Summertime and There's More to Love

Yes, there's new material on the blog!

There's More to Love was a result of listening to Adele like the apocalypse was at hand and a challenge to enter a FFN contest about loving yourself at any size. Needless to say that I didn't win, but I loved writing this, and its one of my favorite pieces.

Summertime broke a long dry spell; this idea came to me as I drove to work down beautiful A1A. NKOTB was blaring on the radio and I couldn't resist writing this short little love story. I hope you enjoy it as much as I have.

I'm currently working on a new fic called Somewhere with You, and I hope to start publishing it on FFN by the end of June. And I will of couse post it here as well.

Thanks for reading and checking in on me.

Have a fantastic summer!

The Emasculation of Edward Cullen

This has gotten out of hand. What started out as a plot bunny has morphed into a full-fledged, air breathing fic with a life of it's own!

It started, sadly enough, when I found myself mis-reading "The Emancipation Proclamation" as "The Emasculation Proclamation." Yes, I know, I'm stupid, but after it happened once it happened a LOT. I started thinking about what type of fic would warrant that kind of title.

And Golden Boy was born!

Now I spend my nights dreaming up horrible things to do to my favorite Twilight character and I'm enjoying every second of it.

Ride has not been abandoned. Believe me, I am furiously working to get a new chapter out this weekend. It's just that Golden Boy is a bit louder than Chopperward and Bikerella at the moment. But I promise the next Ride chapter will be worth the wait. (Or so the Pre-Riders tell me.)

If you have questions about Ride or Golden Boy, go ahead and leave them below in a comment or email them to me. I'm happy to answer them! Who knows, they may even spark an interview or chapter idea!

Until next time,

Meet My Masen

Ever wondered what our beloved youngest character in Ride would look like? Well, wonder no more! Thanks to a little creative PhotoShop skills and my sweet Barbi girl, you can now have a visual of the boy wonder. She's amazing and madly in love with Mini. She threatens to kidnap him. I think he'd love visiting her, but would miss Bella oodles. He may need to make a trip to see her one day. And because the little man adores Mr. Darcy so much I've included some pics of him as well. Here's another little piece of trivia for you about Masen: he has a theme song. His Aunt Rose has given him a song of his own. Its "Break Your Heart" by Taio Cruz. Go check it out!

Enjoy getting to know Rides's two most popular characters a little better!

Masen Cullen

He wears a beanie just like his dad!

So smart! Our boy loves to read.

Little Heartbreaker!

So adorable!

He can do broody just as well as his daddy!

Mr. Darcy Swan

The day Bella brought him home!

Gotta love that wet nose!

Tuckered out after a run on the beach with Bella.

Banners are Love

Dearest Riders,

As usual I was tweeting yesterday, and I was complaining about how A) I didn't have Photo Shop (and that I desperately wanted it!) and B) how I'd never be able to justify buying the program because I'd never figure out how to use the blasted thing!

Then an angel sent me a message asking a single question: "What do you need?"

The angel's "name" was MistressElektra, and she's an acquaintance of mine on Twitter. I was shocked! Then I was confused!! What DID I want? I had no clue! I knew I wanted something new, and beautiful and exciting, but I really didn't have anything in mind, so to speak. So I did the only rational, reasonable thing: I gave her carte blanche to do whatever she so desired. She read a few chapters of Ride (I hope they weren't too awful to have to muddle through, Mistress.) and sent me this when I got to work today: (WARNING: it's sizzling hot!)

Okay, yeah. That's hot! I WARNED you! FYI- That is exactly how I see Bella when she's not in "teacher mode", and Edward? Spot. ON! If only he had his tatts. But I'm not picky. This baby is perfect! You people can just "imagine" his tatts, okay?

Thank you, Mistress Elektra, I love Ride's new banner and you did an amazing job!

So, Riders? How about heading over to The Mistress' blog- "MistressElektra" , and checking out some of the other amazing banner's she's made. And when you're finished go read her newest fic, The Other Light.

I love my new banner, and I love The Mistress for making it for me! Please, Mistress, may I have another? And another? And another? Oh, wait are we still talking about banners or are we talking about something else entirely now? Oh, who cares? Mistress, may I?

Until next time. lovlies!

Chapter Twelve....No Thank You

This chapter gave me so many problems. Masen is always easy to write. Maybe I'm a nine year old boy trapped in a 30-something year old woman's body. Ewww. The thought is repulsive. Or maybe it's just the fact that I spend so much time with kids that I find writing about them easier than complicated bike smex? I don't have very much experience with the later (okay- I have ZILCH experience with the later) so I'm guessing that's why it was so difficult to write. In light of my love/hate relationship with chapter 12 I wrote an ode to chapter 12: Going Public and Getting Wild. Stick with me, there's pics at the end....

Chapter Twelve,

How do I hate thee? Let me count the ways....

