Screenplay Testing Ground

The Coffee Shop

Penelope Featherington is having a terrible day. She's running late for work and now her favourite coffee shop is closed for the day. It's being used as a filming location for some new tv show; good for them, but bad for her caffeine addiction. Little does she know that her bad luck that morning is going to flip her world upside down.

To celebrate this exciting day in the fandom I wrote a 2nd Epilogue for my favourite version of Polin. Chapter 22 of All I know is we said 'hello' is now posted. I frequently wonder what Nerd Colin and Pen are up to, so I wrote a little something to check in with our favourite lego-lovers.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/63648232/chapters/217236001

I published this after episode 5 first aired to tie in the book events to the new show timeline for Scott & Kip.

I've broken containment!

Wrote something for the Game Changer, Scott Hunter, to tie in Skip's full story with the show timeline.

I love this ship so much 🥰🌈🏒

I wrote a Polin kids in a park thing...

New Fic Alert!

A certain new song got me thinking about Polin again ...

In which a teenage Penelope considers the wisdom of taking advice from a Taylor Swift song that might Ruin the Friendship.

I finally finished this 10 chapter fic based off of A Spinster's Guide to Danger and Dukes by Manda Collins. I love the Ladies Most Scandalous series, and especially Poppy & Langham from book 3.

This story takes the Victorian romance and brings it to modern high school with lots of fluff! It's my first fan fiction outside of the Bridgerton world, and for a very new/small fandom, but was so fun to write.

Earlier this year I started reading a new series of historical romance novels that centre around Victorian-era women solving crimes (while falling in love). I fell in love with the stories and the characters and cannot keep the well-matched couples from my mind. So much so that a new modern twist for a story came to me and I could NOT let it go.

So I've branched into a very new (and basically non-existent) fandom with a new fic for the Ladies Most Scandalous Series by Manda Collins. This fan fiction features Poppy and Joshua (Langham) from book 3 -- my favourite (but all the pairings are wonderful).

Chapter 1 is posted now!

The Favour

https://archiveofourown.org/works/67722046/chapters/175075581

When Poppy Delamere needs a favour from the most popular boy in school, Joshua Fielding, she hates the idea of needing to owe him anything in return. But she is fair-minded and true to her word so offers him a trade. She's pleasantly surprised when his request seems simple enough, but as the two of them embark on their helpful swap, things quickly get complicated.

A year ago today I posted my first piece of fan fiction for people to read (on Tumblr because I didn’t even have an AO3 account yet). It was episode 1 of 8 screenplays I wrote as a Polin fan’s take on season 4 (Ben & Sophie’s story with a pleasing amount of Colin & Pen). It took me a month to finish that series, and before it was even complete I had already started to branch out into other stories (mostly missing scenes). The more fics I read, the more Polin fans I met and interacted with, the more love of love we all shared, the more inspired and courageous I became.

I tried more traditional storytelling (not just screenplays), I strayed away from missing scenes into original storylines, post-canon, Regency AU, and I even attempted smut! With so much encouragement and kindness I got brave enough to try to expand my skills to modern AU storytelling and I found a voice, a style and an audience of readers. I even got confident enough to tell (limited) family members about my new hobby (there may have been wine involved in that conversation).

Now I actually consider myself a writer, with whole sets of characters, universes, writing habits and clichés I can’t help but reuse (hey, it’s my thing). In 365 days I have published 563,428 words of Polin Fan Fiction (plus another 2,637 published today with a new one-shot). This is something that I could never have imagined accomplishing, or even attempting a year ago. The writing community I have found on Twitter, Reddit, Bluesky, Discord, and Threads has been transformative to me as a writer and a person because of the kindness, advice, encouragement, and silliness shared with a group of people who love LOVE and these two amazing characters. (Oh, and  a whole lot of memes and mustache-modified pictures.) It has been a joyful year to say the least.

Thank you to my husband for his unending support and championing (my Nerd Colin), my son for being so proud of me even though he has never (and will never) read a word of my writing. Thank you to Julia Quinn and Shonda Rhimes for gifting the original forms of these characters to the world to capture our hearts and inspire our imaginations. Thank you to all my friends and readers for embracing the fluffiness I like to sprinkle over Pen and Colin in all their iterations. And to Regency, Book Compliant, Camp Counselor, Barman, Cowboy, Nerd, Canadian, Journalist, Private Investigator, Songwriter and Actor Colin and Pen: thank you for taking me along for the ride as you fall in love over and over again. (Especially when a little idea starts as one chapter and ends up as 15-20 more than expected!)

With Love,

My first attempt to put my romantic fluff aside and write an angsty Polin story.

They were friends, and then they became something else. But to Penelope it doesn’t ever feel like enough, it feels like nothing. He won’t stay in one place, won’t say what he means, won’t say what she needs to hear.

Hand me down Skates

A fluffy little children falling in love story of a very Canadian Colin and Pen.

Edmund Bridgerton makes the best backyard skating rink in a small Ontario town every year the weather allows it. One very special year some new neighbours are invited for a skate, and a special bond is formed between his third son, Colin, and their neighbours' daughter Penelope. As the years pass, skating on the backyard rink becomes an important highlight for their growing relationship.