Your Update Link: A Shot in the Dark – Part 4

ICYMI: Mad World, Chapter 51

I hope you’re having a good week! A reminder that I posted the first chapter of Mad World, Book 3, yesterday and the next preview will be up on Tuesday. The full novel will be released in chapters everywhere on Tuesday, October 6. I’ll be scheduling all the chapters next weekend when I finish the editing. I’m about halfway through now.

Today, I finished revisions for The Ghost in the Girl, and those you who read the Flash Fiction version will be pleasantly surprised, I hope. I refined and edited Parts 1 & 2, then mostly rewrote Part 3, adding a few new scenes and rewriting the ending. It’ll be up tomorrow at 7 AM.

Have a great night!

Your Update Link: Mad World – Chapter 51

TWO MORE WEEKS. I’m so freakin’ excited! Please enjoy this first of your two preview chapters and make sure you’re caught up and ready for October 6. Check out the first two books in Mad World and I’ll see you tomorrow for the next flash fiction.

 

Your Update Link: Not Knowing When – Part 4

I’m going to be harassing you basically every day this week, LOL! Tonight, we kick off the fourth week of Flash Fiction, so that’s Monday, Wednesday, Friday AND Saturday. Then tomorrow, you’re getting the first chapter of Mad World, Book 3. It’s already scheduled and ready to go, so it will be up around 7 AM tomorrow like in the old days. You’re getting one more preview chapter next Tuesday — and then the whole thing goes live at 7 am on October 6. I CAN’T BELIEVE HOW CLOSE WE ARE! I’m so excited for you guys to read this book.

And — on Thursday, you’ll have the edited version of The Ghost in the Girl. If you read the Flash Fiction series, you’ll probably still want to peruse the edit. I’m cleaning up typos, some dialogue notes, and I’m contemplating adding just one or two more scenes. I’m still editing that.

It’s a busy week!

Your Update Link: The Ghost in the Girl, Part 3

ICYMI: Signs of Life – Part 1

Happy Sunday! Today is the last part of my 2001 short story, The Ghost in the Girl. As I said in yesterday’s update, I’m shifting my schedule slightly so that I can keep four regular updates a week  but also the idea of a day where I just fill in Liason history I haven’t written yet. This is the last Sunday update for the moment. I mean — I honestly might write next week, but I also might not. You’ll never know 😛

I’ll be cleaning up The Ghost in the Girl this week — fixing typos, adjusting dialogue in a few spaces — then distributing it on all platforms including a full link on the Alternate History page.

I did watch the Liason scene from last week (9/14) a little bit ago, but I want to get caught up on the rest of the week before I think about an episode tag.  I don’t have a lot to say in today’s update because I’ve been harassing you guys a lot lately, LOL, and I’ll be back tomorrow with Not Knowing When.

 

Your Update Link: Signs of Life – Part 1

Vlog Update: Fool Me Twice – Part 6

Happy Birthday to Crimson Glass! With the exception of a brief period in 2012, my GH fanfiction has been online somewhere since September 19, 2002 which means today, CG turns eighteen! It’s insane, LOL, because it means half my life has been spent writing or thinking about fanfiction.

In celebration, I wanted to do something fun and special. I said last night that I wasn’t sure what I wanted to write for my Sunday series once The Ghost in the Girl wraps up tomorrow, so I was thinking of shifting to another series from either 1997 or 1999. But — both of these stories are going to be in depth series. They were actually on my drawing board as full-fledged novels. If I don’t write them as Flash Fiction series, you won’t be reading them for another 3-4 years so I tossed them into Flash Fiction.

Writing one of them on Sundays means that I would be changing what I wanted Sundays to be — short stories and single shots to flesh out pieces of Liason history.  What I’m doing is replacing regular updates on Sunday with Saturday updates. You’ll get Signs of Life on Saturdays for as long as it takes me to write it. Then, on Sundays, when I’m struck with inspiration, you’ll get new Flash Fics there. It feels like a good compromise, and then I can write on Sundays when I truly feel inspired.

In other news — I’m also posting the newest vlog update for Fool Me Twice. There’s a lot of details in here about flashbacks, soundtracking, and even some sneak peeks for subplots. I’ll see you guys tomorrow with the conclusion of The Ghost in the Girl!

