Fan Fiction Stories I Read in 2013

In the sidebar of this blog, I keep a list of the fan fiction stories I have read each year; I also keep a list on my computer of all of the fan fiction stories I have ever read so that I know whether or not I've read a story when the title kind of rings a distant bell. 

The image above of "The Cullen Legacy" by pattyrose illustrates Cassandra's Favorite Fan Fiction of 2013, with "Copy Room" by Edward's Eternal a close second.

All of these stories are complete and were read from FanFiction.net unless noted otherwise (some are posted on Wattpad). Some stories may have been removed either by FF.net or by the authors as they revised them into original fiction books (or took them down for other reasons). 

And yes, I read a lot of fan fiction--about 165 multi-chaptered fan fics this year, plus 41 non-fan fiction books. With my health issues, sleep is often elusive, so I read on my Kindle until sleep overtakes me. 

So here is the list of the Fan Fiction stories I have read in 2013. 

Fan Fiction Stories Read in 2013 
(in alphabetical order)

"29 Dimensions" by Catastrophia 
"A Compendium of Thoughts" by ItIsRaining 
"A Different Kind of Pain" by Sparklingwand (re-read) 
"A Getty Romance" by rinabina 
"A Home for the Holidays" by CullensTwiMistress 
"A Life Less Ordinary" by CullensTwiMistress 
"Against the Odds" by knicnort3 
"All That Jazz" by javamomma0921 
"Always" by knicnort3 
"An Angel's Promise" (Angel #3) by drotuno 
"Anatomy of a Human" by Amethyst Jackson (re-read) 
"Angel's Embrace" (Angel #2) by drotuno 
"Arrogance and Animosity" by pattyrose 
"At What Cost?" by Artemis Leaena 
"At the End of the Day" by Edward's Eternal 
"Awaken" by EdwardsEternal 
"Bear Valley" by Lady Gwenydd (re-read) 
"Beautifully Sacred" by Ailisraevyn 
"Bella's Anatomy" by CullensTwiMistress 
"Beyond Time" by TKegl (reread) 
"Beyond the Break Room" by discordia81 
"Beyond the Scope" by Catastrophia 
"Black Diamond" by Dishie 
"Branching Inward" by LifeinTheSnow 
"Breathe" by knitchick (P&P) 
"Broken Angel" (Angel #1) by drotuno (re-read) 
"Chance Encounter" by Besotted 
"Clair de Lune" by Amberdeengirl 
"Clementines" by Nachos4Children (re-read) 
"Close to the Pin" by rinabina 
"Come Closer" by Chloe Masen 
"Come Home" by samekraemer 
"Coming Home" by Sarge's Girls 
"Complicated" by LyricalKris 
"Copy Room" by Edward's Eternal
"Cracks in the Pavement" by VampiresHaveLaws 
"Cullens Go to Hogwarts" by Erica.K.Bailey (crossover) 
"Cups Full of Wishes" by Chloe Masen 
"Days Like This" by Soft Ragoo 
"Departures" by TheFicChick 
"Don't Fight It" by tardis19 (Wattpad) 
"Don't Take the Girl" by Sparklingwand (re-read) 
"Down Home" by MrsSpaceCowboy 
"Dreamcatcher" by ocdmess 
"Easy as Pie" by Edward's Eternal 
"Eddie and the Cruisers" by Holly1980 
"Empty" by Hev99 
"Evermore Experience" by dejean Smith 
"Fall to Ruin One Day" by sleepyvalentina 
"Figmentum" by thimbles 
"Five Times They Never Met" by TheFicChick 
"Forgotten" by D-Twilighter/by DeePattinson (Wattpad) 
"Fortune Favors the Bold" by capricapra 
"Foul Territory" by rinabina 
"From This Day Forward" by HopeSparkles (re-read) 
"Frontline" by MissAlex 
"Grand Jete" by stella luna sky 
"Hands-On History" by dejean Smith 
"Hard to Love" by drotuno 
"Hatchet" by PrettyKittyArtist 
"Haunted Mindscapes" by Simaril 
"Heading West" by CullensTwiMistress 
"Heavenly Scent" by infinitypoet 
"Help Wanted" (and outtakes) by Jaxon22 
"Hide in Plain Sight" by FangMom 
"High Stays the Tide" by capricapra 
"Hit by Destiny" by ocdmess 
"I Hope You Dance" by Lissa Bryan 
"I Love You" by Dooba 
"I Thought I Loved You Then" by kyla713 
"I'm Not Falling for You" by ronOReds 
"In Plain Sight" by Dishie 
