Update Link: Invisible Strings – Part 7

Happy Monday! It’s August 1 which means it’s Becky’s 25th anniversary! I can’t believe how many years I’ve been watching and loving the character of Elizabeth. I wasn’t able to finish my #Becky25 thread on Twitter because it kicked off around the time drafting for Counting Stars picked up. I’m still going to work on it when I have time.

In case you missed it,

• I also updated Watch Me Burn with Part 2 yesterday! I’m doing pretty good with keeping Recent Updates page up to date, so bookmark that if you’re having trouble keeping up.
• New videos are up on the main channel. I’m embedding yesterday and today’s.
• 10 YT subscribers away from a custom URL! I wanna have http://www.youtube.com/crimsonglass (if it’s available)

I haven’t had a chance to  update Patreon perks this morning. I have a doctor’s appointment at 12 and then another one at 4, so hopefully I’ll get that done between those appointments. See you guys tomorrow for Scars & Mad World!

Update Link: Watch Me Burn – Part 2

Hope everyone’s having a great weekend! In addition to a Flash Fiction update, I have some main channel updates and some housekeeping.

Videos

• We did the second WatchParty where I watched about 50 minutes of Jason and Elizabeth from September 2008 (there are also some rants).
• Then, I posted the Summer 2022 Schedule video. You can check out the video below if you want to listen me walk through the schedule or check out the Canva Projects I used: Posting Schedule | August Writing
• I’ll be posting again on the main channel, but I won’t do separate posts here for the videos. If you want to subscribe to the YouTube channel, that would be awesome. I’m 11 subscribers away from getting a custom URL, woo 🙂
• Today a Fool Me Twice video will go up, and then videos will go up on Mondays & Sundays for the rest of August to go with the August Writing Schedule.

August Writing

• I’m going to pick the next writing project on September 5, so I’m spending all of August getting a bunch of projects ready, so I can play with all of them. Every project has a time and place, and I want to pick one that really feels right. This should also make it easier to start a new project in the middle of the year..
• The projects I’m working on are all really different, so there’s an excellent chance one is going to “speak” to me, lol.
  • Fool Me Twice, Book 2 – set in 2018
  • For the Broken Girl, Book 2 – set in 2006
  • Malice, sequel to Bittersweet – set in 2003
  • These Small Hours – set in Fall 2008
  • Burn in Heaven, sequel to A Few Words Too Many – Set Fall 2007
  • Kismet – Set Decemer 1997.

Crimson Glass

• When I first started writing again in 2014, my first two novels (A Few Words & The Best Thing) were separated into parts which made the stories more annoying to read.
• I’ve already reorganized The Best Thing into one list so that’s much easier to read. I’ll be doing the same to A Few Words shortly.

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Update Link:  Mad World, Book 4 – Chapter 104

Hope you’re having a good day 🙂 I’m doing a second Watch Party livestream tonight at 6 PM EST. I’m going to be watching scenes from the Fall of 2008 for Jason/Elizabeth to work on brainstorming These Small Hours, a possible upcoming future project. If you’re interested, check out the embedded video below and come to YouTube to join the chat 🙂 The stream will stay public if you want to watch it later.

Update Link: Scars – Part 12

Happy Friday! I’m pretty excited to be bringing back Scars, which was last updated in November. I had hoped to have it back much sooner, but we’re here and ready to go! The story has been plotted out and will be updated twice a week until it completes in early September. I’ll be back with Part 13 on Sunday.

If you’re having trouble keeping up with the daily updates (totally understood), don’t worry 🙂 The updates will slow down in September when I return to week and return to a permanent Friday-Monday updates until August. Any non Flash Fiction updates will be made on Mondays all at once, and I’m going to do a much better job of keeping the Recent Updates page up to date.

