Sharing WIPs (works in progress) can be so very fun! On this lovely blog hop, enjoy a bunch of authors sharing excerpts of what they're working on- get ready to add some great books to your TBR, once the author publishes :) Although occasionally you may find an author sharing a published work. Give 'em a break- these may just be roughly edited- but please do leave a comment! We authors like to know we're going in a good direction.

So I've dealt with the 3329 word chapter; it's broken in half, although that means I now have to write a brand new chapter in Tabitha's POV :D. In its two pieces, it's much closer to my average of 1600 word per chapter. If you want to see what it was like in Tabitha's POV, click here: http://joellecasteel.blogspot.com/2015/02/wipitup-bina-and-tabitha-talk-online.html . Now here is approximately the same area of story rewritten in Bina's POV. So this is after Tabitha goes to a bar, gets drunk, and decides to use the liquid courage to email Bina about her attraction, rather than going home with a random guy for casual sex. Bina replies to the drunken message, ending it with an invitation for Tabitha to message here.
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Tabitha Loving:
Bina?
Bina
clapped her hand over her mouth. She's
on!
Bina Syntha:
Oh Tabitha :) I'm so glad you're up. How are you doing this morning?
Tabitha Loving:
Hung over, as you worried, but I had some toast, water, and aspirin.
I'm working on a cup of coffee now. I offended Lisa- my calico- by
saying if only I had a big dog that could have tripped me and kept me
off the computer last night. Not that I regret sending you the
message. I'm so glad I sent it before I could change my mind. And
bless you for taking the time to say that this isn't a one-sided
attraction; you can't imagine how good that made me feel reading that
this morning.
Bina
laughed. Even hung over,
she's still thinking like an author, a novelist, explaining her
motivation. She traced
her fingers over the edge of her fancy candy bowl as she considered
Tab's words and how to respond to them. Finally she started typing.
Bina Syntha: Aw, but
I loved getting that message from you. I'm a chicken- even online-
and I can't imagine how long it would have taken for me to gather the
courage to say something like that to you.
She lay her
head on the back of her armchair. The happiness traveled through her
like a palpable thing. She looked back at her laptop to see Tabitha's
comment waiting. She wiggled in her chair.
Tabitha Loving:
It's easier to make our characters be daring than to do the same
ourselves, isn't it? If I felt even half as confident as I've written
Tara to be.
Bina Syntha:
Well Tara is a sweet. I love how she takes care of Cara and Sara, how
she encourages Cara to take care of Sara too. You're sweet too
though. It's not like you had to offer to read my Sum/Yuri story,
especially reading the call and seeing my piece was likely to be
experimental. And you with so many novels published, me with just a
short story.
Tabitha Loving:
Not everyone can or needs to write novels though. The two short
stories of yours that I've read so far are wonderful. Also writing
erotic fiction, you have the further option of novellas instead of
just short stories or novels.
Bina Syntha:
But see? Here you are, all hungover, probably with a headache, and
you're giving advice, trying to make me feel better about my own
writing and publishing efforts. I really did enjoy Raya and Irene's
story on your blog.
What
does my comment say about her story? To her? I certainly wasn't
surprised at her message after reading her story.
Tabitha
Loving:
Thanks so much. I think today, once this headache has gone away, I'll
finish the second part of the story and get it up on my blog.
She
smiled at Tabitha's promise. Bina
Syntha:
I can't wait to read it. I hope you'll write the web-cam date.
She couldn't help but imagine Tabitha's expression, wondering if she
blushed at her fairly straightforward request for a sex scene that
she could imagine herself and Tabitha in.
Tabitha
Loving:
so honest moment from me, yup my mother's sense of humor, this is my
legal name.
So
we're shifting away from flirting, but I'm grateful for her honesty.
Bina Syntha:
LOL Goodness but that had to suck in school; that name is made for
school yard teasing.
Tabitha
Loving:
Yeah. I work a bunch in anti-bullying efforts now that it's become a
recognized issue. I wish I was closer to Des Moines so I could be
involved with the youth group they must have at the community center.
Bina
Syntha:
There's so much more that can be done online now though.
Bina wondered what Tabitha's writing space looked like, how she was
dressed. Did she have a room dedicated to writing? Or did she write
in the middle of everything?
Bina
Syntha:
Should we make this official somehow? Change our relationship
statuses on Facebook? Talk about what we're comfortable with? What we
want?
Tabitha
Loving:
Thank you so much. We've been skirting any more relationship talk
huh? It's funny how important those relationship statuses are. Of
course, changing it. We have a "dating" choice or
something, right? Do you have a separate account in your legal name?
Were you thinking that we should link our accounts?
Tabitha
Loving:
Yes, monogamous- we're not counting our characters, right? :D
Do
only erotic romance authors have messed up conversations about
whether or not our characters count as cheating in a monogamous
relationship? Bina
Syntha:
No, I don't think our characters count as cheating. You'd link your
account to mine? Be shown as dating me?