Chat Bar on Site

Okay, this is a "paid" product on my site which means I pay a yearly fee for it and it came due without me realizing it. I've made a payment on it but since I didn't have the funds to cover the entire transaction in Paypal... Paypal did a stupid e-check which takes DAYS to clear. It was supposed to clear today but so far it hasn't.

That means that my chat bar might be disabled this evening and will remain so until the payment clears. Sorry in advance for that but it's all sort of limbo until the payment clears.

SIGH.

After the end of the month, I'll try to pre-fund my Skysa account so this doesn't happen next time it's due for renewal.

No one flip their shit!

The Moment

There's this moment when you're writing that what you're doing comes together in such an organic and easy way that you get used to it. I've been writing for over twenty years and I've had a lot of these moments. In 99% of my projects this moment can be narrowed down to a single sentence. I normally find it when I'm editing -- this defining sentence that tells me that the project is exactly what I wanted it to be from the very start. What's interesting is that it is rarely the first or the last line of a project for me.

I was reading The Air That Angels Breathe yesterday and I stumbled upon one those sentences. It was this: 

“No one deserves you as much as I do anyway.”

That is a wow sentence for me because it says so much about John's character in the story. Both as a writer and as a reader, it was during this final scene when John said that that the whole story came together for me. This is a John Sheppard who grew up loved and protected by the man who fathered him. He is strong both in mind and heart and he knows that he wants and most certainly deserves the love of the smartest man in the galaxy. I really like that about John in this story. In canon, he's so emotionally retarded that it becomes almost a parody.

Maybe that's why in my work I often spend more time pushing and pulling and eventually forcing John Sheppard to grow as a person because I never saw that growth in the series.