a little snippet

So I'm going on a little hiatus for the next month, before you bash me up let me explain.

My workload's phenomenal now and rightly so because the first draft of my research thesis is due exactly a month from today. I feel like I'm a juggler on a tightrope now, desperately keeping the little balls of "data collecting", "data analysis" and "writing thesis" in the air.

Since all my creative energies and time are being consumed for this, all WIPs I have are being put on hold until the first draft of my thesis is submitted. This will also be true for all my thoughts on the writing process or random pieces of writing, in that I will still get those things throughout this month because imagination loves to strike me at the wrong time, but I won't actually have the time to flesh them out and expound them further on this blog. They'd probably wind up floating around in my mind or being put down as bullet points on some scrap paper. :D

So with that, I'd leave you with what I've written so far for my WIP: Happily Ever After It's actually already gone through multiple edits in that every time I reopen the document with the intention of continuing the story, I read through the beginning, tweak it until I'm satisfied and only then do I start continuing the story. This has been a month's effort and I know that's slow but it's probably because I only manage to write it during moments where I'm free and energetic, and those moments are few and far in between. :(

Chapter 1

“When I find that little idiot …”


There was a pause as Gale threw herself belly first onto the cold marble floor and glared fiercely underneath the coffee table.

A yawning emptiness greeted her.

She let out a scream of frustration and hauled herself off the floor.

“I swear I’m going to lock him in the store room and throw away the key!”

Gale spun around on the spot and yelled to the whole living room in general.

“Do you hear me you little twat?”

A smile tugged at the corners of Haley’s mouth.

“Gale, I highly doubt Matt’s going to come out now that you’ve threatened physical abuse.”

“So? It’s only a matter of time before I find him! He can’t hide forever, he’s bound to get hungry and come out for dinner, and when he does … ”

She grinned.

“Gale.” Haley sighed. “You can’t terrorize kids into obeying your every command.”

Gale shrugged.

“Works like a charm when I’m babysitting my cousins.”

Haley laughed.

“That’s because they’re scared senseless at the mere sight of you. If I remember, little Lynn half-wetted herself when you first showed up at her mum’s place to babysit her.”

Gale frowned.

“Hey, you weren’t there how – “

“Harper told me.”

Haley spread her palms almost beseechingly.

“Point is, Matt isn’t like your cousins. While you manage to evoke a sense of deep-seated, primal fear of you in them – “

Haley grinned as Gale glared at her.

“Matt just stuck out his tongue and threw his PB and J sandwich at you when you yelled at him to hurry up and finish it.”

Haley gestured at the unfashionable blotch of purple and brown on Gale’s blue sweater

“So, clearly, your threats aren’t working, Gale.”

Gale grunted and threw up her hands in defeat.

“All right then, Miss Child Psychologist, do you have a better idea?”

“Maybe,” Haley mused, pursing her lips and tapping her middle finger on her bottom lip, “He might respond to bribery.”

Gale snorted.

“Right, we should wave wads of cash in the air and ask him to come get it.”

Haley laughed.

“Gale, he’s four. He doesn’t even know what he would do with the cash. No, I was thinking, we could give him an ice-cream if he comes out, there’s some in the freezer.”

And that's all there is to it, boys and girls! :D I actually wanted to write to the part where Harper shows up - oh you'd love him, I know I do! He's comical :D - but time is so not my friend. (sighs)
 
Wish me well with my thesis and I'd see you after April 27! Till then keep well, keep reading and keep writing :)