Update Link: Hits Different – Part 25
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ONE MORE SLEEP UNTIL SPRING BREAK!

Actually — the hardest part of my week is over — I finished testing and grading 98% of all the work for this marking period. Tomorrow is a half day and my last two classes don’t meet because of a pep rally, so I start my classes at 8 and finish at 11. Even I can survive three more hours 😛

Looking forward to doubling on Flash Fiction starting this Friday! Don’t forget, with baseball season kicking off this week (First game, Friday at 3PM) Flash Fiction might be around a little bit — it’ll be posted between 6 and 9 PM on Wed/Fri. You can always check the Posting Schedule Google Doc.

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Update Link: Fool Me Twice, Series of Table Contents | Chapter 51 | Chapter 52

Happy Double Update!

I was looking over my schedule for the next few months, and I decided to change up how I’m posting FMT. For one thing, I’m hoping to squeeze Flash Fiction on Fridays from time to time (I have to look at the baseball schedule to pick good days and times), and for another — well, this story is really ensemble in nature so I think some things are getting lost posting 1-2 chapters at a time. I’ve had two reviews over at Fanfiction.net suggesting that they feel like Jason is settling for Elizabeth, lol (I think it’s mostly because of the Sonny/Sam scenes about Jason going home to her first). I definitely get more Liason stuff in the next few chapters and there’s some big stuff in Book 3 that settles all of that for good, but I wanted to get more of the story to you faster.

So I’ll be posting 3-4 chapters every week, and finishing up a bit earlier — in mid-May instead of mid-June. I’ll post them at the same time on Monday mornings, so you can read them when you like. Then we’ll have our firm Wednesday flash fictions, then occasional Fridays.

In other news, I’m switching my editing/release schedule. These Small Hours looks like it’s going be longer than I thought (I had plotted 29 chapters, it’s going to be 50 I’m sure no one is surprised), so I’m going to keep working on the alpha draft of that through April, and start editing FMT3 — so FMT 3 will be out this summer, and then Hours in the fall/winter.

See you on Wednesday!

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Update Link: Fool Me Twice, Series of Table Contents | Chapter 50
Other Updates:  Hits Different – Part 24 |

Forgot to schedule this update post, so in a rush this morning! See you Wednesday!

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Update Link: Fool Me Twice, Series of Table Contents | Chapter 49
Other Updates:  Hits Different – Part 24 | 

Forgot to schedule this last night, so this is a quick one 😛 See you on Monday!

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Update Link: Hits Different – Part 24 | Previous Parts
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Shop: Fool Me Twice, Book 2 | Books 1 & 2

Hey, it’s been a minute since we updated this story 😛 But now that I’m fully recovered from Covid, all caught up at work, and FMT is fully edited, I can get back to my normal writing. I’ve already written a chapter of These Small Hours, and am halfway through a new one that I’m going to finish tonight.

The #Liason fans on Twitter are organizing a charity drive — Nancy Lee Grahn (Alexis) is having an ALS Daytime event in early May, and we’re raising money for a donation in our fanbase’s name. Let’s show them we can do more than just rent billboards (though that was pretty sick!)

GH has been great the last few days! The new HW are officially in control and Monday’s episode was the best Elizabeth scenes we’ve had in YEARS. She’s on again tomorrow — and BOTH episodes were unspoiled, so that’s really awesome for her. I’m really hoping the new HW value Becky. Both of these episodes have her away from that horrible Finn, and she’s in the Jason story now. Love this for us!

See you on Friday for an FMT update!

The #Liason Crew is organizing a group donation for NLG’s ALS Daytime event. Anyone interested in donating can do so at the link below. All proceeds will go to ALS One. We hope to present the group donation at the event on May 4th. #GH #ALShttps://t.co/gu6Af70HBO

— Mrs S – #LiasonPositivity👑 It’s Time…”no word…” (@MrsS1506) March 20, 2024

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Campaign Link: Time To Write For Jason & Elizabeth

Hello! Happy Monday! This is my last full week before Spring Break starts next Thursday. I know I just had a few days off, but Covid kind of ruins any of the fun of not being in work.

I finally finished editing Book 2! I posted the full PDFs in the digital shop — Book 2 on its own, and a combined Book 1 & 2 PDF. Both are $5. Crimson Devoted and above Patreons get the books for free. They’ll both be free in July — none of my finished products ever remain permanently behind a paywall. (If you read the OG alpha draft in July, I hope you’re happy with how far it’s come!) All that’s left is scheduling chapters, which I’ll be doing off and on over the next few weeks.

I’ll be throwing myself into finishing These Small Hours, so I can start editing it and have it ready for summer release. It’s going to be weird not having FMT taking up all my thoughts for a while (though I’ll be diving back in as soon as Hours is completed). I’m excited to get back to a different time period.

