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WIP meme: police

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*flaps hands excitedly* I’ve never had anyone send the WIP meme for me before! 🙂 I thought that this was a really random word and I wouldn’t have it and then I remembered Nightwalkers. It appears 6x in that document.

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In fact the entire station smelled more like an office building or a school, than
a police station.

She glanced out the window and saw Neal getting police cordon tape out of the trunk
of the second cruiser.

“They can handle fingerprints and things like that, but they’ll probably package up
the samples and send them to the main police lab in Boston.”

“Whatever you spend, I will donate the same amount to the police benevolent fund.”

Plus, she remembered Gold’s promise to donate the same amount to the police
benevolent fund to cure her reluctance. It was an absurd amount of money for a
private citizen to donate to a police operation.

I discovered you have a “ask the writer” tag and OMG, there are a lot of beautiful questions in there! You’re really clever and organized! Anyway, I really really liked this one: which of your fics would you like to see turned into a movie the most?

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Haha awww thanks, although that tag is very self-serving because it sort of exists in the hope people will use it. Plus I like to send everyone I notice who is doing TMI Tuesday a question, and quite often I get stuck, so tag to the rescue with questions 🙂

Anyway, wow what a question! Let me think. To be honest (shameful confession here) aside from fanfic I don’t read that much but I do watch a fair bit of TV. So I tend to write and visualize what I’m writing as a TV episode or a movie, and then it’s just a matter of putting what’s in my head on paper. I don’t obviously see everything, I just get flashes of certain scenes, and some images are more vivid than others.

Between Two Fires – was sort of a science-fiction/espionage mashup which I love, and hope to write more of that verse one day. That was quite visually strong. The other fic that comes to mind as being very visually striking is The Beauty and the Tragedy.

Out of the two of them, I think I would go with Between Two Fires, purely because it had so many things in that I love. That fic was a real guilty pleasure. Sci-fi is probably my favorite genre these days, but several years ago it was espionage, and bringing the two together – well I had fun 🙂 Heh I’m smiling now, just picturing it.

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I’ve had some absolutely amazing feedback on Chapter Seven of Painting Layers of Love and I’m going to do a spot of revision. So if you’ve already read it, I’m going to be reblogging the changed version later. It’s not going to change the events of the chapter, but hopefully it will make everything make more sense and fix some characterization issues.

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You guys are going to kill me … actually scratch that I think I might kill me. What did I just do? I am so mean. I actually feel legitimately bad about this. I didn’t even know I was going to do that until I did it, and yikes …

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#i am a terrible terrible person#i can’t even promise a quick update#it might be ending on a cliffhanger again#don’t worry i hate me too

rowofstars replied to your post:
You guys are going to kill me … actually scratch…
STOP HURTING MY BABIES

I didn’t mean to, it just sort of happened … somehow. I do actually feel quite bad about it. Some authors like angst, but personally I just feel this intense need to fix it. Poor Belle and Gold, they’ve both had a very bad day.

I really need to make some progress on my RSS but I’m still trying to post fic at least every Tuesday. What I might try and do (no promises) is do Chapter Eight for next Tuesday, so Painting Layers of Love will be updated two weeks running. Considering how this fic has suffered on the update front, it’s probably due a boost anyway.

Oh you know what, it’s only 5pm, maybe I’ll start chapter eight now. I need to make this right!

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Wheee I think I might have got my mojo back. Let’s cross fingers quickly but words have happened! Words! There are no words for how relieved I am. I’d barely written anything in a couple of weeks, due to events, and I was starting to get a bit scared it wasn’t going to happen.

#it turns out i can still write so maybe it’ll be ok#let’s hope#my panic about rss is starting to recede now

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Great news! I have finally planned my RSS fic, I know exactly what I’m doing.

Scary news! It is a beast and when I say beast, I seriously mean it. Nobody wanted any other fic updates until January right? I mean I know I said I would try and do Tuesday’s like normal but … ok I’ll try and do Tuesday’s like normal but nothing else.

This would be an excellent time for my writing willpower to come back. I’m really going to need it.

#i am legit scared right now#i know it seemed like a good idea at the time but you crazy#this could be approaching novel length#which would have been an excellent thing to have worked out three weeks ago#why self did you write all the other stuff?

