**Life Update**
So, things have been changing, I've decided to write with my married name, but I think we can all just roll with it!
How My Light is Spent
I'm not even going to play any games. It's time to let you all in on a little something called How My Life is Spent. I haven't been working on this too long, I wrote the first words on October 2013, but this idea has been simmering for longer. I'm about six chapters ahead of this and have an outlin-ish thing, so knowing so much ahead of time is a new experience for me.
I do want to explain one misconception that you all gleaned from the snippets that I kind of lead you on about. I never let you in on the gender of the other narrator;this serial does have two narrators and one is male and the other is female. This chapter is the male POV and the next is the female. I'm excited to be finally be working on something new, so here we go.
Chapter 1
Playlist
Whose ready for Top 40 Bingo ?
-1- Ho Hey by The Lumineers
-2- Don't Stop Believin' by Vitamin String Quartet
-3- Home by Phillip Phillips
-4- Skinny Love by Birdy (Although this is a total Parisobel song to me now, I had it before Lux)
It's HERE ! Happy dance. I'm loving all the names in this, they seem so perfect. I particularly love Posey Henry.
ReplyDeleteI know, too bad she doesn't really show up.
DeleteHere We Go.
ReplyDeleteThose three words made my day.
Here We Go.
ReplyDeleteThose three words made my day.
Hmm, I want to hear more about this Matty character. Is he an enabler type.
ReplyDeleteIs he ?
DeleteWow, three years with an idea !? How did we not know this was in you ?
ReplyDeleteIt changed forms a lot. A LOT
DeleteI thought the entire thing would be from Jonah's POV but I'm glad to see we get a female POV this time. It gives me UL flashbacks !
ReplyDeleteI never realized how long it's been since I've done a female POV...huh...I am just now realizing I haven't done one since UL2
DeleteWow *in shock* okay, I need to check out the other snippet to see what I can get.
ReplyDeleteYou were on a roll !
DeleteEEEP! it doesn't seem real. Aris is such an awesome Dad, I bet he is really hurting though.
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DeleteI noticed Jonah spends a lot of time talking about other people but not so much about himself. I wonder if that means something about his personality.
ReplyDeleteIt totally does!
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ReplyDeleteLol, love the T-DOSH reference. I'm ready to Move On and this needs to have longer chapters. I remember thinking ( Based on the trailer) that Abigail would be a barista.
Oh, hmm I guess we don't know what she does for a living. It doesn't seem like she is as student.
DeleteWell, when someone made the Moving On image I just knew I had to use it ! I saved it specifically for this.
DeleteI hate to move back, but I had a question about Persistence of Time. How many years have Alan/Minnie been living ? Is it like centuries or just the normal lifespan ?
ReplyDeleteIt's totally fine to go back.
DeleteI didn't have a concise number for their age, but in my head they'd been alive until their mid to late 100s. Longer than most people.
Bridge Over Troubled Water. Trebled Water
ReplyDeleteOkay, that was just awesome.
That is the last pun you will ever see.
DeleteSV, is showing her poetry side. The first section was laide out to a T
ReplyDeleteI hardly ever talk about my characters like they are are real, but; I have found that I do not like poetry and yet I somehow have a character who loves it... and I can't really change her so..it's been a lot of sparknotes, guys.
DeleteSuch a spin from Vice, this is starting out really sweet, it seems so . . . sophisticated and classy.
ReplyDeleteFunny you say that...
DeleteOh, goodness who knew Violins cost that much
ReplyDeleteI know ! I had to look it up.
DeleteOh, so it's New England and not London. . . um it was close guess. ?
ReplyDeleteDid HMLIS inspration 3 years ago have anything to do with the New England romance you mentioned you wanted to do with UL2
DeleteMaylights - No, I forgot I mentioned that.
DeleteGlitter_Girl-- I think someone commented New York as the setting and it was originally NY, but I changed it because of reasons.
Aww, poor Mr. Morrow. He's the kind of professor I want.
ReplyDeleteMmmhm, I wonder what's going on with the dad and Monica
Deletedudes, I totally think I picked up on something about the Dad and his book, er--maybe.
DeleteThe theories are coming out early...
DeleteI can't imagine where this is going, it seems like it'd be a cute short story. I think we need a longer chapter.
ReplyDeleteI've taken some Lile advice here, a lot of these chapters will be shorties. Some will be very short if for no other reason than to keep the POVs and plot points together how I want them.
DeleteI thought Jonah would be the kind of guy who needs a MPDG, but he seems more together than that. His life doesn't need that much . . .fixing
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DeleteSo, I know we don't know much about him yet . . . but Ethan sounds kind of hot. Just sayn'
ReplyDeleteHe is. He is VERY hot in my mind.
DeleteLove a title drop in the first chapter ! It's a story within a story, my mind !!
ReplyDeleteI'm guessing this is the first of many VSQ songs ?
ReplyDeleteThis is actually the only one on the playlist.
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