Wrap It Up !

So, I wrote a serial about a fairy princess. . .

The 2nd picture in the first row is the dress I imagine April wearing at the end.

Alternate Playlist (click to listen)

I have 45 songs I didn't get to use . It's hard to believe when I started I only had 6 songs. The music-spiration was based on those love-encompassing top 40 songs that go from first meeting, love, break ups and tribulations. Some of the songs may get pulled into to Bellum's playlist. Here are a few I really wanted to use.


Ever Ever After by Carrie Underwood (Alternate ending song)
Wings by Little Mix 
I Knew Your Trouble  by Boyce Ave
Human by Jon Mclaughlin


On American Fairytale

N:AF was. . . different. I came up with this idea of taking the Twilight formula to tell the story of the "Evil Queen". When I say Twilight forumule I mean the -- Teen moves to small town to live with estranged relative and meets paranormal love interest who they have some super special immunity against. Stop me if you've heard this. It was fun becuase I had a roadmap that I could fill in with my own ideas. It felt so right and open, starting this project felt like a new phase of LiLe

I wrote the first four chapters and the last two chapters almost all at once. I had been holdingo n tight to Dead In The Water and Seven Devils hoping they wouldn't become top 40 and taunt me ! Lucklily Elle Goulding had a bunch of other hits.

Anywho I'd been staring at the ending and the beginning for so long.

I liked these chapters and the characters, dialogue and stories. Yet, something about NAF seems so outside of the LiLe mindspace.  I had so much fun with this but for some reason  it distract me  with tiny plot bunnies, plot what-ifs or AU ideas like my other serials do.

I get these alot about my other serials (hince the Vault), for some reason I can't ever get myself to think about NAF in that way,  I only ever see these characters doing their story over and over again. I'm not sure what that means ?

 Maybe it's just a great stand alone serial ?  I'm just glad I got to explore the idea this was such a fun thing for me to do and get outside of cities.

I have a super general idea of what happens to April and Cillian in the future but I said I'd only tell if someone asked.

Okay, someone is going to ask so I'll spill

Of all the LiLe couples I see them being in it for the long haul and it being a lot of fun. I can maybe see a post-fight winning spontaneous visit to to a Vegas chapel somewhere in the future. I don't see Cillian making it to the UFC, but I think a part of his life will be working with troubled kids. As for April ? Maybe teaching  soccer moms how to work a pole.


Alex Meraz
So, get this. I wrote Cillian as a MMA fighter when I realized I needed to give the characters some intersest.and as you know I've had Meraz's picture for years. Well I recently found out that  Meraz was in a few MMA films and does MMA himeself. I had no idea. I really wanted to explore that  more but I didn't like the characters leaving town to much.

Wings
I wrote the chapter with Penelope confronting Thantopsis and the Epilogue and all that 2 years ago.  So I had forgotten that the whole "wing-ripping" thing happens in BH. It made me want to tie the idea of losing wings to shame and degreaation like in BH so YAY !

Trust me in the future, LiL-ian scholars will call this period my derivative period. I swear SH will sue me for some of the stuff in Bellum

Music Throwback
What really made the last chapters flow was the music. A while ago someone bought up Jason Mraz and I looked him up. . . and I was like I wonder what S&A faves Sara Barilles and Jon McLaughlin are up to ?

Well it turns out they are making awesome music. . . together ! Sara B has not lost her groove at all,  I want to revisit more S&A songs and artist..

I have a GIF post below. . . because it might be a while and Gifs are fun.

Lets Talk About Bellum and Lux . . . In Gifs. . . again

So, doing Lux was a spur of the moment thing and at the end of it I was like

 (psst. I'm Stitch)

You all were like

 

I think I rushed it even thought it  sorit fell out of me. I really shouldn't post something before I even have a title. I feel like Bellum has the feel of what I was going for and certainly the plot elemetnts I wanted. I think I finally have a grasp of what does and doesn't work.

 I know what you are thinking.

With that said I've  really looked at the world in Bellum and I'm doing all sorts of new things. I'm shaking off what didnt work from the first installment

There are new characters and multiple plot lines, humor, romance and action working together to make one narrative, it's all like

When you hear the playlist

So. . . there is no update

But I may post a vault item. The vaultest of the vaultest items. I have two AU Humorours (dare I say Crack) fics for LL. One is a crossover with Twilight and one is just. . . odd.

