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Our BetterMost Community => Creative Writer's Corner => Topic started by: louisev on July 11, 2010, 09:33:46 pm
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And now the opening of the sequel to 'Agents of the Law'
The Runaway Deputy http://louisev.livejournal.com/343965.html
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And here is Chapter 1!
http://louisev.livejournal.com/344096.html
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My word Ellery is hot and horny today. :laugh: So he wants to be a Lawyer eh? Hmm, I dunno, I spose I could see that, but he'll always be a policeman at heart. Somehow I think he'll change his mind. Being in the force is in his blood. It's what he is. It's who Colson fell in love with. And besides, you don't get to wear fancy berets when your a Lawyer and we know how much Colson loves Ellery in that beret. :laugh: Great opening chapter Louise. Poor Wes, must have been so embarassed. :laugh:
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My word Ellery is hot and horny today. :laugh: So he wants to be a Lawyer eh? Hmm, I dunno, I spose I could see that, but he'll always be a policeman at heart. Somehow I think he'll change his mind. Being in the force is in his blood. It's what he is. It's who Colson fell in love with. And besides, you don't get to wear fancy berets when your a Lawyer and we know how much Colson loves Ellery in that beret. :laugh: Great opening chapter Louise. Poor Wes, must have been so embarassed. :laugh:
Ellery does that on purpose ya know ;0
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and here is Chapter 2!
http://louisev.livejournal.com/344508.html (http://louisev.livejournal.com/344508.html)
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and what comes after 2 - chapter 3 of course!
http://louisev.livejournal.com/344629.html (http://louisev.livejournal.com/344629.html)
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i've been working on this darn chapter all day, so I hope it does the job!
http://louisev.livejournal.com/345075.html#cutid1
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finally back at the story!
http://louisev.livejournal.com/345138.html Chapter 5!
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and now chapter 6!
http://louisev.livejournal.com/345526.html
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chapter 7!
http://louisev.livejournal.com/345678.html
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and here's chapter 8!
http://louisev.livejournal.com/346026.html
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and now, chapter 9! with a surprise in it!
http://louisev.livejournal.com/346292.html
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and ANOTHER new chapter! Yes, two in one day!
http://louisev.livejournal.com/346589.html
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I haven't done a triple header in a long time~!
http://louisev.livejournal.com/346837.html
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And yet another chapter! whoo hoo!
http://louisev.livejournal.com/347059.html
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Chapter 13 is now posted!
http://louisev.livejournal.com/347337.html
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here's chapter 14!
http://louisev.livejournal.com/347499.html
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okay so it's been a while!
Here's chapter 15!!
http://louisev.livejournal.com/347812.html
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...and chapter 16!
http://louisev.livejournal.com/348065.html
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here is chapter 17!
http://louisev.livejournal.com/348249.html
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...and chapter 18!
http://louisev.livejournal.com/348463.html
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And a new chapter!
http://louisev.livejournal.com/348693.html
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good lord, it's been nearly a month!
here's chapter 20
http://louisev.livejournal.com/349156.html
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another chapter done!
http://louisev.livejournal.com/349430.html (http://louisev.livejournal.com/349430.html)
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chapter 22 !
http://louisev.livejournal.com/349642.html
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Chapter 23 of the slowest moving saga of the series!
http://louisev.livejournal.com/349753.html
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Heeere's chapter 24!
http://louisev.livejournal.com/349976.html
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it's a twofer weekend!
http://louisev.livejournal.com/350271.html Chapter 25!
