Yavin

Guess what? I have a special surprise that I wasn't going to publish until Saturday, but I couldn't wait any longer.

Yesterday my brother started reading the book "Scoundrels" by Timothy Zahn, and since we now had the book for Kindle, I had my mom send it to my phone as well. I started reading, but was barely three pages into Han's first chapter when I came across something interesting. The story takes place very soon after A New Hope, but Han has left the Alliance after helping them with the destruction of the death star, AND he lost the credits given to him for transporting Luke and Leia. He says a few things about Leia saying goodbye, and I realized it would make a cute short story.

And that's just what happened. I sat down at my laptop, which I often do, and I just wrote. I wrote until it had been several hours. 6,500 words on 17 pages and I was finished. And then tonight I edited it and it just went up on Fanfiction a few minutes ago, complete with it's own cover. =)

I think it's a cute little story, and I used it for two reasons. One, to write something from Han's point of view, since I don't exactly get to write too much Han in "Promises," and two, to practice descriptions. For some reason I find it very easy to write dialogue, but I need to work on the descriptions that go along with it, and this was a great opportunity. Plus, who doesn't love more Han and Leia? 

New Chapter: Sullust

I just thought I'd put it out on here that I've got a new chapter up for "Promises" finally. I had some technical difficulties that prevented me from publishing it over the weekend, but today I had some time to figure out what was wrong. We had a snow day, so yeah. I plan on spending much of the rest of the evening working on writing the next chapter. =)

Anyway, this new chapter is the first time we get an idea of what's going on for Chewie and Lando. I have to say that while I'm comfortable with Chewie's character, probably because I've been writing him for almost a year now, I have no idea what to do with Lando. He's such an undeveloped character in the movies that it's kind of hard to figure out what's really going on with him. I don't know. I feel like this new chapter is awkward because of it, but you guys are really the judges of that!

I'm hoping for the next chapter to be up next week Saturday, but I can't make any guarantees. I'm very busy this weekend,  as well as the rest of this week. Next week it should lighten up though, so we can hope, and like I said, I'm spending much of tonight working too.

My biggest question right now is, where do I want to go with everyone at the Alliance? I can only go over so much of the storyline involving Leia before it gets redundant! Either way, I can tell you right now that this story won't be anywhere near as long as 40 Days, at least I'm not planning on it. Of course, that could change any time...and the future is always in motion!

So yes, there's a new chapter up on Fanfiction, so go check that out, and leave comments here if you feel like it, and review the story for the same reasons!

And have a good day!! =)

Commenting & New Design

As I said in the last post, I wanted to work on changing the design of my blog...and here's the redesign. I'm not really completely happy with it though, so it will probably change again. You can see the new icons that link to my personal pages throughout the internet though! I revised them all and for the first time, included a link to my Instagram.

If you're looking to follow me, I post most on Instagram, Twitter, Pinterest and Tumblr, but my other accounts are there as well. =)

And here's the great news for all of you! First, I'm posting a new chapter THIS weekend. Second, I have now made it so on this blog anyone can comment. After HanandLeiaFanFicWriters discovered the option to change comments so anyone can comment, I realized that must be the way to fix it. So now anyone can comment. You don't need an account for anything!

Like I said, this version of the blog probably won't stay forever, but what do you think? Should I keep it?

It's been a while!

It certainly has been busy...but musical is over, and aside from my work for Solo and Ensemble, I've got a lot more time now than I have in the past few weeks...thankfully.

I'm hoping to do some editing on the appearance of the site, because I feel like it needs an update, but other than that I'm going to work on writing. The next chapter of "Promises" is pretty much 2/3 done, I just have to finish it off and do editing...so I'm hoping that sometime this next weekend it will be up.

This last week I did a new chapter for "Repairs," and I'll probably do one more chapter to that story before I determine it as complete. Two chapters just seems weird, but three is a good number generally...so that's probably where I'll end. Plus, it will be hard for me to continue the theme because it's strange for "Promises" then. I have to be in two different mindsets...one, that Han is there and everything is happy, and two, that Han is in carbonate. It's not terrible, but it just messes with my mind a little when writing.

But that's what's going on, if anyone happens to still check out this blog!