I know what you are think "The Twilight one isn't the odd one ?"

Okay, done !

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Filing Chapter 11

I think this is from Too Fast Too Furious 2 : Tokyo Drift 3 . I  inspired part of chapter 10 on this gif.

So Chapter 11 is odd because I wrote it twice. I spent a lot of time editing the wrong version of it and let me tell you it gave me an appreciation for what it must be like to re-write drafts. At the end I might post it for a compare/contrast.

So. . . I don't have much to say. Nothing major has happened that I can blog about. . .  although I find myself hankering for a new idea to work with. HANKERING.

Playlist 11 and 12

Chapter 11

+1+ - Never Let Me Go by Florence and The Machine
+2+ -  In The Embers - Sleeping At Last

Chapter 12
+1+ - Seven Devils by Florence and The Machine
 +2+ - Dead In The Water

+3+ - Summer by Sara Barielles

Once Upon A Time.. .

 

I"M ALIVE ?

First a prelude . . .

 As you all know Cobalt disintegrated a few months ago.  I always saw myself as separate from Cobalt for a long time but without it's been strange how untethered I feel in doing this. I found so much inspration and support from fellow Cobaltians.

I'm glad we are in a position where my family is taken care of but I'm happiest when my loved ones are happy. I have hope for the future and Cobalt will rise again.

I like endings. . . I really do.  I don't always believe in happy endings (just ask the characters) but I believe everyone get the ending they deserve.

Words to the wise, LiLe always gets what she wants. Always.

“ The Evil Queen . . . you are going to help me stop her.”

Once Upon A Time.. .

So, SH got to this before me and I tried to make my comment misleading.

I've been holding on and retooling this chapter for a long time and then it all sort of cinched up together.

I"m still working. . . very very slowly. I've had this post for so long I'm glad I already wrote the recap because I couldn't do it from this point.


APRIL'S STORY

Hmm, so I'm not sure if this was made apparent but Chapter 6 was for a long time entitled April's Story. Because, it is essentially April's back story. In the story April is the Princess and Peneople (whose name is actually in the story) is the changeling. The Light Fae in the story is Ty.

I sort of orbited around this story for a long time and the one thing I kept in the back of my mind was the orgin of the evil queen which is very similar to things like Maleficent and Frozen (Which I've seen 500 times !!) Hmmmm. . . I guess I'm ahead of the curve.

RECAP
Cillian O'Conner steps out of prison and in to the mountains of the Sierra Nevada He is all set to spend the summer wiorking for his estranged grandfather while trying to avoid the end of summer  in the sleepy town of Casade Falls.

The more time Cillian spends at Casca Falls the more nightmares he begins to have. H soon finds the culprit in all of this is a little Dark Fae named April, a Nigtmare Faeire.

This summer is a turning point for both of them but, April is planning something dark and Cillian is enlisted to find out the most powerful thing you can use against a Fae, her real name.

As time slowly winds down a newcomer to town reveals the one thing Cillian new all along. April doesn't need saving, they need saving from her.

PLAYLIST

New Playlist 



 +1+
 Airplanes -   Jeff Hendrick Cover
+2+  (has two !)

Take Me Home Tonight  by Eddie Mooney
Change Your Mind - Nashville Cast
 +3+
 Wrecking Ball - Miley Cyrus
+4+
Almost is Never Enough - Arianna Grande

CHAPTER 10

NUMBERs . . . But first a Mini- GIf Post

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 So I know what you are thinking . . .

At first working on the gap was like 

 Then I decided to just blindly write. Now I only have a few scences left to work on. It's coming. Serioisly I'm like

So this means no new NAF update ):

 

Um, so Bellum update ?

 

 I do have a little JNRR (unless you want the crackfic from my Vault) because

 

Number Games
So I have a nifty chart with word lengths. I grabbed LL and FS from previous post. I'm not shocked at all by these numbers. Oh, SA we really did power through.

Lux		SA	DSI	JNRR	LL	FS
4500		4480	3908	4640	30, 425.	16, 200
2675		4460	3680	3270
4230		5330	3444	4840
2000		5000	5480	4220
3800		5800	3200	3770
4990		7300	5200	3830
3631		4300	3700	5260
4230		5600	1732	2780
3800		3600	4220	6250
2699		5350	1013	4560
3350		4800	3592	3860
3860		6200	4100	4200
43766		10400	4300	1820
		5350	3600	4160
		2900	2430	57460
		5800	310
		540	430
		87210	54339

T-DOLL : JNRR, Abridged
So, this is a thing I did. I don't have as much to say ) however I would like to share the methods to my madness when it comes to writing a mystery.JNRR is the longest of the LL's spin-offs, even though it felt like one of the shortest. Lol, nope.


