Date: August 24, 2007 02:02 pm Title: A Company's Suspicions
*sniff sniff* I smell a fish.
And I was totally going to put dun dun dunn! in the end too! you read my mind. :)
I love the slight change at the ending.
I'm sitting here very scared I'll get another warning sometime soon ....... heh
Author's Response:
A fish or a...eh, I got nothing. :)
Hehe, unfortunately, I do not have any immediate warnings looming on the horizon...however, hopefully by the end of the weekend...
Really though, I have no idea how long the next chapter is going to end up being. It might be seriously long...or I might get another case of that crippling writers block I had last week. Who knows! Hopefully I'll feel ultra inspired at some point. :)
Date: August 24, 2007 12:34 pm Title: A Company's Suspicions
Hmm... I smell Karen at work here....
Author's Response:
Heehee, she's an evil and sly lady now, isn't she??
But mayahps not as sly as she would hope to be... :)
Date: August 24, 2007 12:33 pm Title: A Company's Suspicions
If that Karen has anything to do with this...why I'll...
Sorry, I keep forgetting that this isn't real. Nice developments here. Looking forward to more!
Author's Response:
Hey, get as angry as you want! This stuff really does happen in real life sometimes!
I'm glad that you're enjoying what I have to offer so far. I'm hoping that the next chapter will be as great written out as it is in my mind. :) Thanks for your review!!
10 [Report This]Date: August 24, 2007 12:26 pm Title: A Company's Suspicions
Queue orchestral "DUN DUN DUNNNNNN!!!" and then some thunder and lightning.
Why do I have a bad feeling that Karen is somehow behind this?
Author's Response:
Haha, I should have been ambitious and looked for sound bytes of thunder and lightning as well. :)
Why do you have a bad feeling that Karen is behind this??? Well...I did say at some point that she was going to get her comeuppance...
Date: August 21, 2007 06:39 pm Title: First Birthday
Hee! I wonder if that kitty is the dominant male.... and I hope Amelia understands 'gentle', or that kitty understands 'patient'. (We have that going on in our house, too.)
Author's Response: Oh man...I didn't even think about the dominant male, and I wrote it in that the cat was a female...they can have a gender-switching cat, right? Haha.
Date: August 21, 2007 05:51 pm Title: First Birthday
A party, a kitten and Jim being called Daddy. What else could be better?
Another great chapter!
Author's Response: Aww, thank you! :) So glad that you liked it!
Date: August 21, 2007 04:49 pm Title: Cherry Hill
Awwwwwww.
First words!
I'm off to go re-read Charcoal and Watercolors, this update was great.
Author's Response:
Hee! :) Wouldn't be a JAM child story without first words, would it?
I hope that you enjoy the re-read of C&W...I should go re-read that story myself at some point, I haven't done it in a while. :)
Date: August 21, 2007 04:26 pm Title: First Birthday
Such a sweet chapter. Just hope that Jim didn't just screw himself out of a job right there.
Author's Response:
Thank you!
And I can definitely promise that Jim did not screw himself out of a job. So don't worry about that. :)
Date: August 21, 2007 04:08 pm Title: First Birthday
yay for visuals!! :) So adorable. Now how did you find one that was a white cat AND a pink blanket? Google? I can't believe it was that specific! Wow. The interenet is a wondrous thing.
Yay for Mia's first words! The ending is very great. Love it. Happy and complete. Molto bueno!
Author's Response:
Haha, the white cat AND pink blanket was sheer luck. Google image search AND on the first page. :) Awesome. Interestingly enough though, when you Google search "white kitten" you get a lot of images that are NOT of white kittens.
I'm very happy that you enjoyed the couple of changes that I made to it. :) Hopefully you won't have to wait too long for the next chapter either!
Date: August 12, 2007 06:30 pm Title: Andylion, Sweetcheeks and a Baby
Yess!! Kandy!! It's an epidemic!
PS, Karen is a conniving bitch. (Duh)
Glad to see you updating so frequently!
Author's Response:
Hee! I promised you Kandy, you get Kandy. :)
I'm glad that you think I'm updating frequently because quite frankly, I feel like I'm waiting a week at a time to update! :P I have so much angst that I want to write on my mind right now and quite frankly, the angst doesn't quite fit in this story.