Flash Fiction updates are going to shift again — we’re in baseball season starting NEXT week! First day of spring break, first game! It’ll still be on Wednesdays, but the time will shift — anywhere from posting at 5 PM EST to 9 PM EST, at least until June 13. I’ll keep you guys updated as we move into the season.

We’re starting a new campaign for Jason and Elizabeth, sending pencils to the execs and writers 😛 Patrick Mulcahey and Elizabeth Korte officially took over with March 15’s episode, but I know there’s a lot of mess to clean up from the previous writers — it’ll be a while before we can really see what their vision is. I hope their vision includes our couple sharing screen time together 😛

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Hope everyone had a great week! I got back to work, and I’m so glad I took it slow and avoided direct instruction as best as I could. I think I’ll be good to go next week, and then before you know it, it’ll be spring break! (March 28)

I should finish cleaning up Fool Me Twice’s posting draft this weekend, which will be a huge relief to put this one in the finished column, so I can get back to These Small Hours. Book 2 is a bit more ensemble than Book 1. It’s kind of like Mad World — Book 1 was very focused on our core characters, but the storyline is rippling out, gradually drawing in more characters and more story threads (the way they’re supposed to!) So I hope you’re enjoying this broader look at the other people in this world. It was a huge challenge writing Lucky and Britt, but I just fell in love with writing their storyline, and I’m really looking forward to editing their scenes in Book 3, and seeing where they go. I’m also interested in seeing what you guys think of them. I know neither of them are very popular characters, lol, but I had fun pushing myself out of my comfort zone.

I would love to come back this weekend with a Flash fiction update. I miss writing Hits Different and I want to make up those two missed updates, so I can finish on time. But either way, I’ll see you on Monday.

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Fool Me Twice, Series of Table Contents | Chapter 45
Other Updates: The Last Time | folklore

Hope you’re having a good week. I went back to work yesterday, and I came home exhausted, but today is a half day so that’s good for me. And I spent time moving around some assignments so that this was mostly independent work for the rest of the week. I don’t know that I’m up to direct instruction quite yet. I’m so happy to be done with my Covid meds — they interact with my TMJ med, so I couldn’t take that for a week. That always ends up with migraines and terrible sleep, so I get to start them again today.

Flash Fiction will be back for sure next week, and I’m hoping to double up on the weekends during April (and Spring break!) but I also have to make a dental appointment and I’m pretty sure there’s a chance I have to get my wisdom teeth out. If it’s not one thing, it’s another. But I’m just trying to take things one step at a time.

I got back into editing FMT and made a lot of progress. Just about halfway through cleaning up the typos and last minute tweaks (mostly just adjusting dialogue, no scene level changes). I’ll see you guys for an update on Friday!

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Hello 🙂 I’m scheduling this update on Sunday just to make sure it’s ready. I’m finally starting to feel better physically, but I’m worried about going back to work on Tuesday. I just know the kids are going to be going to be off the walls because I’ve never been out three days in a row before (I’ve never even been out TWO days). I can’t even begin to think what my desk looks like. AND I have conferences on Wednesday night, so I’m just — yikes.

Anyway. I decided to be realistic with my time and my energy. I’m really sorry, but I’m just not going to get to Flash Fiction at all from last week or this upcoming week. I pushed myself to get the #Liason week stories out (I cannot believe I was literally up until 11 PM working on The Last Time the night before I tested positive for Covid — like, what.) I posted four chapters of a new novel, 17 short stories and 30k of a short story — I think I can forgive myself for skipping two updates. I’m replacing it with an update of FMT instead.

Not only am I going to be stupidly behind at work, I lost a lot of time editing FMT chapters (the final round of typos I was going to finish up this weekend), so I want to spend this week working on that so I can FINALLY just schedule the chapters and move on with my life and other projects, especially focusing on These Small Hours.

I hope you guys are enjoying Fool Me Twice so far. I’m not getting a lot of hits on it here or at FF.net yet, so I guess I’m a little nervous that maybe I waited too long to continue the series and people have lost interest in this. The rest of the series won’t take nearly as long, and I definitely want feedback from you guys since it’s such an ensemble heavy story. Anyway, I hope you remember to use the thumbs up to let me know you were here and read the chapter 🙂

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Hey! I went to the doctor yesterday morning and got my Covid diagnosis confirmed. I was hoping I’d feel better by the end of the day to write, but I really wasn’t. So I decided to schedule FMT chapters and post a second chapter I wasn’t planning on. Plus, Chapter 42 has preview snippets from next week!

I have to update my Recently Update page but I’m still not feeling great. The fever keeps coming and going, but I feel better now than I did this morning. Hopefully after some more rest (I didn’t sleep well last night but I stocked up on meds today).

If I’m feeling better tonight, I’ll come back for Flash Fiction, but I definitely expect something this weekend. I hope. I’m out of work through Monday, so I’ve got some time to rest and recharge.

See you when I see you!

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