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UPDATE November 12, 2008

I just got home from being away for a week with no internet access, and discovered that ff.net returned the story viewer hit counters! Whew! Please join me in sending them heartfelt thanks for putting the hit counters back!

Don't despair! IAM still working on "So Much To Learn"--the past few weeks I've been away more than I've been at home, and I have been fighting my usual autumn cold/bronchitis on top of it. The combination has made for some truly awful writing. As soon as I feel a little better I'll be posting again.

UPDATE October 31, 2008

ARRGGH! FanFiction.net took away the story viewer hit counters tonight! I shall die without my hit counter! How will I know when "So Much To Learn" has reached 100,000 hits? Please send them e-mails begging them to turn the story view hit counters back on! support@fanfiction.net

UPDATE October 4, 2008

I really haven't forgotten about all of you! I've had so many things happen lately that I haven't had time to write until late at night, and by then I've been too tired to write coherently. I've hit the start of the busy season for my jewelry business as well, so that's eating a lot of my time too. I have chapters partly finished and I've got a lot of them "ready" in my head--I just need a chance to sit down and write for several hours uninterrupted.

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UPDATE August 4, 2008

I haven't abandoned the story, and I won't either. Life intruded yet again, and I just didn't have a chance to fine tune the next chapter so I could post it until today. But I just posted Chapter 80--please read and review!

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UPDATE July 3, 2008

Look! Another chapter! I've been working on the story almost daily for the past few weeks, and I'm back to writing several chapters ahead of where I've posted. If I keep it up, soon I should be able to start posting new chapters more often.

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UPDATE June 18, 3008

I haven't forgotten about all of you! I have been working on "So Much To Learn", but I wrote myself into another corner and I've been trying to untangle plot lines so I can proceed. I think I've figured it all out in my head and in a quick outline. Now I just have to WRITE it. Patience, dear readers--another chapter will be coming soon!

UPDATE January 12, 2008

You simply MUST go watch the incredible movie trailer that SavvySparrowLuv created for "So Much To Learn".
She did a fantastic job, and I’m really touched that the story inspired her to put the time and effort into making it.
It’s on YouTube at www.youtube.com/watch?v=vd3bFSJC5ms

"So Much To Learn" movie trailer

(That’s www (DOT) youtube (DOT) com/watch?v=vd3bFSJC5ms just in case ff.net yanks out the complete link above.)
Be sure to leave SavvySparrowLuv your comments!

And re: the update of Nov. 27... Jack is now intact again, and the story is progressing nicely.

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UPDATE November 27, 2007

For those who have been reading So Much To Learn and patiently waiting for an eternity for the next chapter, fear not--I have not abandoned the story. First I was sick for a month and a half straight and was not motivated to write. Then my jewelry business reached the busy season and I haven't had time to write.

During all that time away from writing, I sort of lost sight of where I was steering the plot. When I finally got back to writing, I wrote EIGHT chapters before realizing that I had 1) stupidly written myself into a corner, and 2) totally emasculated Captain Jack Sparrow. The first error is fixable, with time. The second would have got me many floggings. This is what happens when one writes a massive story without at least jotting down an outline before starting. Lesson learned, but too late for this story. Sigh.

So please bear with me while I give Jack back his balls and start over writing where I left off with the last posted chapter, Ch. 71. Chapter 72 will go up before Christmas, I promise.

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About AdhesivePrincess...

Not that anybody reads this stuff, but here's me:

Gender: female

Born: 1959 (you figure it out--this is easier than having to update my age every year!).

About me: I'm frelling old. I remember when having 9 TV channels on your black and white television was a big deal. If you could manage to get the antenna to pick up the other 4 channels, you were living large. No remote controls either, you had to walk across the room to change the channel. Kept us kids skinny, changing channels for our dads. I remember vinyl records that skipped and scratched. God help me, I remember 8-track tapes. I remember what life was like before there was the internet, home computers, CD players, video recorders or DVDs. So that makes me a history expert, right:) How ever did we survive back then?

But I've always loved science, and I've always loved learning. Even before microchips took over the world I was a geek, long before being a geek was considered 'cool'.

Now: I design, cast and assemble sterling silver jewelry as a way to avoid having to get a real job. Yes, I really do play with molten metal regularly. See http://www.fgemz.com for more info. I've been married since 1985, which is longer than I would guess most of the users on this board have been alive. ;') Household members include the original 1985 model spouse (also a geek, only he gets paid for it), and fifteen small parrots and two greyhounds who actually run the house. The critters are kind enough to allow us humans to live here too, as long as we bring home decent food from time to time. (updated to add: We lost one greyhound on 3/30/07 to kidney failure...R.I.P. my darling Allegra.)

What I like: Farscape, Pirates of the Caribbean, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, well-written fanfics featuring those universes, and anything humorous that I trip across while searching out good stories in those subjects. And I LOVE the Protectors of the Plot Continuum. Google it.

What I'd like to see: Ben Browder, Johnny Depp and James Marsters, all shirtless, please (put those three together in one place and I could die a very happy woman.)

What I don't like: (soapbox mode on) Poor spellers who don't bother to use a spell checker, people who use text message abbreviations (ie., "CU L8TR") in publicly posted fanfics, stories written on sugar highs, self-insert characters, and MarySues. If you go to the trouble of writing something and posting it online so other people can read it, MAKE IT READABLE!! If you don't know what a self-insert fanfic or a MarySue is, Google it. You owe it to your potential readers to find out and avoid these things at all cost.(soapbox mode off)

What's with the stupid screen name?
One Christmas when I was a kid, I used an entire roll of duct tape to wrap a small flat box containing one pair of socks as a joke gift for my brother. After he cut through dozens of layers of sticky, gooey tape to get to the dumb socks, I got tagged with the nickname "Adhesive Princess". When I signed up for an account here, I couldn't think of a good screen name, so I here I am, heiress to the Throne of Stickyville...

A NOTE TO MY READERS: If you like my stories, please feel free to tell your friends on other forums, blogs, etc. about them. And if you mention me on a PotC forum, drop me a PM telling me where! I might like to check it out sometime.

Like most of the writers out here, I adore getting reviews. I also welcome constructive criticism, and I'm addicted to watching the numbers on my story hit counters climb. The more hits they get, the happier I am! Thanks to all who drop by my little fantasy corner of the 'net.

--Adhesive Princess