RaichealEmerald Fanfiction

New story posted! I know, I know I should work on the other 3 WIP stories instead of starting a new story. Oh well, sometimes inspiration hits and has to be written and posted.

First tropical storm of the season was uneventful. Well at least it was for me. People living closer to the Gulf might have other opinions. I've had rains for days, so the ground is saturated. The winds were minimal. A normal cold front produces more wind.

While I wanted to get writing done, I could not due to children and their activities that were not canceled.

After the storm passed, I went to check on the caterpillars. Pictured are three Eastern Black Swallowtail Caterpillars. The third is really tiny.

I was able to get a new chapter for Losing Trust written and posted. Enjoy the reading and let me know your thoughts. Thanks!

I know, I know, I should be writing for the 3 WIP that are posted. Well, I don't want to! I do, but I am out of steam on them.

I am also trying something new, writing a story completely before posting it. My secret project is in progress, I am excited about it. I hope to have it out be the end of this year or the first half of next year. But I want the story to be completed before posting. Well completed in the sense that I read through the chapters and make edits before posting.

I have one of my most trusted friends to help me bounce ideas off of, and to give me a lot of encouragement.

This secret project of mine has some elements that I am not used to writing, which is why I am in the flow of writing for this project.

https://archiveofourown.org/users/RaichealEmerald/profile

What do I do when I am not educating children or writing? Well, I have a lot of hobbies depending on the season and my mood.

Currently I am working on my pollinator garden. I've raised monarch catapillars for the last few years. This year I've not had success with caterpillars, but that is nature. The wasps, toads, and lizards have been eating them.

My garden started as a way to relax my nerves. I focus on native plants to my location. Natives are better suited for the heat and dought conditions.

I also feed birds in my backyard. I am trying to see how many species I can attract to my yard, I think the count is around 15.

I only write for Gone With the Wind fanfiction. I have tried to write for another fandom, but did not like it. Currently it is the only fandom I am reading in too with published books.

Well, GWTW is a dying fandom. There way back in the early 2000s there were regular posts and new writers. Readership was decent too. Over the decades writers and readers have moved on. Now most of the original writers do not write, or seldom do. I get it, real life gets in the way of hobbies.

I read reviews of the other stories in the fandom to try and gage if I want to read it or not. If I do read it, I will review.

On a story that is not mine there was a review that stated "There has been very little of quality to read without your stories." I do think I am reading into it too much, but it is hard not to when I've updated 2 of my stories multiple times in the last few months. So I wonder if my stories are considered lacking quality or not. None of my reviewers makes statements like that.

As a kid, I was diagnosed with a form of dyslexia. I struggled to read and spell. Writing helped me a lot with my spelling. I have always been self conscious of my writing, worried if I had everything spelled correctly, or if I used commas in the right place or too many. Did I mix up past and present tenses.

So, yeah, when I read about the lack of quality of stories it makes me wonder and puts me in a slump.

I had intended to get a new chapter out this week, but it does not seem to be happening. Last week I started a sewing project, well that was put on hold for a bit because the pattern is annoying.

This week has been busy with normal real life stuff. When I have "free time" I just want to decompress and let my mind turn to mush.

I have been ssssssllllllooooooooooowwwwwwwwwlllllllllllyyyyyyyy working on the next chapter of Losing Trust. The words are not as fast with coming out as I would like.

So I do not discuss my personal life much, if at all on social media. Well, I homeschool my children (no I am not a religious nut). Part of the early grades, Kindergarten and First grade, I am expected to be a scribe for my child's creative writing work.

Today's assignment for the kindergartner was to create a story based off a picture. The picture was of a Dutch-styled windmill in the air, and a bi-plane going after it. A person was in the windmill too.

I thought I would share the delightful story my 6-year-old came up with. Enjoy!

The Story of the Flying Windmill

It was a calm day, then all of a sudden, a tornado came, whipping the windmill high into the sky. A girl named Kess was in the windmill as she worked the electrical grid.

At the same time there was another tornado that threw an airplane into the sky, in the same direction as the windmill. The piolet, Ken, had already received a call to rescue Kess from the windmill, and was getting ready to take off when the tornado did it for him.

Ken tried to rescue Kess, but his engine stalled, and his plane fell to the ground. The windmill lost momentum and crashed to the ground as well. It crushed Ken in his plane. Kess was so excited to be back on the ground, she rushed to find Ken. Sadly, Ken was dead. Kess was devastated and started to cry.

In Kess’s devastation, she did not notice the arrival of three cats. The cats looked around the scene before spotting Ken’s dead body. The cats decided to save Ken. The only way to save him was to gift him with hairballs. Each cat spit up a hairball right into Ken’s mouth.

Ken drew in a sudden breath and coughed at the sour taste of hairball. Kess was happy to have him back. The cats from Mars were heroes!

Ken and Kess then lived happily ever after.

Thanks for the reviews!

AO3 has been quite a struggle for me due to the lack of readers and feedback in the GWTW fandom.

In other news, my dress is almost done. And this morning, I burned two of my fingers with hot cooking oil when I dropped food in the pan to cook.

New chapter of Losing Trust! While I wish I had the time years ago to finish the story, I don't think it would have been well thought out as it is now.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/448623/chapters/220391151

Chapter 17 is up! I thought it would be done sooner, but someone couldn't be nice.

Working on Chapter 17 of Losing Trust.

I was working on edits, making sure my scenes blend together seamlessly. And then, these characters decided there needed to be a new scene that is over 1k words.