So I love love love my new latop. I’ve adjusted to the new keyboard, it’s so fantastically portable–everything I hoped it would be.  I’m back to writing and can’t wait to see some of my projects working again.

So to recap posts and updates over the last week:

• Damaged: Three episodes were posted on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Next week, it’ll be Tuesday and Thursday.
• Story Status update posted.
• If you missed it, Safe to Love You was completed and posted. It’s listed under short stories at the moment, but I should move it to novellas since it just moves over 11,000 words.

Updates in the pipeline, possibly this weekend:

• Ebooks: Yesterdays is actually formatted and ready, I just haven’t created a cover that I like. The Witness is also almost ready, but I have to work on the cover. I hope to knock both of thosee out tomorrow and have them up. I’d like to get in the habit of releasing a new ebook once a month.
• Fiction Graveyard: I’m still getting files edited and I don’t want to start posting again until they’re all edited so I can just zip through them.
• Spring Design: I’m working on it and hope to have it up in a week or two. I think it’s time to brighten it up.

Also, I’ve been contemplating moving this site back to its own domain. We used to be at crimsonglass.com, but during my hiatus, I lost track of the renewal date and lost it. I can’t get that one back, but I could go to crimsonglass.org. I’m considering it because I’ve been thinking of putting Google Ads on the site in hopes I can make enough money to pay for the hosting. It’s cheap hosting, but it’d be great not to have to deal with it every month. Any thoughts on moving the site?

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The story ended up being about a third longer than I had anticipated, so apologies for that. I wrote about 10,000 words from about 11 PM Thursday night until about an hour ago. That’s more in two days than in nearly two months. I think I’m back.

I’m going to dig into Damaged for the rest of the weekend, to make sure I’m all set for the next two weeks, then it’s all about The Best Thing and All We Are. I’ve missed writing.

Thanks you guys for being so ridiculously patient. I have the best readers 🙂

Click here for the entire short story, or just here to read Part Two.

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You’re not dreaming. A brand new short story from me — it’s my first Elizabeth/Jake fiction, other than my brief foray back in December with my New Year’s Eve. It picks up after yesterday’s episode. I wrote about 7000 in less than 24 hours. Seriously guys, this is the most I’ve written in forever. I have to finish up the last scene and since it’s a bit long, I’m splitting it into. I’ll post Part Two tomorrow. So here you go: Safe to Love You, Part One

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We’ll go back to weekly round ups once I get back into normal updating with The Best Thing and All We Are, but for now, because it’s nice to post anything, I’ll be posting Damaged news here as well.

So I uploaded a second episode for this week, April 24, 2014. I mistakenly titled it 2015, but it’s been corrected. Thanks to the warm response to the first episode.

Next week’s episodes are broken up over three days, so I’ll be posting them Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. That’s how we’ll do it — for weeks with three, on MWF, and weeks with two, T/Th.

Click here to visit Arc 001’s page, and read. Please let me know what you think!

And head over to the Opinions page to answer an editorial question for May.

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So my health is much better. I had a double root canal yesterday and my major root canal this afternoon. My mouth is super sore, but I’m pretty stoked not to be constantly in tooth pain — we’re down from sharp knives in my jaw to a dull ache. I can live with that for another week.

I also managed to finagle a smaller and lighter laptop. I’m still kind of getting used to the keyboard, which is a bit more off center than I’m used to, but packing this baby up to take to work or a cafe is soo much easier and I’ve already written a decent amount.

I’ve written material for The Best Thing and All We Are, but  nothing I’m ready to show to my beta. I lost my groove with both projects and will probaby have some more difficult stops and starts before they start flowing again. But Damaged is working for me, so I’m going with it for now in hopes it gets my writing goes on all fronts, because once my prolific nature gets going, you’ll just be annoyed with me.

So, click here to head over to the Damaged site properly, or to the page where the arc begins.

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Hey! Thanks for sticking with me through the last month of no updates. I appreciate the warm wishes and promises to stick around until I get back to posting. You guys are fantastic 😛

So I suspect my major problem was a sinus infection that never got resolved due to lack of antibiotics. I went to the dentist two weeks ago for a toothache, and was given antibiotics for a separate infection. Since taking that, my tooth feels mildly better, but my sleeping and breathing is better overall.  I have a nasty cavity that needs to be resolved through a root canal next week (double root canal over two days actually, oy) and I suspect that’ll take care of the rest of it. I already feel so much better.

