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Anon says

I get a lot of Guest reviews that bring up a lot of good points or ask questions, and sometimes I just want to acknowledge them for the review (because seriously, reviews are awesome), but there's just one problem: THEY DON'T HAVE ACCOUNTS. 

So, instead of clogging up an update with a response to those reviews, I have decided to make use of this blog (which doesn't get enough attention from me) to respond to them. 

Flavor of the Month:  Guest chapter 2 . Jul 15 Bella is annoying as hell. And he was the weird one? I would be very surprise if in real life the guy would want to see her again. He wasn't as awkward as her and she is the one that had all those one-night stand. Stay away Edward. Reply Glad you think so, I was aiming for a not-immediately likable character simply because Bella has always been accused of being "perfect" because everyone thinks she's so awesome when she has very little to recommend her. I want to grow to like her myself, and this was my impression of her when I read Twilight at first, with just a bit more personality. After a meeting that they had, I wouldn't want to meet her again either if I was Edward, but life doesn't work that way, especially not fanfic ;)

Guest chapter 2 . Jul 14 Brilliant which is another term for your story. Thanks Reply Thanks for the review! Hope to hear more of your thoughts in the future :)

Guest chapter 1 . Jul 14 please please write more...this seems like a very promising story ive come across in a very long time...so im literally thirsting for an update...I hope you have a regular schedule.. ps. If its reviews u desire ill leave one everyday... Reply Glad you think so! I'll try hard to update as regularly as I can, I'm aiming for every Monday so I hope you can pull through and leave me a line every now and again :) Brotherly Advice and Sisterly Persuasion CRB chapter 2 . 3h ago I truly enjoyed Sibling Intervention, and look forward to this one. There's only one thing that keeps bugging me. You use the word "droll" a lot - not a bad thing in and of itself, but it doesn't always seem to fit and so jerks me out of the story. Droll having a humorous, whimsical, or odd quality (Merriam-Webster) Reply Corrected to "dull", thanks for that, the need for a Beta Reader strikes again. JRB chapter 2 . 3h ago How long do you anticipate this sequel to be? I think it's very refreshing, on the one hand, that Elizabeth is being rather cautious with her heart even though she really has no reason to mistrust Darcy's motive for kissing her. On the other hand, if Darcy had the balls to kiss her in the first place, I don't think he would've been the type to assume she disliked it. Mistaking Elizabeth's wit and teasing for flirting in the novel is, to me, perfectly reasonable and excusable. In this instance, however, if he already had the nerve to act on his impulses and essentially compromise her, Darcy would've done the honorable thing and asked her to hear him out and then propose. That seems like his character, anyway. Reply Well I haven't decided on the length yet, but roughly thirty chapters like Sibling Intervention I imagine.  I think Elizabeth is rather cautious with people, though that may just be my interpretation of her. As open as she is, she isn't easily convinced (except when she's determined to be) and with something as important as her heart, I don't think she would so easily give it away. Anyone who wants it has to work for it (hear that Darcy?). Remember, the kiss at the end of Sibling Intervention was neither returned nor denied, Darcy had no idea what to actually make of it. In my mind, women and love are relatively new to him because he's never been in a situation like this with anyone else. Also, Elizabeth insisted during Sibling Intervention that they should forget about the who-compromised-who situation (she thought she compromised him, and he thought he compromised her). He was actually on the verge of confessing in that forest in the last chapter, but ended up kissing her instead. But all that will be explained/expanded in the coming chapters. Thank you for your review! Guest chapter 1 . Jul 13 (virtual love) so excited and so ready for this :3 Reply You and me both! Thanks for the review!

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Amy chapter 17 . 21h ago

You made a mistake here. It would be a terrible faux pas that Bingley went into the room of Jane when she was ill. No single male was allowed to visit an unmarried girl in her bedroom, it doesnt matter if she is sick or not. I dont know if that terrible movie from 2005 inspired you to write this but it just wasnt done. Her reputation would be in tatters.

