The sequel to Alice and Hatter, my first ever fic, is up! mknue has done a freaking awesome job in making a painful process as painless as possible. She is unbelievably patient with me.
To give you some background, Alice and Hatter was my first fic. It is a retelling of the movie Alice, 2009 with the premise that Hatter and Alice fall into love and admit it sooner. It’s also all those missing pieces of time in the movie, when we concentrated on other characters. As I went along, I couldn’t help myself from adding little hints and surprised myself when I added a major character from another movie. But when I did, the whole thing fell into place in my head, and I went straight from finishing that fic to writing the sequel.
However, I was also writing Tea Shoppe, which is totally AU and taking place in our world. I met a wonderful woman that I call Hattie. She was cheering me along all the way and still does to this day. Another reader, Alaina Downs offered to Beta me, and she agreed to a wish of mine to gift Hattie with a beta’d Alice and Hatter for Christmas. We worked on it and I learned so much during that time, that you would be surprised at the difference. She was also my beta for Tea Shoppe and Revelations from where I was at the time. We had planned to go back and redo Revelations, but we had a parting of the ways before then.
So, it is bad. I forgotten everything I learned in college and High School (Which oddly, was tougher than any of my College classes!). I messed up verb tenses badly, and used the words And and But ALOT. Also, BADLY. I learned about commas and so on. It was a much needed lesson.
It also taught me the worth of a beta. Every SINGLE Beta I have learned things from. Including my new ones. They correct, and I go ‘ohhh I forgot about that, sorry!’ and make notes to myself to remember before I give them another chapter.
mknue, unfortunately, has all the chapters already. And if she doesn’t get to it, I will certainly go back and try to make it better. But, I have all these stories going on and while it has made me look forward to getting up and getting to work, it is work. Luckily I have so much backed up because this week is a wash for writing.
I am telling you this so you can understand why I am so thankful for the Betas that have stepped forward to help, and really appreciate Faeregina, who had done ALL of the one shots, In The End and is working on Tea Shoppe who is in the same situation as Revelations. mknue gets it because I had warned Faeregina that Revelations was really bad and we, well, we put it off. She was warned also, but went ahead with it. I just hope I didn’t scare her too much!
I am thrilled about getting to this, and can’t wait until we are caught up because, truthfully, Revelations is based on the characters started in Alice but I have greatly evolved them and it is a whole different story! But you do have to read Alice and Hatter to understand it fully. And watch a certain movie… But I won’t give it away until you read it…
Have fun. I will be posting soon for another story that the Beta is finishing as we speak.
I have reached over 50,000 visitors to this site, almost close to 51K! Thank you, Thank you, Thank you, THANK YOU!!!!! For a Present, Shirtless Damon for you guys. LOL
I am so happy. Truthfully.
I also wanted to let you know, we are busy, busy, BUSY!! Another chapter of ED was done and published on FF.net. I also got the prologue done for You’re All I Am Asking for done as well and posted.
Poor Mknue, she is working hard to get Revelations up to par. I have the first chapter and trying to work on it from her revisions. missron80 is waiting patiently for me to finish with The Best if Yet to Come. She is also helping with a poll over on Facebook for In The End. The question makes no sense to anyone, but there is a reason!
What If’s Beta is busy being all smiley and when she gets back, (and relaxes those muscles!) she will have the new chapter to Beta. I refused to give it to her sooner.
We are well on our way! I even established for the future the timeline for the beta’s to start looking for my notifications! Then I got all OCD (CDO) and made a freaking spreadsheet to make sure some ages work out.
Thanks again for all the visitors. I am thrilled. To think I thought no one will visit this site and it would only be good to store chapters on. You guys proved that wrong~
Yep, there is another Tea Shoppe Chapter. I was bad, and my Beta reminded me she had posted it last night. I spent the day with Connor and relaxed, yesterday stressed me out. What can I say? Family. They know how to push every button you have.
So even though it is late at night, I will be working on some stuff. Sorry! But I need to get the next chapters of What If ready, Tea Shoppe too. Then I hope I can finish posting and get to the fun stuff. Writing!!
For those that have been waiting for this, the wait is over. Just remember, this is a R rated fic. Or VERY VERY mature. Just warning. It builds up to it.
Yes, Tea Shoppe is starting the move over to WordPress. And yes, the ladies on Kittyinaz on Facebook got the first notification.
For those that do not know, Tea Shoppe started as a thank you to my fans for reviewing Alice and Hatter. It was supposed to be a one shot, and it was inspired by a ride home one day and I heard If We Ever Meet Again by Timbaland and Katy Perry. The entire scene that is written is that as it played out in my mind as I listened. But then I found out it was too big to send in PM’s. So I did a dedication to the fans that I was going to send it to.
I posted it, thinking that was all that was going to come out of it. I surprised everyone, including my beta at that time, and had a HUGE response asking for more. So, with no plan or anything, writing as I went, I wrote this out. I actually had until Chapter 22 written while I was struggling with a plot issue in my other story at the time Revelations. It contains a chapter I had actually wanted to write to a song in this, and ended up making me cry as I wrote it. As we come up to it, I will let you know. Tea Shoppe has been the easiest story to write, and has usually been one I can sit and write easily.
