Do You *All* Have Paradox Lines: Meet Nova (Nova 2)!

CP!Shawna: What are those ?

SHV: Um....I blame Lile ?

Do you all have paradox lines ? I did these in 2019 but in my EPOH comment section one of you asked about variant covers! And in the last comment section someone asked about reading order.

I started to just do new "looks" for some of them but I got carried away. I forgot about Last Regrets and The Answer is Yes until right before this went up so those got tacked on the end even though they are prequels. They also look the best because I finally figured out the effect and learned I could stack the longer names.

For those counting at home that comes down to 17 stories about Vice; 3 full serials, 8 novellas and 6 short stories written by me and 1 short story from Lile. It's a weird feeling to have written so much about these characters but to feel like I haven't said much of anything ?

I feel like the order is good, except maybe Bright Lines and Sweet Prince could be swapped. Also Little Miracles before Sunshine ?

These images will be live on the website in the next few days....hold me to it, guys. My entire website is very out of date so by next post that should be fixed.

Nova
Grayson "Nova" Haley-Grace is 16-years-old and has been put in charge of keeping Maxwell at Bright Seas. After messing with Maxwell a little, Nova calls someone named Holland and heads to Cheek's--a bar on the same property as the Daughters of Fury (The SJW motorcycle club Colette started) Inferno West charter. 

Nova 2
Playlist
-1- Sunflower by Post Malone
-2- I Think I'm Okay by Machine Gun Kelly
-3- Stressed Out by Kinna Grannis
-4- Faded by Alan Walker

Let's Try Something New: Nova

I'm about to share a Vice-shaped thing I haven't talked much about. Well, except for when I was talking about not talking about it. 

Dear Lile
Lile always reminds me what it is like to be on the other side of this serial thing even though I'm currently in an opposite place than her. I am working on SO many little things and I want to share them all but they have an order. Freeing myself to write shorter has really saved me.  I wish I could look forward to 2023 but I have NO idea what I'll be doing then.

Also, LILE has indoctrinated me into Pinterest MFA and this is my current favorite piece of advice-ish pin:

In my head my fanfics were going to be these cute 3-4k thought experiments but (aside from the first one I'll share codenamed SWM)  they are all inching towards 10-12k. I've been striking through text with stuff that could go so hopefully I can make the fanfics more concise. I'll share more about them in the future but first....

UL Wrap Up
I'm going to be honest, when I finished EPOH I really thought I was done with UL and the Clarks were going off into the sunset to their next HEA. But you guys  picked up on some loose threads in EPOH and I must have subconsciously picked up on them too because one of my longer "fanfics" is less of a fanfic and more of a "What If" continuation of Rhett and Juliana's relationship.

What do I mean by that ? It's something that could be canon but I'm not sure if I want it to be ? It's real blob shaped right now. I never saw it as as continuation of EPOH when I was drafting but now I see how unfinished EPOH really was.

Nova
I think I mentioned this story briefly in one of my older blog posts. Nova is another one of my weird thought experiments combined with my obsession with over-correcting the Haley/Maxwell situation.

Anyway, let's toe-dip !

Nova 1 
Playlist
-1- The Light by The Album Leaf
-2- Don't Get Any Closer by Eluvium
-3- Kiwi by Harry Styles

Every Piece of Happiness Part 2

Things I do when I want to be technically "working on a serial" but not actually writing. I'm actually looking at the OLT cover now and the coloring is a little off so I may need to re-do it...

Writing Update

I just have to talk about how much I'm enjoying Sincerely, Emile and Lile's blogging in particular. I just love all the nuggets she drops about future projects and how she opens up about vault-y future things that exist. Because I need that Emile-and-Fierro-burning-Fierros-death-certificate scene ASAP, honey !

Someone in my last comment section asked me what is next for me and I've been kind of quiet because I don't want to set expectations  I will say I've been digging deeper into my fanfics and I've created A WORLD. I have a big story ideas and I feel like I have the words but the actual writing has been slow going. And by big I mean ideas not like length.