"In Pursuit" by Sarge's Girls 
"Indecent Proposal" by pattyrose (re-read) 
"It Begins Like This" by iambeagle 
"Just a Number" by LyricalKris 
"Let's Get Physical" by Lalina 
"Love Hurts" by LostinFanFiction 
"Love Rescue Me" by Emmamama88 
"Make Me Believe" by Lost In FanFiction 
"Masen Rules" by CaraNo 
"Meyer University" by Sh.C. (and re-read) 
"Mise-en-Place" by callmepagliacci 
"More Than Life" by tardis19 (Wattpad) 
"My Biggest Mistake, My Greatest Salvation" by LyricalKris 
"My Perfect Match" by HappyMess 
"Nature of Love" by drotuno 
"Nine Months: A Cullen Legacy Story" by pattyrose 
"Nobody's Little Girl" by HelloElla 
"O Holy Christmas" by CaraNo 
"On These Icy Waters" by kyla713 (one-shot) 
"One Weekend" by StormDragonfly 
"Only Human" by Amethyst Jackson (re-read) 
"Osa Bella" by myg 
"Out of the Mouths of Babes" by Edward's Eternal 
"Outbound" by aftrnoondlight 
"Penalty Shot" by Edward's Eternal 
"Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps" by ChocolateLoverr82 
"Professionally Personal" by DH78 
"Que Sera, Sera" by Livie79 
"Reality vs. Expectations" by BellaEdwardlover1991 
"Reassigned Identity" by Mk Marle 
"Rescission" by GeekChic12 
"Sandstone Cove" by cosmogirl7481 
"Serenity's Prayer" by ladylibre 
"Seven Days to Christmas" by CullensTwiMistress 
"She Speaks Fear and Truth" by ericastwilight 
"She Will Be Loved" by knicnort3 
"Sins of My Past" by content1 (re-read) 
"Sleep on the Floor" by sexycereal 
"Snapdragon" by PrettyKittyArtist 
"Stay" by FictionFreak95 
"Suddenly" by LyricalKris 
"Summer of Salt" by lola-pops 
"Swear Not by the Moon" by hmonster4 
"Take the Ice" by bellamarie117 (re-read) 
"Teacher of the Year" by DH78 
"Terms and Conditions Apply" by TheSaintsMistress 
"Terroir" by thimbles 
"The Back Road" by TallulahBelle 
"The Cullen Girl" by evieeden 
"The Cullen Legacy" by pattyrose 
"The Daily Grind" by Emotion Masen 
"The Disillusioned" by PhoenixRising25 
"The Harvest of Avarice" by Emmamama88 
"The Lady's Champion" by javamomma0921 
"The Loving Kind" by thimbles 
"The Mail Order Bride" by Lady Gwenydd (re-read) 
"The Man in Black" by PrettyKittyArtist (re-read) 
"The Music of the Night" by theladyingrey42 
"The Other Side of Me" by BelieveItOrNot 
"The Practice of Love" by belladonnacullen 
"The Practicum" by TheFicChick 
"The Runaway Bride" by A Cullen Wannabe 
"The Search" by Amber1983 
"The Short Sugar Plum Fairy" by Amberdeengirl 
"The Silver Lining" by kimpy 
"The Sound of Silence" by Besotted 
"The Space Between the Notes" by LyricalKris 
"The Tales of a Charming TruckNapper" by MK Marie 
"The Tide Is High" by capricapra 
"The Twelve Days of Christmas" by pattyrose 
"The Wallflower and the Flyboy" by A Cullen Wannabe (re-read) 
"These Hearts Adore" by YellowGlue 
"Through the Flames" by SparklingTwilight 
"Timing Is Everything" by Virginia May 
"Tomorrow Is Another Day" by LyricalKris 
"Touching Solitude" by catharticone (and re-read) 
"Twisted" by knicnort3 
"Unexpected Circumstances" by Savage7289 
"Unintended" by knicnort3 
"Unintended: A Loss of Faith" (alt ending) by knicnort3 
"Unrequited" by Perry Maxwell 
"Until Next Time" by Lost in Fanfiction 
"Vines" by FictionFreak95 
"Virgins and Villains" by Emmamama88 
"Voices" by coloradoperson 
"Waning Moon" by mpg 
"Washed Away" by Emotion Masen 
"We Could Run" by CaraNo 
"Whatever Comes Next" by HappyMess 
"When You Close Your Eyes" by Chloe Masen 
"Where Roads Converge" by FluffyLiz 
"White Lies" by netracullen 
"Wild Turkey" by tardis19 (Wattpad) 
"Win Some, Lose Some" by Savage7289 
"With or Without You" by Rochelle Allison 
"Work of Art" by abstract way 
"Wrap You in My Arms" by Emmamama88 
"Wrenfield Hall" by Wannabe Charlotte (re-read) 

