I can't believe how many of you picked up on my mention of the nail polish color Analog Frog. In chapter 23 Mavrick randomly picks it up while looking around Haley's room. It is a real polish from Smith & Cult (I forgot the company name in the comment section). There is a little story behind why it shows up:
There is a deleted scene in Nova where Nova explains that the chipped sparkly purple nail polish he is wearing is from when his Dad painted his (Nova's) nails the day before he died. Nova hasn't taken it off in three months and been looking for where it went off to and gets upset when Sara says she found the bottle but it's dried out and Luce gets upset with him for yelling at Sara.
I needed a name for the nail polish so I think I just went to a random "too cool for school" makeup brand website and picked a purple color. The scene got deleted because it seemed like there was too much fighting in the scene but I always kept that name in the back of my head.
What's Next ?
I've sort of avoided talking about what is next because I don't have much. And unlike last time I did an exit I'm 100% at peace with this. In the last 12 months I wrote most of Sunshine, Release, Little Miracles, Nova and all the three AUs so I think...I may have burned myself out.
I think when I finish Years I'll TDOSH the rest of The Lost Sentinel and share what I had wanted that to be.
I have plans to write an 8-10K Extended Epilogue of Years that directly ties to SWM. And I have an idea for a quickie short story in the Harrison High world from Nova's POV. Then I'll probably send Lucely & co into retirement.
I'm going to let the cat out the bag and say a chapter of Years is going to be told completely through non-narrative story telling devices. It will be all in texts, transcripts and documents. It's taking a lot of my "creative energy" (blergh, that sounds pretentious) to put it together in a narrative form so I really haven't had the time to work on anything else.
Recap
Haley's brother dies in prison and he and his sister Isla reunite in California to bury him. Nova goes back to Chicago with Isla for two weeks because of his behavior and his parents have some fun. After an intense session at a club, Haley reconnects with Maverick over karaoke. But they are interrupted by Nova having anxiety nightmares.
Almost exactly a year later Charlotte and Rias are in a fatal plane accident.
This chapter is going to pick up at Christmas time, about 4 months after the accident and there will be some intentional head hopping...
Playlist Playlist (I've reached the general mood round of playlists.)
-1- Dancing on My Own by Thomas Loof
-2- My Only Wish by Britney Spears
-3- You Know It by Colony House
Are You Bored Yet by Wallows
As I'll Ever Be by Chaz Cardigan
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