July 24, 2020

Just dropping a note to let you guys know what’s up.  Even though I was hoping that I would only be feeling that bad one day, it turns out it’s lingering. I’ve been really trying to get Mad World done every day  (and I have — I don’t know how good any of it was, but at least it’s there for revisions). I wasn’t able to get a doctor’s appointment for almost two weeks (I’m going August 4) so I couldn’t even get a prescription to feel better.

This morning (Friday), I am feeling a bit more myself but now find myself stressed by everything that’s not done. I’m not referring to Flash Fiction, but really just real life stuff. I was already kind of procrastinating on househoold chores because I was rushing towards deadline on Mad World, but this week I almost missed my online classes — one of which I’m paying for. There was no way I was going to concentrate on a biology class, so it’s not like ditching Mad World would have helped.

Anyway, long story short — being behind and stressed about things has just made me decide to take a few days, concentrate on things that have to be done (dishes, basic chores, Mad World, biology) before trying to get back into my old routine.

I’ll be back with Flash Fiction on Monday and a new schedule for it. I still want to finish An Everlasting Love, so I might do that all at once so it can be off my plate, then I’ll get back into a routine for them.

For anyone worried, what’s wrong isn’t serious — at least not that I know of, lol. It’s just not resolving itself, and NJ is far enough along in the pandemic response that I feel comfortable going to a doctor. It just honestly drains all of my energy. I’m tired right down to my bone and the simplest things have been a struggle. It’s frustrating because I’ve been working really hard to eat well, get a lot of sleep and take care of myself, but that’s 2020 for you.

I’ll see you guys on Monday with Flash Fiction.

July 22, 2020

Hey 🙂 Not a lot to say here today. I wasn’t able to make any headway on the facelift yesterday beyond finishing up edits and organizing screencaps. I had to babysit in the morning, then got my haircut in the afternoon. I think I mentioned a few months ago in my site and story status post that I’d been having some minor health issues since May that occasionally messes with my energy and ability to write for long periods of time. This is the third month in a row that I’m having the same problem, so I’m hoping to see a doctor soon to get it sorted out.

Without getting into details (I want to wait until I see the doctor before I speculate on what’s wrong), it basically just means it’s hard for me to sit for long periods of time and I need a lot of breaks. I’m also really tired. With the Mad World deadline looming, time in front of the computer really needs to be focused on that draft. Today is particularly bad day — instead of feeling better as the day continued, I actually feel worse so I’m going to take a long break before coming back to work on MW in the afternoon.

Normally, in other months, I only had one really bad day where I couldn’t push through and get things done — so hoping I can come back tomorrow. I love writing Flash Fiction, and it’s killing me not to have the energy for something I enjoy particularly when I’ve been on a roll, word count wise.

I started looking at revisions for An Everlasting Love, reworking the setup and how the story unfolds. It’s been kind of fun to spend a lot of time on the setting, making sure it feels like a historicanext l romance. Once I’m finished the discovery part of the revision process, I’ll let you guys know when you might be able to expect the revised novella. The story will conclude Thursday.

July 21, 2020

Your Update Link: Desperate Measures, Part 13

Hello 🙂 Another day, another update. This one is earlier today because I’m babysitting from around 9-11 this morning. Once school starts, and I go back to work, I won’t get to see my nieces and nephew all that much because I’ll be isolating myself from family members just in case so I’m taking all opportunities this summer. As a substitute I might be forced to switch back and forth between districts and schools to make the full paycheck, and we just don’t know what the situation is going to be or if NJ is going to continuing to stay on the positive trend.

Anyway – most of the Facelift stuff is happening between the scenes. As I wrote in my update yesterday, my edits came and I spent most of yesterday ripping them to my hard drive and then screencapping. I’ve basically screencapped 1999-2008, which is great. None of it is organized, lol, outside of August 2002, but I’m going to tackle 2003 first since those are the images I need for the redesign.

The Working Alternate History page is still visible for you guys, and I’m also adding a Content Warning page with a general warning as well as individual story triggers so that you can see them if you need them and skip if you don’t. I’m working on writing copy and filling out details for the Short Stories/Series merge page, then I’ll be tackling Ficlets. Once those new details are done, I’ll start updating the stories. You’ll see what I mean once we get into it. I’ve been rewriting summaries for all older stories to make them more descriptive — they used to be pretty general and vague.

