#jonathan stratten

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My novel, as reviewed by its main characters

eI was tagged by @merigreenleaf

oh god, I don’t even know which novel to do here, my first thought is to go with the Ally series, because that’s my default, so I’m going to go with it

“I shouldn’t be surprised that it’s all about Alex. Everything is always about Alex. Blah, blah, blah, heard it all before”- Mini (Alex’s sister)

“An interesting take on a certainly insane individual, that provides a bit of insight into how her mind works”- Deccan, high school psych teacher

“A fascinating read. I thoroughly enjoyed it, as it helped to pass my time here in prison,” Jonathan Stratten, serial killer

“I knew all of those excuses were lies. There is absolutely no way that a monkey ate her homework,” Terry Hassan, high school teacher

“This is my absolute worst nightmare. It’s basically an entire book’s worth of things I should have punished Alex for, and if the school board ever reads this I’m screwed. Not only that, but she tells everyone my inner most secrets in the pure act of writing this, a thing she promised not to do in exchange for not giving her detention! I am horrified that she would do such a thing, and there will be consequences,” Nina Jinx, blackmailed principal

“It was long, I didn’t read it,” Ian.

“I think some of the scenes were portrayed in a way that wasn’t quite accurate,” Jaci Diah

“I can’t believe Evan knew about all of the nonsense that she was doing. No sex for a week. No. No toast for a week.J” Andi (Alex’s sister)

“I stand by all of my actions and take this as a confession of bad behavior, one that will have actual consequences,” Evan Hemming, police officer, and Andi’s boyfriend 

“You weren’t supposed to tell anyone,” Lexi. 

“Yeah, that sounds like Alex,” Haidee Miller, best friend.

“I make no comments on this subject matter,” Khae Leimer

“You didn’t have to mention how short I was so often. I am not that short. I mean, yeah, okay I am not tall. But come on, I’m not the only short one here. Terry is short. Jaci is short. Mini is shortish. It’s not just me. That’s just plain rude.” - Alex

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That’s 4 days of 365k365day done. I’m doing good here. 

A total of 4,495 words written this year. 

I’m glad I’m back to writing every day. Because I could have found an excuse to not write each of these days, given that I’m sick, and work exists and what not. But I didn’t. And because of that, I’ve discovered some new characters, and new parts to Terry’s life, and new parts to the way Alex caught Jonathan. So I’m glad I wrote. 

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OH shit, I’m scrolling through my whole index of random shit and man I wrote a few scenes from an AU where Lexi busts Jonathan out of prison to fucking murder Alonzo, and also because she thinks it’ll get Alex bonus points on the school assignment thing

and tbh, that is a way better explanation that what I’ve had in the past for a break out

but to make that work, I have to make these events happen on a different timeline

I think I have to move up the pregnancy stuff

because Lexi has to know about Alonzo, but Cippie can’t. Cippie has to still believe it’s Terry. Unless she doesn’t. Unless the fake pregnancy no longer has anything to do with Cippie’s revenge, and everything to do with Julie’s. 

I must do some thinking before I get much further here

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I have almost no material about Alonzo anywhere. But what I do know about him is that Lexi knows him, and that Lexi is afraid of him. 

And I think that the whole Jonathan escape plan needs some reworking for this version of the story, even though it’s not particularly relevant, but it is happening at the same time. 

So I wonder if perhaps Lexi’s disappearance should have more to do with Alonzo. I think I have to reveal him much earlier than he was revealed in other versions, because that’s the only non-shitty reason I have for them to get a DNA sample from Terry, and this whole thing kind of hinges on that. 

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Day 252, 9/8

Words Written: 550

Ending Word Count: 283,717

Progress: 

I continued on with the scene I was writing between Alex and Jonathan and learned some more details about Jonathan’s history, and his wife’s death 

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Day 251, 9/7

Words Written: 1,035

Progress:

I actually hit 1k for once! Half of it was the fanfic, but then I was growing bored and it was close to midnight so I just wrote a scene for the Ally series where Jonathan and Alex are talking about death after Aliet’s death 

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I’ve been contemplating the idea of Lexi killing Alonzo, and framing Jonathan for it, when she has him broken out of jail for her ridiculous match making scheme. 

I’ve realized that the fact that Alonzo was the one who assaulted Cippie has to come out around that time, because it means that Terry wouldn’t just be magically cleared of things then. Which means that he has to find out about Alonzo at that point. Alex doesn’t want to run the DNA Cippie has through the databases because that would bring suspicion on the whole thing. Which is why Cippie is faking the whole pregnancy in the first place. But since Tristan and Julie fucked that up, there has to be another way to clear Terry’s name of that. Because they used his DNA, and so it’s his baby. Which means they need clear confessions and the story of Cippie’s assault to become knowledge that the police have. 

But Cippie still has unresolved things going on. Which means I need to look at my timeline. 

And it would add a bit more depth to the Lexi breaks Jonathan out of jail and pretends to be kidnapped as a weird match making scheme to get Alex back together with Terry, even though there’s no real reason for her to need Terry’s help on this, and it ends up looking more like an attempt to make her presentation for Deccan’s class more dramatic. And let’s be real, of course Alex knew Lexi wasn’t really kidnapped right away, and tends to dismiss Jonathan as a treat, so it shouldn’t have been a big deal. But it was, so there needs to be a reason it was. 

And I also need to look at my timeline to see when shit happened with Ligeia, because I forgot about that for too long. 

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But I’ve also been exploring the world that Jonathan used to live in. Which was linked to the world Terry lived in, so maybe it’s linked to the world Alonzo did too. Although I get the sense that Alonzo’s dad is more well-off so Angel and Alonzo lived a good life after Terry left and they shoved Ellie aside. 

But maybe it’s time to start researching more about the world Terry lived in.