December Status Update

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A summary post of what happened last month fic-wise, and my plans for the forthcoming month, because I can’t hit a target, if I can’t see it.

Previous Status: July, August, September, October, November

Works posted in November:

– The Beauty and the Tragedy (Alternate Ending)
– Swim to the Stars (Rushbelle)
– I Love the Way (AU family fluff, WIP)
    – Chapter One
    – Chapter Two
    – Chapter Three
    – Chapter Four
– Right Kind of Wrong (Alternate season six, Complete)
    – Chapter One
    – Chapter Two
    – Chapter Three
    – Chapter Four
    – Chapter Five
    – Chapter Six

– Painting Layers of Love (AU romance, WIP)
    – Chapter Six

– Broken Apart (Fix-it fic based on the promo for 6.09 Changelings)
– All I Needed (Swanfire/Rumbelle, Prompt verse)
    – Setting up the Nursery (Ficlet, Spite-Prompt-a-thon)
    – Breaking the News (Prequel to Setting up the Nursery)
– Fall All Over Again (Season Two canon-divergence, WIP)
    – Chapter One
    – Chapter Two
– Counting Stars (AU family fluff, WIP)
    – Chapter One

Coming up definitely in December:
– More Painting Layers of Love
– Rumbelle Secret Santa fic

What I hope December might bring:
– Updating WIP’s until they are finished, and filling prompts has priority after RSS. I doubt I’ll have time for anything else.

November was NaNoWriMo. I said that you guys wouldn’t notice, as I probably wouldn’t be writing much more fanfic than I normally do … yeah I think you might have noticed heh 🙂 NaNo this year was kinda a disaster from my point of view. I wrote over 86k of Rumbelle fanfic (see above) but I didn’t start my original novel, and I didn’t make much progress on Nightwalkers either. Those two projects were what I wanted from the month and neither happened.

Also, I wanted 130k for the month but that didn’t happen either. I did write 86k, which is my new personal best for a months fiction total. However, basically I didn’t make any of my goals for NaNo, hence disaster. Anyway, I write all year round so it’s recoverable. December is going to be personally very difficult, so writing-wise I’ll be cutting back. My priority is RSS, and I’ll update my WIP’s when I can. I like taking part in the A Monthly Rumbelling Event but I don’t think I’ll have time. I do have an idea for the smut prompt but we’ll have to see. I’ll do my best and on January 1st I’ll see what I managed.

PaintingLayers!Nick: What would it mean to you if Belle really does return your feelings? Would you change your life for her? Can you imagine how she might fit into your life away from the cottages? I know it’s early at this point, but it seems to me she merits those what-if thoughts, with how special she clearly is to you.

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I haven’t allowed myself to consider that Belle could ever regard me as more than a friend. I consider myself fortunate enough to have her friendship.

However, if we are to enter the realm of fantasyland. My son Neal believes that I will hurt her, and he is probably right. It wouldn’t be intentional but work has consumed my life. Would I change for Belle? I’m not sure I know how, I’m not sure I could. I’m not sure there would be anything left of me if I tried.

#does anyone else spend an inordinate amount of time trying to select the perfect gif to accompany the answer?

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You know what, I give up. I have officially bitten off more than I can chew. I’ve written over 86k of Rumbelle fanfic this month, a new personal best for a months fiction total. However, my deadlines are now starting to slip all over the place. I’ve lost my writing willpower thanks to a real life thing.

Anyway, I’m not going to make the deadline for the smut prompt for this months Monthly Rumbelling. Fall All Over Again will be finished eventually, but the next two chapters (to reach the scene that includes the prompt) aren’t going to be finished for tomorrow. I just don’t have it in me, there’s 4 scenes to write and one of them is pivotal to the whole story.

What I’m going to do instead, is focus on finishing Chapter Seven of Painting Layers of Love. I’m feeling really guilty that I didn’t finish and post that last Friday. That is going to be the next thing I post. After that, I really need to work on my Rumbelle Secret Santa fic. So I’ll alternate RSS, with updating my WIP’s so they aren’t completely ignored.

I posted 19 fics/fic chapters this month. Next month about all I’m willing to promise is that I’ll post something every Tuesday. I haven’t missed a Tuesday since June I think, I’m not planning on breaking that streak if at all possible.