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okay finally another chapter!
http://louisev.livejournal.com/350719.html
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and another one for the road!
http://louisev.livejournal.com/350781.html
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whoops - triple header!
http://louisev.livejournal.com/351178.html
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new chapter! and full of that man on man goodness!
http://louisev.livejournal.com/351285.html (http://louisev.livejournal.com/351285.html)
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New chapter, new chapter! Sorry for the delay!
http://louisev.livejournal.com/351627.html (http://louisev.livejournal.com/351627.html)
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Yikes! it's been a MONTH!
okay okay so I had things to do!
here's a new chapter with a plot development!
http://louisev.livejournal.com/351850.html
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another chapter, to bring my average back up!
http://louisev.livejournal.com/352139.html
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Intermission and Cliff Notes:
http://louisev.livejournal.com/352453.html
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and the beginning of the explosive denouement to a plot arc 2 years in the making, yadda yadda yadda:
Chapter 33 of The Runaway Deputy
http://louisev.livejournal.com/352728.html
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and now aonther chapter! yay!
http://louisev.livejournal.com/352919.html
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And onward and upward for the boys in Tourmaline:
http://louisev.livejournal.com/353153.html (http://louisev.livejournal.com/353153.html) Chapter 35
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and chapter 36!
http://louisev.livejournal.com/353665.html
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Chapter 37 is on deck!
http://louisev.livejournal.com/353974.html
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yay, finally, chapter 38!
http://louisev.livejournal.com/354182.html
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and chapter 39!
http://louisev.livejournal.com/354381.html
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chapter 40 is now posted!
http://louisev.livejournal.com/354793.html
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sorry for the delays - I was power-watching the Sherlock Holmes series!
Chapter 41!
http://louisev.livejournal.com/354904.html (http://louisev.livejournal.com/354904.html)
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new chapter! Couldn't let a long weekend go by without one!
http://louisev.livejournal.com/355089.html (http://louisev.livejournal.com/355089.html)
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Louise;
I just re-read one of my favorite fanfics again. "Duprees choice." It was just
as wonderful and compelling as the first time. Thanks for giving us so many
great characters and stories. We can then go visit them over from time to time.
It is just like running into old friends you knew from long ago. As you know I
was particularly partial to those two.
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aw thanks Janice.
Are you reading the new one?
I am just posting a new chapter:
http://louisev.livejournal.com/355511.html
Chapter 43 - the Runaway Deputy
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Yes I am. I like it too.
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yay!
I'm hoping to put out another chapter today but my mind hasn't clicked in yet. Still folding laundry!
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finally, chapter 44!
http://louisev.livejournal.com/355609.html
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chapter 45, as promised, earlier than my last few efforts!
http://louisev.livejournal.com/355862.html
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I did a bunch of clarification editing on many earlier chapters, and just posted Chapter 46!
http://louisev.livejournal.com/356108.html
Enjoy - gobble gobble!
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more gobbling!
Chapter 47!
http://louisev.livejournal.com/356759.html
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I am very happy that you are back in writing form again. I have wondered what was going on with these guys? It is amazing to me how you can pick this back up, and not miss a stitch. I know that you have been spending a lot of time with them, since we have been out of the picture. Just sayin.
I love that the story is now getting to the clearing up of the crap that has been going on. I love that you are getting into that book. It shows how much the minds of the prejudiced are hidden. Even when they are trying to show that they are not in that group. How far that they were, and are still willing to go, to achieve the ends that they are seeking.
It is like going back and meeting with old friends. I still have a very familial feeling towards the characters in this story. Thanks again..Jan
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I am very happy that you are back in writing form again. I have wondered what was going on with these guys? It is amazing to me how you can pick this back up, and not miss a stitch. I know that you have been spending a lot of time with them, since we have been out of the picture. Just sayin.
I love that the story is now getting to the clearing up of the crap that has been going on. I love that you are getting into that book. It shows how much the minds of the prejudiced are hidden. Even when they are trying to show that they are not in that group. How far that they were, and are still willing to go, to achieve the ends that they are seeking.
It is like going back and meeting with old friends. I still have a very familial feeling towards the characters in this story. Thanks again..Jan
Yes, the story is already written - it's just making the time to evoke it, so to speak. And while there are details (Bridget vs. Natasha Johansson - I was going to go with Natasha at first in a sort of a "Boris and Natasha" Bullwinkle mode but I think that somewhere in my subconscious mind that would work against the character, she isn't supposed to be a cartoon and who of the Baby boomer era would NOT associate Natasha with Boris and Natasha Badunov?" - But the detail of the nationality and connotations of a name (or the date of a particular meeting) are very small details. The plot remains in focus, it's been in focus since day one, once I decided that Ellery was not going to be killed off in chapter 9 of a novellla. (Yes, that was Plan A. I couldn't do it.) But by the same token I could make him a romance happily-ever-after guy. He's not that type of person: he's the widow's son, and that means suffering and striving.. and ultimately succeeding in spite of his own limitations.
