I'm not entirely certain the ending here works. It is a nice romantic moment, but it just sorta stops.

( PG-13 for sexuality )

 Continued.  This section is pretty much PG ( Read more? )

Just posting the expurgated version of "Andrea's Story".  This is how (after editing for grammar and spelling) it's likely to appear in the Unexpected Diversions collection.  PG-13 for violence. ( Andrea's life was not very nice )

Health: Went to the doctor today for my follow-up to my heart tests. Result: Negative on the x-ray and ultrasound, but he wants me to do a walking stress test and a couple of other things, and get tested again for cholesterol just for paranoia's sake.

Writing: Chopped more scenes from Andrea's Story before leaving for my appointment. I have to ( Read more... )

Okay. Now that "The Last Story" is finished, all I've got left to do is cull all the extraneous bits from "Andrea's Story" and go through the stories already written with a fine toothed editing comb. Then I can (hopefully with tamhavik's help) put the omnibus manuscript together for publication on Lulu ( Read more... )

Been thinking about Andrea's Story and how it relates to my general dread of trying to write anything substantial at the moment. I think I need to admit to myself that I'm just not going to get that story finished at this point and declare it dead. Maybe I can just disconnect the "Andrea and Maria tease the shit out of Tez" plot and format it as ( Read more... )

So I've been sitting on AS for a couple of weeks now, balking at where to take it next. I think I'm coming to the conclusion that there's nowhere to go with the current section I'm working on. It ain't flyin', so to speak. Andrea and the others are stubbornly refusing to tell me where to go next ( Read more... )

Another deceptive day, as I was mostly re-working previously written scenes to the new narrative.

Words Today: 1,310
Words Total: 5,049

Work has finally slowed down a bit, so I managed to slip in a few hundred words. The count is slightly misleading, since a few paragraphs are what I managed to do Friday plus some re-editing of lines I took from the first draft ( Read more... )

Just posting what I've written over the past could of weeks, since I haven't succeeded in adding to my word count the past few days. Enjoy.

( Unwanted homecoming )