It’s been a lot of fun reorganizing the History section, I think I said this yesterday that it made me realize where I have some deficits in my writing. I haven’t written literally anything you can read set between 1999-2001 which is some of our best Liason stuff. I have things planned for 1999-00, but nothing for Jason’s return in August 2000 or his 2001 run on the show. I’m going to be brainstorming some ideas for flash fiction series and I have something planned for the Liason anniversary next month but I don’t want to get into it because I can’t really properly attack it until next week.

In Mad World progress news, the story just keeps growing. I was working on a really emotional, important chapter yesterday and a scene I thought might be around 1000 words ended up being 2600, and I had to add a few scenes to that chapter to build on what I’d written — which means Book 3 has grown from 35 chapters to 38 — and is now 40 chapters with a double epilogue planned. It’s kind of crazy, lol. Revisions should be interesting next month. You can always view my daily progress using the graph at the side — if you click on it, it takes you to a site where you can see each day broken down.

If you’re a Patreon supporter, I released an unedited Chapter 51 for all tiers. I’ll be releasing 52 on Thursday, and then 53 and 54 next Monday & Thursday to get ready for the alpha draft release for Patreon Supporters at the $3 and above levels. If you’re interested, check out Support for more details.

July 20, 2020

Your Update Link: An Everlasting Love, Part 13

Hey! So next week, I expect to finish up Everlasting Love — which is great because it means I can slot Darkest Before Dawn on Mondays & Thursdays in just time for revisions to start on Mad World, Book 3. I can then take Sundays off again from writing because revisions are a pain in tush, lemme tell ya. An Everlasting Love will go into revisions, and I’ll let you know when you can expect the fleshed out novella.

In other news, a chapter misnumbering error has left me a few days behind  in my own self-declared deadline of July 31 for Book 3’s first draft. No big worries — I’ve pushed the date to August 3, but that doesn’t change the release date of October 6 at all so you guys won’t even see a difference. The only people slightly inconvenienced are my Patreon supporters on the Crimson Love tier, who were due to get the alpha draft on August 1. They’ve been super awesome about a few delay so far, so I’m happy to say I’m not stressed about it all. At least until we get to revisions, and I want to set the whole thing on fire, LOL.

I haven’t made any real progress in my Alternate History design since yesterday because I spent the entire afternoon writing Mad World (added 9k yesterday!). A lot of the images I need to make are from a time period I hadn’t screencapped yet. I did those this morning, so I’ll be working on them this week. Rather than having the History page changing all the time, I created a temporary Alternate History work page so I can play with it and update it so I can see changes, but it’s not crazy for you. You can see the work in progress page here, and I’ll be reporting on that as we move through the week.

I’m actually really excited because I just ordered some new DVD edits — I’ve finally got May-July 2002, and I’ll have more of 2008., as well as padding out my early Just Jason edits. These are great for me for graphics as well as inspiration. I was screencapping my 1999 DVD last night and got inspired to look at some of that time period — and I noticed my 2001 lack of story when I was making the History page so I’m going to see if I can work on that this fall with flash fiction.

UPDATE: After making this post, I ran out to my sister’s to drop off some earrings I’d bought for her, and she asked me to babysit tomorrow morning for my nieces — right around the time I normally do flash fiction. To give my sister credit, once I mentioned this, she offered to call someone else because she respects my deadlines but I told her I could reschedule around it. So tomorrow, flash fiction will be earlier — at 8 AM.

Also, I got back from the store, and my DVDs arrived! Stacey even tossed in a Steve interview DVD from 98-02 which is great because I’m going to be writing a lot from that era in some upcoming projects and I’m excited to have more Steve candid caps to work with. I also got my Liason 02 and 08 DVDs AND my Jason 97 edits. So excited to check them, rip them to my computer, and cap them. I get so much inspiration from these.

 

July 19, 2020

Your Link: Darkest Before the Dawn, Part 8

Hey! I started working on the Alternate History page. I’m going to slowly merge the novels with Short Stories and Ficlets. I actually like the way it looks so far. I haven’t linked any of the short stories yet, and I’m only done rewriting the section from 1997-2003. I wanted to also update the older stories with better summaries and give more descriptive details. Let me know what you think so far.

