Aaaaaaa... she has updated her story! Well, just one anyway. There has been many of you wondering about the fate of Breathe You In. I promise you, and I swear on the soul of my trombone, that BYI will be finished by the end of the year. I will work my hardest on it this summer because I will have little time to finish once school starts. But I promise you, it will get done. Part of me is a little scared about finishing a story (one that isn't a one-shot.) It's so final. I'm not a huge fan of change.
Anyway, I had a good college year. Well, relatively good. I passed my level A for my degree. And I'll be doing a ten minute recital which will have a piece for trombone and marimba. I'm very excited about it.
I've had many bots asking me about Prelude and Fugue. There are a few things that could happen to this story. I could a.) finish it. b.) trash it. c.) leave you guys in the dark about my plans with it. d.) give it to another author to finish. e.) pretend it never happened. or d.) leave things just as they are, unfinished with no hint on what I'm going to do with it.
I haven't decided what I'm going to do with this story, but it is definately back burner to Highlands and BYI. If I do recieve some offers from other authors who want to finish it, I would have no problem with that. If I see there's some interest, I'll set a about a two week window to which I would like to see some other work by said authors and decide which one could best decifer the fate of Serena and Darien. I've decided this would be the most fair. You don't have to come up with anything new, but I do have some very nick-picky thingsI want to and don't want to see.
SPELLING AND GRAMMAR! You need to check for spelling. I know I'm a bit of a hypocrite for saying this, but I do what I can.
The correct usage of their, they're and there; then and than; we're and were; your and you're; too and to, etc.
Absolutely no internet lingo or abbreviations. If you are so lazy you cannot type the whole word of two, your, probably, etc. I don't even want to open your email. If you do, I will send it back with all the corrections and a very nasty letter about how much of a stupid ass you are.
Knowing the correct usage of commas and sentence structure. Also, the correct usage of dialog between twoormorepeople. If you have trouble with this, look at a REAL book (not another fanfiction) and use that author's example.
Many of these things are plain and simple 8th grade english, and yet I see people claiming to be seniors in high school or sophomores in college and they still don't know how to form an intellegent sentence. I'm no english major myself and I'm probably being a HUGE hypocrite myself, but these are the things that can ruin a good story with first few sentences. It makes reading difficult and decifering the language bothersome and no one will want to be challenged reading a fanfiction, of all things. Ethan Frome, perhaps, but not a fluff about twofictional characters.
Again, I think this is the most fair way to do it. And it doesn't have to be overly long. I'm thinking maybe 1,500 words minimum. It could be a part of any of your current stories (something you've copy/pasted into an email)or one you've thought of for the occasion, or it could be the next chapter of Prelude and Fugue. Just something to show me that you're halfway intellegent enough to write the ending of Prelude.
So, I hope this clears up a lot of questions about that story.
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