I about gave up on getting anything done, and I have to apologize. For some reason, pics and so on are not showing up.
I sent a note out to the WordPress Guru, so that she can figure out what is going on.
In the meantime, I already sent the ladies in the group the link as soon as the chapter was ready. So they have already been reading if they are paying attention. lol!
For being here on the site, you get the chapters before the other sites. It’s my little thing to say THANKS for following me.
So what have I been doing?
Pouting.
Seriously.
I was supposed to go to AZ next week and now I am staying here until Hubs M is ready to go. And we have to wait for Monday the 14th, for one lousy hour. Yep. You read that. One hour. Basically, he will get up, get ready, then wake me up to finish doing whatever I need to, then I leave (after the fun part of getting Connor into the car), only stopping for our drinks. Then I make my way there, and then we will be on our way out of town.
Needless to say, we will make it there in the same day, unless traffic is truly horrendous.
However, my muse has decided that she is on vacation. I spent 4 hours the other night, first trying to find a story to write in, then finally finishing a chapter in Edge. Four freaking hours. I normally do about 3-4 chapters in that time.
So I will be relaxing, playing games and making banners.
According to the amazing Miss Rissa, the woman I can’t live without being around. Literally. She works miracles and keeps up with things that I would be lost in trying to do! But she has told me so far 5 stories have been submitted. However, she tells me that most of you will turn them in tonight.
Please remember, if you need an extension, please let her know. I am planning to publish these on Thanksgiving so that you will have something to read after Turkey dinner or for those that are going to be waiting in lines for Black Friday. Letting me know kinda ruins that whole, I don’t know who is who thing.
I am planning to run the thing through the 15th, which means right before I leave, I will be adding the names to the banners, but I will not do it until the Friday before (since I will be spending the weekend making sure things are packed, the Traverse is ready, and double checking we have the gifts already).
And I am about to go off to research iPad issues, to see if there is a way for us to fix the issue. I hate my phone and using it to read sucks. It hates me. (which is why I hate it!)
So enjoy the chapter, I am off to eat my dinner of Cheesy as heck pizza. And play a game. See you guys later!
I couldn’t resist the Gif… Sorry if you have it stuck in your head like I do now….
But, seriously!!! I have been up and working on your present, and it is STILL blacker than coal outside.
Is there no more sun? While I slept in my oddball time yesterday evening, was there an announcement that the sun took the day off?!?!?
*huffs*
As you know all too well, insomnia thinks it is my best friend. It sent me a necklace last night in fact. So I am back to sleeping for little hours, cat naps really, (why do they call them that? My kitten naps, along with the 7-year-old cat and they sleep for hours. Cat naps are supposed to be small increments of time.)
See, Connor and Murphy are becoming eunuchs today. Murphy is very, very aggressive lately. Connor needs to be since it makes them live longer, but seriously, it is Murphy who pushed this sooner on us. So I will be leaving here, with two hyper dogs who think they are going for a ride, then drop them off for surgery. We will pick them up later, and I for one, am so happy this is taking place today since it will mean there will only be one day that I will have to take care of two dogs alone.
So, while I was lying in bed, trying to get more than 4 and a half hours sleep, I noticed the most awesome, mighty, wonderful Beta, MistressJessica1028, had sent me the first 6 chapters of Clocks.
Let me tell you about the story behind Picking Down Clocks. I wrote it, then edited and sent it off to be betaed. MJ sent it back saying it was a little too jumbled in time. She suggested that I tear it apart and put it in chronological order. I was too anxious having my lovebirds separated, so I had them together remembering the time before. However, MJ was 100% correct in having me reorder it all.
The issue? I suck at verb tense. And it’s quite bad. For me to tear apart the chapters, (Thank GOD for OneNote, it made it a breeze to move things around and do what I needed to do!) then go back and work on them…it took months. It got to where I would watch the video for the story that 4padfoot made for me as well as the cheering in the Kittyinaz’s Facebook Group for em to struggle with it. I started to hate it frankly.
When I got out of the chapters, I was just too happy to get past them, and finish what I had written. I sent it off, and breathed a huge sigh of relief.
This morning, I got them back and opened it up to work on it. I was hesitant, and played a game of Candy Crush in fact. When your beta tells you it took them forever to work on them, you know it was bad. Then I took myself in hand and started to go through the notes MJ left me. And soon I was laughing. She left notes, rants about oddball things. All in all, I was so entertained by the whole thing I am thinking of doing the next chapters as well.
This story is one of the ones that the group begged asked for and is, in fact, the one that they broke my conviction of not doing any until they were completed.
So please take a moment, and give mighty thanks to MistressJessica1028 and her wonderful patience with my messed up chapters. She deserves it.
……
OK. So here we go!!:
Many huge thanks to the lovely Gyllene for her banner for the story!!!
Description: A chance meeting in Las Vegas changes everything. Suddenly a future that had been a brief glimpse of, is possible, and there is nothing the Blood Line will not do to make it happen.
This is a Twilight/True Blood Fic. Eric and Bella. There will be a mix of cast in here, and no worries, Sookie is going to be around.
Here is the Video that 4Padfoot made to inspire me to do more for this:
And here is the first chapter. I will try to update this as long as I can since I may be leaving in a few weeks, if everything works out!