Back at Jake'sI’m slowly organizing my screencaps at night. A year ago, all of my screencaps were lost when my hard drive failed. I’ve been recreating them and organizing them so it’s easiy to find the ones I wanted. I’m almost done with August 2002, so I’ve added a featured image for Back at Jake’s, one of my, uh, lesser efforts in Short Stories. It’s actually a story I wrote in August 2002 that was centered around the August 27 anniversary of the third year since their fateful meeting.

Kind of insane that we’re almost at the 21st anniversary. This link will change when I move the story into the Alternate History section but if you’re interested in what 18-year-old me wanted to say about this day, go for it. I think this was probably the third or fourth story I’d written for GH. I’d only started writing fanfiction for Liason at the end of July 2002.

I’m going to use the redesign of Alternate History to work on the stories. I’ll finish that section first because it’s the largest one on the site. I’m going to finish rewriting the History page this week, taking it slow and making sure it looks good. Then I’ll start on the individual stories — cleaning up images, content, and moving some things around. Like I said, none of the site work ever takes away from my writing time. I write at 10 AM and 1 PM without fail every day.

July 18, 2020

Your Update Link: Whatever It Takes, Part 12

Hey! Short and sweet update today as I didn’t get a chance to do a lot of site work yesterday evening. I wrote almost 7k for Mad World yesterday noon and my brain decided to die, LOL. I did however get started on the Recent Updates page. I had stopped updating it before the move. The text is there — I’ll add the links later.

I wanted to address a quick concern that working on the site is taking away time from writing — I have a highly structured routine right now. It’s the only way I know how to manage my time, lol, and that’s to make sure I’m keeping to a schedule. I write at 10 AM for Flash Fiction, then I write at 1 PM for Mad World. I generally work on the site right before Flash Fiction, and then for about 30 minutes afterward if I’m not doing a double flash fiction day. Later at night, after Mad World, I might do some more work.  But I guard those writing times pretty closely. (Except today — I have to go to a birthday party at 1.)

I’ll see you guys tomorrow!

July 17, 2020

Your Update Link: Desperate Measures, Part 12

Hey! Just a single update as we’re back on track. I’m also knee deep in the facelift — I put together a quick post summarizing some of the changes I’ve been working on so far. I’ll have a more detailed one as I continue working.  Here’s a list of what I’ve finished so far.

No One Else Sees Me

  • I updated the footer images so that the copyright years are correct (I hadn’t updated the main one on CG since 2016) and updated the link.
  • I added the Featured Banner for No One Else Sees Me.
  • I fixed the bullets for the lists of chapters and the comment links. That’s mostly cosmetic, but it was annoying me, lol.
  • I reorganized the Alternate History Page into sections. Basically, to make it easier to find the stories, they’ve been split into time periods. I’ve also added a few upcoming stories to flesh out the emptier sections. I’m hoping that will, A, make it easier to find what you’re looking for, and B, get you excited about future projects.

 

And that brings me to the poll question! Up until now, I’ve organized my stories by length. Anything longer than 15000 words is on the Alternate History or Alternate Universe pages, while the shorter stories are organized into Short Stories and Ficlets. I’ve already designed to merge the Series section into the History/Universe page respectively.

My question to you guys is — since I’ve organized the History Rewrites by time period, would you like to see me merge the Short Stories and Ficlets page into the main history page?

Reorganize Short Stories & Ficlet pages?

  • Yes (46%, 11 Votes)
  • Don't Care (46%, 11 Votes)
  • No (8%, 2 Votes)

Total Voters: 24

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This poll will run until Sunday. I know a lot of you guys said you use the Alphabetical listing, but I wonder if it would be easier for you guys if all the stories were on one page and then just split up by time period. Let me know what you think of the changes!

On September 19, 2022, Crimson Glass turns twenty years old. It’s been online in its current form (as a WordPress blog) since January 2014. In the last six years, it’s expanded to encompass not only all my fanfiction, but tangential projects like a YouTube channel, a General Hospital section, as well as tons of resources for readers and writers.

It’s also insanely messy and out of date in a lot of places. My goal before September 2022, the 20th anniversary, is to overhaul the majority of the site and clean it up so that it’s more organized and uniform. Below is an expansive to-do list for all the plans and features I’m overhauling.

Major Improvements

  1. Move the site to new domain (http://www.crimsonglass.org).
  2. Create subsites for long stories and series.
  3. Overhaul and merge Alternate History stories onto one primary page.
  4. Overhaul and merge Alternate Universe stories onto one primary page.
  5. Complete General Hospital section
  6. Complete YouTube video section.
  7. New main site theme
  8. Organize screencap and video clip collection.

