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@nynaeve88inspiration You are killing me with these – so gorgeous! Although, I’m sensing a bit of a theme haha 🙂 This will make my third one of these in a row, that starts with “Belle French always wanted to see the world …”

Belle had been travelling around America for some time. She was driving and could go anywhere, that she pointed her car towards. She wasn’t restricted by timetables, bus routes or train lines. In the back of her car she had a board, with a map stuck to it, full of pins and tags about everywhere she had been.

Before she had driven around America, she had backpacked around Europe and South America for a few months, hitting places like Rio, Milan and Paris. It had been a magical experience and one she wasn’t keen on ending. She spoke with her father every couple of weeks, and without fail he asked when she was coming home. However, she didn’t have a final destination in mind, she was just enjoying the journey while it lasted.

She was driving along a quiet country road in Maine, when it started to rain. A few minutes later, she spotted a hitchhiker bedraggled on the side of the road. Belle bit her lip, picking up hitchhikers was dangerous, it wasn’t something she had done yet and now didn’t seem like a good time to start. However, they were at least a couple of miles from anywhere and her heart went out to the man.

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I like! Can we have a follow up?

Thanks, I’m glad you like it! However, I don’t know if I can oblige this time. If I knew what happened next then sure. Once I start getting background for a fic I know I’m in trouble and I’ve spawned another WIP heh 🙂 Right now I have no clue what Gold’s story is beyond that he’s bitter about it.

Sorry, I know that sucks. When I do these inspiration prompts I write what comes into my head. Sometimes that’s a summary of a complete fic (yay no cliffhangers) and sometimes it’s a scene. With this ficlet there’s nothing left in my head. I’m sure if I thought about it long enough I could come up with something but I think I have enough to write to be honest.

If anyone likes this setup, feel free to adopt it 🙂

Painting layers. Will Gold be inspired to try his hand at painting?

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Gold coughs rather embarrassed. I’m afraid unless you want me to paint a lovely illustration of stick figures, I’d be a real disappointment. I have no artistic skill in the slightest.

However, my neighbor, Belle French, is an incredible artist. I might not be able to paint myself, but I would be more than happy to assist her any way I could, or even just watch her paint. She is quite lovely.

TMI Tuesday, question for “War Within” Belle: On a scale of one to ten, how boring is a sleeping curse when you aren’t being tormented by the mirrors and regrets, and do you wish you brought a pack of cards?

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I love books and reading. The library Rumple gave me at the dark castle had more books than I could read in a lifetime. I often wished that I could ‘stop time’ and have all the time in the world to read.

Even when the mirrors do go dark, my regrets are still there. I have no distraction from my thoughts so yes, a pack of cards would do nicely .. but I really would prefer a nice book.

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My blanket fort fic took an interesting turn. For one thing technically it’s not a real blanket fort, there’s no fort, just blankets. It also accidentally took a turn into bedsharing territory and now I’m pondering the morning after. Can we have bedsharing without consequences? I think not.

Now I want to write an epilogue where they build a real blanket fort. This is supposed to be a oneshot! I have four scenes left but it’s getting a bit out of hand. This fic is starting to run away with me …

FFWAD: Okay I’ve only read one of your fics, an issue that I intend to correct, but I am blown away. Your comments are always wonderful and I look forward to them every time I post a fic. They always make my day. <3

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Oh wow thank you! This message has just made my day 🙂 I love commenting on your fics because I love reading them. You always post such enjoyable fics, even if the two oblivious idiots occasionally make me want to bang my head against a brick wall. Even that is a testament to your writing abilities, you have hooked me so completely, I’m invested in the outcome.

Anyway, I’m hoping to post chapter three of Painting Layers of Love in two weeks, on the 2nd. Can’t do it any sooner because I’m writing two event fics at the moment, which I’ll be posting on the 31st. I’ve got one open at the moment actually, Gold just built Belle a blanket fort 🙂

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Remember when I said I liked working on multiple projects?