Lately, I've also been really struggling with playlists. I LOVED my Sunshine Inspy playlist and the ones I'm making lately are just...meh ? Coming up with this EPOH II playlist was one of hardest. With section one I kind of went with a 1999/2000 theme but for this section I took a lot of songs from UL3...which is a playlist I can't go back to much. SO.MUCH. SUPER SAD.WHITE.MAN.WITH.A.GUITAR.

Didn't mean to turn this section into a struggle fest but that's why I am right now!

Every Piece of Happiness II

Recap

Rhett and Juliana attend Rhett's 20 year class reunion and have a long night....

EPOH II
Playlist
-1- Testify by NEEDTOBREATHE
-2-You Are Gold by The National Parks
-3-Wanted by Hunter Hayes (I...love this country song.)
-4- re: stacks by  Bon Iver
-5- Wait Til You See My Smile by Alicia Keys

SHV is Back On Her Bullsh*t (UL 3.75 ?)

I can't believe I'm finally sharing this...I started the playlist for this in June 2017 ! EPOH is the last canon thing I have for my UL crew and I'm feeling really okay with it. I'm not saying no more UL ever but for now, this is it.

Every Piece of Happiness Aesthetic

There are just certain images where Anna Chulmsky and James Marsden look SO CLOSE to Grown!Juliana and Grown!Rhett. It's funny, their expressions in the above aesthetic  really should be swapped.

I kind of like to "check in" on my character inspys and when I was looking for the above images I got back on my dark-haired-blue-eyed man bullsh*t and checked up on Marsden and  Nicholas Hoult, my young Rhett inspy.

 BTW, I think these two really complement each oher.

(It's the eye crinkle-smile)

I can report that in 2020 Hoult is playing JRR Tolkien in a biopic and doing some other interesting indie films and Marsden is...um...aging like a fine wine atleast ?

Marsden and Hoult are 16 years apart so if anyone is asking I would totally abandon whatever I'm doing  to write a Gilmore Girls type spec script for these two.

Oh, also..James Marsden and Nicholas Hoult are in a movie together (IDK if they have scenes together) so gold star to whoever can guess without looking it up!
 
Recap
Every Piece of Happiness takes place in the One Last Thing timeline, which is 16 years after the beginning of UL3.

Rhett, 39, is hurt in the line of duty. He shatters his hip dangling out of a helicopter during a mission. He is now back active duty Coast Guard and works as a water trainer. Juliana, 38, is raising their 5 children and Rhett's best friend's daughter. Rhett's mother dies unexpectedly from an aneurysm.

They have the following children:

Mason, 16 - Born during UL3
Spencer, 14 - Born at the end of UL3
Peyton, 6 - Baby at the end of the UL3 epilogue
Carter, 3 - Born during the time Rhett was recovering from his injury. In my head she was totally conceived in a hospital room when Juliana moved to Alaska to help Rhett recover in the hospital.
Annabelle Grace, 13 months - The accident baby who was born 6 weeks early

Other children:
Laci Sullivan, 14 - Amber and West (Rhett's maternal cousin) daughter.
Tennessee Grady, 6 - Cody's daughter that Juliana and Rhett have legal custody over while Cody is in in jail
Noah Presley Giroux, 15 -  Aubrey (Rhett's paternal cousin) and Wil's son.

I wrote this story in two parts (meaning I wrote one section in 2017 and um, the other in 2019) so I'm going to share it in two parts. It shouldn't need too much of a recap except the character refresher.

Every Piece of Happiness
Every Piece of Happiness Part 1
Playlist
-1- Another Story The Head and The Heart
-2 - Love by Kris Olwoski
-3- 1999 by Prince
-4- Waterfalls by TLC

Moving on: Release

(....this image is a lot sexier than the story is....)

Walking On Sunshine
I closed the book on Sunshine months ago so I've kind of had my closure on it for a while. I had a thought experiment based on a comment about "what would Rias Washington's daughters be like" and it bloomed into this.  Sunshine i the first "full length" serial shaped thing I wrote in one document so I can say it is about 59,000 words---which is a long way from the single scene flash fic I started with. It's also fun that I can now open one document and search for lines and references...how did it take me this long to figure out I needed to write in one doc ?????