Subsites | History | Universe | General Hospital | YouTube | Screencaps &Videos


Sub-Sites

  1. For the Broken Girl
    • More Thorough Timeline & Setting
    • Character Descriptions
    • Media: Vlog Playlist
    • Style Review Page
    • Set up Book 2 shell
  2. Mad World
    • Inspiration & Dedication
    • More Thorough Timeline & Setting
    • Media: Complete Vlog Playlist and posts
    • Write new book 3 synopsis
    • Style Review page
  3. Bittersweet & Malice
    • Fix banner issue on tablets
    • Inspiration & Dedication
    • Timeline & Setting
    • Characters
    • Media
    • Create Malice shell section
    • Style Review page
  4. The Best Thing
    • Create Site
  5. Damaged
    • Create Site
  6. Hand Me Down
    • Create site
  7. A Few Words Too Many & Burn in Heaven
    • Create site
  8. Fool Me Twice
    • Create Site
    • Inspiration & Dedication
    • Timeline
    • Characters
    • Media
    • Ricochet
      • Create cover
      • Create series
    • Strike to Kill & Ashes to Ashes
      • Covers & synopses pages

Alternate History

  1. Alternate History Page – Rewrite Summaries & Details
    1. 2003
    2. 2004
    3. 2005
    4. 2006
    5. 2007-09
    6. 2010-12
    7. 2013-16
    8. 2017
  2. 1997-2000
    • Kismet
      • Create Shell
    • Signs of Life
      • Create Shell
    • Counting Stars
      • Create Shell
  3. 2001
    • The Ends of the Earth
      • Create Shell
      • Edit
      • Repost in Fiction Graveyard
    • Flash Fiction Shell
  4. 2002
    • Bittersweet (list above)
    • Back at Jake’s
      • Banner
      • Timeline & Setting
    • Catch Me When I Fall
      • Move to Alternate History category
      • Timeline & Inspiration
      • Featured Graphic
      • Banner
    • Too Dead To Cry

