Story Updates and It Freaking Snowed...Again!

[amberfocus]

Hello?  Spring?  Still waiting!  Oh, my freaking goodness, this is getting utterly ridiculous.  I do not expect to wake up to snow on my car on the 29th of April.  What is that all about?  Plus it was the morning of Rose's field trip to Olympia which meant getting her up at 5:30 and being at the school by 6:00 a.m.  Now normal school hours start at 9:00 so we usually sleep in until 8:00 (school's only a mile away).  So, of course, I had to get Tobias up as well since Chris is still in Alaska and there was no one to leave him home with.  Not leaving an 8-year-old alone in an empty house for 5 minutes to run down to the school, even if he is sleeping and wouldn't have noticed!  No matter how tempting that bad mother thought was. *sighs*  So of course T does not go back to sleep.  Like he ever does if you wake him up.  So I'm a bit (read: a whole boatload of a lot) cranky and tired and with the bouts of insomnia I've had in the last ten days, my mood is a little off.  Hate that.  I like being mellow.  Not to mention the bus was almost a whole hour late coming back from Olympia, so instead of getting back at 6:00 p.m. it got back at 6:50.  They had issues with Seattle traffic.  Why am I not surprised?  Okay, thus endeth my rant and boy do I feel better!

On the plus side I tried out a new recipe today for making soft breadsticks and they taste an awful lot like crazy bread from Little Caesar's.  Note to self, try adding one more tbsp of brown sugar or substituting with honey next time.

Okay, so onwards to the writing bits.  I am not the least little bit shocked at the outcome of my poll on Moments in Darkness.  Well, actually I am a little bit.  I am really surprised that so many people want it to turn into baby!fic.  I write angst/hurt/comfort and you, my lovely reader's want happy endings. *grins*  No, the part I'm not surprised about is that half of my readers want it to be Ten with babies and half want it to be Nine with babies.  I really thought there'd be a few more people who did not want babies at all.  So I'm tempted to do an alternate time line split.  Continue on with Moments in Darkness with Nine where PotW doesn't happen or if it does happen it doesn't kill Nine but it does alter his DNA or Rose's.  But a gradual alteration so there'd be no babies right away.  Possibly.  Not saying I'm doing this yet, so don't get your hopes up.  Second, the alternate time line where Nine does turn into Ten and in his process of making himself pretty for Rose and having the Time Vortex in him, having his DNA altered enough to be compatible with Rose but Rose not wanting to sleep with him for a good long time after the change so I can keep the angst there.  And if, if, if, I do this alternate time line I'd call it Onward Towards Light.  That's what I'm currently thinking.

I'm going to leave the poll open for a few more days because I may yet change my mind and I am honestly surprised there have been as many responses to it as there have been.  Unless people are voting more than once?  Regardless, I'm resting the Moments in Darkness series for a couple of days.  I have got to write that last chapter of Repercussions, it is just sitting there waiting to be finished and driving me crazy.  Repercussions spoiler right here:  How hard is it to do an epilogue with Delta's birth anyway?  *pets Alt!Ten and Alt!Rose who have been waiting and waiting*

End Repercussions spoiler.

Of the Vortex Born is languishing and I know what happens next, I really do, so why?  Argh!  On the good news front, I'm almost done with super stubborn ch. 10 of Hunger Moon.  I've rewritten it a lot.  Jackie was coming off as a harpy instead of just bitchy and worried about the twins.  And I really don't like her and Rose fighting about Alt!Nine.  It's hard.  I know it's necessary, but I feel like I'm fighting with my own mother and we never fight.  Well, maybe once a decade.  I'm tempted to write a future ficlet of Alt!Nine and Rose and one of their future children.  Just to get some of the Nine baby!fic stuff out of my head for a bit.  It would take place after the series was over.  I found what I think looks just like a child CE could have with BP.  The other little girl is Cassiopea Tyler from the Time Eternal Series, Rose and Ten's second born child.  And the little boy down below?  You guessed it, that's their first born son Vandarius "Dare" Tyler.  I really wanted kids that I thought looked like a cross between DT and BP and I think these do.  Oh, and while I was at it I also found Devora.  That's Martha and Dare's daughter.  I'm having a hard time finding Marsden.  Anyone know of some mutli-ethnic modeling sights that have children?  I need a boy around sixteen with mocha to bronze (or even the color of the little girl next to Dare) colored skin and blond hair.  I know that's not easy to find, but someone might have a clue.

                       

    

Anyway, I suppose I've rambled on long enough.  I'm off to check and see if Teaspoon has posted ch. 3 of Have yet or not, they're taking forever today.  And then back to work on ch. 10 of Hunger Moon and maybe some editing on ch. 2 of Andromeda Rising.  Not to mention the 68 comments to wade through. *smiles*

Comments

[ageless-aislynn.livejournal.com]

So I'm tempted to do an alternate time line split.

