Update Link: You’re Not Sorry – Part 13

Hello! Hope you’re having a great week! I’ve been having so much fun this week working on creative projects — I’m building a six-day lesson plan for my French III kiddos to compare Native American Boarding Schools and the children of La Réunion island who were forcibly taken from their homes and “given” to rural families in France from the 1960s to the 1980s. They’re going to do a Socratic Seminar, and I’ve been writing their prep material. It’s the first year that I have French language students far enough along that we can tackle more challenging topics in French. And if you don’t think writing active viewing guides and discussion questions is fun — well, you’re probably right but I’m still enjoying myself.

Today, though, after I finished writing the first update, I’ve been working on plotting this story out. I know the big movements, but it’s time to get down to the nitty gritty now that the big event has happened. I’m soooo excited about this week and next, and where this story is going. I feel like Dear Reader was a guinea pig to see if I could write this era, and this is gonna be the magnum opus 😛

In other news — Part 48 of Dear Reader is now properly in series order. Sorry about that!

Update Link: You’re Not Sorry – Part 12

I’ll be updating again around around 8, 8:30 to make up for missing Tuesday’s update.

Update Link: You’re Not Sorry – Part 11

Whoops! Unintentional day off! I think I mentioned last month that we had a water heater issue because of a chimney collapse (I had no idea we even had a chimney since we don’t have a fire place and Dad’s like, yeah, it’s been like that since at least 1993, we just worked around it) and they came out to fix it yesterday. They didn’t leave until almost 3:30, and by then, I had a sinus headache from allergies thanks to the entire world cutting their lawn and me running errands before the chimney guys got here.

I’m going to make up yesterday tomorrow — the Phillies don’t play, so I’ll update around 8. See you then!

Update Link: You’re Not Sorry – Part 10

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I’ve been trying to get up at 7 most of the summer, but not having any summer school, my brain is like nah and we just roll over and go back to sleep, lol. Also until two weeks ago, I was drugging myself with 80mgs of melatonin. This morning, I got up at 7AM, went grocery shopping, and still had 3 hours to work on school prep before my first writing task of the day. Let’s see if I can do it again tomorrow 😛

Flash should be at the same time all week — Phillies schedule doesn’t have any late or early starts, so I’ll be writing at 2 and posting at 3 until Friday.

I started the next story for the Crimson Swift Summer Perks program. I’m working on imgonnagetyouback for the Black Dog collection. Let’s hope I can get this first TTPD collection BEFORE blondie releases TS12. Taylor Nation is counting down to SOMETHING happening next week. Crimson Swift writing sessions are M/W/F at noonish the entire summer and you can get access for $1.

See you tomorrow!

Update Link: You’re Not Sorry – Part 9

Hope everyone is having a good weekend! I was exhausted after the Baltimore trip — the convention center was half a mile from the hotel which isn’t so bad — unless you’re lugging your laptop and materials every day in 88 degrees. I was boiling, lol. The conference was a lot of fun — a rare occurence for professional development — and it’s nice to know there’s another paycheck coming along AND that I’m getting reimbursed on the mileage and food I paid for. I crashed hard when I got home on Thursday thanks to a three-hour drive home (traffic, ick), but I’m starting to come out of the coma.

This will probably be the last Saturday Flash for a few weeks. I have a ton of things to do around the house, and I also want to add some more time to work on These Small Hours. I’m insanely overdue on Book 3, which I know most of the audience here isn’t going to mind. I think I disappeared after February and didn’t give you anything at all, it’d be worse. But I’ve been pretty consistent with Flash updates in that time period, so I hope that helps tide you over.

See you guys on Monday for more Flash 😛

Update Link: You’re Not Sorry – Part 8

In Case You Missed It: The Black Dog – Inspiration | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4

Rushing to make this post because a UPS package got delivered like 3 minutes ago, lol. Enjoy! More chat later (not that you’ll miss it!) The Recent Updates page is now, well, recent.

Update Link: The Black Dog – Inspiration | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4

Update Link: The Black Dog – Inspiration | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3

Update Link: The Black Dog – Inspiration | Part 1 | Part 2

Update Link: The Black Dog – Begin

Well, I didn’t get back to do a double update, but I do have something else for you — the VERY long overdue first story in the Tortured Poets collection. I’ve been working on it for Patreon as part of our $1 summer special, and I finished it a little while ago.

I’m posting it in four parts so that you have something new from me every day while I’m in Baltimore. Each part will link to the song on three different platforms. I didn’t finish the TTPD subsite so it’s not as pretty as I want it to be, but I’ll finish it next weekend.

My plan for the TTPD album is to drop the stories in collections, but it’s been so long, and I managed to finish it before I left on the trip, so it’s a special present for you. The other seven songs in the collection will be added in one update. Those include:

• “imgonnagetyouback”
• “The Albatross”
• “Chloe or Sam or Sophia or Marcus”
• “How Did It End?”
• “So High School”
• “I Hate It Here”
• “thanK you aIMee”

If you want to read them as I write them starting when I get back later this week, I write in 25 minute sessions on Mon/Wed/Fris. You can check it out over on Patreon.

See you guys on Friday!