Scribbles and Updates

It has been forever since I've written anything here and I'm sorry about that! I just keep getting bogged down in things and putting writing on the back burner and then I feel like shit for being so behind. Currently I'm looking into registering for a novel writing course at a local uni near me. I'm working full time so it'll be an online course, but I think it would be a great way to push my writing to the next level. I just fed up with writing currently. IWOAK is complete, the first draft, but the second draft is just a struggle to get out and I don't know why. FFYT has stalled major and while I have new ideas for other works they never get past the first few chapters. I keep thinking I've figured out where the issue is and then it doesn't work and I just get stuck. But at least with the course I can get feedback and a structure that might help and then next steps will lead to me finally letting go and letting the story be the best it can be. Now...

Hey you guys, sorry for being so late with updates! I hope everything has been going well for you guys and 2014 has been better than 2013! For me, things are quite a bit different. Work has been hectic, I was moved to another team and now I'm working on three accounts instead of just focusing on one so I had to learn the ropes and then there was a mass firing (I wasn't let go) but we were given additional responsibilities so I've just been focusing on staying on top of everything in my main job. Writing wise I've been doing a lot of thinking, not just about IWOAK but my other completed stories that I should have rewritten and revised but haven't gotten very far on. It doesn't make sense that I'm having such a hard time to get really into the writing/rewriting of finished stories (WDC, IWOAK) or stories I already have major plot points figured out (FFYT, OMN). The main issue is the mind set I'm in now versus the mindset I was in when I started. Wh...

IWOAK has been updated, tell me what you think! There's a bit of AJ and Jared, very little Missy but the next chapter is where she's going to shine and I might post some of the rejected scenes/openings for this chapter where she had a bit more shine. Hope you like it!

Kinda want to bump the previous post down since it continues to bother my soul, lol, and I'm trying to move past that. So, updates. Non-Writing Related Heading into the final stretch for school, found out today I got my internship! *brap brap* here's hoping they hire me afterwards and I don't have to struggle at searching for a job as I usually do. Of course, this means that all of my major projects are coming to a head since the internship starts in April but I'm hoping to figure out a system that will work better than the one I currently have, which hasn't been working out that well when it comes to writing regularly, lol. Um, I've decided to start running since I went from playing some sort of sport all through highschool and elementary school and even the first three/four years of college to doing nothing at all and I'm beginning to feel the effects. had to run five minutes to my bus stop and almost passed out once I got on, lmao, and I intend ...

Chapter 32 is finally up. Anon reviews will be up on the blog later this week/early next week. I hope you like the chapter :)

I know some of you are worried that I'm not going to finish but I am working on it. School officially started last week so I wanted to get the chapter done by this weekend but the transition is killing me. At some point in time, I took a scene that should've happened earlier out/altered it and now a scene I need to write for this chapter isn't working because its set up is built on what should've happened in the removed scene. I think I've figured out how to fix it but we'll see if I'm able to get it out this week as planned since third week [of school] is when everything will start to really pick up. Also, someone asked when we'll be seeing a happier Judi... not for a while. Her house of cards is tumbling and things are coming to light that she either has chosen to ignore or didn't about are coming to light.

So, no update on IWOAK, that's still moving along, bumped into a few voice issues but I'm rewriting and working on that and hopefully it'll make Judi's reactions more realistic based on the character I've created without messing up everything I have planned out. What makes it really frustrating is that I finished the chapter, it's written out and everything but it just feels wrong. I'm most likely going to cut the opening scene because the voice doesn't sound like Judi at all there and it feels pointless. I'm hoping I can get it figured out and smoothed over by this weekend. In the meantime, here's a website that is dedicated to stories with black females in the lead with a large focus on interracial stories. I haven't been on it for long but it looks like it has something for everyone, and you don't have to be a member to read and review. http://www.valentchamber.com/index.php