Best of both worlds! *squee!* That would be the ULTIMATE solution, in my eyes, that way you can kinda have your cake and eat it, too, as the old chestnut goes. ;) I sooooooooo hope that'll be the way it ends up going, that way you can explore both equally fascinating directions! *is cheering for this option, with pom-poms and everything!* ;) (Yeah, that's how they "don't get your hopes up" in my universe... :P ;) )

Ooo, I love how you find pictures for your characters like that! That's just...neat! Don't know of any multi-ethnic modeling sites but if I come across any that seem to fit the bill, I'll be sure to pass them along to you! ;)

Oh I hear you about the insomnia/early morning thing just wrecking your mood. *shakes head* Hope it gets better for you soon! Mellow is always the way to go! *hugs* ♥!

[nattieb.livejournal.com]

*starts a campaign to let nine be a daddy*

Come on, Ten already has a mess of kids, doesn't Nine deserve some love too.

*runs off to make bumper stickers, t-shirt, and pins*

Sorry about the snow. We were 77 today, down to 37 tomorrow. Love the weather during the spring.

[kammgirl.livejournal.com]

Will there be a sequel to Repercussions?

[amberfocus.livejournal.com]

I've thought about it, but I don't know. I'd have to find a plot for it and even then I don't know when I'd ever find the time at this point, much as I love alt!Ten and alt!Rose. But if I do, it'll be called Reverberations. Good at titles, me. *grins* And I plan on doing the next straight line Time Eternal story In This Darkness Tumbles Hope before I'd even get close to a Repercussions sequel, and that's not until after I'm done with Hunger Moon and OTVB. My plot bunnies exploded one day and I have far too many things on the table right now.

[amberfocus.livejournal.com]

I've got ideas for a Nine/Rose angry baby!fic rumbling around at the moment, definitely not in this series. By angry, I mean neither one of them was expecting or wanting a baby, and neither one of them is happy about it. I tried to think sweet, but this is what exploded in my head instead. Not sure it will ever see the light of day in this version, but I might be able to sweeten it up, keep in the fights, but have them make nice.

Also have the idea of a Rose in jeopardy story where the Doctor finds out she's pregnant, has been keeping it from him for fear he'll throw her off the ship, and she runs off when he confronts her in one of his angry, moody (but very concerned) fits and she of course goes and gets herself hurt or kidnapped or something and he has to rescue her all the while castigating himself and freaking out that she'll lose the baby, which he surprises himself by really, really, really wanting. Also not in this series.

[amberfocus.livejournal.com]

Could be, could be. I've casting characters in my stories since I was a teenager. Used to cut them out of magazines, now I use the internet. *laughs* One of my quirks, but I like to work with a face if I can, makes the character much easier to come to life and allows me to hear a clearer voice. Like I need more voices in my head. *grins*

[bluevolvic.livejournal.com]

I think your ideas sound great, I love the angst thrown in with fluff, cos all fluff or all angst is too much , i like a balance lol!
Is Repercussions part of 'time eternal story'?

[amberfocus.livejournal.com]

It is, sort of. It follows the alt!Ten whose Rose dies in chapter four of this story, and an alt!Rose (from her P.O.V.) who is not his. There are minor interactions throughout Repercussions that coincide with minor things that happen in the rest of the Time Eternal stories. Anyway, they show up in, I think it's chapter twenty, A Place in Time for the first time. I call it a sideways sequel, but it's part of Time Eternal, yeah, just like Jack's Path is really even though it's a separate series. It's much more of a rollercoaster ride, written in present tense, action-packed and a bit desperate, but oh, do they ever fall in love hard.

[debs7.livejournal.com]

Also have the idea of a Rose in jeopardy story where the Doctor finds out she's pregnant, has been keeping it from him for fear he'll throw her off the ship, and she runs off when he confronts her in one of his angry, moody (but very concerned) fits and she of course goes and gets herself hurt or kidnapped or something and he has to rescue her all the while castigating himself and freaking out that she'll lose the baby, which he surprises himself by really, really, really wanting. Also not in this series.

That fic right there hits all my buttons in the right way. I'd love to read a (really good) fic that has those elements and I know you could do that so well.

[katecarter.livejournal.com]

I just have this weird obsession with baby!fics...I think it's because I'm naive enough to want one of my own. I'm sure I'll think I was absolutely insane when I do get around to having one (it won't be for a few years though!). So baby!fics are good. And I really like Ten baby!fics, because Ten just seems like he would be better to have around kids. Nine would be too, but Nine just isn't as...manic-bouncy? I'm attracted to the manic-bouncy.

And, we haven't had snow, and today's weather was really pretty decent, but the last two days it's been cold, and the nights have been enough to make me put an extra blanket on my bed. This is what I don't understand...this is the third year in a ROW we've had this behavior here, and yet they say there's global warming?!

[amberfocus.livejournal.com]

Well, it's on the list rumbling around in my brain. I'm pretty sure it'll come out one of these days. *grins* They all tend to.

[amberfocus.livejournal.com]

So do I. Writing Nine as Daddy is a huge challenge, Ten as Daddy is much, much easier. Probably why there is so much Ten/Rose baby!fic and not that much Nine.

The keep saying the cold weather is caused by the Global Warming. Screws up the weather cycles. I don't know. We had a ridiculously hot summer last year. Several days in the upper 80's and 90's and a few days above 100. We're generally a 70 to 75 degree summer place, so it was nuts. The summer before was bad, too. Maybe this long, crazy winter will mean summer won't get so awful this year.