Ask me anything about my fics, ask my characters anything. You can send me a word and if it’s in my WIP doc then I’ll post a teaser snippet. I accept prompts for any of my existing verses.
This week I posted:
– Chapter Three of Fall All Over Again
Synopsis: Belle French lives alone and she likes it that way. She’s lived alone ever since the terrible car accident which killed her mother and claimed her eyesight. Belle spends her days painting, in complete solitude, until one day she wakes up and hears movement outside. Somebody has moved into the cottage next door. She had grown comfortable in her solitary existence until Mr Gold crashes into her life. Now her future is uncertain, like a blank canvas, waiting for her to apply the paint and decide what kind of story she is creating.
Note: I’m going to echo Gold here – intentions are meaningless. This should have been updated a week ago last Friday but life happened. Anyway, in this chapter there’s a prompt from @rowofstars about Gold resisting getting called back into work which has rather unfortunate consequences. I’m intending to post Chapter Eight next Tuesday to fix it. Anyway, in the meantime – enjoy!
Banner by the incredibly amazing @rowofstars thank you so much! 🙂
Belle bit her
lip and wished the ground would swallow her up. She obviously couldn’t see
Nick’s expression, and she couldn’t deduce anything from his breathing. She
really wished he would say something as she was really regretting her honesty.
Nick had been honest with her, and it had felt like the right thing to do, to
admit that she liked him. However, the spiraling possibilities were really
starting to scare her, and she needed him to say something.
“Nick?” Belle
whispered.
“Sorry
sweetheart, you caught me off guard. I never expected … I never would have
dreamed,” Gold struggled.
“Dad,” Neal
called hesitantly. Belle tensed automatically and felt Nick’s hand curl around
her own. “Is everything ok?”
“Everything’s
fine,” Gold called back quickly. “We can talk about it later. If you could
close the patio doors …”
“And get back
to the garden,” Neal finished. “Alright.”
Like I said in another post, I’ve gone back and revised this chapter thanks to some amazing feedback I had. There’s a net gain of almost 750 words but I did change some stuff as well. Hopefully it makes more sense now 🙂
UGH. I knew Gold was going to fuck up. Things were too good. Neal was great, but this is really one of those things where he needed to caution Gold more than support him. Unfortunately… now it’s all worse. 🙁
Poor Belle. *HOLDS HER FOREVER*
MAKE IT BETTER, SAM. PLEASE????
This is where I could quote A&E and say “it’s always darkest before the dawn” but I would rather not get beaten up 🙂 Heh, I am going to fix it I promise! I just need to get RSS done, Chapter 8 is my first priority after that. Thank you so much for your wonderful comments *hugs you*
I wish there was a ‘like’ button for privately answered asks. I want them to know I saw it, but I don’t have anything else to say but thank you. Now I face the eternal dilemma of “do I send a second ask just saying thank you or just leave it?” honestly tumblr etiquette is hard.
I treat it like email and always send that last “Thanks!” perfunctory message and fully expect that they will see it and delete it. But it lets them know that yes I got the message and I’m appreciative.
Yeah I’ve been doing that. I just had a “I don’t want to be annoying” moment. Anyway, now I know it’s not just me that does that, I will go and say thanks! Thank you 🙂
Fixed my timeline problems! Fixed my POV problems! Fixed ALL the problems! I still have a metric ton to write but now I’m on the right track, I feel so much better. I’m feeling a bit like RSS is a boss fight, and I just got into phase two 🙂
#i love it when it starts to come together#i still have a scary amount to write but i fixed the problems#that makes me feel so much better
Nobody panic but there’s only 10 DAYS LEFT FOR RSS!!!!
Oh who am I kidding, I am so panicking. I have maybe 1/3rd of it written, possibly more like 25%, I’m rubbish at guesstimating length. I have timeline problems, POV problems, I’m only 6.5k in and Gold and Belle have only spoken once. Actually 25% might be being generous, it’s probably less and I need to rework some of that because hello I got problems!
