then Damaged, Season 3 in March, and so on. I mentioned that I was going to write Bittersweet during NaNoWriMo. I had hoped to finish at least half the story by the end of month, but I ran into some problems. I had to stop and start over, so I only finished eight chapters. Still, eight chapters is roughly a third of the way through, so not so bad.  I’ll be finishing up The Best Thing, then hoping to get to the rest of Bittersweet and in January.

So why am I bothering you all with a post? Updates to the Fiction Graveyard will restart next Monday, with Tangle and Poisonous Dreams #1. If you haven’t been following Damaged, Season 1 and 2 are now completed and posted at the website. Damaged Season 1 is 11 episodes long, Season 2 is 14 episodes long. Each episode is anywhere from 15-23 pages long, so if you’ve not been reading my version of General Hospital beginning with AJ’s murder and Jason’s return from the dead, you’re missing out on 600 pages of new material. 😛 It ought to hold you over until January.

Happy holidays! Every week, I’ll be highlighting one or two of the Christmas stories already posted here. So this week, I bring up an old favorite. Always An Angel, a particularly sappy story I wrote in 2003.

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Hey! Valla informed me that the chapter link for Aurora Dawning was broken. In case anyone else noticed it, I just wanted to let you know it was fixed now.

Also, this Friday, I’m posting the season finale of Damaged 😉 So stay tuned and subscribe to that story to get updates!

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So on the heels of a few really good weeks of writing, I’m previewing our schedule for the next six months. At the moment, my priority is to finish writing The Best Thing and Damaged, Season Two by the end of October. I’m on good track to do that — I have about four episodes left to write for Damaged and five chapters for TBT. I’ve split the work and scheduled it in order to have ample time to work on it.

Damaged will feature fifteen episodes in all, nine of which have been posted already. I will continue posting Season Two until Thanksgiving weekend — Friday, November 27. At time, that will go on a hiatus until Season Three is posted in March 2016.

In order to give myself and Cora a bit of a vacation for the holidays and let her finish her schoolwork, no brand-new work will be posted during December. However, I’ll be posting Fiction Graveyard stories instead. Depending on how many I can get edited, I’ll do two updates a week.

The Best Thing will return for a final run of episodes in January 2016. Bittersweet, which I will be writing during NaNoWriMo in November, then editing and revising in December and January, will be posted in February.

So starting in January, you’ll be getting about a run of five months of original content, posted probably twice a week. What I’ll be posting in the summer depends on how well I stick to my schedule.

So to recap –here’s the breakdown:

October & November – Damaged, Season Two
December – Fiction Graveyard, Ebooks, Site projects
January – The Best Thing
February – Bittersweet
March – Damaged, Season Three

I’ll be back this weekend with an update — a new featured story, an update to The Best Thing in progress ebook, etc, as well Damaged, Episode 2.10 on Friday!

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I am beside myself with the amount of happiness I feel right now. If you’ve been following Crimson Glass since we first moved to this address and converted to WordPress, you know I’ve been painstakingly try to gather all the stories I’ve ever written since 2002. Between rewrites, computer crashes, and board bannings, I lost many of them. Thanks to some readers and the Internet Wayback Machine, I managed to find around fifteen or so of them. I’ve been putting old versions and abandoned stories in the Fiction Graveyard as well, though that’s been on hiatus due to editing issues.

Today, I connected with Joanna, one of the old crew at The Canvas. I had been missing four particular stories — ones with chapters and written in 2002 and 2003. Joanna saved two of them: No One Else Sees Me and The Ends of the Earth. I haven’t even read them since 2003 as both were lost in a computer crash that summer.

I’m going to go through them and edit them, and hopefully re-add them to the site at some point in the next few weeks. I can’t even…I am so happy right now. Thank you, Joanna!

Also, Damaged has been updated. It’s a good day and I can’t seem to stop smiling 🙂

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Hey! Good news. I’m declaring my hiatus over. Mostly. I’m updating Damaged against, starting tonight. And The Best Thing will return momentarily. I hit a snag with my last chapter and have to restructure pieces of it. However, once I start the final four chapters, I have a feeling they’re just going to pour out because they’re so closely interlinked, I won’t be able to stop.

Hopefully, The Best Thing will back and completed by the end of November. For now, enjoy Damaged!

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I had one chapter of The Best Thing I was saving in case of a emergency. We’re there, ha. It’s been about a month since I’ve been confident in what I’m writing. I’ve got some scenes written, but nothing substantial or ready for a beta read.

But I didn’t want to leave you guys hanging for too long without something new. So here’s where we are.

Since I’ve realized I write in cycles, I have to structure my posting around that so that I can take off the time I need to recharge without running out of things to post.

I’m nearly finished The Best Thing. I have five more chapters to write. I’m about halfway through Damaged, Season Two. At the conclusion of both of those, I’ll probably need some time off in order to write Bittersweet. NaNoWriMo is coming up in November. That’s National Novel Writing Month. The objective is to write 50,000 words. That’s about half of what I plan for Bittersweet, so that will give me an amazing headstart to return in January with a new story.

Damaged Season Three is on hold for a bit while I sort out a few things. If things go well in November, I should be able to bring that back at the same time as Bittersweet.

So the game plan is to finish writing The Best Thing and Damaged by the end of the month and then posting them in November and December. I’ll keep you guys posted 😛

Enjoy The Best Thing, Chapter 29.

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So you might have noticed I didn’t post The Best Thing this week and those of you who read Damaged know that last week’s episode was supremely delayed and that I haven’t put up any teasers for this coming week.

I don’t want to bore you with any of the details except to say I have had a bit of a setback. I was planning to go back to school this year and get my teaching license, but funding fell through at the last minute. (And like seriously, the very last minute. I was due to start classes Tuesday and Friday was kind of the death knell for the whole project.)

It’s actually turning into a major setback and I have to rethink my whole timeline for getting my certificate. There’s also been some turmoil in my family. An in-law lost lost a member of the family, and I’ve been picking up extra baby-sitting shifts for my youngest niece, while baby-sitting an extra ton while my sister starts her classes on schedule (oh, the irony).

Anyway. This is all to say that the last week and a half have basically been a bust for writing. I’ve gotten next to nothing done, and what is done I mostly hate and feel like trashing. This weekend is going to be a bust for any writing — I’m baby-sitting again, shopping for dresses for the wedding, and Labor Day bbq. I’m starting work on Tuesday as scheduled — ugh. It’s just a whole lot of nonsense. I’m tired of it, but you know, life saps creativity from time to time.

I’ll post some scenes from Bittersweet that I’ve trashed — I’ve written several opening scenes and only just found the one I liked, but I won’t be able to use the others. So I’ll post them at some point this weekend as a peace offering.

I’ll post any further updates on my writing on Facebook/Twitter so as not to annoy you guys further here.

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