Update Link: Warning Shots – Part 21

Popping in before I have to leave for Sasha’s vet appointment. I’ve been leaving the new cat carrier out all week hoping the comfy bottom would attract her to take naps, and it has. So cross your fingers when I leave at 2:30, all I have to do is zip her up and go, lol.

After today, we’re switching to Chain Reaction next week. I should be able to keep going on the daily updates, but I don’t know what times yet. I have to sit down and look at my schedule, so I usually try to update the widget to the left. I hope I’m leaving you in a good place on Warning Shots. We made a lot of progress this week and now both stories have the same amount of updates, which is good.

Update Link: Warning Shots – Part 20

A bit late today — I watched GH live today after finishing curriculum, and rage tweeted for like an hour because Sam continues to be a garbage pail of a person. I’m thinking of stories where I can kill her off just to get the rage out. Then I had to break down tonight’s update (because it’s an important one so I wanted to think about what I wanted to write) and you know, eat dinner, lol.

I’m not sure exactly when tomorrow’s update will be. I have a vet appoint at 3 for my cat, and I’d need to be home by 5 to start writing at 5:30 and post before the game at 6:40. My morning has to be curriculum, so I could start early, and write around 1 and post at 2.

So stay tuned — I’m either updating at 2PM, 6:30PM or  like 11PM. I always post on Twitter before I start writing, so that’s one way to check.

Update Link: Warning Shots – Part 19

I hope you guys liked that unhinged double update, lol, last night, but don’t expect it tonight. I’m exhausted from curriculum writing all day. The only good thing is that I’ve literally written lesson plans for the first month of classes, and I have the bare bones of the LPs for the rest of the year. I’m killing myself the last two weeks of June so that September feels like a breeze. And I’m getting paid for it, so you know, go me 😛

I’m so happy you guys are enjoying this story so far! It’s been a really fun one to write, even though Jason and Elizabeth keep having conversations I didn’t ask them to and looking at each other when they’re not supposed to (and Emily going off the rails was a pleasant surprise that turned out to be a really good thing). I keep going off script with this one a bit more than I usually do, but it’s fun (even if it’s exhausting to keep resetting, lol). Thanks again to Lila for the plot bunny that inspired this 🙂

We’ll be updated this story two more times, then taking the weekend off (I have to get back to These Small Hours!) and returning next week with Chain Reaction.

See you tomorrow around 5!

Update Link: Warning Shots – Part 18

In Case You Missed It: Warning Shots – Part 17 (from like five hours ago)

Listen. The fight Emily had with Jason in Part 17 was NOT in the outline and it threw everything off, so I wanted to get back on track and still have the Friday ending I want before switching to a different story. ALSO I make the rules, so there.

Also, the Phillies had a majestic walk off win — down 3-2 to the Padres in the bottom of the 9th. MVP Bryce Harper comes up, hits a single. Bohm, the RBI machine and future 1st time All-Star this year? Hits another single. Harper heads to third. Stott, the legendary A-OK grand slam hitter, hits ANOTHER single. SCORES THE TYING RUN. And then my boy, Nick, my legend, my favorite Phillie on this team of perfectly calibrated fan favorites, NICKY THREE BUTTONS CASTELLANOS HITS A DOUBLE TO WALK THE WHOLE DAMN THING OFF and then his son is part of the daycare team dunking him with water.

Baseball is perfect, and I was happy, so you get a second update of this story.

I trust no one will complain.

Update Link: Warning Shots – Part 17

First day of summer school down! For a little while it looked like I was going to be teaching two sessions, one at 8 and a second one at 12:30 which was nice for the bank account but TERRIBLE for my schedule, lol. But they reorganized it, and I’m back to just a two-hour shift. I’ll be really glad after next week when I’m done writing the curriculum. It’s going to set me up really well for next year with the majority of next year’s content at least planned or partially completed, but it’s exhausting, lol 3-4 hours a day.

Hope you guys enjoy this update 😛

 

Update Link: Warning Shots – Part 16

Summer school starts tomorrow, and I’m pretty sure I’m doing the 8-10 session which is actually good. It means I get up, I get moving, but I’m done work by 10 and can get on with the rest of my day.  I’ve been working today to get my summer class organized – I held off doing plans for it until I was sure it was a go (had to wait for kids to sign up) so had to spend a little time on that today after working on my curriculum.

I’ll be updating Warning Shots all week, Monday-Friday either at 5 or at 8. I’ll switch to Chain Reaction for next week. Right now, it feels like I can maintain that daily schedule, but also don’t be surprised if I just skip days. I think for right now, I’ll just alternate the stories by weeks so we can get some momentum going. Times will be flexible, but those 5/8 slots seem good to me, so I can finish work, come home, do curriculum and still have time to work on other things. I still have to juggle in my online class, though the work for that is starting to get easier since we’re doing lesson plans the next few weeks, and I can write those in like ten minutes, lol.

