Scribbles and Updates

Alright, so here's the (first) prologue to the short story I'm trying to use to break me out of the IWOAK slumps. It is nothing like IWOAK, at least for the first two prologues which are set very very loosely in Roman times (forgive me my huge historical inaccuracies) and has a much darker tone. I ran into some issues but I'll see how the next few chapters come along before I write about it just incase it's more of a mind set thing and not a writing thing. I will say that sex scenes are hard.Especially when they're supposed to highlight the mind set of the characters as well as show a connection, pretty sure I suck at it but at the same time it was fun and I'm looking at it all as practice, lol. Prologue is below, there is some violence and sex though I don't think it's too explicit. I understand if it's not your thing but I do hope you guys enjoy it!

So I think I've figured out why this chapter is so hard for me. Part of the reason is because I want it to end well. I want it to be true to the tone and the characters that I've created while being realistic based on the situation, but the other reason is because I've been overthinking it and focused only on this story. When I was reaching the end of WDC, I was already starting to work on IWOAK, and with one of the other novels I finished (it wasn't posted on FP, at lest not the finished product) I had been working on WDC and it alternately whenever I got stuck on one. And when that didn't work I drew or painted or had some other form of creative outlet. This time around I've been working only on IWOAK and sometimes FFYT or trying to work on CHOICES with all other stories being put on the backburner or I haven't been writing at all, not seriously. I haven't even really drawn/painted anything in a while.  I've decided to just write the short ...

So, next update will most likely be next week, I have to do some reshuffling and I'm really hoping I'll be hit with that 'bing!' moment and I can rewrite everything so you can get that moment of excitement throughout because I feel that moment has been missing for a while. This whole story needs a rewrite, the earlier chapters just need to be tightened and fixed to match my current style but some of the newer chapters need to be written to capture the moments of the older ones better. Like, you know when you read a cute scene and you get that little thrum and it's just awesome? I want to be able to write that back. Sigh, but this story ends in two chapters, three if we count the epilogue and I'm not too sure I'll get back into the groove but it will be fixed in the rewrite. Anyway, to make up for not being able to update today, I thought it would be fun to show you guys one of the alternate openings for this story . I think I like this opening a bit be...

Hey you guys, I want to thank you for your patience and kind words, the funeral was last Saturday and it was harder than I expected considering he had been sick since last summer and he was just getting worse. Since I doubt the latest chapter will up anytime as soon as you'd like and for Choices the first person is killing me I figured I'd give you a look at one of my 'babies', lol. My 'babies' are stories that I came up with when I was younger and I still adore or I doubt have the skill to actually write. This is the opening of my first ever straight romance from a  possible series called StarCrossed. I started it when I was 17/18 but didn't have the skill to put it where I wanted it to go. It took me forever to get this opening chapter and it's still no where as good as it could be.  Hope you enjoy and I am working on IWOAK30,  I was actually writing it when I decided to take a break and do a progress report thingle.