The Next Chapter Of My Fanfic Is Posted.

The next chapter of my fanfic is posted.

If you were waiting for the happy, angst-free, fluffy village without roller coaster part of the story to arrive to start reading, it’s here! Only minor angst remains.

Angela, Tamara, and Genny conspire to bring Tim and Lucy back together.

Here’s a snippet to pique your interest.

“Bradford,” Tim said as a call interrupted the audiobook he was listening to on his commute home. He couldn’t see his phone to see the caller ID, so he just pressed the button on his steering wheel to answer the call blindly.

“Hey, stranger. It’s been too long,” came the voice over the car speakers.

“Lopez?” Tim confirmed, immediately recognizing his best friend’s voice, but a little bit confused as to why she was calling. “What’s going on? I haven’t heard from you in a while.”

“You know. Same old shit. Just kicking ass, raising two kids, and trying not to kill my husband,” she rattled off.

Tim chuckled. Some things never change, he thought to himself as he shook his head. “What has Wesley done this time?”

“Well, he swears that he talked to me about this months ago, but I swear that I would have remembered this conversation if we had had it. So a couple nights ago, we were chatting about our plans for next month, and he asked me if I had taken the last two weeks of June off for our trip. I told him that we weren’t going anywhere for the last two weeks of June because that’s when Jack and Amelia are at their favorite summer camp. Then he told me that we had already signed them up for some international camp that Patrice paid for them to attend in Italy. After arguing about it for over an hour, apparently Wes and Patrice are taking the kids to Italy.”

“Wow. That sounds like quite the argument. Are you going to be able to join them at all?” he said with a low chuckle, envisioning the solid hour of yelling that would have shaken the walls of the Lopez-Evers house.

“I was able to swap shifts around to join them a little bit late. And, when Wesley explained the situation to his mom, she offered to buy me a first-class ticket if I would still join them. How could I saw no to that? I’ll be traveling to Italy by myself in first-class and can drink as much as I want without dealing with charging the kids iPads or settling arguments about who gets to sit by the window or lugging around two weeks’ worth of their crap. There’s no way I would say no to that. Plus, she rented this villa for us to stay at right next to a vineyard, and she won’t even be there most of the time because she’s meeting a friend to travel around Italy together. It’ll actually be a real vacation.”

“That sounds great, Ang. You deserve to have a break.” He wasn’t sure if she was just calling to vent or to share her luck at having a really nice vacation paid for by Patrice or if she had some other purpose in calling, so he just waited to see what she was going to say next.

“So now I only have a little problem left to resolve that I think you could help me with,” she said.

“How am I going to fix your vacation problems? I can’t exactly take your shifts or work overtime for you,” he said with an annoyed but curious tone to his voice.

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Six Sentence Saturday

Today my family started driving back home from our family reunion. Hopefully the hundreds of miles of cornfields we pass today will inspire lots of writing. 🤞🏻🙏🏼

My husband is awesome at driving, and doesn’t mind doing >90% of it so that I can manage the kids, food, drinks, entertainment, etc. Luckily our kids are old enough now that screens entertain them for quite a while, so hopefully I’ll have some good writing time.

I only have 661 words at the moment, so it’ll be a little while until this chapter is ready. But here’s the six (I think it’s actually 9) sentence preview.

More to come soon!

Reposting in case anyone wants to play. I think my muse got lost on vacation. Hopefully she returns soon!

summertime writers' asks!

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🐠 author who inspires you

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🍬 a song for your favourite character

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Space

The necklace and the 17st award and the KIA radio. Pancake mix and rum and vilely dusty orange protein bars.

Their shared thermos.

Kojo’s birthday card.

Her own moonstone ring.

All mementos of the space he’d filled in her life like a gently flowing waterfall. Soft marshes along an ox-bow river. Sandbanks in a lagoon, taking up residence in the spaces she’d ignored as tricky puzzle pieces. Jigsaw blanks outlined and cordoned off while she focused on the familiar forms of places known and well-worn with routine.

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Hello, Summertime writer's ask! 🌿 ☁️ 🌷 🍀

🌿Who is your favourite character you've ever written?

My favorite canon character that I've written for is Lucy Chen. I know that's not a unique answer in this fandom, but I've always felt more connected to Lucy than the other characters (which is perhaps why season 6 hurt so badly - Lucy could not catch a break the whole season!).

My favorite non-canon characters that I've written are actually real people - Freddie Freeman and Jason Heyward. They're baseball players on the Dodgers in real life and in my baseball Tim story. It's been interesting to learn more about their real personalities (from what I can glean online) and put that into their characters in the story. They actually are really good buddies in real life and have been for 10+ years since they played in the minors and with the Braves (and now Dodgers) organization together.

☁️ WIP you want to write but haven't started yet

I have what I would consider a humorous one shot that I jotted down partially one day on my phone while I was on vacation. For now, I'll just say that it's tispy Lucy (pre-relationship/post-Vegas) calling Tim for help. There are some Saved by the Bell references, a confession or two, and Tim has a hard time getting Lucy under control.

🌷 Writing achievement you want to brag about

I know I've been doing this writing thing for 9 months now, but I'm still a bit surprised at how many people want to read my stories. And I get the most amazing comments from my readers. I absolutely love that people are willing to take the extra few minutes to write something back to me after already taking so much time to read my long-winded stories. Plus, 425k words posted in just 9 months? That's more than I ever thought I would do. Between my work, my 4 young kids, my gardening, my traveling, and all the other things I do, I don't know how I have found the time to do it. But I'm so grateful to those who have found and read my stories. I'm certain I wouldn't keep doing it if no one liked them.

🍀Character you would kill off if they were not vital to the plot

Bailey. No offense to Jenna Dewan, but I've never really felt connected to her. I don't know if it's the acting or the writing that she's given, but it's just mediocre to me.

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