      • Move to Alternate History category
      • Timeline & Inspiration
      • Banner
    • Left Behind
      • Move to Alternate History category
      • Timeline & Inspiration
      • Featured Graphic
      • Banner
    • See You Later
      • Move to Alternate History category
      • Timeline & Inspiration
      • Banner
    • When You’re Done
      • Move to Alternate History category
      • Timeline & Inspiration
      • Banner
    • Some Say Love
      • Move to Alternate History category
      • Timeline & Inspiration
      • Banner
    • No One Else Sees Me
      • Timeline & Inspiration
      • Banner
    • Spinning On An Axis
      • Timeline & Inspiration
      • Featured Graphic
      • Banner
    • Jealousy
      • Move to Alternate History category
      • Timeline & Inspiration
      • Banner
    • Lizzie Does Thanksgiving
      • Move to Alternate History category
      • Timeline & Inspiration
      • Featured Graphic
      • Banner
    • A Pale Shadow
      • Move to Alternate History category
      • Timeline & Inspiration
      • Banner
    • Eternity
      • Move to Alternate History category
      • Timeline & Inspiration
      • Banner
    • It’s Meant the World
      • Move to Alternate History category
      • Timeline & Inspiration
      • Banner
    • A Second Chance
      • Timeline & Inspiration
      • Banner
  5. 2003
    • Tell the Truth
      • Timeline & Inspiration
      • Banner
    • I’ll Believe It’s Not My Fault, Do You Ever Think of Me & I Surrender
      • Move to Alternate History category
      • Timeline & Inspiration
      • Featured Graphic
      • Banner
    • What Makes You Happy
      • Move to Alternate History category
      • Timeline & Inspiration
      • Featured Graphic
      • Banner
    • Coming Home
      • Move to Alternate History category
      • Timeline & Inspiration
      • Featured Graphic
      • Banner
    • Another Dumb Blonde
      • Timeline & Inspiration
      • Banner
    • A Day to Remember
      • Move to Alternate History category
      • Timeline & Inspiration
      • Featured Graphic
      • Banner
    • Apologies
      • Move to Alternate History category
      • Timeline & Inspiration
      • Featured Graphic
      • Banner
    • Everything I Do…
      • Timeline & Inspiration
      • Banner
    • The Real Story
      • Move to Alternate History category
      • Timeline & Inspiration
      • Featured Graphic
      • Banner
    • Applications and Admirations
      • Move to Alternate History category
      • Timeline & Inspiration
      • Featured Graphic
      • Banner
    • Good Intentions
      • Move to Alternate History category
      • Timeline & Inspiration
      • Featured Graphic
      • Banner
    • She’ll Be Gone
      • Move to Alternate History category
      • Timeline & Inspiration
      • Featured Graphic
      • Banner
    • Take Me By the Hand
      • Move to Alternate History category
      • Timeline & Inspiration
      • Featured Graphic
      • Banner
    • Please Remember & Where Do We Go From Here
      • Move to Alternate History category
      • Timeline & Inspiration
      • Featured Graphic
      • Banner
    • Silent Debates
      • Move to Alternate History category
      • Timeline & Inspiration
      • Featured Graphic
      • Banner
    • Unexpected
      • Move to Alternate History category
      • Timeline & Inspiration
      • Featured Graphic
      • Banner
    • Intoxication
      • Timeline & Inspiration
      • Banner
    • Yesterday’s Gone
      • Move to Alternate History category
      • Timeline & Inspiration
      • Featured Graphic
      • Banner
    • Sand and Water
      • Move to Alternate History category
      • Timeline & Inspiration
      • Featured Graphic
      • Banner
    • One Last Time
      • Move to Alternate History category
      • Timeline & Inspiration
      • Featured Graphic
      • Banner
    • Truths
      • Move to Alternate History category
      • Timeline & Inspiration
      • Featured Graphic
      • Banner
    • Cry Ophelia
      • Move to Alternate History category
      • Timeline & Inspiration
      • Featured Graphic
      • Banner
    • Distrust
      • Move to Alternate History category
      • Fix text
      • Timeline & Inspiration
      • Featured Graphic
      • Banner
    • Slipping Away
      • Move to Alternate History category
      • Timeline & Inspiration
      • Featured Graphic
      • Banner
    • More Than Words
      • Move to Alternate History category
      • Timeline & Inspiration
      • Featured Graphic
      • Banner
    • Rest in Pieces
      • Timeline & Inspiration
      • Merge into one story
      • Banner
    • I Shall Believe
      • Timeline & Inspiration
  6. 2004
    • Good Associations
      • Move to Alternate History category
      • Timeline & Inspiration
      • Featured Graphic
      • Banner
    • Timing
      • Move to Alternate History category
      • Timeline & Inspiration
      • Featured Graphic
      • Banner
    • Shadows
      • Timeline & Inspiration
      • Banner
    • Come Clean
      • Move to Alternate History category
      • Timeline & Inspiration
      • Featured Graphic
      • Banner
    • All of Me
