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Chapter Twenty has been uploaded to fanfiction.net.

Would type more, but I have to go get ready so I can go see the high school production of West Side Story tonight. 

Chapter Twenty is here!




Sorry I didn't send it to you ahead of time, Lara, but you got to preview the other fic, so don't complain!

Finally, it's happened.

The huge drawer under my television set containing all of my notebooks, scraps of paper, folders, and napkins from my entire writing career (except the ones Lara stole from me) has become too full and will not hold any more. I think I have over twenty notebooks in there - I haven't counted in a while, but it's full and I need to make an executive decision.

Do I throw away some of my notebooks or find another place to hide them?

I think I could probably find a place to put the half-empty, I'm-never-gonna-use-you-because-I-wrote-embarrassing-things-on-the-cover notebooks - because it would such a waste to toss them - but I don't know where to put them. I have way too much stuff in my closet and I just threw out a box that had been sitting there for ages.

Gah.

Why are such things like finding a place to put your old, completely mortifying fan fictions so complicated?


Also, got in trouble with the good old 'rents today because my grades aren't up to scratch. They're upset because my GPA dropped from a 3.5 to a 3.33333 and I may be facing limited computer and TV time in the future, heaven forbid. I really don't see the issue about having four Bs and two As. Sure, I've never had more than one B on my report card prior to junior year (insert hysterical sobbing here), but Bs are GOOD.

At least I managed to get my Chemistry grade up to a B instead of a C, right? Apparently, they just noticed now that I've had a B in Spanish III for the past three quarters 'cause I got bitched out for that too. The B in Grammar Workshop was a sore spot too - "Oh, but this is YOUR area, Jessica! What happened to your A?" Admittedly, I was a bit disappointed with that grade too, but it's Mr. "I-Give-Out-Four-Hundred-Point-Tests-One-Hundred-Of-Those-Points-Being-Diagramming-Hugely-Complex-Sentances-That-I've-Never-Shown-You-How-To-Do-Properly" Winter.

I figure I'll do better on the test tomorrow...It's over TENSES. Pah. How hard can that be?



Oh, yeah. I decided to updated Nothing on Earth while I wasn't being chewed out. 

Enjoy.

Chapter Nineteen.


And don't think I don't know how to use the Stats viewer, because I do! I know exactly how many of you are reading my fic and aren't dropping a review! Please read and review, even though I'm a completely horribled and incompetent person who has four Bs and two As!

Be proud! I added another page onto Chapter Nineteen today! That being said, I also will most add three pages onto the jumble that is my Pirates of the Caribbean fan fic, but hey...I'm writing, right?

*winning grin*

I've now recovered from the shock of qualifying for Nationals in debate, though I still have hysterical bouts of disbelieving laughter from time to time. (Thanks for the congratulations, _silent_wishes, and sorry for not responding to comments - I'm such an incredibly lazy ass.) Seeing as though we've proven ourselves worthy, Kallis is now letting us compete at state and I have this weekend to write two cases about big box retailers. *eye roll* At least it's not as completely mundane as the NBA dress code topic.

I also need to re-write my National History Day paper AGAIN this weekend. I had it finished, but now Haar says I need to have the actual pentagon papers sourced in my paper and because I have four hundred words left until the limit, he wants me to add more. He also wanted me to check out about four more books on the subject and read them over the weekend so I could add even MORE to my paper (after I spent Thursday night cutting everything out of it), but I don't care and I'm not going to do it. I'll write a paragraph about the pentagon papers and even source them, but I am THROUGH with looking for more evidence. I think my paper is strong enough the way it is and if Mr. Haar doesn't like it, that's fine with me. 

Anyway, enough with my bitching and complaining. 

( Scene from Chapter Nineteen )

I figure I need to reassure my reading base that I'm still writing, so above is a scene (more like HALF the chapter, HAHA...er...right, not kidding...) and here is me begging for forgiveness for being so lazy and ignoring this fan fic. I won't have it finished by the end of February (since, you know, it's in like three days), but I'll have it finished soon. That's about as much as I can promise right now. 

....

So, do we have any Pirates of the Caribbean fan fic readers in the house? : ) Well, even if we don't, I'll still going to post a chunk of the chunks that I'm trying to string into a story. I think writing this story in pieces is easier than trying to write it all out  in sequence, simply because all my ideas are changing faster than they did for Nothing on Earth, though that fic has come a long way from what I first thought up two years ago. 

Anyway, here's a small portion of what I have for the PoTC fic. It's not edited and might never appear in the actual fic when I get around to writing it, considering I just had a new idea for the beginning, but I do like this scene, so...eh...yeah.

I like expanding my horizions...

( Bloody lucky Will... )

Eh. So that's that.


Later.

Since it's a snow day, I actually had time to do all the formatting needed for Chapter Eighteen and I uploaded it to FFnet when I wasn't shovelling four inches of wet snow out of driveway.

Remember what I said about loving snow? Well, I hate it now.

Anyway, enjoy the new chapter. I can't wait for responses!

Chapter Eighteen

Live journal is REALLY not impressing me right now. I tried to change my layout colours (I figured since my username is greenconverses it should be green, but that didn't look so hot) and settings around a bit and I keep getting error messages or it's not done RIGHT. Gah. Sometimes I really despise technology.

Anyway, I was going to change the title of my journal to Otherwise known as my ramblings, ravings, and fic talk. I decided that I would get more use out of this journal if I used for a place to put up progress reports or cookies from my Harry Potter fic, Nothing On Earth, instead of using it to complain about the people I dislike or how horrible my Algebra 2 homework (logarithms! GAH!) was today. I have a bad tendency of not updating for a couple of months and I think my readers would like to what's taking me so long to write. Plus, with the comment area, my readers can give me feedback on anything I post or I can interact better with them than on FFnet.

So, here's the first progress report (hopefully!) of many.

Chapter length: Ten and a half pages
Scenes thus far: Five
POV's thus far: Remus, Lily, James, Bill Weasley, Petunia
Remaining scenes/stuff to do: There's about two to three scenes/POVs left to write and they're the most important ones. I've been planning these scenes out for a while, however, so they shouldn't take to long to finish up with.
Possible finishing date: I'm going to try and get this done before the end of January, which looks pretty much impossible now, seeing as though there's a debate tournament this Friday. Crap.
Reason for delay: Well, I took a week off to write a Lily/James one shot and then I just got rather lazy, as usual, and just spaced off. I did write during my spare time during school (which I'm doing more and more of now) and inspiration has struck me once again, probably because I'm nearing the part of the chapter I really want to write.
Cookie/Snippet: None this entry. I don't have my Chapter 12 file with me, otherwise I would gladly put something up for my readers to...er...read!

Well, that's pretty much all I've got for this entry. My sister has been bugging me to go on my computer and I guess instead of wasting my time playing around on live journal, I should've been writing my chapter! This is why I'll never make it in the world of publishing...

 

P.S. I think it's horribly ironic that my layout theme is called 'Iceberg.' *grins*