Update Link: You’re Not Sorry – Part 101

I wasn’t happy with yesterday’s update. I got about two lines into the writing and I was like — this was the dumbest plot choice ever. I actually kind of felt that way about five seconds into writing the Sam/Kristina crash but it was kind of too late, I’d already put the pieces in motion. If you’re interested in me explaining why I chose this, and why I hate it, I’m gonna write more below — if not, just know that I’m aware that post crash, the story is a bit weak, and I’m planning to adjust it in edits.

Anyway — we’re moving on and I’m relieved to be moving away from this part of the story.

everything below here might include spoilers, please stop here. thank you.

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From the day I began planning this story in June 2025, I knew two things: Kristina was going to frame Elizabeth and Sam had to die. A Sam-free GH is the best GH, so she’s deader than a doornail. I just didn’t really know exactly how. I outlined the first 2o or some updates, and initially — Sam was going to more of a background character, popping up to help Spinelli investigate. She’d find evidence that Kristina planted the gun, and during the confrontation, she’d die. Kristina would be responsible for killing her sister — which I thought would be a great punishment. Why did I go with flooding? I should have just gone with a regular car accident, but I honestly couldn’t think of a way to do it in a single car accident, and I didn’t want a passerby that might help, lol. I wanted to sort of leave them both for dead.

But then I started writing, and the Danny storyline ended up really helping me figure out Kristina’s role and suddenly, I had a better reason for Sam to confront Kristina, one where she’s even more upset. But I still had the flood outlined, and I’d done a lot of research — but then I came up with the idea of Sam to get trapped and know she’d die so Danny would have a little bit of closure, and then she was on the phone with Spinelli which meant Jason was there, and I sort of accidentally wrote Dante and Chase closing in — all these story elements I never envisioned converged — and now I was exactly in the position I had been earlier. All these people who knew Kristina was probably the killer coming across the accident right away. So then I had to send the car off the hill, —

Honestly, if I’d been doing anything but timed sessions, I would have stopped, cut pretty much everything before the crash, and just had Sam and Kristina go off the road, hit a tree, and kill Sam instantly or something. But doing the timed stuff puts you under a different kind of pressure, and you make story choices you sort of have to live with until the edits.

So if you read yesterday’s update and thought, this kind of sucks, you should know I agree and it’s why I stopped writing at 53 minutes because I was unhappy, and I wanted to be done, and I think it was showing in the prose. I felt like maybe it would be a stronger choice to stop for the day, come back today with the knowledge I’ll be adjusting things in edits so I can write an aftermath.

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