In the sidebar near the bottom, I keep a list of my favorite fan fiction stories with links, and I'll also be starting my new fan fiction list for 2014 as well. In fact, I just added two fan fics to my 2014 list this morning. ;)  

Wishing you all happy reading for 2014,
Cassandra :) 
xxxooo

Only by Moonlight Nominated for Fandom Choice Awards!!

Wonderful news!!! 

Only by Moonlight has been nominated for Best Supporting Cast in the 2014 Fandom Choice Awards!! 

Basically, the Fandom Choice Awards are similar to the Academy Awards, but for Twilight Fan Fiction. Only the seven stories with the highest vote counts in each category become nominees, and voting is going on currently. :) 

Here's the link for voting: Fandom Choice Awards: Vampire

Voting is open from December 1, 2013--January 3, 2014. I would really appreciate your taking the time to vote for Only by Moonlight for Best Supporting Cast!!! (It's Question #25 of 29, so it's near the bottom.) 

I can't tell you how very THRILLED BEYOND WORDS I am about this nomination!! I couldn't be happier!!! 

And you make YOU happier, I just sent **two** chapters of Only by Moonlight to my amazing and uber-talented pre-reader, ladylibre, tonight. :)  They need a lot of work, but I hope to get the first chapter up within a week or so, and the second one up by Christmas. :)

So I thank all of those who nominated Only by Moonlight and I'll really thank you for voting!!!! 

And I especially thank ladylibre--this story would literally not exist if it weren't for her stellar and clever ideas. And I also thank all of my incredible readers on Wattpad.com and FanFiction.net--you all inspire me!! 

Doing a definite Happy Dance,
~Cassandra :)
xxxooo

Recognition from Wattpad...and Apologies

Yesterday I received a very cool recognition from Wattpad for being one of their most-read authors! Here's the little widget they sent. As I couldn't fit it in my sidebar (darn!), I thought I'd share it here.

And I apologize for not updating Only by Moonlight. I had grand plans for writing my heart our for National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) and generating chapter after chapter of raw material for the story. I got a good start going...until I saw my class list for my new online class: Literary Analysis: The Great Gatsby. Most of my literary analysis classes have 8-10 students, occasionally 12 at most. But this class was FULL. At capacity.

Twenty students.

20.

The big 2-0.

