Three Whole NaNos: Years 4

 Back in 2009, I thought this purple dress was so pretty I wrote it into UL and now I--😕


More Throwback Corner
I think over the years I've lost a lot of shame. This is from an early post and I just love how nice and thankful I am  and now I say things like "I wrote this  for me and you can't have it but please use your time/energy to critique me anyway. lmao."

This paragraph continues with me writing some pretentious stuff about how people don't read anymore 🙄

Lile/EV
This little comment made me dawwww, because I started writing serials at the beginning of my journey from SH to SHV...I think the Erik/Lile discourse had mostly moved to her blog now !


Three Whole NaNoWriMos
Holy cow UL was almost 150K words ! I thought Compulsion might actually be the longest serial to date because it's technically 2 serials but I put it all in a Doc and Compulsion is only 120K including the author's notes.

The odd thing is...I wrote UL "live" so I did 120k in about 4 months.  I have no idea how. I sort of think it'd be fun to go back to doing this without knowing what I'd signed up for...

I got the word count for Compulsion based on what was posted on Yola but I  was originally going to see if there was a way I could combine my Word files to get the Compulsion word count. When I opened the folder I realized I have very little idea what ANY OF this nonsense means. How did I keep up with this ? I know the letters stand for the POVs of Alan, Kenneth, ALex but not sure why some say FINAL ?

I can't believe it took me until Sunshine (my last serial) to put everything in one doc!

United Light
As I go back through old stuff the other thing I noticed about UL is a lot of it is lost.  I'm 90% sure I don't have any of the original word files for it so if Yola goes away...I'm SOL. I'm going to put it all in a WordDoc this month...hold me to it.

But also most of the UL music is gone too. This is one of the first playlists I wrote out in the comment section. It's for chapter 8 and it's  just got a lot of songs from One Tree Hill / SYTYCD

A majority of the playlists aren't written in the blog ( I think I stole my playlist format from Lile) and since playlist.com is gone it's all just gone...I haven't gotten to the Pandora playlists yet so I'm not sure if those still exist.

That said...I kind of still love a lot of the UL songs. I've even stolen some of them for Years.

Years 4
This is a shortie! I have NO IDEA how we are on chapter 4 !  I feel like holding my Word Doc and screaming "YOU CAN'T HAVE THIS SERIAL, IT'S MINE."

UPDATE: I am in a weird place with Years...I'm pretty far into it and I'm starting to realize I'm struggling between keeping my original idea of making each section year by year and actually building a plot ? I keep moving my outline around so it may take me a while to get it re-sorted out.


Recap
In 1999 Alex Haley  is working at the virtual porn company, Virtue and pinning after his friend Luce Grace.  He likes his job at Virtue but  in 2000 reveals to Lansing Prescott (His ex's...ex) that he sees himself doing other things in the future. We're moving to 2001....

Years 4
Playlist
-1- Boys by Lizzo
-2-  Dear Marie by All Time Low
-3- Dancing on My Own by Robyn
-4- Dancing on My Own by Calum Scott