Less Dorito Chip ?

Body Inspy
Not that anybody asked but in my head Luce's body inspy is swole Chris Evans. It was grueling research to find these important images but I did it.

Although actually I imagine Luce being broader in the waist and having less of the Dorito chip shape.


Who Am I ?
So...Pulse is all drafted out and I'm 17,000 words into Future!Vice. Speaking of, Future!Vice it is sort of turning into my magnum opus of sorts...I have three flash fictions that go with it...And that's the last I'll talk about it until I'm closer to sharing it.

I should probably be working on TLS but I want to give this UL thing a once over because it is killing me that I wrote 3,000 good words in Summer 2017 and have just been starting at it. I've been doing some re-reading of UL3 and if I could re-write it I would. It's got so much drama. But I think having those soap operatic drama moments are apart of the series so I may put some of that into the UL short story.

Chapter 3
It's so strange to have this serial divided into "chapters" because I didn't really write with chapters in mind. Somebody asked me how this serial fit into Bright Lines and all I can say, without confusing myself, is that Haley has been at Control for a few years now.

Recap
The cartel takes Isla Haley into custody for the murder of Linz Sharpe, an escort at Control. Haley is upset at Luce for siding with the cartel and they take a break. Luce talks to Isla and she explains that when she left Linz was alive. Luce talks to Charlotte and looks at the security footage then goes to Control and tells Haley he will help him find the actual murderer. 

Chapter 3
Playlist
-1-  Lost In A Sea of Pillow and Blankets
-2- Hurricane
-3- Fyrsta

One More Meme....

Literally me everytime Lile talks about liking United Light:

United Light is just such a crazypants story, that wanders all over the place and is just too much at times. It feels soap opera-y in the worst way because I just didn't know how to end it.  I do like Liberation better, but it also feels like a lot of messy moving parts. I was doing a lot of cartwheels to make the timelines work.

Character Inspys
I only have a few of these and none of them are spot on but have similar vibes. It's funny, I actually like that the younger Vice characters are in their late 20's to early 40's. They get to be the ones in charge instead of being under someone else.



Luce

So, Luce has some serious Richard Madden in Bodyguard vibes. Particualarly him in this lighting  but...less pretty boy.

I see his coloring as closer to Sam Heughan. I sort of love his smile in this picture.

Haley
The closest I could find for Haley is the model Emil Anderson but...more pretty boy.

And I imagine his hair length more like this:

Charlotte
She will always be a young Zoey Deschanel but with jet black hair and the bluntest of bangs.

Rias
I also found this model who looks a lot like Rias

Ashley Greene is my forever Minnow and she's actually around the age Minnow would be but Ashley has gone more blonde.

 This throwback is close to how I imagine her:

 

Recap

Luce is ordered to take Isla Haley captive for the murder of Linz Sharpe, a escort at Virtue. Haley and Luce get in a fight about it and Haley walks away from Luce to solve the murder on his own.

Chapter 2

Playlist

-1- Saman

-2- Interstellar

-3- Read My Mind by Raphealla

Well This is Awkward...

10 minutes ago in my head:

  

So, we're going to shift gears. I want to finish The Lost Sentinel but if I'm being  honest with myself I'm not sure it's quite there yet. I lost the spark and I'm working to get it back. So we're going to put it on pause and  I'm going to briefly switch gears and share a little bit of my Lucley serial aka....(scroll)
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CPShawna: Ehhhhhhhhh, I don't know about that title
Shawna: Whaaat ? Whhhhy ? You know how hard titles are and it to me months to get this one!
CPShawna: Meh.
Shawna: Meh ?!
CPShawna: It doesn't convey the new genre you are working in with this
Shawna: Okay...well, what do yo have in mind ?

Shawna: Wait...why did we make another cover image ?
CPShawna: ....procrastination is a hell of drug

The Process
Something that has been throwing me off about my latest serial (TLS, Pulse and Future!Vice) attempts is that I'm writing them as one big document and not as individual chapters like I did with everything else. In some ways it's easier but it also make "milestones" hard. I'm not thinking in chapters anymore which makes it hard to write ahead. I don't think I could have written Compulsion this way with all the POVs but I definitely like having the big document for searching purposes and I like to see the word count tick up.

Pulse is currently 16,000 words and all I can think about is those writing zones I'd go into during UL and pop out 10,000 word chapters!

Future!Vice
I am having so much fun writing this and I cannot wait to share it. I re-read Vice for it and it wasn't as cringy as I thought it would be. Vice is so much what I wanted it to be and I haven't quite been able to master that cyberpunk edge ever since. Pulse has a real light cyberpunk touch and Future!Vice is even lighter.

Pulse
This takes place a year after Sweet Prince. I tried to write it in a way that it doesn't need a recap but here's a quick refresher:

Haley works at Control, a private no limits sex club inside Jean Dory's brothel,Virtue, to pay for a hit on Maxwell.When Rayne Washington dies Haley fears the terms of his hit might be renegotiated so he tries to do it himself but fails and gets Twyla Banner--Luce's sister implicated. The Cartel negotiates with Maxwell to give him a multi million dollar campaign donation in exchange for Twyla and Haley's unofficial pardon. Sara wants Twyla to stay in the safe house just in case but instead Twyla goes off with her best friend/new girlfriend Colette and Haley goes back to the club where he is working to payback his new debt to the cartel. 

Also, after the failed assassination attempt Luce and Haley makeout and decide they'd like to keep doing that and start a consenting dominant/submissive relationship.


Pulse 1
Pulse Playlist
- 1 - End
- 2- Atoms - Said The Sky Remix