You know there are times when I have to make a choice. I always hate these moments because I want it all, I want to do it all, I don’t want to have to choose. Why not everything? Because I managed my time poorly in November, and I wrote too much fix-it fic and not enough WIP’s basically. I keep telling myself “oh you can catch-up later” but I’ve got to the point now where I’m scared that I won’t be able to do that.
I have almost finished Chapter Three of Fall All Over Again. Writing anything other than RSS at this point seems crazy but I don’t want to break my Tuesday streak if I can help it. Writing the 1k I need for that chapter, is more sensible though than writing the almost 4k I need for Painting Layers of Love. However, I will have to see what my RSS progress is by Monday. If I’m still this panicked then I might have to break my streak. In that case I will reblog my Rumbelle Christmas fanfic that I wrote in the summer. It is at least Christmas time now 🙂
#freaking out here a little bit#i didn’t panic this much for rcij#but then that fic didn’t balloon into an epic
Haha maybe! That is a stunning picture. Perhaps it’s more at the other end, where the tree line is, because they walked between the field and the trees once. *hugs* thank you so much for thinking of my fic! 🙂
Yay Santa! *waves* It’s great to hear from you, how are you doing?
I have to admit to not liking Christmas much either. There’s so much emphasis on ‘forced togetherness’ and it’s all so fake. I’ve often joked that NaNoWriMo in November is my favorite holiday and much better than Christmas 🙂 I will be going to see Rogue One on the 30th I believe. I saw The Force Awakens on the 27th last year, it’s sort of become a Christmas tradition of it’s own.
It’s actually warmed up a bit. On Monday when I got up because I went to the gym. It was just before dawn (7am) and it was -3 and the ice was thick on the car. That was not much fun. However, yesterday it was 12 degrees I think, so no idea what the weather is doing really. I often find that it’s colder in January than it is in December, for the past few years it’s felt quite mild going up to Christmas and than whump new year hits and it’s freezing.
You said you are “plugging away at the gift” and so I hope you are enjoying it and that it’s not giving you too much trouble 🙂 I have fully planned out my RSS and made a start now, got about 3.5k in and yikes this is going to be long, I really need to put fingers on the keys and get going! As usual I have two things that remain to be decided – Gold’s name and the title – those two things always give me trouble 🙂
Anyway, I’m glad you are doing ok Santa and it was really great to hear from you again!
When your NOtp has scenes and suddenly it all makes a sick sense.
I’ve googled for Archer/T’Pol stuff and haven’t found much, but I have found T’Pol and Trip stuff. At the time I thought “why? why would anybody put those two together?” and now I know.
Season Three is getting off to a very bad start. The theme tune I ranted about earlier was bad enough but what is T’Pol wearing? What did she do to her hair? Then Phlox pushing Archer and Trip together – I don’t approve! Ugh not happy, not happy at all.
I mean seriously though, how could the show have all the incredible subtext of Archer and T’Pol for two seasons, and then just chuck it all out the window with nakedness for T’Pol and Trip? So unnecessary! It’s like the show is saying “ship them” and I won’t! No way, can’t make me! They can try and force it down my damn throat, but nope, not having it.
I’ll still watch the rest of the show anyway I’m sure, but unless it improves I’m not going to be happy about it and it’s too bad, I was liking the show before this “retooling” 🙁
#don’t mind me#i watch old stuff and react like it’s new
Just started watching episode one, season three of Star Trek: Enterprise and was forced to scream at the TV. My exact words – “What the hell! Get off my theme tune!”
Seriously? What the hell did they do to it? Why? Just why? I’m so annoyed. I loved that theme tune and adding the ‘backing beat’ to ‘jazz it up’ is just irritating and unnecessary. I know this has been cancelled for years and I don’t care, I’m cross. This is why I have paused it and come on tumblr to rant. Actually, with that in mind it’s a really good job I didn’t have tumblr when I discovered they’d recast Elizabeth Weir … stupid TV people!
Dashing Knight by All Caps AU!WishWorld Emma and Baelfire Song…
Born the daughter of noble birthright She’s wrapped in pearls and dressed in white Seventeen, soon to be married to her knight Whose wrapped in armor and dressed to fight