      • Move to Alternate History category
      • Timeline & Inspiration
    • Breathe
      • Move to Alternate History category
      • Timeline & Inspiration
      • Banner
    • Everytime
      • Move to Alternate History category
      • Timeline & Inspiration
      • Featured Graphic
      • Banner
    • This Is the Day
      • Move to Alternate History category
      • Timeline & Inspiration
      • Featured Graphic
      • Banner
    • Life Goes On
      • Move to Alternate History category
      • Timeline & Inspiration
      • Featured Graphic
      • Banner
    • The Best Thing
  7. 2005
    • Somebody Save Me
      • Move to Alternate History category
      • Timeline & Inspiration
      • Featured Graphic
      • Banner
    • Noel
      • Timeline & Inspiration
      • Banner
  8. 2006
    • North Star
      • Timeline & Inspiratiob
    • Worth
      • Move to Alternate History category
      • Timeline & Inspiration
      • Featured Graphic
      • Banner
    • Daughter to Father
      • Move to Alternate History category
      • Timeline & Inspiration
      • Featured Graphic
      • Banner
    • For the Broken Girl
    • Reptetitions
      • Move to Alternate History category
      • Timeline & Inspiration
      • Featured Graphic
      • Banner
    • Sliding Doors
      • Move to Alternate History category
      • Timeline & Inspiration
      • Featured Graphic
      • Banner
    • Sanctuary
      • Timeline & Inspiration
      • Banner
    • The Witness
      • Timeline & Inspiration
    • Choose Your Moment
      • Timeline & Inspiration
      • Banner
    • Accidental Fate
      • Move to Alternate History category
      • Timeline & Inspiration
      • Featured Graphic
      • Banner
    • Come On Eileen
      • Timeline & Inspiration
      • Featured Graphic
      • Banner
    • All We Are
      • Timeline & Inspiration
    • There Are
      • Move to Alternate History category
      • Timeline & Inspiration
      • Featured Graphic
      • Banner
    • Mirrors
      • Move to Alternate History category
      • Timeline & Inspiration
      • Featured Graphic
      • Banner
    • Precipice
      • Move to Alternate History category
      • Timeline & Inspiration
      • Featured Graphic
      • Banner
    • Two Strikes
      • Move to Alternate History category
      • Timeline & Inspiration
      • Featured Graphic
      • Banner
    • Carly and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
      • Move to Alternate History category
      • Timeline & Inspiration
      • Banner
    • No Angel
      • Timeline & Inspiration
      • Banner
    • Bad Taste
      • Move to Alternate History category
      • Timeline & Inspiration
      • Featured Graphic
      • Banner
  9. 2007-09
    • Your Friendly Neighborhood Spiderman
      • Move to Alternate History category
      • Timeline & Inspiration
      • Featured Graphic
      • Banner
    • A Matter of Respect
      • Move to Alternate History category
      • Timeline & Inspiration
      • Featured Graphic
      • Banner
    • First Do No Harm
      • Timeline & Inspiration
    • The Next Best Thing
      • move to subsite
    • These Small Hours
      • Create shell
  10. 2010-2012
    • Traditions
      • move to Hand Me Down subsite
    • Feels Like Home
      • on subsite
  11. 2013-2016
    • I Love The Way You Lie
      • Move to Alternate History category
      • Timeline & Inspiration
      • Banner
    • The Things You Can’t Undo
      • Move to Alternate History category
      • Timeline & Inspiration
      • Banner
    • Damaged
    • Other People’s Truths
      • Move to Alternate History category
      • Timeline & Inspiration
      • Banner
    • Merry Little Christmas
      • Move to Alternate History category
      • Timeline & Inspiration
      • Featured Graphic
      • Banner
    • Safe to Love You
      • Move to Alternate History category
      • Timeline & Inspirationr
    • You Can’t Always Get What You Want
      • Move to Alternate History category
      • Timeline & Inspiration
      • Banner
    • A Line in the Sand
      • Move to Alternate History category
      • Timeline & Inspiration
      • Featured Graphic
      • Banner
    • Cast Me Gently
      • Move to Alternate History category
      • Timeline & Inspiration
      • Featured Graphic
      • Banner
  12. 2017-Present
    • Ghosts of Elizabeths Past
      • Move to Alternate History category
      • Timeline & Inspiration
      • Featured Graphic
      • Banner
    • Fool Me Twice
      • create subsite
    • Dirty Work
      • Move to Alternate History category
      • Timeline & Inspiration
      • Featured Graphic
      • Banner
    • Years Go By
      • Move to Alternate History category
      • Timeline & Inspiration
      • Featured Graphic
      • Banner
    • In Your Shoes
      • Move to Alternate History category
      • Timeline & Inspiration
      • Banner
    • Blood Will Tell
      • Move to Alternate History category
      • Timeline & Inspiration
      • Featured Graphic
      • Banner
    • Strong Enough
      • Move to Wishes Came True
    • This Is Me Trying
      • Move to Wishes Came True
    • If Wishes Came True
      • Rename first two parts