Crap was my first thought. There goes NaNoWriMo.

And I've already pulled two all-nighters since class began on November 4, trying to keep up on all of our amazing discussions of F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel--perhaps the most important American novel of the 20th century--and perhaps of all American literature. The students are incredible. Ranging in ages from 13-17, they are wonderful and insightful writers. I adore them all.

But they are keeping me far busier than I've ever been in teaching any class in my nearly twelve years of teaching online classes to homeschoolers.

They're writing three major responses to discussion questions per week, then commenting on each other's responses as well. Multiply those six posts (minimum) per week times twenty students, and I have a minimum of 120 posts to read and comment on per week. Plus I still have my Expository Essay I and II classes I teach at our homeschool co-op and--oh, yeah--my own two teen boybarians to homeschool.

It's crazy. Fun, but crazy.

So that's where I've been this month--NOT doing NaNoWriMo and NOT working on my stories very much. But teaching my own kids and other students is my other passion, one that was confirmed to me in a very unusual way last night.

So I needed this affirmation from Wattpad about my writing during a month when I've felt disappointed and a wee bit guilty for not being able to pursue NaNoWriMo and Only by Moonlight (and a second story I've started writing by hand in a composition book with my trusty fountain pen). So, thanks, Wattpad, for being so good to me!! :)

So back to writing in December, I hope!! 

Love to you all,
~Cassandra 
xxxooo

Wishing and Hoping and Thinking....

Well, this fall has been absolutely, mind-bogglingly crazy. With teaching an online Literary Analysis class in American Poetry (and having to grade 200+ essays over three weeks) which overlapped with the online MLA Research Essay class (first drafts are due tomorrow), plus teaching the high school Expository Essay I and II classes at our homeschool group's co-op Class Days (we are part of the largest private homeschool group in the state of California), and homeschooling our two younger boys in grades 8 and 11, I've been buried.

So why in the world am I wanting to try National Novel Writing Month again?

Because it really works. It's an amazing rush to freewrite a 50,000 word novel in a mere thirty days, and I'd love to pick up Only by Moonlight and push through, accompanying the characters on their journey.

But the cold, hard reality is that I have another online Literary Analysis class starting November 4 on F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. And Literary Analysis classes are super-duper labor-intensive. We'll be discussing the novel for three weeks, each student submitting responses to three discussion questions per week plus detailed comments on two responses by other students in the class. So that's a total of 27 short essays written per student over three weeks. Then in the final week, the students will be watching a film version of the novel (either the new Leonardo DiCaprio movie or the 1974 Robert Redford one) and then submitting a Final Writing Project: a formal essay written from four choices: a letter from one character to another, a formal movie review, a five-paragraph essay comparing or contrasting two characters, or a less formal exploratory essay focusing on one of the themes of the book. I'll have to track all of the points for the nine discussion question essays, the eighteen comments on other students' discussion essays, and the grade for the Final Writing Project--all within one month.

And I'll still be teaching and grading essays for the Expository Essay I and II courses at Class Day plus teaching my 8th and 11th graders at home.    

So I don't know how much (or how little) I will be able to write for NaNoWriMo, but I will try. Since I offer extra credit points for each 1,000 words logged for NaNoWriMo for my Expository Essay class, I need to be writing at least something myself. And I guess writing anything for NaNoWriMo is better than writing nothing at all, right?

We also do NaNoWriMo in our town's little writing workshop which meets on a monthly basis, so I'll need to at least try for them as well.    

So we'll see. I am hoping to send Chapter 10 of Only by Moonlight to my amazing pre-reader, ladylibre, later today and then post it by Sunday (despite having first drafts of the MLA research essays to comment on and the first five-paragraph essays for my Expository Essay class to grade this weekend).

And then...NaNoWriMo!!

Onward!!

~Cassandra
xxxooo

Buried in Work (Again)

It's that time of year again.

Yep, I'm back to work after a busy and exhausting summer. This is what I'm up to now...

