Hey! Apologies! The chapters on the Bittersweet index page got shuffled. I forgot that my series plugin for WordPress gets cranky so it doesn’t automatically add the posts in order when I schedule them, so I have to manually add the part number.  It’s fixed now and I will be on top that issue going forward. Thanks to Eternal Liason for letting me know!

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Thanks for the great response to Chapter Nine! I know it got left on an awkward moment, but I think Chapter 10 is going to make you really happy.

So an update on how the end of the story is going. I am going to make a major story change which is going to be better for the story overall, but I have to rewrite like 80% of the chapters already completed. I’m already ready to do that, I’ll be jumping into that today, and hopefully I’ll be able to knock those out in the next week or so. I am not worried about running out of chapters because I can easily switch back to one chapter a week to give me more time.

It shouldn’t be too bad, because I know exactly what I’m going to write and I’ll have a three day weekend after the end of my winter practicum and the start of my spring student teacher seminar.

Bittersweet, Chapter 10

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Since the beginning of posting fanfiction for Liason, I have posted at a message board. The Canvas, Liason Underground, some Scrubs, GQ, and Nohnny sites. I used to use the site as a back up — I would post at the board first and then update the site eventually. I did that so often that the bbcodes from ezboard remained embedded in my HTML for some of those updates until I converted to WordPress four years ago.

When I converted to WordPress, I started using my site as the first line of contact and the other distribution areas as a way to reach more readers. I posted at a variety of sites, including Fanficiton.net, Road to Nowhere, and more recently, Archive of Our Own which has a great editor that I adore.

I do all my formatting in Microsoft Word — underline, bolds, italtics, etc. and then I can copy and paste that information to the WordPress site, to AOO, and then upload the file to Fanfiction.net.  When Road to Nowhere was still on Yuku, that wasn’t an issue. It had an HTML editor that allowed for me to copy and paste straight from WordPress.

Tapatalk does not have an HTML editor that I have located at the moment. Until it has one, I will no longer be posting fanfiction at Road to Nowhere. This is in no way a problem with the board. I’ve enjoyed posting there. But my life at the moment doesn’t allow me the extra ten minutes to post at a board when I used to be able to do it in one minute. It’s just a pain.

I am happy to post at Liason message boards in general, so if you have any recommendations for sites not on Tapatalk, please let me know!

My Legal Information & Distribution Policy has been updated to reflect this change.

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The day is finally here for new material! I am scheduling this post ahead of time so that it posts early and on time.  I will be posting my chapters at 7 AM on Mondays and Wednesdays. If I have time in the morning, I will also post those updates at the other places: Fanfiction.net, Road to Nowhere, and Archive of Our Own. If not, I’ll try to get to it at the end of the day or throughout the weekend.

Bittersweet – Chapter Nine

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All right, this is the last daily update! I have, as promised, posted the last edited chapter of Bittersweet: Chapter Eight. Chapters Nine and Ten are already scheduled to post at Monday and Wednesday, 7 AM.

And, also as promised, another entry in the Workshop series, Fool Me Twice: Part Four. I wrote it in 54 minutes.

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I updated Bittersweet, Chapter 7 and also cleaned up the Workshop page to make it more clear what is what. I added a new series there — deleted scenes — and took those posts from the Previews page.  So now Previews only has excerpts and previews for upcoming stories, Plot Sketches are outlines of stories I’ve written or discarded, and Deleted Scenes (found on workshop) are outtakes and alternate scenes for stories I’ve already published.

I also updated the Recent Updates page to be more current. That’s the best place to go for a complete list of updates if you’ve missed a few days rather than scrolling through the blog.

I’ll be back tomorrow with another Workshop update as well the last edited chapter of Bittersweet before new material is published on Monday.

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Hey! So it’s a double update tonight. I have another scene from Fool Me Twice for this week’s workshop.  I wrote it in about 32 minutes because I don’t have an hour for it tonight, but I’m off from work the entire weekend, I should be able to carve out another 30 minutes to make up the time sometime Saturday or Sunday.

You also get the next updated chapter of Bittersweet tonight. I’m soooo excited about posting the next chapter on Monday. There’s so much awesome coming in this story, guys, and I cannot wait for you guys to read all the new material. Some of my absolute best Elizabeth stuff is in this story.

So: Fool Me Twice, Part 3 and Bittersweet, Chapter 6.

I’ll see y’all tomorrow!

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I’m telling you, there are days when I feel like prayer works because we got our blizzard, woot! I mean, not here in Camden County but it’s bad enough that my school district closed and my second job at a tutoring center just cancelled for tonight. Freedom, my friends. FREEDOM.

I’m posting early so I can get to my other daily tasks this morning and spend part of the afternoon writing. I’m excited about where I am in Mad World, so it’s been frustrating not to have time or energy to write. This nine day practicum is a super waste of my life because the guy I’m with teaches science and social studies, I’m only there to see social studies, and he does, at best, an hour spread over three block periods. Ugh.

But I’m super excited for student teaching, which will give me a lot more control over the composition of my day, and I’ll also be done work an hour earlier (going in an hour earlier, but oh well). We’ll see how the schedule goes.

There is some good news on the Bittersweet front. I stopped writing it about three weeks ago, and then yesterday and this morning, I reread the material I had written, and there are still problems but I don’t think I have to do anything super drastic to fix them. Just edit a few things, change the POV for a few other scenes, but I feel better than I did before.

Here is your updated Bittersweet, Chapter 5. See y’all tomorrow.

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I have nothing witty to offer today. I’m tired, I forgot to buy more cough drops for my sinus infection, and I’m praying for a snow day so I can get an extra hour of sleep.

Bittersweet, Chapter 4

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Apologies for the late posting. Today was my first day student teaching, and then I had to go to my second job, and then I had homework. Ugh. I can’t wait until the weekend unless the snow-pocalypse they’re threatening for the Delaware Valley gets school cancelled Thursday. Here’s hoping.

Chapter 3 of Bittersweet, edited

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