My writing moods come in stages...before I know it, I'll be type-type-typing away the rest of the chapters. :)
Date: August 12, 2007 04:15 pm Title: Andylion, Sweetcheeks and a Baby
Yay for Andylion. That was a pretty good a-ha! moment I had while brainstorming :) I love this ending tons more. Feels more complete and whatnot. And foreboding ;) muahahaha
Author's Response:
I loved Andylion! When you wrote me that, I was like, "Aww! That's perfect!"
And I'm glad that you like this ending more. :) I was still a little wary of it, but I think that it ties things up (sets things up, rather?) a bit better.
Date: August 12, 2007 03:19 pm Title: Andylion, Sweetcheeks and a Baby
Oooooo! The plot thickens!
I love the way you are writing Karen in this and I can hardly wait to see if karma will come into play for her.
Author's Response: Haha, and when I first started writing it, I hardly even knew whether or not Karen would be in the story or if she would just sort of be mentioned in passing. She (and all the other secondary characters) play a bigger role than I ever thought they would. :)
Date: August 09, 2007 02:09 pm Title: Going Back
Congratulations on your job! That sounds wonderful!
I will take whatever I can get with this story. Although I want this story to last forever, I know all good things must come to an end.
Looking forward to some Kandy!
Author's Response:
You're so sweet! :)
I just know that as soon as I finish this story, I'll have a few days where I'll feel like, "Oh thank god that's over..." and then I'll immediately be wishing that I hadn't ended it and I'll be wracking my brain trying to think of another good story idea, haha.
Hope you enjoy the Kandy!!
Date: August 09, 2007 11:34 am Title: Going Back
Yay! I hear Pam. I don't know of a mom who doesn't wonder how the hell she got to this place. I swear, I used to handle all the software releases for a big important company. Really. Now I make sure we have enough diapers and try to figure out what to make for dinner.
And yes, I am a huge Kandy fan. I have no idea why, but those two are my next 'ship after Pam & Jim. If Kandy happens in S4, I will KNOW that GD reads fanfic. I'm mental that way.
WTG on the new job! Write when you can. We'll live.
Author's Response:
Haha, I definitely know a large number of women who are stay at home moms who never, ever thought they would be.
I was hoping that you were a Kandy fan...if you weren't, I would have felt a little silly. :) I'll admit that I wasn't really originally, but the more and more that I read through message boards and a few of the well-written fics out there, I have come around and I will be very happy if I see Kandy happen in S4. :D
Date: August 09, 2007 11:05 am Title: Going Back
You're going to work in a library?! Way awesome! My minor is library science so I'm totally jealous!!
So glad to see you posted this! I was beginning to wonder when we'd see this in it's final state :) So... yeah. You already know my feelings on this chapter but... I still love the last line. And I really hope (only jokinly!) that Oscar is their gay nanny. Hee. Not really. But I am interested to see who it'll be. And what about Miss Crazy Karen?
Well, I'll be here. At work. Just wishin' and hopin' for more........ :)
Congrats on the jobs! I'm happy for you!!!
Author's Response:
I am going to work in a library!! Though to be fair, I'm just going to be a measly page working for measly pay and cataloging books, BUT I basically did that for the past 4 years at school cataloging artifacts and what-not. It's just a different kind of cataloging. I'm good doing boring, repetitive work like that. :)
And you should be getting something soon... ;) I just need to quick work on the ending a little bit more and then it will be headed your way.
9 [Report This]Date: August 07, 2007 06:35 am Title: First Night Out
Awww, little Amelia. So cute. And what a convienent excuse to leave a boring party. Question. Do you have an end point for this story? Not that I want it to end or will ever stop reading it. I thought the baby would be the end but there is obviously a lot of ground that can be covered after that. Are we going to see the Golden Beet again?
Author's Response:
Yes, I do have an end point for the story. :) I basically have the entire thing planned out, but there are other little storylines that come into play on the route there. I'm not sure what chapter it is...it's a few back (I think around the time that Pam finally gets pregnant?) but I made a comment that I was planning on writing that chapter 5 chapters before or something, and that's basically the way that it's going. I'll be writing something and suddenly think, "Oh! I can add this little thing in there!" and that "little thing" becomes an entirely new chapter and so on and so forth.
I only just realized the other day that I was actually beyond chapter 20. I was like, "Whoa! When did I get here?!?", haha.
I'm not sure if the Golden Beet is going to make another appearance...if it's really wanted, I might put it in. :) I do know for sure that Dwight and Angela are going to be in the story again within the next couple of chapters. But...that's not always the same. :)
Date: August 06, 2007 10:24 pm Title: First Night Out
Jan! Kevin! David! unbelievable... stupid karen...
