Update Link: You’re Not Sorry – Part 28

The rare day time game when the Phillies don’t make me sad! We just swept one of the best teams in the American League, woot! Put me in a great mood. (Sorry to any Mariner fans, they seem like a nice team).

We are in the final days of summer, and my schedule/class list got posted. Some good news — I’m only teaching six sections of French, not seven. Two French Is, Three French IIs, and 1 French III.  My piece of bad news is right now, my program enrollment has dropped — I had 104 kids across two levels of French last year, and this year, I have 20 less kids coming into French I. I’m going to have to plan some serious propaganda pushes in the middle school.

Some mild good news — instead of getting bathroom duty for that extra period, I get two study halls, each 20 minutes long. I get to stay in my room and it’s pretty basic, so it’s like an extra prep period. I also get to have it with juniors so I get to see a ton of my kids from last year who didn’t move on to French III or from my original seminar class, including a fellow Phillies fan, so joy! I also have a homeroom this year, which means, bleh, I probably have to administer standardized testing and do crappy stuff like write up kids for dress codes and maintain custody of cell phones.

Some even better news is how they distributed my schedule — I teach four periods, then study hall, then lunch, then two classes, then I finish on a prep. I get to have all three levels in the morning, and for the first time since I started, there’s a chance my eighth period won’t make me want to resign on a daily balance. (RIP to my Kings of Chaos).

I’m still sad about the enrollment numbers, but there are schedule changes allowed, and one of my best French kids who works so hard ended up on the French III list this morning, and then this afternoon, a student who SWORE to me she was done with French — she came back to me, lol. So I went from 11 to 13 kids in that section. I’m holding out hope that two more of my previous students join so that the girl who rounded out their trio won’t have to make new friends this year. Peer pressure, B. I’m rooting for you.

I am cautiously optimistic about the upcoming year. I worked really hard to get a ton of material prepped, the first two weeks are basically done, and I’m on my way to having September fully prepped by the end of August. But we’ll see 😛

In writing news, I’m working on the Watch Me Burn revisions (now titled Out of the Woods). The overall story won’t change much, but I expect the largest changes to come in the first half of the story. Now that I know who my killer is, I’ll be reworking most of that storyline. I’ve done some psychology deep dives this week into wounded narcissists, which was fun, haha. And I also know how I want the characters of Lucky and Sam to finish the story, so I need to go back and rework their material to fit it better, and integrate Patrick and Robin a bit better. But if you were happy with the overall story, you’ll still be pretty satisfied here. I’m finalizing the timeline today, then taking apart the first draft to decide what scenes stay, the structure of chapters (since timed flash sessions didn’t always ascribe to my typical chapter structures), and the scope of the work to do. That’s supposed to be done by the end of the week, so I’ll have more info then.

See you tomorrow!

Update Link: You’re Not Sorry – Part 27

I wasn’t up to writing in my timed sessions last night, but I did some work on the Watch Me Burn revisions, which I’m renaming and making part of the Crimson Swift collections — don’t be surprised if that’s a pretty regular occurrence. Taylor has soo many songs ranging across so many genres and content and themes that it’s actually pretty easy to find one that fits so I get to make progress in that whole “a story for every song” idea without killing myself. (In my defense, I had no idea TTPD would have 31 songs, lol).

I’m not updating today, but if you need a Liason fix, one of the OGs from the Canvas days, Mariah (fallinangelz21) has written a set of Jason/Elizabeth POVs from June 2025, after they were both in the park on the same day. I recommend you check her out and give her lots of love to encourage her to keep writing.

Read at Fanfiction.net or Archive Of Our Own

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Had lunch with my mother today, and she’s struggling with losing my aunt in late June. She feels like she could have done more — she’s reading about nursing homes and how they delay sending patients to the hospital because it earns them more money to keep the bed occupied a certain amount of days. We both felt like we wanted her to get more care, but we weren’t her next of kin and couldn’t demand anything. It just put me in an awful mood today, and I just don’t feel up to writing, especially in a timed session. I love writing flash, but it can be stressful, especially when you rush to fit what you want to write in, and go over and still feel like it’s not good enough.

I’ll be back tomorrow.

Use today to get caught up any past updates, try another story on the Alternate History page (may I recommend Bittersweet if you haven’t read it yet? I’m working on the sequel on the weekends). One of the Phillies pitchers just underwent a thrombolytic treatment to remove a blood clot, which makes me want to recommend Mad World to any of my newer readers.

Watch Me Burn beat Chain Reaction by 2 votes! (24-22) so that will be the next novel sometime this fall. I’m glad it won — it needs the least amount of work, though I’ve got some ideas to clean it up and flesh out some pieces now that I know all the moving parts.

See you tomorrow.

Update Link: You’re Not Sorry – Part 26

Happy Sunday! A week from today is the end of our marathon 😛 To prepare for shifting back to evening schedules, I’ll be writing at 5 and posting at 6 this week. When I go back next Monday for staff development, I’m honestly going to play the entire week by ear. If I feel like updating I’ll update, but I’m not going to schedule anything. So you could get 5 updates or 1 updates. It’s really tough to say right now.

I don’t have a date for the bathroom model — they were supposed to start my parents’ in the next two weeks. If they start theirs on time, I’m two weeks after their start date. I honestly don’t know how I’m going to handle that situation just yet, so let’s just see where September takes us.

I’m excited for today’s update, and I hope you are, too 😛

Update Link: You’re Not Sorry – Part 25

Had a supppper productive morning for once. I’m planning a massive Socratic Seminar for my French III kiddos that’s going to take the first two weeks, and I finally finished all the student materials. They’re going to hate me, lol.