See you tomorrow around 5 🙂

Update Link: Warning Shots – Part 15

With graduation behind me and the meeting I had to take to start writing curriculum, I get to really get going on my summer vacation — outside of summer school, lol. Just getting that extra hour of sleep and not having to be “on” six hours five days a week, it’s just such a relief. I couldn’t imagine teaching without having substantial time off to rest and recharge.

I’m really happy you guys are enjoying Warning Shots as much as I am! It’s kind of crazy to think of how far the story has come since I originally envisioned it as short little episodes that deal with the LL2 breakup before I got into a second story that was really Liason. This entire spring break arc wasn’t even in the original plan, lol. That’s the fun of flash fiction — getting to let a story just develop and see where it goes.

I should find out my summer school schedule on Monday, so I’ll be able to let you know the times for next week at that point. I’m not ruling out a flash update this weekend, but I definitely want to attempt to actually take a break (other than the 3 hours a day I have to spend on curriculum, lol).

Update Link: Warning Shots – Part 14

We made it! My eight-hour days are over! Until the last week of August, that is. I have to go back for graduation tonight (which is going to suck, lol, I didn’t even like my own graduations), then go in for a little while tomorrow to get started on curriculum writing — then summer school next week. It’s only two hours a day 2-4 days a week so it’s not even a lot of time.

I was going to update last night, but I came home to a leak and flooded basement. The water line to my fridge was cracked and leaking alllll day. Awful. I’m fortunate that my dad is an absolutely stupidly good shape for his early 60s (you’d never know it, really, I wish I had his energy) and he came up to take care of it. But it messed up my entire night. So here I am to make up for it!

A little programming note: I’m struggling just a little bit with Chain Reaction — there’s a specific story beat I need to navigate and I’m having trouble figuring out the best way to plot it.  Meanwhile, Warning Shots has like 15 parts completely planned out, so I’m going back to updating just that for a week or two, just to give myself some space. As soon as I know my summer school schedule, I’ll be able to figure out which days and times I’ll be updating Flash this summer.

Plus, I am suuuuper excited for you guys to see what I’ve planned for Warning Shots!

See you tomorrow! (time is probably going to change — just need to figure out what time I’m getting home tomorrow)

 

Update Link: Warning Shots – Part 13

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Where do I start? WHERE DO I START?

Today’s GH episode was absolute perfection. As soon as I get access to clips, I promise you, I’ll share it. GH also shared an amazing BTS photo of Jason and Elizabeth CHILLING WITH THEIR FEET IN THE METRO COURT POOL. Like — the sheer perfection from beginning to end. Lizzie came out to play, stood her ground, stood strong, didn’t let Finn gaslight and then Jason came in, made it clear he was there to do whatever Liz wanted (if she’d given him the slightest hint that she wanted Finn dead, my boy would have seen it done), and then they left together! AND HAD THE BEST CONVERSATION–

I just–

I spend way too much of my life thinking about these characters, lol, and I wrote my own version of today’s show — but I’m telling you — GH was better. This feels like when I wrote Choose Your Moment before the NOP aired in August 2006, and some GH’s version felt like nonstop fan service for like a week straight. And today — they just gobsmacked all of us with how much they absolutely KNOW these characters and this couple.  Just sheer brilliance. Absolutely amazing.

In other news — lol — half days started!

I got approved to teach French for summer school, but it’s definitely only going to be one session, so 2 hours a day for 3-4 days a week. A little extra cash so my summer savings will go further. I still have to wait to see if kids sign up — I hope so. I have about 8 kids who will fail for the years, so we’ll see. For the first two weeks of summer, I’m going to be juggling summer school and writing next year’s curriculum, but July will be much more flexible.

I’m doing three days of Flash Fic this week and next because my schedule can handle it, and then I hope I’ll be able to add a fourth day in July so I can update both stories twice a day. I’m really excited with where Warning Shots is going — I had a completely different vision in my head for this story and even now, it keeps shifting. I was laying in bed last night, and I got the idea for today’s update (complete derailment, lol). When I got up to make some quick notes on my phone, someone posted a preview pic for today’s episode CONFIRMING Jason was going to be at Finn’s and we all LOST IT, lol. So I was up for an hour, alternating between sketching out this part and freaking out on the TL.

It’s a good day to be a Liason fan, my friends.

I’ll see you on Wednesday.

ETA: GH made it their clip of the day FREAKING OUT RIGHT NOW YOU GUYS

WATCH: Jason helps distract Elizabeth from Finn (and uses the opportunity to apologize for the strife he's caused her himself). #GH pic.twitter.com/d8RrRKtwny

— General Hospital (@GeneralHospital) June 11, 2024

Update Link: The Measure of a Man

So, my boys went across the ocean and kicked some New York ass, I wrote a little episode tag for Friday’s GH. I haven’t done one of these in a long time lol, not since 2020, but I’m always happy when GH makes me want to pick up where they left off and add on.

I hope you like it.