Alternate Universe

  1. Merge Short Stories, Series & Ficlets into Alternate Universe Page
  2. All I Want For Christmas
    • Timeline & Inspiration
    • Featured Graphic
    • Banner
  3. Adventures of Lucky & Lizzie
    • Move to Alternate Universe category
    • Timeline & Inspiration
    • Banner
  4. Aurora Dawning
    • Timeline & Inspiration
  5. Daughters
    • Timeline & Inspiration
  6. Death Becomes Her
    • Timeline & Inspiration
  7. Death By Candlelight
    • Timeline & Inspiration
  8. In the Family
    • Timeline & Inspiration
    • Banner
  9. Jaded
    • Timeline & Inspiration
    • Banner
  10. Life’s Little Quirks
    • Timeline & Inspiration
    • Featured Graphic
    • Banner
  11. Rivalry
    • Timeline & Inspiration
    • Featured Graphic
    • Banner
  12. Surviving the Past
    • Timeline & Inspiration
    • Banner
  13. Waiting At Home
    • Timeline & Inspiration
    • Featured Graphic
    • Banner
  14. What Would Happen
    • Timeline & Inspiration
    • Featured Graphic
    • Banner
  15. Yesterdays
    • Timeline & Inspiration
    • Featured Graphic
    • Banner
  16. Adventures of Lucky & Lizzie
    • Timeline & Inspiration
    • Banner
    • Move to Alternate Universe category
  17. Just a Switch
    • Timeline & Inspiration
    • Featured Graphic
    • Banner
    • Move to Alternate Universe category
  18. Playing The Game
    • Timeline & Inspiration
    • Featured Graphic
    • Banner
    • Move to Alternate Universe category
  19. Always An Angel
    • Timeline & Inspiration
    • Featured Graphic
    • Banner
    • Move to Alternate Universe category
  20. Eavesdropping
    • Timeline & Inspiration
    • Featured Graphic
    • Banner
    • Move to Alternate Universe category
  21. Murpy’s Law
    • Timeline & Inspiration
    • Featured Graphic
    • Banner
    • Move to Alternate Universe category
  22. He’s Got Your Hair
    • Timeline & Inspiration
    • Featured Graphic
    • Banner
    • Move to Alternate Universe category
  23. Home For Christmas
    • Timeline & Inspiration
    • Featured Graphic
    • Banner
    • Move to Alternate Universe category

General Hospital

  1. Media & Graphics
    • 100 x 100 icons
    • 60 x 60 icons
    • Signature Banners
  2. The Show
    • Crimson Suds
      • Pick two weekly features
      • Actually update it
    • Photo Gallery
  3. Resources For Writers
    • Locations and Scenes
    • Character Profiles
  4. Random Stuff
    • The Sims 4 Career

YouTube

  1. Complete Mad World Vlog Playlist
    • Create other video posts
    • Finish transcripts
    • Organize Camp NaNoWriMo playlist
    • New series thumbnail
  2. Complete Fool Me Twice Vlog Playlist
    • Create other vide posts
    • Transcripts
    • New Series thumbnail
  3. Create Pages for other Vlogs
    • Revising Broken Girl
    • Site & Story status (needs to be organized into Channel page)

Screencaps & Videos

I get my DVD edits from CurlyQGrl, Stacey, who has been in the GH community for decades. You should check out her site for GH and other soaps going back to the 70s! So my edits are divided by DVD numbers, then the titles on the actual disc. When I screencap, I screencap in batch mode by title and disc. That’s where the numbers come from in this list.

  1. Make sure DVD collection is completely ripped to my hard drive.
  2. Screencap all DVDs.
    • Liason
      • 8
      • 9
      • 10
      • 11
      • 12
    • Just Jason
      • 1
      • 2
      • 3
      • 4
      • 5
      • 6
    • Lucky & Elizabeth
      • 1
      • 2
      • 3
    • Just Liz
      • 1999
      • 2004
    • Patrick & Robin
      • 1
      • 2
      • 3
      • 6
  3. Organize screencaps by date
    • Jason & Elizabeth
      • 001A
        • 01
        • 02
        • 03
        • 04
      • 001B
        • 01
        • 02
        • 03
      • 002A
        • 01
        • 02
        • 03
        • 04
        • 05
        • 06
      • 002B
        • 01
        • 02
        • 03
        • 04
        • 05
        • 06
      • 003A – I started organizing this one by scenes, but never finished
        • Sort August
        • Sort September
      • 003B
        • 01
        • 02
        • 03
        • 04
        • 05
        • 06
      • 004A – I started organizing this one by scenes, but never finished
        • Sort November
        • Sort December
        • 03
        • 04
      • 004B
        • 01
        • 02
        • 03
        • 04
        • 05
      • 005A
        • 01
        • 02
        • 03
        • 04
        • 05
      • 005B
        • 01
        • 02
        • 03
        • 04
        • 05
      • 006A
        • 01
        • 02
        • 03
        • 04
        • 05
        • 06
      • 006B
        • 01
        • 02
        • 03
        • 04
        • 05
      • 007A
        • 01
        • 02
        • 03
        • 04
        • 05
        • 06
      • 007B
        • 01
        • 02
        • 03
        • 04
        • 05
      • 008A
        • 01
        • 02
        • 03
        • 04
      • 008B
        • 01
        • 02
        • 03
        • 04
      • 009A
        • 01
        • 02
        • 03
        • 04
        • 05
      • 009B
        • 01
        • 02
        • 03
        • 04
        • 05
        • 06
      • 010A
        • 01
        • 02
        • 03
        • 04
        • 05
      • 010B
        • 01
        • 02
        • 03
        • 04
        • 05
      • 011A
        • 01
        • 02
        • 03
        • 04
        • 05
      • 011B
        • 01
        • 02
        • 03
        • 04
      • 012A
        • 01
        • 02
        • 03
        • 04
      • 012B
        • 01
        • 02
        • 03
        • 04
    • Just Liz
      • 1999
        • 001
        • 002
      • 2004
    • Just Jason
    • Patrick & Robin
    • Lucky & Elizabeth
  4. Organize Clips into Adobe Premiere for easier editing and assembly
    • By Year
    • By Month
    • By Scenes