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*brandishes creative license, turns into a potato and rolls into the sunset*

Just kidding. 

But seriously, she wasn't entirely alone - she did have a maid stationed in her room the entire time she was sick, plus Bingley left the door open the entire time. Afterwards, Louisa joined them. Later on after supper, he isn't alone with her either and is with Elizabeth and Jane.

I have no idea how anyone got to know each other before marriage, but I am aware that the prospective couple is very rarely alone. Other than Darcy and Lizzy of course, we can't always be as well-mannered and full of propriety as we should.

The 2005 movie wasn't that bad. No idea where you're getting the idea that that adaption caused it, if you think I'm wrong it's more likely that it's my fault than a movie based on the novel.

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Life as I know it: Using fanfiction as a motivator

My WIPs got deleted and my life as a writer flashed before my eyes.
And then. I started again.

Life as I know it:
Using fanfiction as a motivator

So a few weeks ago my laptop died. 

And for someone who only uses their laptop to write, it hit me pretty hard. 

Though I haven't worked on any projects for the past six months (minus Project M which is always on hiatus because people that know me in real life read it and...yeah, the teasing hasn't stopped), I've had several incomplete, unedited one-shots and stories cooking, including original work that I hoped to publish one day. All of it was the result of almost three to four years worth of stories, and they were gone within seconds. 

Word to the wise: Backups are important in life.

However, once my laptop revived itself, instead of shutting it down and hiding out in my blanket fort out of depression, I opened up Word, and wrote. 

Throughout the last six months since the completion of Sibling Intervention, I didn't feel like I could write anymore out of exhaustion. But looking back, I realize how productive I was when I had fanfiction in my life.

A little look into my personal life:

At the beginning of 2014, I received my results from my final exams and was officially a high school graduate. During 2013, I wrote next to nothing since I felt that my education took precedence over writing stories.

Initially, I did well. 

However, within three to four months, I felt drained in every sense of the word. 

When I closed my eyes every night, I opened them to another morning; living is hard when you're exhausted. My weekends consisted of sleeping and during the week I was literally a machine. I was in a rut, and even when I forced myself to sit down and write just to finish Sibling Intervention, I could feel my brain frying in my head. And even with my good marks, I wasn't happy. 

Eventually, I gave in to my exhaustion and shut the lights off upstairs. My motivation to do well for my exams had dwindled; I succeeded in burning myself out in less than six months. 

By the time the exams rolled around, I didn't care about passing well - just passing. And I achieved that. 

When I started college in February this year, I was excited about a new beginning, studying towards something I was interested in (no math, no physics, no reciting textbooks). 

Out of the desire to immerse myself with the real world, I kept away from fanfiction after completing Sibling Intervention, saying to myself that I took forever to finish a story anyway and that I didn't have the juice to start another. 

The day I decided to just throw ideas at Word was the day my laptop committed suicide only to be resurrected with nothing left. It was a clean slate. And a seeming punishment for being gone too long.

I rolled with it though, and that's how this happened: 

I've been toying with the idea of writing a Twilight story for awhile. How I feel about Twilight as literature will be discussed later, but the fact of the matter is, I wanted something new and I got it. 

The story I wrote: Flavor of the Month, was completely different to Sibling Intervention, and though I've only just started it, I want to do something different than the hordes of romance stories in every AU fanfiction out there. Along with my first Twilight fic, I started the second part of Sibling Intervention called Brotherly Advice and Sisterly Persuasion. 

It's been less than a month and I feel more motivated to do things again. 

My real life concerns like course work and projects are planned and completed as soon as possible in order to give me time to write before my next self-imposed deadline. 

It's more of a challenge now in order to get things done. Whereas in the past, my marks were for me, in fanfiction they were both for me and for the people that read my stories. I hate disappointing people so writing fanfiction and using the desire for updates (which every fanfic reader knows to their soul) to push me in my real life have helped. 

I hope it isn't a few weeks kind of thing, but time will tell. 

Until then, I'm going to ride the high and hope I don't crash when it stops. 

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