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I'm gonna start linking to academic papers I read that influenced me while I was in school now in the notes on my fic so don't be surprised if you're reading some elderly story that I'm finishing up and it suddenly sounds like I took a class on the subject matter. I did and the link is in the notes so you too can enjoy someone's hard won research on the topic.
Last Lines
The darling @lywinis tagged me to share some last lines of the fic I've been working on, so I'm putting it here.
I'm tagging my love @runawaydragons to share some of the last lines of their recent work.
Fun little aside, last year I graduated with my bachelor's degree and a took the bulk of my creative writing classes in my last semesters. I had a really great Writing About Place class that I think about all the time, that rewired my brain. As I've been picking up older projects the change in my writing has been noticeable and so good. It's really encouraging after writing for years that I'm still getting better at it, especially since I barely wrote anything that wasn't for class while in school (the last seven years).
Anyway, here's the very last lines of a story that I just finished after starting it nine years ago.
The stars were too bright and brilliant to darken them with clouds, and she’d danced all night after a proposal that was so thoughtful it made her want to weep. Tonight there was only room for their joy, and all the love that had spawned it.
I updated some stories! I updated a story I haven’t posted a chapter for in five years, so I’m pretty excited.
So, I have exhaustion, I am actually exhausted and trying to heal. I have had it before. I work a lot, but less now than before. I sit on a board, I’m an editor on my law journal at school, I have a small business, classes, and a fellowship. This is all less stuff than I did pre-covid, and I’m trying to cut back even more.
I wrote these updates because I’ve been picking at these stories for a long time, and some were mostly done. There might be more coming, but I make no promises. I’m not as bad off as I was in fall semester, but I still need more rest. I posted them because it’s fanworks day and I hope someone out there smiles as they get notified about one of my updates and that it helps them kick back from the horrors of reality for a little while.
me, every summer when I have fewer classes: have a fic update! i will try to write more. this is 6000+ words on a story I started five or more years ago. enjoy!
me, at the end of august: i’m halfway through the next chapter. if i can finish before classes start...
spoiler alert i never finish before classes start. but enjoy the summer fic updates! i’ll be back next year!
I updated a story for the first time in forever, and I added two chapters! I’ve written a bit more and will probably add another after this week, because I’m busy preparing for a wedding on Saturday. I get to sign the ketubah!
But please, read the last two chapters (or all of it) of Dynamics and Control and leave me nice comments and kudos so I don’t feel like I’ve been wasting time I should have spent writing for money.
I can't resist asking about 'Anything But Holiday' b/c I love it, but how about 'Not A Word' as well?
Anything But Holiday! I’m still working on this one, but I have SO MANY PLANS.
This is where things fall apart, which is one of my favorite points in a story, especially a romance. Here’s the snippet from the start of the next chapter (so you’ll probably see this again):
In the morning, Elle was wrapped up in Troy’s arms, his chest pressed to her back and the feeling of safety he always brought enveloped her.
Good Lord, she loved this man.
It wasn’t supposed to happen like this, not when she had so much to do, and certainly not with someone like him. Someone white, mixed up with her uncle, and going to be hurt by what she had to do. Not following through wasn’t an option at this point, she had too much riding on it. All her careful plans and dreams would fall apart if she just were content to stay here in Troy’s arms, carefully skirting her uncle and pretending like her Sweet Jack’s memory meant nothing.
She wanted her daddy to be proud of her, even if it wasn’t something she’d ever hear him say.
Not A Word is a sex trope bingo square fill! It’s Mia Shepard/Zaeed fic during ME2. I’m not very far in it, so the snippet is just the first few lines:
“You make a sound and it’s game over.”
Mia Shepard wasn’t the best at roleplaying, but she always tried.
ooh. Pies and Family sounds delightful!
Pies and Family is from my modern AU for Phedre Trevelyan/Cullen! It’s the story where she meets his family. The story where he meets hers is far longer, and something I actually sketched out a few years ago, but haven’t sat down to write yet.
Here’s a snippet!
She might have been a smidgen nauseated as they walked to the door. So maybe Phedre was nervous, but only just a little. After their weekend in at the lake, she and Cullen had talked about meeting families. Maker, they'd only been together since just before Satinalia, but they were already at the meet the family stage. At least they weren't in Ostwick so her mad and overlarge clan could descend upon Cullen. They’d need to have a serious talk to prepare him for that visit.
There’s a fic I haven’t updated in just over three years now and I’ve written the next chapter. It’s just one long sex scene but that’s fine right? Someone tell me that’s fine and I’m just being weird because I’ve been working on commercial fiction for too long.