ETA: I just wanted to say that I write these posts before I start my Flash Fiction which means I wrote all of this before I got the news that amazing, legendary, iconic, irreplaceable Ruth Bader Ginsburg has passed away. I was literally finishing up my spell check when my friend Lauren texted me and Ang DM’d me. So I just — I just want to say that I hate this year. I hate the fact that we’re losing these people who matter and that we just–please go vote. We can’t do four more years. We just can’t.  I barely think I can manage a few more months of this. 

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Your Update Link: A King’s Command – Part 3

Happy Friday! I hope everyone had a great week! In less than three weeks, Mad World: Book 3 will be here! Crazy to think it’s almost ready! On Tuesday, I’ll publish Chapter 51  (September 22), then Chapter 52 on September 29 before publishing the last 23 chapters on October 6. The chapter numbers are continuing from Books 1 & 2, which is why this book starts at Chapter 51 and Book 4 will start chapter Chapter 76.

I worked on the structure of Book 4’s beta draft to start getting an idea of changes, but I’m really in the early stages because I’m focusing on meeting my editing goals for Book 3. If I keep up at the pace I’m at, I’ll finish the posting draft around September 28, which actually gives me time to do one more read through for any final typos. It’s a really realistic pace — only two chapters a day right now but these first 14 chapters really only had line editing. I think towards the end, where I decided to add or rewrite some scenes, it might take longer so we’ll see.

Fool Me Twice is just about ready to move into the final stage of Discovery which is creating a soundtrack. I’m still refining the flashbacks — I have about eighteen planned, which means I need maybe fourteen more to match one for each chapter. I’m hoping to finish that tomorrow, but it’s okay if it takes the rest of the weekend since soundtracking honestly doesn’t take that long. I’ll have a vlog up for that story tomorrow, and I’m so excited with how this is going. This is the best position I’ve ever been in to start a fresh new draft!

The last thing I want to mention is that on Sunday, I’ll be writing the final part of my 2001 story, The Ghost in the Girl, which means next week — we’re launching a new story. My original plan was to stay in 2001 and write a bit more but nothing on my drawing board is kind of speaking to me yet. What am I thinking about is going to another time period and starting a new series from earlier in Liason history – either Kismet or Signs of Life. If you have a preference, comment and let me know! I’ve attached their descriptions below.

 

 

Kismet Set December 1997. Jason is the newly minted, inexperienced leader of the Port Charles underground. Elizabeth is the black sheep nursing student at General Hospital. They meet over the bleeding body of Nikolas Cassadine, the victim of a drive-by shooting at Luke’s Club that might have been targeted at Jason. When they both end up at the PCPD, arrested for simply breathing, the attraction between them is immediate. But life is never that simple in Port Charles, and Jason has a lot of baggage—an ex-girlfriend he might still be in love with, the ex-friend with benefits who is about to drag him into another crazy scheme, the woman his best friend stood up at the altar on his way out of town, and the controlling family still desperate to drag Jason back home at any cost. Can Elizabeth see past all of this drama and give Jason a chance? Or is there just one too many secrets to deal with? Status: Not yet Published Genre: Romantic Drama Type: Novel Characters: Jason, Elizabeth, Robin, Carly, Emily, Alan, Monica, Taggert, Brenda Couples: Jason/Elizabeth, Jason/Robin

Signs of Life Set December 1999. No one even knew they were friends until Nikolas Cassadine announced Jason and Elizabeth were sleeping together at the annual hospital Christmas Party, and now, suddenly everyone wants to weigh in on the subject. It’s not true, of course, but that’s never stopped Port Charles before. At first it’s amusing when her grandmother and his sister pass judgment, but things quickly get serious when Anthony Moreno’s body surfaces in the Port Charles harbor, and their fictional relationship might be Jason’s only chance to stay out jail. Elizabeth can alibi him, and after all, only Bobbie and Carly know he was shot. They’re not telling anyone, right? Until Carly decides she needs Jason’s help in yet another desperate scheme, and she’ll use any leverage at hand to make him dance her to her tune. Status: Not yet Published Genre: Romantic Drama Type: Novel Characters: Jason, Elizabeth, Nikolas, Sonny, Carly, AJ, Taggert, Edward, Alan, Monica, Audrey Couples: Jason/Elizabeth, AJ/Carly

Hello! Just a quick check in to let you know I’ve posted two new videos on the YouTube channel. One is the Mad World vlog update about the beta draft and the other is my magnum 35 minute opus taking apart the Mike Corbin storyline. As part of the Mike video, I had about an hour’s worth of footage, including 8 minutes of talking the story and my grandmother. I cut three minutes from that section because they weren’t relevant to the story, and I needed to cut a lot, LOL. I’m linking you guys to the 8 minutes as well.