JNRR, Abridged

Prologue/1/2 AKA "formerly murdered people don’t like it whenyou murder other people."

The One With All The Lost Angels ! Roller Coaster of Angst.

So I am going to post the first and only chapters of ABWG. I posted chapter one in March 2011, but it never got off the ground.  We are going to go back forth between each chapter and this blog post.

• Chapter 1 (Read an Comeback)  or check out the original blogpost or the trailers

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• Chapter 2 (Read and comeback for a summary of the gap.)

The rest of chapter 2 was supposed to be

Mrs. Fenton takes Sofia to her trailer where she lives with her  kids. She  tries to convince Sofia that her husband didn't know what he was doing and that he was fine a few years ago but has become mentally ill and how losing him and going to court could leave them in poverty.

• Chapter 3 (read and comeback)

The rest plays out like this 

Sofia struggles with her feeling for Mrs. Fenton's situation  all while preparing for court. When the court day finally comes it is revealed that the other women testifying too do not exsisit. The paralegal made them up so Sofia would feel more confident.

Sofia freezes on the stand  and the judge lets her come back the next day. Feeling bad Severine takes her out. Tomas gets ill over the weekend and Sofia has to go to court on Monday. When she goes she is able to testify and Severine Fores Tomas out the hospital and brings him to the courthouse so he can support her.

Mini NAF Update
. I have been making so much progess with NAF. I can see where it is going and I will post the next chapter as soon as I'm done.  It's been so different than other serials in which it feels so solitary. I can only ever see these characters following this plotline.

Mini Bellum Update
So, SV is going to get co-cred on this because I literally take a lot inspy from United Light, Blessed Hearts and Veritas . Obviously this was very inspired by BH so much so that there is a (obvious)  homage scene.

Next Up : Maybe I'll do a gif post or TDOLL. Or find something to blog about.

Wrap Up DSI T-DOLL

VICE
So once again we say farewell (for now) to the enigma who is Alan Gray and the group of misfits he finds himself thrown together with. I swear I could read this same set up over and over again and love it each time. Vice has such a way with world-building that I will never posses and why most of my stories take place in the same state. Okay. . . where is HMLIS ?  Oh, HMLIS I'm glad you are finally here. Can't wait to see what kind of tale you weave.

OHG ?

So SH has been stirring things up about OHG and I saw this that totally reminded me of On Higher Ground 
http://militarysoconfessions.tumblr.com/post/79511851095/confession-929-i-hate-the-fact-that-i-have 

and this one
http://militarysoconfessions.tumblr.com/post/79503857509/confession-925-it-sounds-bad-but-i-hate-when 

I feel like these sentiments would be so different if we were at peace. 

SO, HOW IS NAF GOING ?

You do not want to know. End of story.



T-DOLL DSI, ABRIDGED 

DSI 13

DSI 14/15

DSI 16/17/E


FLASH FICTION : NAMELESS
So once you finish T-DOLL, I invite you to read this little flash fiction that is not from the vault but from my secret headspace where I keep things.
Nameless

BECAUSE OF ANGST

from my super secret LL inspiration Tumblr

What's in a name

So I realize  I ddin't speak much after the revealtions of chapter 9 of NAF. Somwhere along the way NAF became a kins o d origin story. I had this great idea for rhw characters and how they would be, but I needed there to big a pay-off. When dabling in things like fairytales it's easy to look for other sides of the same story. In this story April is the start of  "Evil Queen" caricature and Cillian is the normal guy who gets caught up in it.

Speaking of which did anyone else find the connection between the Cottingley women's last name ?


Believe

So while Shawna wishes she was Her. I saw the trailer for Believe an thought this little girl's creep-factor was exaclty what I was going for with Rose.  I wish I could have made her older to explore some of this.




TDOLL DSI 

Okay, everyone grab your idiot ball.

Chapter 10/11 aka DAT ASS (I may have gone to far here)
Chapter 12 aka Reappearance of Ms. 3rd Wave Feminism