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So, it didn't go as fast and as smoothly as I had wanted but:
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.. And for the first time in years I re-read The summer of 2010, which was written, you guessed it, in 2010. :)

I started this story nearly 5 years ago, with a plan in my head on how the story should be and ... within one chapter my idea was blown to bits. :) I never really re-read it, because I've always remembered this story as 'awful' and 'over the top' and 'unbelievable'. It turned out completely different from what I wanted and in the end I was disappointed with it, so once finished, I couldn't bring myself to read it again.

This weekend, bored as I was, well, not maybe 'bored', but not in the mood to do the things I had to do, I decided to read 'Summer of 2010' again. And... it wasn't as bad as I remembered.

It was fun to read it and realize that it wasn't the complete failure I thought it was. :)

... I'm writing an original story, own characters, own storyline and I wonder where I should post it.

I've always felt like this place (Marea67) should be only for Brothers & Sisters and Kevin/Scotty, because that's what I wanted to post here. But now that was then, this is now. I thought about posting at 'Difficultisgood', but it doesn't really belong there either. Can't really open up yet another account on LJ.

Can't make up my mind. 

Just a little more on P/S and Clartha.

( More on Philip/Stan and Philip/Martha - could be ***spoilers*** )

It all sounds rather interesting.

Source: blogs.wsj.com

Wow, it IS weird to have it nearly be Christmas and not be writing/posting some Christmas-fic. I feel like I should be writing something. I've done that every year since 2007

- 2007 - seperated until the last minute
- 2008 - Stuck with the entire family in a house, and then the power went out.
- 2009 - on the run from a psychopath
- 2010 - Scotty and Jason in a car-accident and Chad/Kevin worried about them
- 2011 - Christmas eps from my own season 6 and all the drama that comes with a Walker-Christmas.
- 2012 - They didn't have Christmas at all. (well not fanfic-wise) but I kinda/sorta made it up to them early 2013 with a belated Christmas thingy.
- 2013 - a nice little get-away for the boys, but nothing very 'hot' happened there.

I re-read "Last Christmas" (posted around Christmas 2009) these last few days. I hadn't read it in quite a while, because each time I read back about Alex Grodin, I regret my decision to kill him off. He was such a wonderful psycho. :)

Thing is, that I probably wouldn't have know what to write about anyway. Not fond of Olivia and wasn't really all 'awwwww' about Daniel (I tried though!) so a cute family-Christmas wouldn't have been in the cards. I feel that Kevin and Scotty (/Chad/Jason) have been harrassed enough, so no Christmas drama with happy ending either. And when I send the boys away from some hot sexy vacation.. nothing happens...

I'm not particularly fond of Kitty, Sarah and Tommy, so I don't miss them any more than I do Holly and Rebecca.

I do miss Kevin and Scotty though... :)  It IS weird to sit here and have nothing to write. :)

ETA:

I wonder: If I WOULD have written a Christmas-fic, what should have been about? 

and probably the only one I will write, unless something 'interesting' happens between Phil and Stan. :)

The boy is mine

7 years!  I’ve enjoyed writing a lot. I’ve learned a lot. It has expanded my horizon. I’ve gotten a lot of nice reviews, sometimes very personal stories, good discussions, the occasional hate-mail and spam, but in general I’ve been happy with this account.

So, I can say that it’s been a good run. But all good things must come to an end.

I’ve written 346 stories consisting of 1048 chapters. 1.839.576 words…I’ve however noticed the decline in interest. There were fewer and fewer responses and this last 2 months I’ve written/posted 15 stories with a total of 41 stories, which got an total of 14 responses.

I guess it’s only natural that interest dries up. The show got canceled a long time ago. Most people have moved on and maybe it’s time for me to do the same. I’m not saying that I will never ever write Kevin/Scotty again. They’re still in my system.

Just, right now, it no longer offers me much fun to write them. English is not my native language and sometimes it takes me a while to write a halfway-decent story. Maybe I've spent too much time on writing them. I don't know.

Perhaps the writing bug bites me again when Matthew returns with The Americans (though the show is not that inspirational to be honest, so I doubt it) or when Luke shows his face in Killjoys. I don’t know.

I only know that I’ve deleted all other ‘still pending’ stories, gotten rid of all ‘don’t throw away yet’-ideas, set free the remaining plot-bunnies, finished the last stories that I wanted to post, with ‘Everything Scotty wanted to know….’ as the last one, for the time being.

I’m not saying goodbye to Brothers & Sisters. I’ve decided to finally get back to something that I’ve been wanting to do since the show got cancelled in 2011 and that is my “Brothers and Sisters archives”.  I’ve just never had the time to dedicate to it, and hopefully, now I have. Or not. I don't know.

I’m not entirely done with Matthew Rhys, though I will probably stop making the calendar pages. It’s a lot of work for just one or two interested people. On the other hand, it’s fun to play with Matthew (‘s pictures) so I’m not sure about what to do with that.

I started this year with the feeling that 2014 would be my year and in a lot of ways it was not. I’ve had some minor ups and some huge downs. There have been some tough moments this year and where writing Kevin/Scotty had once been my escape-pod, it didn’t work anymore.

So maybe it’s also the year where I have to say goodbye to things I used to love, with the hope that it will replaced by something that I will love in the future.

I want to thank the few remaining readers very much for everything. I'm so grateful for the time you've given my writing...  

Matt Alber has a beautiful new video-clip with his beautiful song 'Handsome man'. And while his opinion of a 'handsome man' varies from mine (I prefer my men to get JUST a little closer to a razor) this clip is sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo incredibly sweet, pretty and lovely and drop-dead gorgeous, that I can live with it. :)

I also posted this on "Difficultisgood", I know. I'm sorry if I, for once, give you 2 same posts. :)

... if the writers of B&S wanted to write a soap so badly, why, oh, why didn't they look at "Dallas"? I've just been rewatching some eps from season 4 from "Dallas". Man, those writers could more excitement in ONE episode than those of B&S could in an entire storyline.