Category Archives: Site News

December 29, 2019

Your Update Link: The Next Best Thing

Once I started writing The Next Best Thing, The Best Thing‘s holiday story, I realized that the story I needed to tell was a bit longer than just a two part epilogue. Soooo I’m 9k in and only halfway done. It’s basically a novella. Which means you get Part 1 starting today so that it still finishes on New Year’s Day.

I hadn’t planned on it being…what it is, so I wasn’t ready to post it today or have it be a separate short sequel so I’ve been scrambling to make graphics and the story page. I’ve got the In Progress section updated and at least one graphic made. I’ll be back tomorrow with Part 2!

I also unlocked a long Patreon video I made about The Best Thing and that is linked on the story page. Enjoy!

December 24, 2019

Merry Christmas Eve! I’m posting the first of my two holiday stories, a Christmas epilogue for Bittersweet which picks up about ten days after the original epilogue left off. Jason and Elizabeth are settling into their travels, beginning with Venice while still dealing with old baggage. I hope you guys like it! I’ll see you back on New Year’s Eve for Part 1 of The Next Best Thing (my holiday sequel to The Best Thing. I know, cheesy af, right?)

December 10, 2019

Hey! I’ll be back in a few days will a full update about Broken Girl and holiday stories I’m planning. In the meantime, make sure you’re checking out the YouTube channel. Over Thanksgiving break, I got sick and couldn’t really write, so I filmed a ton of videos — previews of upcoming stories, brief discussions of past stories plus some random videos. Today I posted a bunch of voiceovers of my Scrivener files and a Crimson Glass walk through.

There’s about 30 videos — all of them between 5-20 minutes, most under 15. I have a video planned for every day between now and early January. I still have a bunch to film but I’ve been busy writing. My preview videos have actual spoilers and my past stories have some show rants.

These videos don’t take away from writing time — I made most of them over two days when I literally couldn’t write. So enjoy! Here’s the CG walk through below:

December 5, 2019

Hey. Just checking in to let you know how things are going. I’m working on For the Broken Girl and hope to finish the first draft by the end of the month. I filmed a ton of short videos over the break and am uploading one a day at the channel. The daily posts are really just a mix of previews for future stories and discussion of past stories, then randomly I’m posting videos about other things. A few days ago I posted about Damaged, Season 3, then yesterday I talked about writing process and today I posted about the difficulty in writing.

I’m trying to remember to update the link on the sidebar, but I’m not perfect, lol. Here’s the latest video. I’m gonna go back to writing 🙂

December 1, 2019

Hello! Checking in here on December 1 to let you know what happened in November. I limped into the end of NaNoWriMo about 11 PM, reaching 50k which is great. I finished seven chapters of the first draft of Broken Girl which I’m going to let sit for most of today and then take a look at it to decide the next step. I had almost given up a week ago, so glad I managed stick it out.

Thanks to anyone who has gone to the YouTube channel I launched. I  was sick most of yesterday and filmed a few videos that use captured my screen so I now have content to fill every day of December. I’ll be posting short videos (5-15 minutes) one a day starting today. I’ve made them for every one of my coming soon projects with previews and spoilers as well as videos discussing alternate history and alternate universe. Those are the videos you’ll get every day.

Yesterday, I posted videos for Bittersweet, Kismet, and Mad World Book 3. This morning, I posted videos for Fool Me Twice and Spinning on Axis/No One Else Sees me. In addition to those videos, there’s also one up that introduces me and also one that talks extensively about writing Damaged (thanks to EternalLiason for giving me the idea!). I just wanted to put up a bunch at the start to give you guys something to watch.

Starting tomorrow, one video goes up at 7 AM. I’ve filmed over things — walk throughs of the site, of my Scrivener files, etc, and one talking about anchor scenes and writing, etc. I’ll probably post them sporadically but not on a schedule.

I hope this is something you guys like — I’ve been trying to find a way to give you guys content that bridges the gap between stories and this is probably the best way. It lets me think about my writing without always feeling like I have to be writing. Plus, I don’t do any editing or fancy video things, so it doesn’t even take a lot of time.

So I’ll be linking the channel here at some point. Check it out if you haven’t already! If I reach 100 subscribers (I think) I can change the link so it’s easier to find.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbFS0ipULPwOvZ07DhX1O-w

November 30, 2019

Hey! So I’ve been working for a while on ideas for content I can push out between stories. So last week, I posted the thank you video for you guys and then started filming other short videos I can put on YouTube. Crimson Glass has always had a YT channel where I mostly just put old promo videos I made. It’s connected to my official Google email which means I can’t change the channel name at this point (so frustrating!) but I’m sure you guys will be fine.

Anyway! I’m relaunching it today with a bunch of short videos — a welcome to CG video, two preview videos, and then a video about Bittersweet. Just basically me talking about the writing process, my opinion, and even some spoilers. I also get some rants in about the show, heh.

The best part about this is that I already have enough content to post a video every day through December 21. And next weekend, I’m going to film my Alternate Universe videos.

So check out the channel and subscribe to get daily short videos taken with my crappy webcam and audio in my dining room. LOL! Let me know what you think and what you might be interested in. There’s a Damaged video going up maybe today or tomorrow, I’m not sure yet.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbFS0ipULPwOvZ07DhX1O-w

Please excuse the long URL – I can’t really change that to crimsonglass until I have enough subscribers and I don’t think I’m gonna get 100.