Random Fic and Life Musings

[amberfocus]

So  I've closed the poll on the future of You're What?  The general consensus is to finish the story with the wedding of Nine and Rose and then write a sequel surrounding the end of Rose's pregnancy and the birth of Charlie.  It's what I was leaning towards anyway, so I like it that it's what the majority of my readers, the ones who speak up anyway, would also like to see.  It will go through Parting of the Ways, though.  The general consensus seems to be that no one wants me to regenerate Nine.  Gee, wonder why that is?  Do we like our dark, sexy, too hot for his own good, Oncoming Storm a little too much?  Well, yes, we do.  Of course we do.  And Ten has his own stories going on if I ever get back to them.  Thing is, when I finish You're What? I will take a break from that storyline to finish some other stories, before I start on Now What?  I've really got to get moving on finishing some of those other ones.  I don't like having so many WiPs going at once.

I'm also considering doing a rewrite soon of Just Another Shop Girl.  That was my third story and I often think it got short shrift.  It was also my first Nine story and I didn't have him down quite the same way I do now.  It took writing Hunger Moon and Moments in Darkness to really get him like I do now.  So I think I could really flesh out the characters in a way it doesn't feel like I did then and add to the depth of the story.  It was a very surface adventure story.  Plus, I've never been entirely happy with Tessa Morgan, the main original character of the piece.  And since I haven't brought that story over to my LJ yet, I know some people may not have read it.  The other reason why I want to rewrite it and bring it over here is that the Tirawls will be popping up again in the story In This Darkness Tumbles Hope.  And it'll be easier to point to that story for those who want to know the history of the aliens if the primary story that concerns them is actually posted on LJ.  I figure I'll probably be adding about 500 to 700 words per chapter.

I wish I had more time to write like I used to, but with having to homeschool both kids now it's just not going to be like it used to. *growls at incompetent local school system*  It drives me a lttle more crazy than it should do, I think, but writing is my outlet.  It's my coping mechanism. *sighs*  Don't like it when my coping mechanism gets messed with.  I finally got all the books in the mail, at least I think I have done, from the virtual school.  I'm still not sure how it's going to work for my son, he's still so stubborn about it, but my daughter is simply thriving with it.  DH told me there will be a paper and ink reimbursement from the state, too.  Well, that'll be nice.  But since we are using stuff we'd bought before they started the state virtual school, it's not like we have receipts, so hopefully it's an allowance system and not a turn in your receipts system.

DH comes home on Thursday and he'll take over Rose's portion of the schooling while home and I'll just do Tobias's.  So I will have a bit more time to write then because I'll only be focused on the youngest.  Of course that only lasts twelve days and he's gone again, but still...it's something.

Well, enough rambling from me, I suppose.  It's time to start the school day.

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[amberfocus.livejournal.com]

I know what you mean. It really does. They seem to be thriving with this new program, finally now that we've gotten all the materials.