A Quick Teaser for Upcoming Story

Alright I know that I have been promising a new story for a while but I am giving you a little something, something for you. It's not a big something but I think it might get you a little happy.

I finally have a title and a small synopsis for you.

"Extreme Circumstances"

When Edward finds himself strapped in a new reality he doesn't know what to think or how to get back. Yet as he finally gets ins biggest wish, to hear Bella's thoughts, he is forced to watch as all he cherishes is threatened. Will he make it back to Bella before it's to late?

So there you go. I am hoping the first chapter will be up by the end of the first week of August. or at the latest the second week.

Okay so I will talk to you all soon.

Getting Ideas

Alright everyone I have some ideas for this blog but the most important one I think I have so far is a schedule for updating. I know that the last month has been absolutely awful. Not only have I barely written anything but I haven't updated either. In all fairness I have explained a lot of it and another reason was that I was thinking about moving my blog to Wordpress but decided to stay here for the moment. Anyway, if something comes up where I do end up moving anywhere I will be sure to let you know first and foremost. However this post isn't about that.

This is about my schedule.

Okay so look for updates on Mondays and Wednesdays for right now. I am thinking Mondays will be my review and teaser dates and Wednesdays will be my write whatever is going on dates. Now none of that is written in stone yet so don't hold it against me if next week I update on Thursday and write about The Twilight Saga: Eclipse since I haven't done my review for it yet but I have some things to say for sure.

So for now I will see you next Monday and Wednesday and I will hopefully get more new story information up soon.

Back In The Saddle

I know that I have been saying sorry for the long wait in between stories for months now but once again sorry. After "Kidnapped" I really wasn't sure what to write. I had dozens of ideas but no idea how to start them and no motivation to try. At one point I thought about just moving on from writing and letting that aspect of fanfiction go. That even though I missed talking to everyone and getting the wonderful reviews that everyone shares, maybe a year and seven stories was all I had. So I started reading.



I read a lot of great fiction that I can't wait to share but the more I read the more I missed writing. The more I reviewed the more I missed finding reviews in my own inbox. But there was still the question of what to write and when.



See during my absence I signed up to take a few classes to learn web design and how to create better graphics. My classes have been really fun but time consuming and my family has been working on the free time I have left. To say that finding time to read or watch tv has been hard would be an understatement let alone write.



Then one night, like all good stories, I began to have a little dream about how to formulate a story that might be slightly different than before. I woke up and started writing.



To say that this story has been going slower than before is an understatement, but it is still there and I think that once my class ends I will be able to really look at it and get it up and posted for you guys.



Also since I took a class on web design I used the info to come up with a new look for this blog. Now all I have to do is figure out how to get it to work on here and you will be seeing a new look and new feel to our trusty blog.



So stay tuned for all the great and hopefully soon changes that are coming.

Been MIA

Alright, I know that I have been MIA for awhile now. I finished Kidnapped and then went all into hiding. The truth was that life just got really crazy. I started a few online classes that took up quite a bit of my time and then I went out of town at the last minute and that really pushed everything back. Plus I had so many ideas in my head and no clue how to write half of them or where they were going which I must have because that is just how I write. I don't have to have the whole story laid out because I've found that writing is very fluid. No matter how much you think you know where a story is going once you get and the characters take over things always end up a different direction. That said I still need to have at least a clue how to get through the beginning and where I would like it to go and I really didn't have one at all. I had great titles and fun ideas but nothing more. So rather than post some crappy something I went into hiding. Sorry that I didn't share but that's just what hiding is.



I read a lot, which means that I have some great fics to recommend in the upcoming weeks, and I thought about if I really loved this layout (still not sure) and I wondered how many more fanfics to I really have left in me. The hardest one to contemplate was the last because there was no answer. So I got off my butt and moved on. I didn't think about it or writing and concentrated on enjoying the great works out there and the funny blogs that I love and my own work and school.



But the think about writing and fanfiction is that it gets in under your skin. Every time you read something new you think how you would have done it or you compare your stuff to theirs and sometimes it comes up wanting. You start thinking that maybe you have one story left or the next will be better. You put yourself in the story and you feel lost without it. Or maybe that's just me. Either way it made me want to search out something great to write.