Still working on the YouTube section of the site, but the writing comes first at the moment 😛 See you guys tomorrow!

AND! I have an instagram for Crimson Glass! I’ll be posting on the Story & Reels feature and posting new updates there when I can. Follow me there! I haven’t linked the account with the others in the right-hand column yet because I don’t have an icon that matches yet. I’ll get it.

Mad World: The End Is So Close, Yet So Far (#6) – 8 mins

Dear General General Hospital, We Need To Talk About Mike – 35 mins

BONUS – Full Clip – Talking About Alzheimers & Dementia on The Show

Your Update Link: A Shot in the Dark – Part 3

Thank you so much for the response to Monday’s Flash Fiction update! I really thought that scene would be harder to write, but I was able to get everything in. I don’t write a lot of Brenda, and I tend to write her a bit more silly and comedic than I probably should, LOL.

I have a ton of channel updates coming this week — updates for Fool Me Twice and Mad World’s vlogs as well as a new Crimson Suds episode about Mike’s storyline (I’m actually watching a draft of it while I type this post so it might even be up later tonight).

I finished my read through of Book 3’s beta draft, and I’m happy to say that up until the last few chapters, I don’t need to do more than a lot of line editing. The final two chapters need a lot of work, which I figured since they were a late pull from Book 4’s draft and I was tired towards the end of the process. It was hard to know exactly what I’d need to do with those chapters since I hadn’t reread the whole thing in order since I started the draft.

So we remain on schedule for the October 6 release date, and I’ll have the first of your two preview chapters next Monday or Tuesday.

Book 4 is going to need more work than I thought it might, but I really don’t know just how much.

I’ll see you guys tomorrow with some channel updates, then on Friday with the next Flash Fiction!

Your Update Link: Not Knowing When – Part 3

Happy Monday! In theory, we’re FINALLY on the evening schedule for the weekday updates. In theory. You know my life — it’s weird.

We’re back to 2002, and I am actually writing this update before I start the Flash Fiction at 7 — a little peek behind the scenes, lol. I type this post before I write so it’s all set up and I can post as close to the time when I finish writing as possible. I mention that because I know what I’m planning to write in about fifteen minutes, but whether or not I’ll get to all of it will be an interesting achievement. I’m really excited at least about the first scene because it was not precisely the plan for this story. This plot element was going to happen slightly later, but then I thought — huh — wouldn’t it be interesting if it happened because of this and not that?

I know that’s vague. Go read the update, then come back and think about it. It should make sense.

However, I will admit — I am slightly nervous about being able to actually nail the emotional inspiration I need to truly pull this off, so if you get literally ONE scene in this update, it’s because I agonized over it for 50 minutes, lol.

ETA: I MANAGED EVERYTHING!!!!! 

In other news — I am working my way through Book 3’s Beta Draft, making my final round of notes. It’s taking longer than my initial read through back in August despite only needing to read 25 chapters. That’s because this edit is really focusing on word choice and emotional beats. I’m happy to say that in the first 14 chapters — I’ve only found one scene that needs to be entirely rewritten and everything else is tiny changes. If the rest of the story pulls out that way, then I won’t have to put so much energy into the final draft. I have high hopes 🙂

The Facelift screencapping project is going slower, and I’m gonna be honest — it’s because I’ve hit the section of Liason history where Liz starts to get REALLY annoying about Zander, and I’m just not in the mood. Also, my edits include all of Jason’s scenes that summer and it’s harder to nail down dates because my YouTube playlists are just the Liason scenes, so it’s taking a bit longer. I’ll get back into it!

Your Update Link: The Ghost in the Girl, Part 2

ICYMI: A King’s Command – Part 2

Hope you’re having a great weekend! I’m trying to take a bit of a break this weekend — I started rereading Book 3 yesterday and will be working on that later today. I’m editing videos and working on my script for my next Crimson Suds episode — I’m tackling Mike’s storyline and even going to try to edit some clips into it. I’m going to *try* — that should be up tomorrow or Tuesday depending on editing.

I’ll see you guys tomorrow!