No, its not technically a new chapter…. But it is one I have edited and gone through on my list of to dos.. It kinda fits cause I am trying to get back into things….
So it is a new Tea Shoppe (OG). And I am trying. If you just want to read the chapter and not see a representation of what I am dealing with, click on the top Banner.
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Last Warning!
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To give a heads up on the medical front, I am now home waiting on the surgery and found that everybody had thought I was an idiot for working through the pain, including my hubby. I may have been but who knows? So a week from today I will be going in to see when I will have the/those surgery(s). The picture below shows my type of bone spur.
Needless to say, it hurts. And it’s doing damage every time I walk. But hey High Pain Tolerance! But I do have time to work on things. I just need to make it to the office which is across the house now. But I will try to keep you guys updated.
For those who are wondering about Twilight Version, I will work on those when I remember more of this story. IT may get more edited than this one.
See, I spent the holidays basically going from illness to illness culminating in spending my birthday with the flu. Not fun. It has been so bad that it took two days to take down the Xmas tree. And I still have one to go.
But during this time I was on TikTok, and people write Fanfiction that is Y/N, I have been watching/reading them and they had inspiration hit. So I wrote a chapter, then another then hated them. Then sometime, I think last week, I rewrote the first chapter and I liked it much better. Since then I have been trying not to cough a lung out.
I have not forgotten this and have been wanting to work, but the house calls to me since Hub’s idea of a clean house and mine are completely different. I also have a bunch of quilts to make this year, so I will be busy. But I will publish chapters as I can get to work on them. I am hoping that a few weeks of working on the quilts and I can be done with the majority of them… Hopefully!!!
I wanted to give you guys an update on what is going on. I hope all of you had a great holiday and are having a great new year as well.
Also for all of you reviewing stories, Thank you. It is encouraging me to come back. I am trying to work on chapters that are done, but we will see what happens. Maybe inspiration will hit on a fan favorite soon!
For myself, I am hoping these past year(s) have been better than mine.
Here is the bad stuff:
I hate to tell you guys, but we lost Connor during the first month of lockdown. He was having trouble breathing, and when we could find someplace to take him, we found out there was a large growth in his stomach and no guarantee that he will get better. We couldn’t do that to him. That hit harder than anything and to be frank, I lost a lot of inspiration for a very long time to do anything.
I also lost a co-worker, not due to Covid, but something else. That led to a dark time that we are all just pulling ourselves out of at work.
Then after we surface for air, only to have my Aunt pass away. Her funeral was less than a week ago. And I am going to go get tested tomorrow to see if I have the same thing, since it is genetic, and I have some of the symptoms.
We had other things, like AC’s going out and having to replace it completely. Traverse needing a huge repair and so on.
Real Life has sucked. But then it has for all of us.
During this time I actually finished Revelations (Alice and Hatter) and was ready to go on to the final section as I promised everyone back in the beginning. Only for me to be unable to find those chapters.
On the other hand, I found chapters of I Never Did and some of the other stories.
Silver Linings. Right now I grab onto them for my sanity.
What I want to do now, is get everything out to you guys. And if the betas can get to them, then they can fix them, otherwise, you guys get to see exactly why I call these ladies wizards with my work. But life is too short for me to put off something I love so much for time to do other things. I still have to work PT since I need to pay for the traverse’s major repairs and for the new AC. Also, if the price of lumber will ever go down, the renovations my home needs so badly.
I do now have an office that is separate from the sewing room. I have a new keyboard that is a little difficult to use since it is Ergonomic.
So Chapters will be coming out in whatever order I find. I do plan to actually work on making new chapters for What If, since I started that one very depressed. It was getting better but it has that stigma for me and I think you guys would like to read that one to the end. Well, if you like it.
Well, I am off to see what I find first that I have done but was waiting on me to send off to someone to beta. And please be gentle with me. There is a reason I have betas.
A story was written. It was shockingly well received, and the author started to think of more.
She thought about this idea so much she had dreams and it rolled around her head as she continued to think up new stories. She gained some friends, who supported her completely and she finally voiced the idea, to have everyone shocked then say it was awesome.
With this support, the author went and realized everything tied together, though no one else could fully understand it, they supported her and she made a prophecy to help guide others to begin to see the possibilities.
And she started world building on a huge grand scale, thrilled to be able to loosen the bounds of her imagination, to dream of whatever she wanted.
Then things happened as they do. Life got in the way, friends fell on the wayside, and the author was convinced of writing to publish it for money. While this frightened her, she agreed and started working towards it, scratching ideas and trying to work it out to be stories that others would like.
