Hey guys! Just checking in to let you know that I probably won’t be updating today.

My power has gone out twice this morning — once around 5:30 for three hours, and then again at about 10:40 AM for another half hour (right when I was about to set up for Flash). The city said they expect a full restoration around 4:30 and I don’t know if that means they expect it to be intermittent all day or if I should be good — I’d honestly hate to set up everything, start writing, and then lose power for 30 minutes or longer. Because then I have to wait for power to come back on, my network to be restored, and hope that my writing got saved because Scrivener does a pretty good job of auto saving, but some text might still be lost. It’s just more trouble than it’s worth.

I’m super frustrated by this, but I was supposed to take off Monday — I’ll just work that day instead.

Very sorry — believe me, I’m so annoyed. I was rudely pulled out of a comfortable sleep when my sound machine and AC went off (I need the sound machine because I can’t sleep with the whooshing in my ear, I am a hot mess people) and then I couldn’t even make coffee at home. I had to get dressed and go out, ugh.

Update Link: The Archer – Part 9

It’s been one of those weeks here. We’ve had so much rain and humidity, and the shifts in the weather are messing with my sinuses. I felt like absolute crap yesterday, so I decided to switch my off days. I was originally going to take off Mon-Wed, but not updating Tues or Wed made me feel guilty, so I’m only taking Mon off and then going back to the original schedule.

See you tomorrow.

Update Link: The Archer – Part 8

Hey apologies for missing Friday — I got off schedule in the morning for reasons I no longer remember (I think I woke up late? Maybe?) and then my dishwasher and I fought a vicious battle all weekend, and I’m not gonna lie — news starting coming in about Taylor’s wedding Friday evening, and I got very distracted.

I made some tweaks to the calendar, removing the scheduled times. It’s been difficult for me to maintain the scheduled times and it’s a quick stress relief to just eliminate that aspect. It’s supposed to be my vacation, lol, and I want to feel a little free to sleep until 8, and not worry about my 11 writing time.

When I start to write, I post on Twitter and Bluesky. When I finish, I post the links there and in my Patreon chat for Flash Fiction, which is free so sign up and download the app on your phone so you can get a notification when I post there. You can also sign up on the blog here for updates to the site.

See you guys tomorrow!

Update Link: You’re Not Sorry – Part 117

Can’t believe I’m actually writing the end of this one today! I started it about a year ago, and it’s the longest flash fiction — it’s twice as long as Dear Reader, in both parts and word count. DR had 50 updates and around 118k words. Watch Me Burn is longer at 55 updates and 163k.

You’re Not Sorry is, before I write today’s final update, 295,948 words with 116 published updates. That’s…insane. It’s longer than any single title in the Fool Me Twice or Mad World series.

And I wrote it in one calendar year.

So I’ll try to remind myself of that insane number whenever I feel like I haven’t written much this year. I have, and it’s kind of insane, isn’t it?

Reminder! I’m scheduling off days for myself based on the Phillies — they’re not playing tomorrow, so I’m not scheduling any writing. With the curriculum done, I’m going to try to actually take the whole day off. I’ve got the new Jayne Castle loaded on the Nook, some fun new Sims 4 mods to try out, and a list of shows my sister wants me to watch. Let’s see if I can avoid working for a whole day.

See you on Friday for The Archer.

Update: The Archer – Part 7

Finished my curriculum writing this morning, so yay! I had to do soooo much background work to write the documents, and it was like, taking over my whole life, lol. But it’s done, and now I can dial back how much time I spend  (though this is me we’re talking about so I’m still going to be working).

Temps are sky rocketing this week so I hope everyone is staying cool and hydrated 🙂

Update Link: You’re Not Sorry – Part 116

Hello! I misread my notes and it turns out that in addition to today’s update, we need one more part of this story on Wednesday. I’ll see you again tomorrow for The Archer!

Update Link: You’re Not Sorry – Part 115

Hello! Apologies for not updating yesterday! I picked up a day subbing at summer school which wasn’t supposed to interfere with updating in the evening, but my sister asked me to go out to dinner with my nieces and see Toy Story 5, and apologies my loves, but my girls always take precedence. The movie was perfect, I laughed, I cried. Just a really sweet story.

I’ll be back tonight at 5 to catch up with part I missed for The Archer 🙂

Update Link: You’re Not Sorry – Part 114

Happy Wednesday! I’m so glad I took a little break from writing You’re Not Sorry to properly set up an ending. Sometimes you just need some space to see things a bit clearly I reread the first 200 pages or so, and that really helped me get back into head space. Right now, there are three parts planned — today, Friday, and Monday. But I don’t know how long each of my planned scenes will take to write, so that may stretch into more updates if necessary.

See you tomorrow around 5!

Update Link: The Archer – Part 6

I am dragging so hard today, and it’s really my own fault. The Phillies had a rain delay, so they didn’t play until 8:15, and I stayed up until they lost (boo), but I didn’t actually manage to get to sleep until almost 1. I should have gone to bed as soon as the game was over. I woke up late, and I’ve felt off all day.  Plus, I’m super behind on where I wanted to be in my curriculum writing because I basically lost yesterday thanks to the electric going out, and all my notes saved on Google. Ugh.

ANYWAY.  Here’s your update for today 🙂

 

Link: Posting Schedule

Recent Updates & Flash Fiction page now up to date!

Well, this was a shining start to the new summer schedule. I had posted over the weekend that I was planning to start updating daily with You’re Not Sorry on Mon, Wed, and Fri this week finishing it up, and then Tues/Thurs for the Archer, then some perks on Patreon.

Literally after I posted that on Saturday, admin reached out to ask me to sub today, so I had to push Flash to this afternoon, but I was gonna make it work. Then I get home, start the Crimson Swift livestreams and my power goes out at 2:30! A truck took out a traffic light which dominoed into our electric line. The entire city was out! Traffic lights and everything! No AC with temps muggy and in the upper 80s. They didn’t come back until around 6:30 and then the Phillies game got a rain delay–

This has been a very stupid Monday.

ANYWAY.

The new posting schedule is up! I’ll be posting Flash every day, 12 PM on M/W/F, and 5PM on Tues/Thurs. If I pick up days at summer school on Mon or Wed, the update time will just shift to that PM.

On Patreon, I’m working on Crimson Swift again this summer, and then on weekends, bringing back the 25 minute sprints where I dust off an old project and try to figure out why it’s not working or fix it. I’m also going to be working These Small Hours.

I’ve scheduled some days off for myself — I decided to make it easy and just pick Phillies off days. So when the Phillies don’t play, writing is optional for me. I also put in some days off for the All Star Break and work related stuff. I’m trying to go lighter on myself this year and not over-schedule myself.

See you tomorrow for our first Flash Fiction!