But, it also has had it’s share of heartbreaks too. As my first, from the soul story, I wanted to post it to Twilighted.com in the hopes that maybe it can be picked up. I sent it there, and got turned down. Told that maybe Project Team Beta can help. Now I was pretty far in the story, and went with it. I had just picked up a Beta who was helping me out big time, and what would be the harm in more?
The first chapter came back with 203 comments of things to change in the story. Yep, I said 203 in one chapter. And it never got better. I grew frustrated, specially since I submitted chapter one twice, and got no better. The reason I submitted chapter one twice? Twilighted turned me down again.
After that, I got really sick. It started in December of 2010, I started to have insomnia. I pushed it aside, thinking it was the stress of redoing Alice and Hatter for me to send it as a gift out, baking my buns off for a party I was giving later, and for my gifts to the office. I never had a downtime until the actual holiday.
But, it continued. And I got the flu. From there it went all downhill. I was in so much pain I was out of work beginning May and never returned. Stress made it worse, and it became so bad, I could not move from the bed. After MANY tests, and very painful ones, they determined that I needed surgery. By that time I was fired, and was basically bed ridden. I could get up, but it hurt so bad… yeah. I lost 50 lbs during that time, basically in two weeks, because all I could eat was some pretzels and crackers. And the insomnia continued, even with Ambien. When I came through all that, it came to light that the suffering I had gone through for 18 years, was based on a misdiagnose, that no doctor until my current one questioned. Thank goodness she did! During this time, is when I got hooked on True Blood, and Inuyasha fics. I also proved what an EXCELLENT investment the iPad was. LOL.
Luckily for me, during all this, I had a cheering squad on my side. I, to this day, give many thanks to Hattie. She has been, and continues to be, my cheering squad. She jumps in and helps me search out pics, and many of the pics I will be using will be from her. And yes, she is still reading my stuff, well, she would read In The End, but she is not into blonds. LOL!!! Though she thinks Joe M. is a hottie….
So many, MANY thanks to Hattie.
And so many freaking thanks, that you will not believe, to my current Beta. I sent her the chapter, and tonight when she posted it, she asked what the heck had they been thinking. She is also in love with my Tin Man Story. It is because of her that I started to write again. She encouraged me to write In The End, and is a big supporter of mine. We have grown close, shoot we even get sick together. LOL! This is why I trust her, and love her as my Beta. She tells me she changed two pics, and is working on the next chapter, but neither of us like a set of pictures. Yes, we take pictures seriously.
So, if nothing else, please try to give this story, that is so close to my heart, a chance. I will be updating the Twilight version that I started. The biggest changes? Well the main characters are Bella and Peter. And MY Peter is Ryan Reynolds. <evil grin>
And for those who read my original, well, nothing is changing except pictures added, grammar fixed and all that. As the chapters update here, I will be removing anything from the FanFiction version that would cause it to be pulled. But not until it is up hear. Because face it. It would be pulled. LOL!
Thanks for reading my rambling. Some of this is to let you know about this story, and some to let the current fans know why it seemed I gave up on this story. I haven’t.
Yeah, I know I promised it like yesterday, but I messed up a plot point and needed to fix it. AND I seemed to have gotten my hubby’s headache from drinking all day yesterday. I think it unfair that I get his hangover while he is perfectly fine.
So I am giving up an excellent pic of Eric that I found but know I will not be able to use in this fic. =o( It’s my I am soooo sorry!!!!
But as I didn’t get home until after 3am, I foolishly thought I would get up early and fix it. So my deepest apologies. I forget I am not 21 years old anymore.
Alice and Hatter IS published, just not the handy neat next thingies.
Well I had this really pretty post all done, and somehow lost it when I went to find the pic for this post. Ah well.
Good Afternoon. I remember saying that!!! I have two good news to impart to you!!
One, The chapter for In The End will be posted sometime today. There was a case of miscommication on my part and my Beta didn’t realize it was ready to go. She thought I was still talking on the chapter I wrote. So she will be working to post it today. The bad news? I will be at a ‘thing’. We will leave it there since it is a surprise. I will bring my iPad and will post that the chapter is ready if it is when I do it. However, there may or may not be a link from the post, depending on how many drinks I have and if the iPad decides to participate tonight. It doesn’t like WordPress and only after 6 days of trying did it allow me to like a post. I am hoping it will allow me to use the site to do like I do here on the laptop.
Two: Alice and Hatter will be published thisweekend!After much discussion and after me feeling daunted by the sheer number of posts I have out there to be approved, my beta is agreeing for me to publish. Specially since it has been beta’d in the past and redone to make it up to standard. If there are any issues, please let me know. I will try to fix as I go. And don’t be surprised if the chapters are adjusted as we go. I have to publish the things before I can go back and add those helpful next and previous chapter links. After I get them up to par, I will be going back to Fan fiction and removing questionable material.
So keep an eye out and you will see things changing. Revelations will take a bit, it is really messed up at the beginning. So be patient, both my Beta and I have RL being a pain in the ass to both of us.
So enjoy the drink above, as I will be later tonight… Dreamsicles maybe in the forecast!!!
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