I had a few stories that I had started but none of them felt right so again I walked away. But suddenly a few days ago a story came to me. A twist on something that might have been done before but if so I haven't seen it. I would like to promise that it will be posted next week or even the week after that but I have no timeline for this one. I am just going as it goes but I will keep you all updated and I will get back to posting regularly so that you all know that I haven't gone MIA again. And next time I won't pull a Cullen family from New Moon move and just up and leave. I'll at least take you out in the wood next to your house and break your heart. Just kidding. Point being that I will let you know if I feel another break coming. Until next time.

Twilight25 Challenge - Prompt 1

Okay, I have officially started my prompts for the Twilight25 challenge. I am really excited and looking forward to the challenge of coming up with one-shots to go along with each picture. I am also going to be posting a song that I feel goes with each one-shot or picture. Enjoy and I will see you soon.

Music Playlist at MixPod.com

Taking a Break; Kinda

If you have been following me since my first story you know that i have been writing somewhat back to back for almost a year and that is just FanFiction. I also write my own personal stories and have a few blogs that I keep up as well. So to say that my brain is a little fried would be an understatement.

I mean it takes a some thought to come up with something that hasn't already been done at least once in FanFiction already. Sure I could write some anything story but I care to much about you guys to just put anything before you and expect you to keep reading and reviewing. Thus the break but that doesn't mean that I am leaving the fandom or never going to post anything again.

In fact I will be starting a new story but it just won't be like what I have posted before. I don't know if any of you are familiar with the Twilight25 but it is a challenge set out by some in the fandom to write twenty-five one-shots based off of the prompts that they give you. I figured this would be a great way to help me get focused and spark a few story ideas. Who knows, one of my one-shots could turn into a chaptered story after I'm done.

I will be posting the stories both on FanFiction and also on here just as a change of pace. Plus it gives me a chance to post the picture that prompted the story since I can't do that on FanFiction.

So stay tuned to see what I can come up with and what it inspires. Talk to you soon.

Of Skipping Time and Funny Stories

If you haven't started reading "Beyond Time" then you probably won't get this title header and if you haven't started reading it then what is wrong with ya?

I will admit that when I first rec'd this FanFic I wasn't sure what to expect. I knew that it wasn't complete and I knew that it was on pace to be over my normal 100K cut off but other than that no clue. Sure it had been recommended on another blog but what if that person and I didn't have the same taste and I was sitting here recommending it to you.

Then once I started reading I was literally like, "Is this author tripping on some special mushrooms herself?". Again if you haven't started reading it then you won't get it. But as I read past that first chapter and really got into the story I found myself laughing out loud at her creativity. Especially during Bella and Jacob's exchange in Of Rituals and Really Big Dicks:

"What do you mean, it wasn't very spiritual?"

"Well," Jake gestured with his free hand. "I told my dad that I saw my spirit guide. That it was a bear that led me down this path and told me I had a great destiny."

"Yeah? That sounds pretty cool"

"I lied."

"What?"

"I lied to him, Bella," Jake admitted. "I didn't see a spirit guide. I saw..." He pressed his lips together.

"What did you see?"

"God, it's really embarrassing."

"What, Jake?"

"I can't believe I'm telling you this!"

"Jake, I'm dying here!"

"I saw..." he clenched his eyes shut. "A giant dick."

If that isn't enough to get you running over to this story you just don't know what funny is.

Although Jake and Bella share a great chapter he is just the catalyst for the main meal; Bella in 1918 with a human Edward.

I have to give TKegl a lot of credit. The way that she handles the time travel back to the turn of the century is really good and leaves you with the same questions as Bella; has she really gone back in time, is she dreaming or is she on her own vision quest. Plus her Bella is quite funny. When I read the rec for this fic it said that Bella's enter monologue with herself was so entertaining now I get it. Take for instance her thoughts during Of Fainting and Familiar Faces:

A small brass placard on the wall across from me caught my attention and with a quick glance at Tom, who had his back turned, I stood shakily and made my way over to it. Brushing my fingers over the engraving, I read it silently.

Cook County Hospital

Est. 1847

Huh. Cook County Hospital. Wasn't that where E.R. took place?

Then she goes on to say:

This place was definitely not familiar. I had never been here before... and even though I watched E.R., the hospital looked nothing like this.

And Dr. Carter was nowhere in sight.

Score one for reality.

This has really been a great beginning to an interesting story which is where I will leave you for now. Check out my continuation of our read-along on Wednesday after the last two chapters of "Kidnapped". See ya then.