So, first things first: I’ve updated All We Are with Chapter Sixteen. Next week, we say goodbye to this story as I’ll be posting Chapter 17 and an epilogue, as well as the full ebook that went up for the giveaway winners and Patreon supporters this weekend.

I haven’t worked on All We Are now for a month (other than some editing issues) and I already miss it. It was a fun story and it worked out almost as I had intended. I’ll be posting some extra bonus material for that story next week as well — the original plot sketches, some of the ideas I tossed in favor of the final version. There’s already a handful of deleted scenes over at the Patreon site.

Secondly, as I mentioned in passing, I’ve decided to push Bittersweet back a bit. I’m going back to work in September, but I’ll be going back to school as well. I have my bachelor’s and master degrees in History, but I need to my teaching certificate — I’m taking a few years off before pursuing my Ph.D–so I’ll be going back for education classes. I’m taking five classes in addition to working three days a week. Not to mention my best friend is getting married in June, and I’m serving as maid of honor, so there’s stuff going on there. I have a full load of nieces and nephews–and then you know, sometimes I might want to just stare at the ceiling, haha.

So my writing time is going to shrink–I’m just being realistic about that. I don’t want to get into a position where I’m promising you guys updates that don’t happen.

I’m also going to shift into the update schedule I intend to utilize in the fall–the one I experimented with last spring. I’ll be scheduling updates on the weekend, and posting one round-up post a week to catch everything. Which means if you read my work on message boards or other sites than CG, you’ll get your updates on the weekend in the fall.

So, I’ll be finishing All We Are next Monday. Fiction Graveyard will move back to Mondays the following week, with The Best Thing on Wednesdays, and Damaged on Fridays. If I can get enough of TBT done, I’ll be bumping that up to twice a week.

I plan to finish writing TBT and Damaged Season 2 by the end of August, so then I’ll be writing Bittersweet and will probably post it sometime in late September, but I’m hoping no later than October. I’ll keep you guys posted. Bittersweet‘s schedule really depends on how well things go with The Best Thing and Damaged Season 2 this month.

 

Hey! So I have to run a few unexpected errands, so I’m ending the giveaway a half hour early. Thanks to all nineteen entrants! I wish you guys could all win but that would defeat the purpose 😛

So I’ve contacted Jasmin and Jane with the link to the ebook. If you didn’t hear from me, check your spam folders or reply here and I’ll see if we can fix it.

Additionally, every time I do a giveaway, I also release the ebook to my Patreon supporters, so just $1 a month, you can get the perks of advance copies and deleted scenes.

Everyone else will get the last chapter and access to the book on August 10.  Thanks again!

Before we go, I just want to say I’ve decided to push Bittersweet back. I was being a bit too ambitious suggesting I would be able to add another story to my roster at the moment. I’ll be going back to work in September, but I’m also going back to school to get my teacher’s certificate and I’ll be taking five classes. I don’t want to pretend I’ll have as much time to write.

So Bittersweet will be premiering when I wrap up The Best Thing. Thanks guys! I’ll see you on Monday!

When you’ve been fighting for it all your life
You’ve been struggling to make things right
That’s how a superhero learns to fly
Every day, every hour, turn the pain into power

I’ve been singing this song in my head for like three straight days. I hope it’s your earworm now. Ha.

The Best Thing, Chapter 25 has been posted. The Jason/Elizabeth stuff in this chapter is one of my favorites I’ve written. While this story is difficult sometimes, I think overall, some of my personal best Liason is here, so I hope you guys like this chapter as much as I do.

I’m going to the Philly Zoo with my mother, my aunt, my sister, my sister-in-law, and five children under the age of 5. So…say a prayer for me.

Just a few ramblings from me.

One, I updated Chapter 14 and Chapter 15 of All We Are with a few corrections thanks to the ever fabulous Cora 🙂

Two, I added three chapters to Tangle as well as two of the many slideshows I created in 2008. Head over to the Tangle story page for all of those updates.

I will be rewriting Tangle as Feels Like Home, and I’m aiming for a late Fall, early Winter launch of that story.  However, there is some unreleased material for the old version of Tangle. A full chapter and a few scenes from another one that I never posted–you guys will be getting that as well as full outlines for the final few chapters. You’ll know how I intended the old story to end.

 

I really really really hate writing titles for these posts. It’s either boring “Story Title Here Updated” or just “Round-Up” or something else equally inane. I’ll have to work on that schtick.

So let’s get things underway. First, I have Chapter Fifteen for All We Are. There are only two chapters of this left — we’re still scheduled to finish up on August 10 as scheduled. However, I still haven’t had these last two chapter beta read, so I won’t be posting this at Fanfiction.net, Archive of Our Own, or The Road to Nowhere until they are. I really really hope to have the ebook ready by next week so I can do the giveaway.

Second, Damaged was updated on Friday. I hope you guys have read it — please remember to drop me a line if you enjoy it (or hell, if you hate it, I can always use some help). I’m going to start posting over here that it’s updated since I can’t figure out how to get my Facebook posts to automatically updated from that installation the way I can for this. Anyway. Not important. What is important is that Damaged, Episode 2 was posted and Episode 03 will arrive on schedule.

Third, Bittersweet is offically a go. I’m storyboarding the scenes as we speak and plan to post the first chapter on Monday, August 24. So check out the story page that’s already set up and get ready to turn back the clock thirteen years to a time when Courtney was the sweet girl that AJ loved and Sam was still Livve on Port Charles. Ha.

And lastly, I’ll be updating tomorrow with the Fiction Graveyard story, Tangle. I’m still cleaning up the other stories, and they haven’t really been on my list of priorities.

Have a great week! Let me know what you think of All We Are. I’ll see you tomorrow with Tangle, Wednesday with The Best Thing, and Friday with Damaged. 🙂

Hey! So a few weeks ago, I was working on the comments template, but the coding broke the site for a bit. I thought I had fixed it, but today I clicked on the story page for All We Are, and noticed that if I wasn’t logged into my account here at CG, it didn’t show up correctly.

I can’t figure out if this is my computer or not, so could you guys who aren’t logged in to comment please check to make sure All We Are is showing up right?  You do not have to be logged in to comment now (I just approve first-time commenters manually) so I would appreciate knowing if this page is broke or not.

 

Update: According to my lovely posters, you guys are seeing All We Are showing up correctly with the sidebars and whatnot, so merci bien.

I added Chapter 23 to The Best Thing today. Not much chatter today (which is nice, I’m sure for you guys, ha). I didn’t get a chance to add anything to Fiction Graveyard yesterday due to a leaking air conditioner and my allergies being a pain in the ass, so I’ll tackle that tomorrow. Thanks for reading 🙂

Hey! So I added Chapter 14 to All We Are, but I’m not posting it at the other archives because it’s not beta’d yet. I literally sent like 30,000 words to Cora over the last two weeks and haha, I think it was too much. So I’m keeping this chapter here until I hear from her, and then I’ll post it elsewhere.  It’s Chapter 14, and after this, we only have three chapters and epilogue left. I’ll have the giveaway up by Friday.

I’m also pretty excited–I was working on the outline for Bittersweet, and while the first half of the story has always worked really well for me, I had trouble ending it. And then, I had (if I say so myself) a pretty brilliant idea. So I can’t wait to wrap up the outlining and dig into this story.

A bit of a roundup update. The Best Thing, Chapter 22 was updated on Wednesday and I posted Damaged, Season 2 a few hours early. Not much chatter for a change. I hope you guys like the updates and please remember to leave feedback. I like hearing from my readers 😉