So the wonderful Thanksgiving holidays are over and the count down to Christmas holidays begins. I want Christmas to be here quite badly because the thought of working all day right now makes me want to gouge out my eyes; however, I also don’t want Christmas to be here yet because I’m in no mood to go Christmas shopping. Just ugh.
Anyway, Thanksgiving was fun; I went to Dallas/Fort Worth to visit my parents, and spent most of the time there reading Harry Potter. Obsessed much? Oh yes. I’m now almost halfway through the last book, and I’m still pissed about what happened to Sirius in the fifth book. The only other thing I really did over the break was go to a Tori Amos concert! The weather was cold and rainy and we had to pay $15 to park and then walk in the miserable weather, but Tori was nothing short of completely awesome. And she performed Cornflake Girl. Which completely made my night right there.
This was my second time seeing her in concert, and I think I liked this time a bit better because one, our seats were a bit closer, and two, she played with her band, which I think makes it more interesting for some songs. She still did a solo section with just her and the piano, but it was nice hearing her with the band as well this time.
Moving on, I just want to say THANK YOU again to those of you who read the new chapters of I Woke Up LA. I’m happy that it was well-received and your comments make me excited to start the next part. Though, however excited I may be, I do think it will be quite some time before the next chapters are released. I do not know if I will have much time to even start working on it before Christmas. Of course, you never know, maybe me saying that will make the opposite happen.
I will say this about what to expect in the future chapters: Read the rest of this entry »
July 24th, 2007
Reactions
I’m going to make more of an effort to use this story blog to post my thoughts on upcoming chapters and all of your reactions to existing chapters. I let it go for a while, but I think I could make good use of it along with my forum. I’m just not so sure how many people check this area, so sometimes it was just easier to update the forum.
First, an obligatory warning–don’t continue reading if you haven’t read chapter 6 yet.
Okay, continuing on. I must say, I am quite amused by the varied reactions to Nik and Adeline’s marriage. I was quite nervous about that part and how well it would be received. Part of me thought, oh, this is too outlandish, but another part of me thought it was very typical to the characters–especially Adeline–to do something so drastic.
It’s very funny to hear people say, “I knew Adeline and Nik were hooking up!” Well, of course they were! Haha. In fact, one reason this chapter ended up so long is that I couldn’t end the chapter without getting Nik and Adeline’s marriage out in the open and dealt with to some degree by Jill. I’d been throwing out major clue bombs that they were together, starting with Nik and Adeline’s disappearance in chapter 5. I wanted to make it plainly obvious to the readers, but keep Jill in a sad state of denial. Of course, it’s only plainly obvious to readers willing to go that route, but to those who sympathize more with Jill’s situation, it may not have been as obvious because the idea of it seemed so ridiculous. Amusing to hear different sides!
Poor Jill has always looked at his sister through very thick glass, and up until this point, refused to create a mental image of her in his mind that was older than about 15 years of age. So that was really all we’ve seen of Adeline up to this point: a silly, slightly bratty, little girl with a possible crush on her brother’s best friend. And Nik, of course, is really just a big kid himself, so perhaps that’s why their coupling isn’t too hard to believe and perhaps pleasing to most–despite Adeline’s childish depiction.
I was worried the Vegas marriage would be too out there. And I’m surprised to hear some people say that was the first thing they thought of when Vegas was mentioned! Hilarious!
So basically, I’m pleased with the feedback in that regard. I think their spontaneous wedding and 8-year age difference is very stereotypical Hollywood, so I’ll be able to have fun with that in chapter 7 as Nik’s fame brings the “scandal” thrown in Jill’s face even more. We’ll have to see Kirsten’s reaction as well.
Thank you all again!