Author's Response: :D I love adding all of the secondary characters in. So much fun!
Date: August 04, 2007 02:17 pm Title: Confined Quarters
Oh it'll be good for Pam to get out of the house and have a day to herself. Being stuck all day with an infant can really get on your nerves. So thoughtful of Mr. Halpert to suggest that. And those diapers are so adorable!
Don't worry about it if the writing goes slowly. It's the summer and you should be relaxing too! Sometimes you need a little break to get through the writer's block.
Author's Response:
I don't actually have any personal experience in the matter, but I can only imagine how one could come to their wits end spending all day with an infant. Our poor Pam is due for a break. :)
I have a couple more (a little rough around the edges) chapters written up that should be coming before too long now. I love writing these stories, but I'll tell you, I find future fic so difficult to write sometimes. :P It takes a bit more brain wracking when you have nothing else to go off of.
Hopefully though, my creativity will start to slowly return to me and I can finally start to implement some ideas that I've had since I first started writing this story! :)
Date: August 03, 2007 03:32 pm Title: Confined Quarters
so cute! I LOVE married JAM!!!
Author's Response: So glad that you love it! I always love it when I write phrases where Jim or Pam say that they're married (to one another). It fills me with a little beat of happiness every time. :)
Date: August 03, 2007 02:22 pm Title: Confined Quarters
No wonder Pam is losing her mind -- cloth diapers would definitely make me crazy. And the continual sleep deprivation, combined with feeling like you always have a boob out -- yeah, Pam has every right to be cranky! Pam needs a spa day...
Author's Response: Pam might have an imaginary spa day...she's definitely getting a night out though. :) I promise you that, haha.
Date: August 03, 2007 12:52 pm Title: Confined Quarters
you have no idea how hard I laughed when I looked at those diapers for the first time. Wow.... that was.... wow.
Much love to the whole chapter, even the angst. And Amelia is too cute for words. And the aww factor was kicked up a notch in this chapter too ;) I'll be gone until Sun so if you just happen to get over that silly writer's block, don't worry I will get it back to you just not until Sunday night! :)
For inspiration/motviation? Watch "Take Your Daughter To Work Day" That's my advice!
Author's Response:
Haha, I laughed quite a bit when I saw them as well. Especially the leopard ones that are complete with a tail?!? :) Oh yes.
I hope that I get over this writers block by Sunday. Otherwise it's going to be a very long, very boring weekend. :P Haha, but I'll keep your absence in mind. At least now I feel like I have a bit of time. No pressure until Sunday because that's when my betas return. :) Heehee.
I'm not quite sure how much motivation is going to come from "Take Your Daughter To Work Day". There's really not a whole lot of baby in the next chapter...ooh! What's it going to be?!? Teehee, secrecy. ;)
Date: August 01, 2007 11:32 pm Title: Gifts and a Godmother
SO cute!!!
Author's Response: :D So glad that you think so! I try to up the cute factor as much as possible, whenever possible. :)
Date: August 01, 2007 04:06 pm Title: Gifts and a Godmother
um never apologize for having too much of a great story.
I felt like Kelly so much when I was reading/responding to this. :) Oh well! Loved it oh so much!!
Author's Response:
Aw, thank you. :)
I sometimes feel like Kelly while writing some of the cutesy parts of this story, hee. :) And Kelly (in healthy moderation, of course) is never a bad thing!
Date: August 01, 2007 12:32 pm Title: Gifts and a Godmother
HA! The meeting of Dwight and Andy. And Kandy! Woot!
BTW -- the Baby Einstein videos are the best thing ever. The kids can watch them over and over (as they will do) and they don't make you nearly as insane as some other giant purple dinosaurs I know...
Author's Response:
Hee! You caught the Kandy! I miiiiiight do something with that in future chapters. ;)
I don't have any personal experience with the Baby Einstein videos, but whenever I see commercials for them, they always look so cute. :) Couldn't resist writing it in there.
Date: July 31, 2007 01:03 pm Title: An Angry Boss
I get so excited every time I see this story in the "Recent" column!
I wish this could go on forever, but I guess it won't. Oh well, I'll enjoy everything you throw my way.
Can't wait for more!
Author's Response:
It's so good to hear that people look forward to the updates to this story! :) I'm glad that I give you something to look forward to
More is on its way soon!!