Rising Above

Wyatt Stanfield, Full Circle

Rising Above: Wyatt's Story began on July 10, 2008. The purpose behind it was to tell Wyatt's story, hence the name. There were some ambitious story arcs and I was excited about what I had planned. However, it did not travel down the road I hoped and I just do not have the energy to continue it in the manner I intended. The last post here was nearly a year ago - June 28, 2010. With this post, Chapter 14 ~ Rise Above This, I end it, nearly three years since its inception.

How do you summarize all that you meant to tell in a few words, in one short chapter? It is doubtful that I did it justice. The piece itself follows Studio Time 12 - Complicated and is being posted slightly out of order from the flow of the story arc. It should have been posted there but instead it closes out this chapter in Wyatt's life.

For those of you who followed the story, who cared about this group of college kids, I offer apologies and, from the bottom of my heart, immense thanks.

To Sleep, Perchance to Dream

Gah! I slept for nearly 19 hours when I got home from work on Sunday morning. Woke up and it was Monday. I feel like I missed an entire day!

New update at Studio Time! Thirteen ~ He

Gorgeous shots by Beth. My jaw drops at the magic she makes.

Query-osity: to Blog or not to Blog

I was recently looking for a link to a post when I realized I had no idea where to find it. This is the result of having multiple story threads on multiple blogs. While it isn’t possible to change what is already up there, and even if it was, I am not in favor of wasting the time doing it, I wonder...

Going forward do you, as a reader, think it is easier to have all story arcs located on one blog? I ask this because we still have multiple blogs going. Rising Above will be ending in what I think will be one more post. I do not plan on continuing Wyatt’s story at this point. If he makes an appearance at all it will be as a secondary character to any threads we have going in the future. And I know, never say never, but it is too hard to maintain multiple threads in multiple blogs as they relate to a main story line, at least it is too overwhelming for me right now. I experienced first hand the frustration of multiple blogs when I tried to find a specific chapter.

Then we have Chameleon, the simfic50 story line about Melinda Owen. Her thread has found its way into the main story. I haven’t updated there for ages. I plan to finish her story with the prompt table which means I need to get off my butt and start writing it. With Ryan off the main story map, I should be able to keep hers separate going forward.

Let’s talk about Intermezzo, a side blog that I doubt anyone pays attention to and really only a place I wanted to use because things were happening with characters who never appear in the main story and damn it I wanted to write about them. They talk to me and it is hard to ignore. But they have no place in the main story, not really.

Again I ask this because there are more stories that can be told - Charlie and Syd and Rob, Blade and his wives, Shooter, Duff, and lord knows how many more characters that are going to come out of the woodwork in our heads. Can their stories be told on the same blog? Can they stay at Studio Time?

I think multiple blogs are great if you have multiple stories that do not overlap and intersect. I have to commend Beth for making sense out of all of it, untangling the mass of tangles that is our writing to put something up that is somewhat continuous and linear in the series guide. Going forward - telling this story from here on out - what does that look like?

Complicated

Update at Studio Time. Special appearance by Qui of Colorblind and other stories. Thanks, Qui, for making our world even more beautiful with your presence!

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