Life got in the way as well as the doubts from the author and these ideas fell to the side. Trying to change stories to not give away things, made it where the author fought against her subconscious, and ended up stressing her out, and working to the point that her ideas stalemated and nothing worked.
She went and learned something new, quilting. It helped relax her (though she kinda overdid it as normal) and it ended up leading her to this point. No one is to blame for this, cause who would know it would cause stress to the point that the words would not flow anymore. It took a while but some realizations have come forth.
I have a job, but I don’t need it.
I can quilt and make stuff, but while it is fun, I long to write.
So late the other night while insomnia was working its wiles on me, I thought, ‘why not do what I originally planned? Why not write a world built on ideas that others started and that I turn to be my own? If it gets somehow seen and wanted for publishing, then I can deal with that then.’
Right now? I want to have fun, write my ideas down, and see if the rest of the world wants to read it.
What does this mean?
I am back.
I am changing back one story to be back to Damon and Bella since that is what it is written for, and it will make sense hopefully to others then. Though the ideas will stay. Which to be honest, I ended up seeing them as Bella and Damon, and when I changed it, the story got lost.
I am going to start with whatever I feel like, but secretly hopefully, I will finish Tea Shoppe also since I need to talk to the beta for that one and see what we are doing. But I will say this, I seem to be falling in love with Damon again, so I am starting on that sequel you guys were waiting on. The one that got sidetracked when I tried to remove the back story from.
And for all of you guys who wrote reviews, you are the ones who inspired this. You are the ones who made me realize that writing what I want was better than writing nothing. And I hope you enjoy me being back.
And now for the Prophecy…..
I will translate for those who cannot later…. Have fun deciphering it. I will tell you now, that some of these events have already happened…
We had a slight mishap in the chapter for this week. I will say this much, it is for Tired Wings.
Yep! It is one of the stories I have been hoping to get done. I am going line by line trying to save my beta some work since we found out the same error in chapter 9. It is an editing issue and will make no change to the story itself, but we are working on fixing it cause it will bug me otherwise.
I also have some RL issues going on at the same time, with Monday tiring me out. It might happen (I’m hoping so!) again tomorrow or later this week. If so, things will be a little delayed. Sorry, but it can’t be helped. But it is good things for the house so…
But I wanted to let you guys know we are working on stuff. It isn’t as fun as editing (which is not as fun as you might think) and I am needing to go line by line for 9 pages of edits to make sure everything is done. Hopefully, I am able to get one chapter at least sent to the betas, as I work on writing some more on Revelations to get that one done. I am almost done with that book, and the final story of that trilogy is already planned in my head. I wanted to get it on paper this week as well. We will see.
I am also rereading the In Death books by J.D. Robb aka Nora Roberts. I have found later that Hatter/Peter in Tea Shoppe was partly influenced by Roarke in the In Death books. Not that I knew it until later when I was describing him to someone and it flashed across my head the similarities. At least at the beginning.
So, I am working on returning to writing, as I mentioned before. And I wanted to let you know that there is a slight problem we are working through to get the chapter to you this week and that it is on a story that most of you have been waiting on. Be patient!! NO story is going to be unfinished. As evidenced by the fact I am going back to the beginning to finish those stories.
So here is what is going on. I am planning to go for one week working on stories (last week) and one week working on quilting (this week). I’m trying to merge the two things I enjoy doing to see if I can get back in the rhythm of working on stories as well as doing all the quilting I have to do.
Also, I have mentioned this before, I am working on finishing the older stuff first. So that means Alice (aka Revelations) which will be wrapping up soon but will go to the last of the sequel I had planned for the trilogy. I will also be working on Tea Shoppe (both the Twilight and the Alice version). Then onto Tin Man, Once Upon a Time. Lastly, will be What If.
During this time, I will be also editing the stories I have already written. Which are Tea Shoppe (which goes hand in hand to the above since it will allow me to get back in the swing of things), My two Marvel Stories that I have written out, and Sacred.
I will be sending one of those chapters to a beta a week as I can. No promises if a muse gets inspired, but I am going to try. As well, I will be posting a chapter a week. Since I will be working only every other week on writing, we will see how this does. I have some chapters banked, and I will be dipping into those as I send chapters out hoping to get them back in time to post. This is to helpfully get you guys back to the site, as well as not overwhelming me. I already have quite a few quilts I need to finish here before Christmas so I am trying not to stress myself on that end as well.
It’s sad when you have to explain to your nephews that I will make them another quilt next year, not this year, but they were so excited that they already picked out what they want. ::Shaking her head at her nephews::
So without further ado, here is the chapter for this week:
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