Flash will be probably later tomorrow — the Phillies, as I’ve said, play around 11:30 am tomorrow, so the game should be over around 3. I’ll probably update at 5. I’m contemplating moving Flash back to that later time anyway this week since that’s the usual update time during the school year. I can’t believe I’m down to my last week, you guys! Then again, I’m starting to miss the structure of my days, so maybe it’s a good thing.

See you tomorrow!

Update: You’re Not Sorry – Part 24

It has been a week, hasn’t it? I’ve posted a ton this week 🙂

NEW: “imgonnagetyouback” & “I Hate It Here”
UPDATE: “The Black Dog – Tragic Ending“
from the Black Dog collection, Crimson Swift: Tortured Poets project

Three Days left to Choose Next Novel from Edited Flash

I also cleaned up the sidebar and made sure the Recent Updates page was current again!

Tomorrow, I’ll probably do flash around the same time — either writing at 2 or 3, and posting at 3 or 4. Then on Sunday, Flash will be in the evening since the Phillies are playing at 11:35.

^{This is not your only update today. I woke up late and decided to post this early so I can get a shower and come back later for Flash around 5ish.} 

Update Link: The Black Dog – Tragic Ending

The Black Dog – Begin Reading

ETA: Uh, the Tragic Ending now links to the actual Tragic ending.

One of my regrets about writing the original folklore collection was giving some of the sad songs happy endings. That’s mostly because, as a fandom, we’ve had our share of sad endings. But Taylor’s saddest songs are so Liason coded, I had to find a way to honor them while still giving our fanbase what we deserve. (i may correct that with a folklore long pond sessions collection because i am insane)

Hence the choose your adventure endings.

They won’t be on every story — for example, “I Hate It Here”, to me, isn’t a sad ending. It’s the reality of her choice that day in the park.

The Black Dog was always originally going to have two endings, but then we found out about that woman returning, and I knew I’d be away the week I was posting it — I just thought we’d been through enough. I’d drop the tragic ending later.

And this is later 😛

The Black Dog is one of her most gorgeous songs, and it’s so Jason-coded I could SCREAM.

I’ll be back later today with your flash.

Update Link: You’re Not Sorry – Part 23

In Case You Missed It
NEW: “imgonnagetyouback” & “I Hate It Here“
from the Black Dog collection, Crimson Swift: Tortured Poets project

Three Days left to Choose Next Novel from Edited Flash

I’m  typing this from my new keyboard! Hopefully we don’t have any more issues. I’m a little frustrated — I switched from a laptop to a desktop in 2022, and I loooooove my desktop. It’s amazing. But with that switch came going back to an external keyboard. My first keyboard started having huge connection issues and sticky keys about a year later, but it had come with the computer, so I just figured — okay, whatever. I spent a bit more on the second — and it lasted two years. I spent more on the third, so let’s hope it lasts three years — by which point I’ll be able to actually upgrade the desktop, lol. I hate the built in obsolescence of products. The new keyboard/mouse combo is rechargeable, which is great — I’ll save money on batteries (of course I just bought new packs of them but whatever) but right now the mouse is charging. Luckily, my desk top is touchscreen so I can sort of maneuver around that.

A few days left to choose the next official CG novel — your choices are from three completed flash fictions since drafting takes the longest time.

I’ll be doing some housekeeping updates tomorrow with the Recent Updates page and cleaning up the sidebar and Alternate History pages. Closing in on the end of summer guys, booooo

See you tomorrow!

 

Update Link
The Tortured Poets Department Subsite WITH TWO NEW STORIES!!!!!
“imgonnagetyouback” & “I Hate It Here”

“imgonnagetyouback” is rated NC-17 and has a special surprise at the end 😛

This is not your only update today! I’ll back later with You’re Not Sorry, but I’m hoping the new keyboard gets here.

I was sooo inspired by last night’s New Heights episode with Taylor Swift and the Kelce brothers, and so excited about the next album, and about the stories I’ve written this week for Crimson Swift and it all happening during AUGUST???? The month that belongs to our COUPLE?

I just couldn’t resist.

See you guys later today!!!

Update Link: You’re Not Sorry – Part 22

Another day of Swiftie Zooommmiessssss!

First, something HYSTERICAL happened on yesterday’s episode of GH. I didn’t watch yet, but Danny took Scout of camp without telling Drew and THEN DREW WANTED DANNY TO BE ARRESTED

YOU GUYS WHAT

To my fan from the GH writer’s room, I will ABSOLUTELY quit my job and come write for me. Call me.

(i wrote drew getting danny arrested in dear reader back in june absolutely wiiiilllld)

Anyway — all jokes aside, it’s just funny. I write a ton of soap opera fanfiction, and I specialize in the ensemble umbrella stories, so it’s not the first time I’ve seen something I wrote reflected on the show. We work from the same source material so it’s just bound to happen. Back when I was writing Damaged in 2014-2015, I wrote Jason’s twin brother as a con artist who was working for Victor Cassadine to pretend to Jason Morgan — and he was Franco’s semi-adopted brother as a child that Franco was searching for all his life. My jaw dropped in 2017 when they decided to make Franco Drew’s semi-brother that Franco starts to have dreams about and search for. And I know there’s other stuff, lol.

I finished another story in the Black Dog collection, yay! This one was a quick short piece. 3 down, 5 to go!

AND TONIGHT I FIND OUT THE COVER AND RELEASE DATE FOR TS12 LETS GOOOOOOOOO

Swiftie Zoomies starting again because what do you MEAAAN I get a whole EPISODE with Blondie????? EEEEEEEEE

*coughs* uh, see you tomorrow.