Let me know if there’s anything else I can do to make it easier for you to find stories if you’re catching up later 🙂

I’ve finished plotting our Monday Flash Fiction, Invisible Strings. It will be 22 parts and will go on hiatus after August so I can finish Scars and The Last Time, then it returns in November to run alongside Watch Me Burn. Watch Me Burn is the only story that doesn’t have a plot sketch, so I don’t know how long it will be. I’m going to do a few parts to see how it feels, then have it figured out by the end of the summer. So glad you liked the relaunch of that yesterday!

And, saving the best news for last, Counting Stars is completed! The Alpha Draft clocked in at 27 chapters and 96k words. It’s really different than I’ve written — a narrow focus on the romance and characters, with a straightforward main plot. Looking forward to what the Patreons think so I can make adjustments for the second draft.

Patreon Updates

• Added Counting Stars, full Alpha Draft, for Crimson Obsessed tiers. The weekly post for Crimson Stalker was also updated with Chapters 21-27.

I’ll be editing Counting Stars in September and October, and posting will begin on Monday, November 7, 2000.

Update Links: Mad World, Book 4 – Chapter 103 | Watch Me Burn – Part 1

Today, I’m starting the rewrite of Watch Me Burn. I appreciate your patience and willingness to go along with my insanity. I promise you, it will be worth the wait. The Flash Fictions are meant to be my version of an Alpha Draft, but writing and posting as we go to get your feedback, so I can adjust for the revisions. I was really happy with how Signs of Life came out, and I think Watch Me Burn could be on the same level if I take my time and do it properly.

In other news –

• Recent Updates is actually up-to-date. I had two months of updates to add. I’m going to try to do better at updating it at least once a week.
• Counting Stars, the alpha draft, is almost done! This afternoon, I’m going to write the last two chapters. I’ll be posting that in November & December.
• Mad World is scheduled to conclude on August 25, when I post Chapter 115 & Epilogue. It seems weird to be finally at the end of the journey, but I’m excited to close this chapter and work on the next project.

Update Link: The Last Time – Scenes 1-4

I hope everyone is having a good week! I feel like this summer is basically me just going back 15 years and finally writing stuff from 2007. I’ve never really dipped my toe in this era of Liason because I wanted to slap Elizabeth around most of the year. It took me a long time before I felt like I could get a handle on her voice and POV.

The Last Time was the second-place runner up in the Patreon poll which rewrites the paternity reveal. It’ll pick up kind of halfway through the elevator scene (literally after the marriage proposal). It’s a unique Flash Fiction in that I’ve designed it in the style of my stories like Karma, If Don’t Try With You, Shadows, etc with song lyrics and numbered scenes. There are 56 scenes. (Listen). The plan is to hit the timer and write as many scenes as possible in 60 minutes, then post what I finish.  When we’re all done writing 56 scenes, I’ll clean up and repost. Hopefully that makes sense.

I usually manage 4 scenes in 60 minutes, but it depends on how long the scenes are. Tentatively, I’ve scheduled this to conclude September 11, but it might be sooner. Might be later. But definitely around that point.

Tomorrow, we relaunch Watch Me Burn! (and another chapter of Mad World!)

And on Thursday or Friday, expect a video and post for Site & Story Status – Summer 2022.

Update Link: Mad World, Book 4 – Chapter 102

Update Link: Invisible Strings – Part 6

Hope everyone had a good weekend! I finished Act 2 of Counting Stars, so only seven more chapters to go! I also set the release date — November 7. I’ll be releasing four chapters all at once for seven weeks. I think that works better than the way I’ve been posting Mad World — you can check out all the chapters for that week at once and read at your own leisure.

I finished the Jul-Dec 2022 posting schedule. I’ll be updating the Production Schedule page soon, but you can check out the update here.

See you tomorrow for Mad World!

Patreon Updates 

• Added Counting Stars, Alpha Draft Chapters 13-20 for Stalker
• Added Crimson Discovery #22
• Added Crimson Check #26
• Added Mad World, Early Access Chapters for Love (Chapters 102-104)

Update Link: Mad World, Book 4 – Chapter 101

I sat down to figure out the schedule for Flash Fiction for the rest of the summer, including plotting out the rest of Scars, which I hadn’t done since it was on hiatus.  With two updates a week, Scars will complete in early September. I’m working on actual calendar for you guys to look at with the schedule as we move out of the summer and into the fall.

