Chapter Nine-Dates and Debates

Dates and Debates is UP!!

Here are the playlist and pics I promised you!

Click on this Playlist link to listen to the songs that accompany this chapter without having to download or buy them. Just a heads up- there ARE boy band songs, but they go with the chapter. If you break out in hives from the boy bands then don't listen to them, but I highly recommend that you listen to "Need" by Hana Pestle before/while you read the part of the chapter that Bella plays it. Its a beautiful song and has nothing to do with the Boy Bands.

OK, Pictures. Here's what I picture Bella wearing on her date with Edward, Alice, and Jazz; as well as Edward's Sex on wheels car. Hope you enjoy the chapter! As always, Thanks for reading and Riding!

Bella's Dress

Edward's BMW M6 Convertible

Forever, Liz

Catching Up and Goings Ons

One more post tonight and then I'm DONE!

I just sent Ch9 to the first beta. Wait you don't know about the second beta? Well, its kinda old news. One of my much adored readers TwilightMundi has agreed to take on my tangled mess of words strung haphazardly together and make them make sense! Yay, TM! She has a nickname. Of course she does. Hang around me long enough and you're gonna get one. Its a scientific fact. Anywhooo, just as DizzyGrl28 is my beloved Darth Beta, TwilightMundi has become my Grammar Guru. Both beta, and do a fan-fricking-tastic job of it I might add, but they each have their "strengths" and both make my words fit for you to read. So, once I finish the chapter it heads to GG first, she looks it over, picks through all the gunk and deems it acceptable! Then I send to Dizzy, who has, nine times out of times out of ten, seen the pile of rubbish that is now a little neater pile of rubbish, (thanks to GG), several times at this point because Dizzy is who gets the middle of the night ping in Gchat when I'm freaking out, or I can't find something, or I just want someone to bounce ideas off. Anyway, Dizzy notes anything that GG may have missed and makes sure everything is still on track with Ride and makes perfect little comments about this or that. (I adore those, BTW.) ALL that being said:

Ch9 is in the first stages of Beta'ing. It's in GG's very capable hands, and will be handed off to Dizzy ASAP. Enters my dilemma... I usually update as SOON a chappie is finished and polished, but I'm not sure if I should this time, and here's why:

I have a agreed to quite a lot this month. A laundry list, if you may:

~oOo~ Chapters 9 (and maybe 10) of Ride

~oOo~ A crazy one shot crackfic collaboration with my bestie KitKatBlack24 for Twi-Hard

~oOo~ The 7Stories Podcast and blog

~oOo~ And now the 7Stories are writing a "round robin" style entry for the Haitian Relief Project "Twifans for Haiti"

My options are these: Update as soon as Ch9 is free and clear, end of discussion. OR wait a week to 1o days and publish then, because either way, Riders, the likely hood that there'll another Ride chapter before Feb 1st is slim to none. Unless of course I don't sleep. And that sure as hella is not gonna happen.

Think about it and let me know.

Forever, Liz

7Stories Podcast

So I have acquired a pretty amazing gaggle of fanfic friends, and we're all pretty messed up. No really. We love to Skype and giggle and swear and say "peen". A LOT. See, I TOLD you we were messed up. So a few of us decided to do something even MORE messed up and share with all the fandom just how far our messied-upness goes and start a podcast.

We call ourselves the 7Stories. We each have our own story to tell and we just happen to be telling ours together. We have a blog, a twitter, a Facebook page, and a gmail account. Most importantly we have a fully launched podcast! Our first epi launched this week! Man, we really are serious about doing this!

Head over to the 7Stories Podcast to see what the girls have all been up to and listen to our first Episode while you're there. (Just remember, it is a MATURE broadcast!! Over 18 ONLY please!)

Forever, Liz