1) You were sooo difficult to write!

2) You made me lose sleep- and I NEED my sleep, dammit!

3) You had me doubting whether I would ever finish this fic. Seriously.

4) I had a constant headache for a month and a half while I wrote you.

5)You drove me to start reading new a UNCOMPLETED fanfic just to avoid writing you, and I HATE reading incomplete fics... I am now up to 57 fics that I am currently reading that are incomplete. Grrrr.

6) Well I don't have a Number six at the moment but I may just think of one....

So- I'm finished with my ranting- for now. As a reward for sticking with me, here are a few little picture teasers:

The handsome Mr. Darcy

Just a reminder of what the Eclipse Choppers logo looks like.

Bella's boots. Yeah. I REALLY want these, A LOT.

Thanks for reading and Riding! Remember you can also read Ride at its home blog. Just Click on the Ride icon on the side bar! If you don't subscribe to that blog's updates then you may want to, cause I will be posting a "little something special" ONLY there very soon. Until chapter 13 or the something special, I remain:

Forever, Liz

Chapter Eleven

Here's the goodies for Chapter Eleven!! First a link to the playlist for this chapter. Sadly, Playlist.com didn't have the ONE song I wanted on this Chapter, so I had to link it from YouTube. Sorry. The rest of the songs are on the playlist here's the list of songs for the chapter as well as the links:

Playlist: The Boys Of Summer by The Ataris, Its Getting Hot In Here by Nelly, Learning to Breathe by Switchfoot, Everything by Lifehouse

Chapter 11 PLAYLIST

These are the pictures of the characters' costumes, well, most of them as I envisioned them.

Bella's Costume:

Alice's Costume:

Rose's Costume:

Kat's Costume

Jazz's Costume:

And lastly, Edward's Costume:

Also included is a picture of the Grim Reaper statues that the character "Kat" made and lent to Alice in this chapter. My real life bestie, Kat, has two of these that she made herself. She refers to them as her "boys." I run into them at lest once a month in her garage and they scare the shit out of me each and every time I do. Stupid statues.

Enjoy and Thanks for reading!

Forever, Liz

Thank you's and TMI

I don’t usually narrate on my chapters, but I felt a strong need to do so on this one, for many reasons.

Firstly, Chapter 11 was written in love and appreciation... OF YOU! I can never be able to fully express how much I appreciate the fact that you read what I write. I'm overwhelmed that any one of you, not to mention ALL of you, bother to read the words I string together. Your kind words and encouraging reviews warm my heart each chapter. I’m so happy that you are enjoying this Ride so far. I know I sure am! So, THANK YOU, RIDERS! I LOVE YOU ALL!!!!!

Secondly, this is the chapter that I always swore would never be. Why? Well, because this is a flashback to October, and in every single fic out there there’s the requisite Halloween Party scene. I’m not a big fan of Halloween, (neither is Bella) and I had no desire to write such a scene. Bella had other ideas. Thus the only reason for this chapter. It does offer some further insight to their feelings as well as a look at the relationships between some of the fringe characters and our DILFward and BikerElla.

Thirdly, this chapter touches on the true theme of this fic. Pretty hefty order for a chapter that was never meant to be, huh? Here’s some hopefully interesting backstory about Ride for you:

The Ride of Your Life was a fic that I had started as an original story, something I was developing and working on to write as a novel. It was, at its inception, dubbed “Learning to Breathe.” It only became a fanfic after reading that Ninapolitan was running a contest and I wanted to enter. So I tweaked and reworked it to fit within the TwiFanFiction world, and wrote what came to me. After I wrote that final line of what was to become chapter one I knew I had to title the o/s The Ride of Your Life, with the intentions of expanding it from the very beginning. Once I extended it, I wanted to title chapter one, The Ride of Your Life, but name the entire fic Learning to Breathe.

One of my closest and dearest friends, Kat, convinced me otherwise. After pre-reading Chapter two she was positive that this story was about Bella and Edward’s ride through life and finding each other. So the title remained The Ride of your Life. The underlying currant of being able to finally open up your airways and take a deep, life bringing breath after a life time of gasping for air still remains in Ride. There’s no way I could tell this story without it.

That becomes evident in this chapter for the first time in the story. Bella is truly living and breathing for the first time in many, many years. Edward has done that for her. Masen is doing that for her. And by the miracle of love, Bella is doing it for the two “men” in her life.

These characters have a long way to go and many hurdles to cross. Just this week I was shown that very clearly. Their Ride won’t always be smooth. Who’s ever is, though? What I can insure is that they will Ride off into the sunset of “happily ever afters.”

It would appear that, while I AM the author and creator of this story, that I’m also on this Ride. No matter how much I may THINK I’m in control, this is ultimately Bella and Edward’s story. Thank you for coming along for the Ride.

All my Love.

Forever, Liz