Release
I wrote Release at the same time I started Sunshine and for a while considered sharing it before

IDK what this is from but I've used it as a reference image for reasons

Sunshine to introduce the time jump. But I really wanted to dive right into Sunshine being inside  El's head.

Release just kind of goes more into why Luce is in a wheelchair and digs a little into he and Haley's relationship. It's never explained much in Sunshine exactly why and how Luce ended up in a wheelchair.

For a long time this doc was called MSB and I have NO IDEA WHY!







Release
I tried to write this in a way that it didn't need a recap. You just have to remember Sara and Luce have a company called Fallwater and that Haley kidnapped Maxwell's son for 12 years.

 Lile, I swear I started this in February 2019 before we'd gotten into GWOSM! The similarities really jump out to me when I was formatting.

This starts 6 months after the epilogue of Sunshine...
Release
Playlist

-1- Birthday by Rhianna +  History by Olivia Holt
-2- Colourway by NovaAmor
-3- Holy by King Princess 
-4- How Will I Know by Sam Smith

-5-Forever by Laxcity Remix
-6- Low by Greyson Chance
-7- Lover by Taylor Swift

Nobody: SHV: WIP in 2019 Memes! (Sunshine 15)

I have all my Sunshine posts pre-written and it's so funny someone in the last comment section referenced my Meme Me Up, Scotty post because I already had another meme post planned!

My favorite thing about Last Sentinel is the futuristic Victorian steampunk motif I was going for but the characters feel so far out of my grasp. Fineas from The Lost Sentinel is basically a mix of Issac Prior and Teen!Luce. Princess Xael is a mix of El Washington and Abigail from HMLIS.

I've been looking up "easter egg" names to put in my crossover fanfics and I have no idea how you all put up with some of the trash I've written.

This is really about the Haley/Maxwell relationship in general. I like writing about their relationship as long as it's not seen as romantic...and it's kind of interesting to write from Maxwell's perspective because he doesn't see himself as an abuser.

I unfortunately couldn't think of one for the meme of the lady screaming at the cat !


It's Called an Homage ?
The scene of Haley yelling at Grayson in the last chapter is pretty much based on the last 30 seconds of this scene from Bird Box. The video should start from that scene. I just liked the intensity of the scene and how you want to call the mother a monster for screaming at the child but she has no choice because it's either hurt their feelings or something bad happens to them.  Also, 54-year-old Sandy Bullock is definitely my GrownAss!iMinnow inspiration

 


Sunshine 15
Now that that moment of levity is over, let's get back to Sunshine! El has decided she's done running away. Back on Catalina Island, Kian has taken the girls out of the room he was keeping them in with Minnow and is making an announcement at the Avalon Hotel. He wants Alan Gray by his side when he does it...

Sunshine 15
Playlist
-1- Last Day by Shallou
-2- Can You Touch by Elley Duhe (This is a weird song but I kind of love it)
-3- Little Victories Malia Vietz
-4- Jump (Acoustic) by Julia Michaels (I'm obsessed with her)

Call Me By Your Fantasy Name Generator (Sunshine 14)

I'm still out of things to blog about but I still have tons of pictures of pretty mermaids!

Writing BFF!
Someone in a previous post commented on the name Kian Donnelly and it reminded me that I needed to blog about my newest serial writing BFF (along with wine, Pinterest and Spotify playlists). The website Fantasy Name Generator has really come through for me lately.

They have a Real Names generator that I can sort by ethnicity and I've been leaning on it hard...they also have a cyberpunk name generator and what I would have given ANYTHING to have  earlier. I also wish I'd had the Motorcyle Club generator name one too...I'm putting that thought on my backburner....

So in conclusion, you guys won't hear me asking you all for name ideas anymore!

Sunshine 14 
I made a comment to Lile that last chapter was a short chapter...I was confused *this* is the shortie chapter. It was kind of a balance to get all the POVs lined up and this one became an awkward legnth.

Recap
Our timelines have caught up! Everyone has (mostly) the same info about Kian Donelly pretending to be Kenji and killing the family to take their money. El is now ready to prepare for her revenge...

Sunshine 14
Playlist

-1- Silence of Siberia by Lowercase Noises
-2- Luke's Tree by Paddy MaCuly