I have been writing–some plot scribbles and plans while I sub. One of my major problems is transcribing it at the end of the day because my laptop is kind of big and clunky and doesn’t travel well. I’m looking into a smaller model I’ll be able to transport in my bag, which means I’ll be able to take it out and write every where.

This week, I am planning to add a few things to the site. Most notably, the overdue ebooks for The Witness and Yesterdays. I’m also tidying up Fiction Graveyard, so updates to that should resume soon.

One of the biggest obstacles to writing seems to be the fact I’ve fallen out of my routine of just writing. I’m looking for ways to change that.

Again, you guys are fantastic and stay tuned for the ebooks to be added this week! And maybe a short story I’ve been playing with to get my muse cooperating.

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My dearisobel.org domain was due to be renewed a few days ago, but I forgot that I hadn’t updated the credit card information in some time so the site was down for a few hours. It’s all fixed now and things should be working as they were before.

A health update: I’m starting to feel a lot better. My doctor seems to think my constant colds are caused by a mild form of asthma. I’ve started some medication for that while I await some more thorough testing and I’m starting to feel my energy bounce back. I’ve also been scheduled for a root canal to take care of a nasty tooth ache that’s been plaguing for me months.  Hopefully with both of those conditions under control and warmer weather hitting, I’ll be back in top shape.

I’ve been writing a bit. Nothing as prolific as last fall or even a year ago but I’m writing things I don’t immediately toss, ha. This break is a bit more lengthy than I had anticipated, and will probably continue a few more weeks. I love you guys–you’ve all been super supportive about this and I hope to make it worth your while soon.

With my energy returning, I’ll be working on site things — getting back into the swing of things with ebooks and the Fiction Graveyard as well as working on the new spring layout for this site. See you guys soon 🙂

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So with yesterday’s posting of All We Are, Chapter Eight, I am officially out of story chapters to post. I’ve been relatively good since I came back in November of not letting too much time pass between chapters but in late December, I caught a nasty cold and sinus infection I honestly don’t think I’ve kicked in the last few months. I spent last week sick as a dog AGAIN. It’s so frustrating. I’ve been so sick that I can’t work, my room looks like a pit and my brain feels fried.

Pretty sure I can trace my writing troubles back to that point in January, so now that my health insurance is kicking in on Wednesday, I can go to a doctor finally and hopefully begin to clear things. It’s so frustrating to me to want to write and feel unable to do so.

You guys are wonderfully patient, so I wanted you guys to know what was up and hopefully look forward to an end of my brain drain 🙂

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Nothing like constantly opening up your writing projects only to close them after almost an hour of nothing that you want to show the rest of the world.

So I’m going through a bit of a dry spell, so to speak. I get moments where I feell good about writing, but they’re small and few between lately. Inspiration is easy, it’s translating my thoughts from outline to prose.

I’m not sure what it is or why I’ve been having trouble the last few weeks, but this is just a note to let you guys knowt that updates are going to slow down for a while. Damaged is not back on hiatus, just slowing down a bit. I don’t want to start posting in the new format until I have several episodes ready to go. I have two more chapters of All We Are ready to go and will be posted this week and next. After that? It’s really up in the air.

I’m going to keep opening my writing projects and hoping for the best, but I’m not going to promise anything.

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So I took a few minutes and scheduled three weeks ahead for All We Are because we got to Thursday night and I hadn’t posted for this morning yet. Yikes!  All We Are has been updated to Chapter Six, our honeymoon chapter.

I did almost no writing this week save one scene for an episode of Damaged. I have no good excuse for this except that I got my hands on SimCity and got horribly distracted. Also it was my nephew’s birthday, I worked, and I’m studying math for the Praxis.

Anyway. I’m sorry. I’ll be better next week. I updated the music page finally and All We Are has a full Volume 2 soundtrack, which is good for everyone else. You can find that link on the story page or click here to check it out on Spotify. I try to keep Grooveshark updated but tracks keep randomly disappearing and it’s annoying.

And because I feel like this got missed in the long annoying update from last week, Damaged has a brand-new theme. I intend to tweak it further now that I’ve got it looking much more the way I want it too. Please head over and let me know what you think. I worry that the text is too small. Monday is your first new episode of the new format so stay tuned!

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