Beware:

All too often,

We say

What we hear others say.

We think

What we are told that we think.

We see

What we are permitted to see.

Worse!

We see what we are told that we see.

Repetition and pride are the keys to this.

To hear and to see

Even an obvious lie

Again

And again and again

May be to say it,

Almost by reflex

Then to defend it

Because we have said it

And at last to embrace it

Because we've defended it.

-Octavia E Butler

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Beast...a decision has been made

Drum roll please...(I'm so freaking dramatic). After careful consideration, and reading every one of your comments, I've decided that Beast gets a slight make-over. I probably won't change chapter 12 much. But it's getting to chapter 12 that has to change.

It is true that I didn't develop their relationship as well as I could have...which makes having a baby, and being engaged feel so quick. I do agree with those that say that a modernized fairy tale doesn't have to be written in the same way that a novel like WOS was written. And I don't want to do anything like that again!!!

So think about the actual Beauty and the Beast Fairytale.

-Beast is not a good person due to the issue of looks.
-Beast evolves because of the love for Beauty
-The Beast's castle (subbasement) was a sanctuary and then w/o Beauty, a prison
-Once Beauty has to leave (Recall that I have switched the rolls. Christopher is beauty and Ashleigh is the beast) Beast is at deaths door without Beauty
-Beauty returns and saves the beast...the beast becomes beautiful on the outside as they ever was in the inside.

My change is that Christopher being already 'Beauty' didn't have to become beautiful on the outside. But it was a change that tied in to his final confrontations (I won't say, but you could probably figure out the two figures he has yet to confront) And besides...don't you guys think that if I am writing a fairtytale I should write Christopher transformed into a beautiful man on the outside as well? In this, I am like his fairy god mother. smiles.

And yes yes yes, I will address his Commander and The Marines and Ashleigh's family. I just need to tweak...

which means that there isn't going to be a Friday post. I don't know when, either. Just going to plod along until it's satisfactory to me.

*Dashes away very fast.*

Re-Write Chapter 12 of Beast?

What do you guys think? Beast has turned out to be a good story. But some have indicated that it felt rushed and were disappointed at how quickly I addressed some very major issues. I can totally agree with that. I'm thinking about re-working this last chapter but wanted to ask your opinion.

Still much to cover; Christopher's new face, Ashleigh's family, the furnace and the family reunion, DeAngelo...I know I tend to rush the end of a story and have been trying to break that trend. So what do you think? Rework it or move forward? Give me your opinion.

BEAST chapter 12

Sorry!!! Messed up briefly by posting chapter 12 minus the first several paragraphs. If you had hit this link before seeing this message just go back and read the beginning. Sorry!

BEAST chapter 12

BEAST chapter 11

BEAST Chapter 11

My gazebo...fell

Oh my wonderous gazebo! It's collapsed. You guys should see it. This is the BEFORE picture. Ok...I can't lie, this is Mom's gazebo. But she bought the EXACT replica of mine and of course decorated it much better.

Now here is a picture of mine in 2007 after we had hurricane winds. It blew all over my backyard. My neighbors banded together to save my poor little gazebo, which was only a few weeks old. They brought me rope and we tied it to the fence and garage and it was sorta saved.


This is how it looked after the winds.

 Now, before you make fun of me, this is a $600, wrought iron trellis gazebo (though I only paid a fraction of the price on sale) and I only got to use it for a few months before it collapsed.

Yeah...it was a little rough; screen torn in a few places, hanging in places. Yeah I sewed it up. And? LOL but I did all of my creative work there. It became my home away from home. I even hooked up stereo speakers! Sometimes I even dragged the hammock in to it and slept. 


I guess it couldn't last forever. After all of the heavy rains, this is all that's left of my sweet sweet gazeobo;

Before you ask...yes that is a great big satellite dish in the back yard and yes my grass needs cutting. Check out where I sewed the top very carefully so that bees and wasps wouldn't get in. 


I guess it's time to invest in a new one.

Here is a picture of me back in the good ol' days (7 mos ago) when I was happy...in my gazebo.

BEAST chapter 10

BEAST Chapter 10

BEAST chapter 9

BEAST chapter 9