I’m actually pretty proud I held out this long in posting. I said I’d be posting the first chapter of this tomorrow morning London time. Ha. Well, I’m sitting here, in London, and I consider 1 AM to be morning. 😛 I’ve been working on this for over a month, and I’m just in love with it, so I hope others will love it as much as I do.

If you read the preview chapter I posted a few weeks ago, there are a few tweaks as well as a a second scene with Sonny/Jason.  Click here to go to the story page: A Few Words Too Many. I hope you guys like it, please let me know what you think!

I started converting Crimson Glass to WordPress in January, and had hoped to be finished almost a month ago. The bulk of the site had been moved over by then, but a few stories had remained. In another week or two, that will be complete, which makes me happy. I’ve wanted to convert to WordPress for years (even tried it once before my great disappearance) but in the six years of my hiatus, someone wrote a plug in that actually made it possible.

So, here’s where it stands: Everything has been moved over in its completion, which the exception of Sanctuary, Yesterdays and Aurora Dawning. I had actually forgotten AD because for some reason, it wasn’t posted on the old CG, so I’ve had to reformat it. I’m still working on the layout of that section, so expect it to look messy. Those three stories are being moved over in small chunks (Two chapters of Yesterdays a day, two or three of Sanctuary, and one part of AD at at time.) At that rate, it should be done in no more than two weeks. I’m going on vacation on Monday, March 31 for three days to Oxford, England, and doubt I’ll do much more than writing in my free time.

I finished reposting I Shall Believe, so all thirty three chapters are now online here. With that finished, I can move towards posting new stories. Starting tomorrow, with the first chapter of A Few Words Too Many, and then probably when I get back next Thursday, I’ll start reposting Daughters, with its revisions and its conclusion.

In poll news, it looks like after I finish Daughters, Few Words, Tangle, and These Small Hours, you’re getting The Best Thing followed by Mad World, but I’ll wait until June 1 and the poll officially closes to start digging in beyond plot sketches 😛

I’m feeling a little guilty since I’m not planning to post anything new this week.  I finished Shadows last week, and A Few Words Too Many and Daughters are returning next week (Sunday), but other than slowly moving over older stories, there’s nothing new and I’m trying to get my writing together so that’s something new at least once a week.

So, I’m posting some more previews. The opening snippet to a profanity-laced rewrite of the paternity debacle in 2006, in which Elizabeth Spencer lets Lizzie Webber out to play. This is called No Angel, and will be a short story posted when it’s finished. It’s not being officially shuffled into my writing schedule, just when I get annoyed because it’s so much easier to write angry.

I’m also posting a short scene from A Few Words Too Many, Chapter Three.

Let me know what you think and click here to read the previews.

I updated a story description for the poll, and it’s vastly different than the original one, so I wanted to remark on it here. It’s currently in the lead, so I wanted to be sure people wanted to read it as it’s been plotted. I saw that it was winning so I sat down to jot down some thoughts and then spent an hour plotting it, because once the idea comes, you have to go with it.  The Webber family angle is going to be much more minor than I had anticipated. Title may also change at some point.

The Best Thing – Set in 2005. Sam died giving birth to her daughter and left custody to Jason, whom everyone believes is the father. He and Elizabeth reconnect as he struggles with the death of his friend and raising a child.  Her family returns to town to attend Audrey’s funeral, while Carly tries to convince Sonny to sue for custody of his daughter, after learning she cannot have more children of her own. Sonny begins to spiral into a dangerous breakdown, leading to a deadly power struggle with Jason that threatens everyone close to them. Jason/Elizabeth, Sonny/Carly, Johnny/Nadine (Because I’m a dork)

Finally, after almost two weeks, I have finished Shadows. Part 3 is posted, which you can read by clicking the featured banner to the right, or click here: Shadows.

I posted a poll to see which not already posted story readers want to see next. That poll will be up until June, since I have a TON of in progress stuff that has to be sorted before I can devote myself to anything else.

The edited chapters of Daughters will be along as soon as I finished reposting I Shall Believe, which should be in about ten days (roughly March 29). On Sunday, March 31, I’ll post the first full-fledged chapter of A Few Words Too Many (which includes the prologue piece I posted earlier and an extra scene). I would wait until April 1, but I’m leaving for a short vacation in Oxford on March 31.

While I’m working on FWTM, I’ll also be finishing up Daughters and working on the revisions of Tangle and These Small Hours. Daughters will be completed by end of May at the latest, and both Tangle and These Small Hours will resume posting sometime in either late May or early June.  Please, respond to Shadows – Part 3 and vote in the poll to see what story I should be day dreaming about when I should be paying attention to bus stops 😛

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I’m working on the next part of Shadows, but it’s turning out to be somewhat long. Would you rather I stop now (about 11 pages, 4000 words) and have four parts or continue so it’s about 8000 words, which is closer to 20 pages, and keep to three parts? Please reply and let me know.

I’m looking for a beta reader for A Few Words Too Many. If you’re interested, please reply and let me know.

 

 

In Progress Stories

Shadows – Part 3 is coming along slowly because the scenes are longer than I had anticipated, so it’s going to be more like this weekend, which is frustrating because I want it done, but oh well 😛

Daughters – Working on editing the chapters, but I won’t be posting them starting March 17. I’m going to wait until all the chapters are edited and I finish the last three so I can post in spurts and also cross this one off the list.

Tangle – Working out my rewrite, and hope to be posting sometime in May.

A Few Words Too Many – The rewrite is going really well so far, I may move posting up to April if it keeps rolling along, and post that instead of Daughters or Tangle.

These Small Hours – I’m reworking my original outline, it feels a little dated and missing some elements so it’s slated to return in late May, early June.

Other Stories Planned

Mad World – Working on the revisions, and hope to have it back in late summer.

Fallen From Grace – Plan to have it back in the fall. I’m working on it when it feels like being written, but I don’t plan on posting it until I’ve completed it.

Life for Rent – Plotting out the second two stories, and will be working on them off and on. Two stories left, will be posted when completed. No planned return date.

Damaged – In the very early stages. No planned posting date.

Heaven Forbid – In the early plotting stages. No planned posting date.

Burn in Heaven – Waiting until Few Words Too Many is completed, but tenative plot plans are in mind as I’ve been working on these off and on for years.

The third part of Shadows is going be even later than I thought, because Jason and Elizabeth keep chattering away and I can’t make them stop. Oy. So as an apology, I’m offering a preview of a story that I’ve been working on for a while. I decided to rewrite Poisonous Dreams so I could write the sequel the way I wanted to, and plus I ended up not enjoying the original much, so I decided to give it a second shot.

I am posting the prologue of A Few Words Too Many, but I probably won’t be posting this story before May, though it’s giving me less issues than anything else I’m working on, so you never know.

Click Here: A Few Words Too Many – Prologue and please reply and tell me what you think!

Due to the extreme length of I Shall Believe (33 chapters and a prologue) and it’s relative old popularity, I am reposting it in chunks and also posting it for the first time at The Road to Nowhere, so it’ll be posted more slowly than my other stories, but I’m working on it. The prologue is now up. You can start the story by clicking here: I Shall Believe