This is a General Hospital fanfiction archive that concentrates on the pairing of Jason Morgan and Elizabeth Webber. You will also find a lot of stories that feature Sonny and Carly Corinthos, Patrick Drake and Robin Scorpio, and Nikolas Cassadine and Emily Quartermaine. The stories are written completely by me, Melissa (LissieLove) and features novels, short stories, and other GH-related material. It has been online since September 19, 2002.
If you don't like Jason and Elizabeth as a pairing or you have any fondness for the character of Franco, then you should probably click the back button and continue on your way. Happy travels. I hate Franco. He is a lying, violent, sociopathic piece of shit, and I hope this character gets yeeted into the sun. Thank you.
Hey! The last of the new flash fiction series is here. This one is another take an idea I think I posted about a year ago but it didn’t feel cohesive enough at the time to go on with. I played with the premise a bit, and I think you’ll be happy with it.
I also wanted to show off a few things at CG I’ve been working on the last few days.
I’m doing a livestream on YouTube tomorrow at 2 PM EST (Sunday, June 7). This is the weekly writing update that I do for my Patreons, but I wanted to open it up to the public this time to show you guys the kind of perks even the $1 Patreons get. You can use this link to come to YouTube and chat with me. Or, if you can’t make it, feel free to ask any questions here and I’ll answer it there. I’ll put up a transcript for anyone who isn’t into views.
I figured out the Multiple Themes plug in and started moving Mad World oer. The template site is here: Mad World and Book 1 is mostly done. I’ll be working on that off and on throughout the week.
I won’t be posting every time I put up a new flash fiction on this new schedule. Once you guys get used to it, maybe in July — you’ll know you can check the site every day except Sunday for new content. I’ll also make sure to keep the Recent Updates page updated.
This is the second of the three series I’m launching this week. It was written in about 21 minutes and was another Patreon request. Flash Fiction page has been updated.
I’ll be back on Saturday with the last of the new series. Broken Girl will be posted tomorrow at 7 AM.
Thanks so much to skatiefan for requesting this series as her Crimson Obsessed Story Request benefit at Patreon. I’ll be updating this every Tuesday. Follow me on Twitter where I’ll post sometime in the evening that I’m starting the 20 minute timer.
I updated the Flash Fiction page as well. I’ll see you guys tomorrow for the first part of Desperate Measures, a Patreon request from Melinda.
I was originally going to start the new CG Flash Fiction feature tonight, but to respect #BlackOutTuesday, I will be posting tomorrow. If you’re interested in learning how you can help #BlackLivesMatter, please check out the link below.
As everyone knows, the last two months have been difficult for literally every person on the planet. We’ve all had our own unique challenges that have made isolation and social distancing an uphill battle.
It’s been a struggle for me, personally, to deal with mental health as I live alone and was cut off from pretty much my entire social network outside of my online communities. (Thank you to everyone who’s reached out, commented, or even just clicked like — you have no idea what you’ve done for me.)
I also had some professional difficulties as I was switched from teaching one curriculum to another and my class size doubled. I had four classes (three ELA, one science) of sixth graders with an overall size of maybe 82 students. Now I have six classes of Spanish, Grades 4-6, with an average class size of 28 with an overall population of 170.
It…was a lot.
I also had a minor health issue that I didn’t really get into publicly that really took apart my stamina and energy. It was hard enough to get through my classes and teaching, much less writing. It’s mostly cleared up for now and hopefully it won’t come back.
I still feel good about my writing, and I’m glad that Broken Girl is getting a great reception. As long as my health continues to stay where it is, we’ll be good to go this summer.
I hope everyone is staying safe and taking care of themselves.
Site & Channel Status
I have a Mad World series for the channel that will be premiering this week on Tuesday & Thursday. This week it’s twice, but it’ll probably be once a week after that.
I’m planning a HUGE overhaul to Crimson Glass this summer. As I said, I’ll be moving Mad World over from its subdomain and merging into the site. I’ll also be closing down Damaged and Hand Me Down subsites. I need to rewrite the Word Press coding for CG — it’s a few years old and needs some clean up.
I also want to revamp the story pages for my longer novels so that they look a bit cleaner and easier to navigate. I have some really interesting ideas about using multiple themes to make each novel its own experience, but I’m not sure yet if that’ll work.
EBOOKS! I am going to make them a priority this summer. Using Scrivener will make their creation soooo much easier. Half my problem was formatting in Sigil, but Scrivener lets me create a template for the ebook, and then uses my existing writing file to create the book. I’ll have more on that in July.
Return of Flash Fiction!
I’ve been searching for a way to make flash fiction posting more regular and work for my brand of writing. I’m not much of a impulse writer and I’m not great at coming up with my own prompts.
I took three basic ideas I’ve been playing with and wrote out short outlines. Basically I decided — what is the premise, who are the characters, what is their relationship to each other, and the ending.
On Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays, I’ll post a notice on Twitter that I’m setting a timer for 20 minutes, then I’ll write and post the results. I’ll update each series weekly.
When a series completes, I’ll take the finished product, edit it together, and the post as a complete short story, novella, or whatever it ends up being.
That starts June 2. I’m looking forward to breaking my writing with fresh content every week!
Story Updates – For the Broken Girl, Books 1 & 2
Broken Girl, Book 1 has been completed. I’ve scheduled the chapters to post on their schedule. The final chapter will post Friday, July 17.
Once that’s done, it’s mostly just remembering to occasionally update the main page and post the chapters at Fanfiction.net and Archive of Our Own.
I’ve made a bunch of notes for Book 2 so that it’ll be easier to write that when we get there, I have a basic structure already to go.
Story Updates – Mad World, Book 3
I am officially pushing out the publication date for Book 3. It was scheduled for September, but I think we’re looking more like mid-October. It’s not something I’m happy about, but I knew that if I hadn’t made decent progress by the end of May, I was going to end up squeezing my revisions again which I did with Book 2 and Broken Girl.
It’s just too much pressure on myself. It’s better for me to finish the edits on Broken Girl and the ebook this week, then take a day or two of no writing at all before going into it in June and July. Book 3 will be my Camp NaNoWriMo goal this July — and that’s fitting. I have great success in finishing Mad World in July.
This does push some of my schedule back a bit but not terribly. The plan is to take 6-8 weeks for the alpha draft (June 1-July 31) and then 6-8 weeks for edits (August 1 – September 30).
That’s about as much time as Broken Girl took once I really got started. I had struggled throughought January to get anything done, but in February and March, I finished the alpha draft then did revisions in March and April. It also built in a lot of extra time for me to be sick, to teach, to rest, etc. Four months seems right.
After Mad World
Here is a tentative schedule for the projects on my planning slate. I’ve broken down the specific details at the bottom of the page. All of these dates are subject to change, but as you can see — I’ll average about three books a year for the next three years.
That would clean out the majority of my planned projects.
Hey! Checking in with some brief news for you. At 9 am, I’ll be posting the June 2020 site & story status which has a lot of info and details talking about plans for this summer and the rest of the year, but here are some quick highlights:
I am completely finished editing For the Broken Girl, Book 1. All the chapters and update posts have been scheduled. I am sooo excited to be done and moving onto the next project while you guys enjoy the rest of the chapters. The story will conclude on Friday, July 17. The entire draft and preliminary ebook is available for my Patreon Supporters on the Crimson Adored tier.
Starting tomorrow (June 2), I’ll be starting a new round of Flash Fictions. I’ve picked three series ideas and will update each one of them once a week on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays.
Can’t wait to get started! I’ll see you guys tomorrow!