July 16, 2020

Your Update Links: An Everlasting Love, Part 12 & Darkest Before the Dawn, Part 7.

I just want to make a quick clarification about An Everlasting Love because I’m seeing the same comments over and over again about Cameron’s paternity. I’m not sure if I’m not not making it clear, but he’s Cameron Lewis’s son. There’s literally no chance that he is anyone else’s son, especially Jason’s. I’ll make it even more clear in the revisions.

In moving news, I’m going through the site page by page to not only check for links and broken images, but to clean up and make updates. Today, I said I’d be going through the subsites. I cleaned up all internal links on Mad World, For the Broken Girl, and Bittersweet. All links & images have been updated.  I also fixed the links on the In Progress page & Alternate History pages.  (I had accidentally linked to the .com address, not the .org).

I also started updating individual story pages. These are going a bit slower because I’m not just replacing links but updating character images. I also want to update other stuff — like adding banners where they don’t exist, and creating featured images for the story pages. When I first opened this site, I only had one set of character images, mostly from around 2008, the last time I’d updated my own collection. But over the last six years, I’ve added characters images for 2001, 2002, and 2012, so some of the stories taking place between 1999-2004 are going to be updated with those earlier images.

So far, these pages are done completely. I’m putting together a full to do list today that I’ll have for you guys tomorrow. Now that the site is moved, I can start getting to work on the rest of the facelist.

  • In Progress – Links updated. Content organized.
  • Complete: History – Images & Banners updated. Missing a few featured banners.
    • Bittersweet – Links & images completed. I still have some content to fill out.
    • No One Else Sees Me – needs a banner and featured image but HTML is cleaned up.
    • Spinning on An Axis – Images updated. Needs a banner.
    • Mad World – All updated. Book 3 Synopsis needs updating.
    • For the Broken Girl – Still some content work to be done, but mostly done.

July 15, 2020

Your Update Links: Desperate Measures, Part 11 & Whatever It Takes, Part 11

Hey! Sorry for not updating yesterday. I’ve been having a bit of trouble sleeping and haven’t been feeling quite myself the last two days. I took it easy yesterday and relaxed, but there are consequences to that 😉 Today and tomorrow will be double update to get back on schedule.

I am a bit behind in Mad World — I had 21 days to write 21 chapters. Now I have 18 1/2 chapters to write in 16 days. I’m not sure what I’ll be doing with that — I think I might try and do an extra chapter on Saturday and Sundays to get caught up. I only wrote one scene on Tuesday, and then three more yesterday. I have two more scenes in the chapter that I would have finished yesterday, but my mother called me. She keeps forgetting that I’m writing between 1 and 4, and LOL. So I think I’ll finish Chapter 52 today, and start fresh with 53 tomorrow to get back on track to a chapter a day.

I don’t think I’ll miss my July 31 deadline quite yet. It’s harder to double up on weekdays, but weekends are more doable, so we’ll see.

In other news — I think I’ve finished updating most of the links and images, at least on the pages you guys use the most. The entire Story section has been updated as has  the Ebooks page. I’ll be looking at the subsites tomorrow, but I also think they’re updated as well. I’ll take a systematic approach to it going forward, but mostly — I’m going page by page to clean them up anyway. Let me know if you see anything broken that needs to be fixed sooner.

See you guys tomorrow!