Oh here I'm babbling! thanks so much for continuing on reading. As my life settles down with having a full time job and vacay time and my health gradually and slowly improves, it's getting easier to make time again. Travel is great but plays havoc with my writing time outside of work.
Keep on reading!
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yes, the story is penultimately penultimate!
Latest chapters:
http://louisev.livejournal.com/361920.html Chapter 50
http://louisev.livejournal.com/365915.html Chapter 51
http://louisev.livejournal.com/366264.html Chapter 52
If you have read "Tourmaline', either in the fan fic version or the original version, please hasten to Lulu.com and write a few words in review:
http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/tourmaline/10988679?productTrackingContext=search_results/search_shelf/center/1
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and now: chapter 53!
http://louisev.livejournal.com/366587.html
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wow, I haven't posted any update notifications here for a while! we're up to chapter 58! The story marches on to its unexpected conclusion!
http://louisev.livejournal.com/368684.html is the latest chapter!
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not very new now... but there are new chapters posted. I usually post first on Livejournal and then on Facebook, but I can start posting here again as well - because Bettermost was where I relocated the 'Saga' when I ran into static at that other big forum. ahem.
I am writing the final handful of chapters that will complete The Runaway Deputy, and in the 18 months or so in which I was on a hiatus while Ellery decided what he was going to do about the various and sundry threats to his career, his health, his friends and his relationship... Wayne ended up in the hospital with a story to tell, and I didn't know what he was going to say. And so I waited, and I considered it... usually when a story hits a brick wall (the sequel to my novel "Princes of the East", which I was not posting anywhere while I was writing it back in 1997-1998, had a similar problem, and I ended up writing, and then cutting out 50,000 words when I realized that if one particular event which included an assault on one of the main character's tutors were successful, that the character would reach a dead end and die and I have just ruined my book. So I had to go back and excise that entire story line.
Hard to do when there are readers who have already internalized the plot, so I had to keep my explorations internal until I was certain of where the plot had to go, and how. And in that time period, distracted by three hospitalizations by my best friend (near misses) and two of my own (petty but time-consuming annoyances), and a lot of time spent on medical care, I dropped back to do research for the next book in the series which will be called "A War in Zion."
So I have posted new chapters 90 and 91 in the past week, and expect to have the remainder of the book drafted and posted in my louisev livejournal in the next short while (i.e. days or weeks.)
http://louisev.livejournal.com/384200.html Chapter 90: Ellery's first day as Acting Sheriff of Greenlea
http://louisev.livejournal.com/384432.html Chapter 91: Wayne confesses the murder of Tom Sawyer
reminder: if you cannot see these entries, please ask to be friended.
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Welcome back, Louise! I've missed you. :)
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awwwww.... sorry bout that! Life, the universe, and everything don't you know!
I'm going to be hosting (at least briefly) some of our well known regulars Penthesilea and Buffymon in Washington DC next week, and I'm trying to get them a tour to the White House. If you ever get down my way give me a holler! I'll try to be regular again now that Ellery's talking to me.
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awwwww.... sorry bout that! Life, the universe, and everything don't you know!
Don't I ever!
In any case, it's good to see you back on Bettermost. Now I'll stop gabbing on what's supposed to be a thread about your story! ;D It's time for me to do one of those life and universe things--give my dad his Sunday evening telephone call!
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hehehehe I don't mind - at least SOMEBODY remembers my name!
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http://www.zebratta.org/index.php/news-and-noise
Chapter 91 is Wayne Confesses
And there is a link to "The Inside Baseball
http://www.zebratta.org/index.php/tourmaline2
Discount price will show when you select.
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and more "Runaway Deputy" ! We're coming to the end of this book at last!
http://louisev.livejournal.com/385173.html