ETA:  Jul – Sep 2022 Calendar

Counting Stars is going great. The chapters are shorter than my norm, at least in the alpha draft, so it’s been easier to write two chapters a day. I’ve completed 17 and have 10 more to go. When it’s done, it’ll be the size of a typical romance novel, which makes sense since it’s a straightforward romance. We haven’t had one of those in…I don’t think I’ve ever done a project where the entire conflict is the Liason romance, so that will be really fun. I have 9 days left to write 10 chapters, so finishing on schedule by July 31 looks great.

The last bit for this week is that with the new recording setup organized, I’m going to do weekly research streams. This is basically me throwing up clip compilations to watch to get the idea of a story and ideas for characters and what not. This week, I’m doing a deep dive for Kismet (set in 1997), so I’m watching Jason Morgan from fall of 1997. Next week, we’re jumping forward to These Small Hours, so it’s Liason in summer and fall 2008. If you’re a Patreon subscriber at the Obsessed and above level, you know I’ve been working on deep dive discovery for several projects to have a range of options ready.

We’re going to be going live at 6 PM EST tonight, but the stream will stay public if you want to check it out later.

Update Links: Signs of Life – Epilogue | Not Knowing When – Part 6

It feels so bittersweet (ha) to be finishing up Signs of Life. I added it to an already overloaded writing schedule in September 2020 because I wanted to do something to mark the 18th anniversary of the site. It’s taken me two years and a few breaks to bring it to completion. I’m so proud of this story — it’s definitely my best flash fiction — and I’ve been overwhelmed by the support you guys have given this one. If you’re one of my wonderful readers who aren’t into replying, please give me a thumbs up if you’re happy with how the story ended. The little icons are at the end of the chapter.

It’s also the last day for (re)posting Not Knowing When. I hope you’ve enjoyed revisiting this flash fiction. I’ll be cleaning up Signs of Life and getting it ready to repost and distribute to the other archives.

And in the last bit of news, we’re juggling the flash fiction schedule a bit. For the #Becky25 project,  I was organizing clips from Jake’s kidnapping and got sucked into the summer of 2007 with my clips which is something I should have done before writing Watch Me Burn. I think this was probably the wrong story to put into a slot where I only write 20-40 minutes — it should definitely be a 60 minute story. It wasn’t until I wrote yesterday’s Jason/Elizabeth scene (Part 5) that I think I really found the voice for Elizabeth and the path I want to take for Liason. Plus, I have some of my timeline wrong for the summer. So the first few parts honestly don’t work for me. I hurried some scenes, and it’s going to drive me insane, which usually ends in tears for me, lol.

So, starting next week — here’s the schedule:

• Monday – Invisible Strings 
• Tuesday – Scars (returns!) Skipping this week, though because I have an interview for a history job (yay), but after this week
• Wednesday – Right Where You Left Me – rewrite of Metro court hostage crisis, picking up from the elevator. Part of the original Patreon vote and nearly won until Watch Me Burn slid in from behind.
• Thursday – If it’s ready, Watch Me Burn (relaunched and rewritten)
• Friday – Scars (returns!)
• Sunday – Watch Me Burn

Mad World continuing to be posted on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays.

When Scars ends, Watch Me Burn will slide into that slot. I’ll be updating on Tuesdays starting August, and Scars will be updated twice a week. I’d like to finish that before I go back to school.  Right now, I think I’ll be bringing back Flash Fiction Weekend — one story updated on Fridays & Sundays, and a second one on Saturdays. The new story is already planned down to the ending beats. Watch Me Burn is more like Scars and Signs of Life — I don’t know how long until we get into the story and develop the situations.

I hope that makes sense to everyone. Apologies for the switch up, but it’s an important part of my process to do what feels right in the long run, and I think this is the best decision. I’m making up for it by adding more updates.