I'm three weeks into homeschooling our younger two kids in grades 8 and 11. I need to grade their quizzes, tests, and essays for this week and schedule their assignments for next week...today.

I'm two weeks (and about five days behind) in teaching an online class in analyzing American poetry. Not only do I have to respond to about 100 posts, but I also have to write and post their next five assignments...all today.

I have another online class on the MLA research essay starting tomorrow, and have to post their first week's assignments...today.

I have a literary curriculum on Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan to write...today.

So, needless to say, I have only written about 800 words of Chapter 10 for Only by Moonlight...which I should be posting...today. It obviously isn't happening.

(But I can tell you that I've written right up to the beginning of the Halloween party....)

In addition to all the work pressures, three of our four kids are struggling with some kind of chronic health issue, one quite serious (as in seizure-serious). And all the stress about their health has affected mine so that I'm in much more pain than usual from rheumatoid athritis and much more exhausted than usual from chronic fatigue syndrome. I've been up working until 2:00-4:00 AM almost every night for the past two weeks.

I hope to get back to writing as soon as humanly possible--not only for you my readers, but also for my own sanity. I need to write in order to remain mentally healthy, and I hate being unable to express myself creatively. I need that.  

Thanks for listening to me whine a bit--and thanks for understanding my schedule. I'll write as soon as I can--for my own sake as well as for you all.

Take care, my friends, and be good to each other.

Warmly,
~Cassandra
xxxooo 

Summer (Almost) Past

Sigh.

I had such major plans for writing this summer. I had hoped to produce 30,000 words in July via Camp NaNoWriMo and to post weekly chapters of Only by Moonlight.

But then a fire scare right after July 4 put us in an uproar. Our small town (pop.1200) is surrounded on all sides by national forest and is located in a valley at 4,000 feet elevation at the base of Mount Laguna--about an hour's drive east of San Diego, California. A raging fire started in the desert, climbed the backside of the mountain range, and then threatened Mount Laguna which is a tiny town of fewer than 100 full-time residents but boasts many campgrounds and hundreds of part-time residences (i.e., cabins that can't be lived in as a primary residence as they're on forestry lands).

My parents bought such a cabin in 1997, and we cram as many as 25 people into the 600-square-foot cabin for Christmas Dinner every year. Major holidays are usually celebrated at the cabin--in fact, there have been several "White Easters" in which we were tempted to NOT dye the eggs and make it really fun to find them in the snow.

The Chariot Fire endangered all of Mount Laguna which was evacuated, including my parents' cabin. When the fire jumped Sunrise Highway, we knew we were in for trouble.

Eventually the evacuation zone came within a mile of our home and the fire burned up to the mouth of a canyon that ends at the north side of our town. Fortunately, the winds shifted suddenly, and the fire started burning back on itself rather than barreling down the canyon. Still, with the fire burning six miles away, it was scary.

We were warned to prepare to evacuate, so the kids and I gathered photo albums, important papers, and packed suitcases with clothing for a few days.

And did I mention that my husband wasn't home during this time? I was left at home with four kids and a '91 Toyota Corolla which wouldn't hold much should we be evacuated. He did make it home briefly to switch cars with me and leave me the minivan. Whew--that was one blessing.

Another blessing (besides the winds shifting--yay!!!) was Facebook. I stumbled across a Facebook group for fires in our area, and they posted links to the CalFire audio feeds, constantly updating maps of the burn area, eyewitness reports via Facebook and blogs of what was happening on the mountain, etc.

Over 7,000 acres burned and 150 structures were destroyed, most of them cabins on forestry lands which then cannot be replaced. Five firefighters were injured, none seriously. And at the end of the week, rains came and soaked the ground, helping firefighters to gain the upper hand and douse the monster that had just seemed invincible before.