That is still true but I’m staring at this fic. I started it two days ago and I had to stop mid-scene. It was a reasonable stopping point but maybe I should have continued. I was so enthusiastic I could hardly get to sleep that night because my mind was bubbling with thoughts about it, I wrote a section for a bit later on my phone but now .. I just can’t get back into it.

Picking projects back up is hard and yes this is me procrastinating. It’s the getting started, it is always the getting started. I think that is the hardest part about writing, once I start then it’s usually ok but that blank page and blinking cursor .. seriously Gold just walk down the damn corridor please!

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I’m 2/3rds into chapter eleven of The War Within and I have a nagging feeling that I’m screwing this up. I’m trying to stick to canon and I’m justifying and backing up what I’m writing, using canon quotes and past scenes. However, I can’t escape the feeling that I’m making the characters act OOC.

I suppose fanfic is wish fulfillment and not canon. At the end of the day I am making the characters do/say things that we’re unlikely to see on screen. That’s the whole point of fanfic, I can make happen what I would like, not what we’re going to get.

I just hope it tracks and makes sense with the rest of the fic, that I haven’t done great leaps out of nowhere. I knew what I intended but that might not be what came across. This has been a difficult chapter. I guess I’ll find out on Tuesday what people think.

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Some random writing thoughts today as I’m procrastinating on The War Within.

I love working on multiple fics. It makes me so much more productive because when I stall on one fic, or my brain gets tired, I just swap to another one rather than stop writing. However, it’s a really good thing I have an update schedule and deadlines, otherwise I would wind up working on new fics all the time and never finish things.

Seriously deadlines are the best invention ever, even if it kinda sucks when all I want to do is write about Gold building Belle a blanket fort, and instead I have to write Emma and Regina having a heart to heart about darkness because you know – priorities!

Also I need to think of a new title for the Rushbelle Swim Date fic, as someone posted a different Rumbelle fic with that exact title the other day. I’m not sure what the title etiquette is, but it seemed better to be safe rather than sorry and think of something else. Titles are hard.

Right I should stop procrastinating because Chapter 11 won’t write itself.

By background angst I just meant Belle’s issues with Moe, the accident, her coping with being blind, her anxiety, the way they keep accidentally pissing each other off or hurting each other’s feelings, that stuff. But I am kinda keen to see Belle open up about that stuff to Gold, which will inevitably end up with her being pretty upset. Maybe Gold kinda unintentionally hits on something and it sets her off, and that sparks the conversation.

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Ah ok phew – panic over. I had thought you meant some sort of background angst that I hadn’t seen which would split Belle and Gold up. This is all fine, it’s stuff they can deal with together and I have plans for all of this 🙂

I mean yeah they will fight but it’ll just be temporary, like in chapter one. I’m not very good at writing people apart for a long time, I just want to bang their heads together and order them to talk. Thank you!

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I’m just watching the Star Trek: Enterprise episode 1×14 – Shadows of P’Jem and Archer and T’Pol are tied up together sitting back to back on the floor.

First they had to push back against one another to stand up – while snarking! But that was fine, no big deal but then …

“Do you think we could move round to face one another and untie the knots?” So then they are tied up facing one another!!! Bad enough right but then …

They are curling round and bending each other over to undo the knots tying them together. They lose balance and fall on the floor with T’Pol’s breasts literally in Archer’s face. I felt like I was literally watching a fanfic trope on screen.

I very nearly stopped watching mid episode because this needs to be ficced immediately. Only question is should I make it Rumbelle or SwanFire?

Hmm I need a scenario as to why they are tied up in the first place, and if it’s Rumbelle whether it’s AU or what reason Rumple has for not being able to use magic.

Edit: Decided to add this to Nightwalkers because that fic is clearly not going to be epic enough (I’m mad crazy excited for Nightwalkers already heh) still can’t 100% decide if it’s going to be Swanfire or Rumbelle but I’m thinking it’s going to be Rumbelle for you know reasons.