I have been working through a lot of the Rosalie POVs in Some Rise By Sin and I love writing her. I think she gets treated pretty badly in most of the stories I've read. I don't think we ever got a clear picture of her since both the Twilight series and Midnight Sun were told from the POV of characters that didn't like her.

Anyway, yesterday, on the way home, 9 Crimes by Damien Rice came on, and my muses went crazy. I had a spare half hour today, so I jotted this down. I'm not sure I'll ever post this on ffn or anything but I thought you guys might enjoy it. It's simply a deeper look at Rosalie.

Title: 9 Crimes
Author: brynna82
Rating: PG-13 (or T)
Character(s): Rosalie
Summary: A character study of Rosalie
( 9 Crimes )

FFN is still down. I'll post this chapter here for you guys and then repost when the site goes back up. Enjoy!

( All the Shattered Pieces )


And to those that were asking if it was all right to friend me, feel free. I love meeting new people and learning more about you guys. :)

OK guys, I have a question. I was reading through some parts of the books yesterday while working on the long fic and I have a question...

I know that when a vampire has their limbs pulled off, the limbs are still alive (thus the need to pull them apart and burn the pieces). Do you think those limbs can be reattached? Are they gone forever?

I'm to an actiony portion of the fic and not that I'm ripping any arms off, but it would be nice to know the stakes. I looked on the Lexicon and they didn't even mention that aspect of vampirism.

Did I miss something in the books?

I'm doing my (now) normal Sunday writing extravaganza. I am plugging away at the long fic and getting chapter 30 of RBTL ready. But yesterday, I got caught up on my review replies and then started going through my PMs. I noticed a few annoying trends.

People keep asking me to review their stories even though they have never once reviewed anything of mine. That's fine and all, no one is obligated to review anything I write but it certainly doesn't make me rush over like I would for one of my regular reviewers. The really annoying thing though -- most aren't even stories within the ships that I write for. I don't really want to read about Jake and Nessie or Alice and someone who isn't Jasper. Am I wrong for being kind of annoyed by that? Maybe it's just because I'm so busy so any reading time that I can find is precious. I understand that they want more reviews but I kind of feel like they are just PMing any author with a high review count.

So another thing that I know I'm justified in being annoyed by -- some people (again, not any of my regular reviewers) have been getting annoyed when I don't write their suggestions fast enough. I mean, what the hell? I try to be nice about it but...this is MY story and I write what I want to write at the moment. I welcome the suggestions whole-heartedly but I get so so many, plus I have my own ideas so some just won't get written and some are way too vague to spark my interest. I started having people clarify their suggestions in the last batch. I have a few readers who are brilliant at suggesting things in a way that makes me want to write it immediately. When Yvaughn asked for the baseball chapter, I could just see the moment in my mind. When someone asks for "something during Eclipse," it doesn't really get my mind working.

RBTL has been getting more and more hits and reviews with each chapter which is great but having been in the fanfic world since the days of the Star Wars 'zines, there is some degree of etiquette that should be followed. I write because it's fun for me and the only reason I'd stop writing is if it isn't fun anymore. Luckily, most of my reviewers keep it fun and interesting and challenging and make me forget about the ones that don't.

Anyway, rant over. I got past my big deadline at work, took a day off and slept the day away. This weekend, I started getting caught back up on everything fanfic related. I'm actually excited about RBTL again for the first time in awhile. I have a lot of ideas in the works. I'm definitely in for the next ten...we'll re-evaluate at 40. :)

I just caught up on review replies, emails, PMs, and posted a new chapter of RBTL. My eyes are tired but I am supposed to have the next chapter of the long fic off to the beta tonight so I will keep writing. Blerg.

I love interacting with the readers and reviewers but working on a complex story while maintaining my update schedule on RBTL is exhausting.

Anyway, crazy weekend this weekend. My freaking car broke down on Friday. I have to have it towed to the dealership tomorrow. I swear I'm seriously considering just buying a new one. Then I went home, posted a chapter, and watched Battlestar. It was crazy. It was so crazy that my adrenaline was pumping and it kept me from falling asleep.

This week I have deadlines and meetings and I think there's a baby shower somewhere in there and to top it all off, I have a guest visiting this week. I'm tired just thinking about it. Maybe I'll take Thursday off since it's the only day that I don't have meetings.

I think that when I finish the draft of this fic, I'm going to have to take a couple of weeks off of writing. It won't work but planning for it makes it easier to push through these times when I feel a little burned out.

So has anybody read any good books lately? I have a stack on the to be read pile but I'm looking for a good audio book for my commute.

1) I just got caught up on review replies. I think deciding to do them was the right choice. It takes a while but people take the time to read and give feedback, I can at least take the time to send a nice reply.

2) So, I somehow stumbled onto the forums at ffn today. Holy crap, y'all. Not my scene. I felt incredibly old just reading the posts.

3) I spent a couple hours early this morning reading Jacob/Leah fic. I always thought that if I wrote any Twilight couple besides Alice/Jasper or Carlisle/Esme, it would be Garrett/Kate. But, man, I think I have to add Jacob and Leah to that list. If I ever decided to break away from canon, I could really see writing them. There is a lot of interesting territory there.

I woke up this morning and looked around and realized that my house was a mess and I had no groceries and no clean clothes. So today, I'm taking a much needed break from writing fanfic and from non-work related internet use...starting after I hit the post button ;).

The last chapter of RBTL stands as one of the least reviewed chapters currently but I don't mind. I really liked the way it came out. I'm annoyed that fanfiction.net's hit counter continues to be broken because I can't even tell if the view count is normal. What I have learned is that the readers like Charlie, Jasper's accent, and family stuff. Readers like Nessie and Bella chapters much less.

On the way to the grocery store, I realized that I have a one-shot that I wrote early on for RBTL that I can't use now so I'll probably go ahead and post it here later on in the week.

The excursion to the grocery store was a monster success. I usually have to go to Whole Foods to get all my weird organic vegan and gluten-free stuff but to my surprise, HEB had everything I needed and it's so so much cheaper than Whole Foods.

Now it's time to do some laundry and go for a run and, you know...put away the wrapping paper from Christmas.