So with packing, days of tense watching and waiting, and then unpacking again, my autoimmune issues reacted to my stress and flared up painfully. Plus three of our four kids are not healthy. Our daughter has a gene mutation that causes chronic fatigue and depression. Our eldest son has been having pain and swelling in his joints and muscles, culminating in a seizure last week (we're waiting for a call from the hospital to schedule an EEG), and our youngest son may have a congenital hernia which is messing with his digestive system and needs imaging done.

Did I mention that my husband is self-employed and we have no health insurance?

Plus I taught an online fan fiction class for four weeks which took a good deal of my writing time away. I had eight students ages 11-14, with one from Australia and one from Canada; the rest were from the US. It was intriguing that several of the students were not homeschooled; they were taking the class for fun because they were devotees of writing fan fiction stories. It was a great class.

Here is the class description from the transcript forms I send out at the end of class:

Course description: The Fan Fiction course focuses on the writing of three fan fiction stories over four weeks: one flash fiction story of fewer than 1,000 words, a second fan fiction story or chapter of 1,500 words minimum, and a third story or continuing chapter of a multi-chapter work of fan fiction with a 2,000 word minimum. After receiving written feedback in detail from classmates as well as from the instructor, students revise and resubmit their final two stories at the end of the course. In addition, two character-preparation freewrites are assigned early in the course to aid fan fiction writers in developing believable characters. In addition to exploring and defining the genre of fan fiction writing, students also read and offer an informal written analysis of several fan fiction stories from different genres (books, films, television, video games, anime, etc.) in addition to offering written feedback on a minimum of six stories written by classmates. Problem areas of fiction writing are also addressed and discussed, including: learning terms and techniques of literary analysis, analyzing story elements, writing convincing and compelling characters, plotting and mapping strategies for stories, writing believable (and correctly punctuated) dialog, following the steps of the writing process, revising and editing stories, overcoming writer’s block, completing a multi-chapter story/novel, and preparing to publish fan fiction online or in print form.   

I still have to grade the final stories this week, but they should go fairly quickly since the students have revised the two main stories (1,500 and 2,000 word minimum) that they wrote earlier for the class.

 

So Camp NaNoWriMo fell by the wayside pretty darn quickly, but I have posted a few chapters of Only by Moonlight  and am currently working on Chapter 8 which I hope to send to my brilliant and invaluable pre-readers ladylibre and EmmyDana tonight. :)

 

Year # 17 of home schooling begins in just over two weeks with our younger two starting eighth and eleventh grades. I'll also be teaching my new online class Literary Analysis: American Poetry (which I still need to write and plan) starting September 3, and my co-op high school Expository Essay course starting September 12. My Essay Grading Service for homeschoolers is also picking up speed as I just added a family with tenth grade triplets to  my client list, so they'll keep me busy.  

 

I hope to keep up with regular chapter updates for Only by Moonlight, but with these chapters being quite a bit longer than my chapters for my other multi-chapter fics, I may have to post a chapter every other week. My chapters for Evening Star and Pinned but Fluttering were around 2500 words while chapters for Only by Moonlight have been 4000-5000 words. 

 

So with summer ending soon, I just wanted to let you know what I've been up to and what's ahead. And I'm both ecstatic and sad that pattyrose's brilliant The Cullen Legacy completed today with the epilogue. I'd have to rate this story in my Top Fan Fiction stories along with (in no particular order):

• solostintwilight's In Your World (pulled to publish but some outtakes still remain of Amishward)
• solostintwilight's Letters to Corporal Masen
• Sparklingwand's A Different Kind of Pain (also pulled for publication)
• TwiloverSue's A Forbidden Love (also pulled for publication--one chapter remains up)
• TKegl's Beyond Time 
• twilover76's No Ordinary Proposal
• Aleeab4u's Falling Beyond Redemption 

So, I wish you a wonderful final weeks of summer!! Now I'm going to grade final fan fiction stories for my class and work on Chapter 8 of Only by Moonlight for all of you!!

Writing for you,

Cassandra :)