Yesterday was a day off to the Doctor for my dad, and by the time I got home, I was wiped. so.. sorry!!!!
And.. no throwing anything, but today is the last chapter I have written for Edge that is going to be published. However, Meridian gave me an idea for a conversation with Sookie and Bella. *snickers* I can’t wait for that to be worked into the story!
So no being mean to the author… The muse hates it and really hates rotten fruit. She turns her nose up at it. And then somehow convinces my other side of the brain to go on strike and nothing gets done. nothing. Not even the dang database! *grumbles* It’s not like I want to spend all my time on the dang thing. I have to keep reminding myself. One time deal. Once done, I am done. Just need to add in the new stuff.
Talking about the Database…I put a call out to my group and the TB/SVM Fanfiction group in Facebook asking for help. So far hisviks and Gyllene have gifted me with their work. Thanks so much ladies!!! I have left spreadsheets to be loaded in those groups. If you want to help out by doing your stories… well there are pluses to this. I find I just upload the spreadsheets. If you are kind enough to give me all the information, I am going to load the entire thing into the database. Not just the stories I read. Just saying… So if you write in fandoms, (and no they don’t have to be TB/SVM they are just what I am going after first.) here is a glimpse of what I am using again. There are additional fields in the database for other fandoms and places I go to read their stuff… But they are cut out of the picture for now.
And if you don’t read California Kat… Why the heck not? She is stupendous.. (and gave me the easiest way to load the rest of the one shots into here!) She is also the one who convinced me that telling you guys what I am doing may generate help. Right now, I go into the sites, and have to look for the completed date, and or the last update (for the awards next month, no worries if you didn’t update until later, I verify any non-completed again, but for those who updated in the period of time, well….that is one less step for me to check on!). For WordPress that often means I am looking at the first comment since there is often no other way to get the date. This all takes time, and ironically, Fanfiction (the one I try to find other alternatives to link you guys to) is the easiest one to get the information from. I do not even have to leave the author pages!
If you want to help me out, contact me. I will be happy to send the spreadsheet and save me some work. (I know doing EricIzMine’s is going to be a lot of work. But dang it the lady deserves to be here!!! I reread her stuff all the time!)
I am also… *looks sheepish* getting lots of stories to be adding to the non-canon awards for reviewing. I am right now working on Carol E. Stewarts Preemptive Strike. My life is sooo hard. Read stories and then let you guys know what I think of them. All the while, getting me revved up to write away on ITE when I get back to fanfiction. Full Time.
I say Full Time since I am being pummeled by my muse with an idea. The betas are going gaga all over it, and last night I had an idea I am waiting on Miss 4Padfoot to get home to see if it can be done. *rubs hands gleefully* Since we all know no writing makes Kittyinaz a sad kitty… Well, we gotta keep the muse happy right? She has been rebelling this week (and how I know she talks that other side of my brain into her plans) wanting to write the next section. I think she even has Fate on her side. If Tuesday is any indication, and today, she very well might!
The story? Well, I will give you this wonderful teaser of a banner that one of my ladies in my group made me:
Some Sacred Place In Time Banner
Didn’t surfgirl11 do an awesome job? I am looking forward to seeing what she does for the banner contest. She has made a lot of banners, and I highly suggest you check out her page: http://surfgirl1fanfic.weebly.com/banners-and-covers.html
To explain this one would be hard, since the Muse is being very sly. She is sitting in the corner right now enjoying her Spice of Life tea and smirking at me. She keeps doing things to make the story change. tossing out the odd idea when I am trying to sleep. She really needs to get her priorities straight. I am able to act on them if she would do them other times. Duh! And it is not like I don’t!
Anywho. I wanted to remind you guys that the wonderful 4Padfoot made me a video for Every Dark Night. Here it is:
And if you watched that, you should be ready for this chapter:
I am off to work on other things, and making sure that the chapter for HP tomorrow is ready. The Facebook group has had this chapter and will know the chapter for tomorrow before you guys get the posts. I like to reward my ladies who follow me over there. And you guys get the chapters 2 or more weeks before the other sites. Well except TWCS, but there is a secret weapon in their arsenal. Also I reminded myself of a thing I need to go back and replace some backgrounds for the new Character banners. Duh!
Enjoy the chapter… And I will talk to you guys later!
So. Today I am working on the database (And grumbling since I had to manually correct 130 entries for authors on what fandom they are in) and Miss Meridian, her royal highness, popped up on my Facebook. Seems she had a few questions.
Meridan “The Queen”
I thought we were just conversing, cause we do that a lot. And frankly I was all like, save me from the monotony of adding TB/SVM to 135 entries, PLEASE!!! Instead she is asking questions. But I bet you guys wouldn’t care about that right?
I mean the Beta for two of the most liked fics asking me clarifying questions on a story that she got her hands on wouldn’t interest you guys. (more…)
So today started off crappy. I was very upset, and had considered taking myself off Facebook completely. I decided to stay away instead, since I do more than sit on there, I run my group, and I chat with the Betas on it. It is how we talk and communicate.
See, I fucked up yesterday. I made a mistake and pissed off some very good friends. I don’t often make huge public apologies, cause let’s face it, I am of the species Homo Sapiens. And we don’t’ admit when we mess up often. But I did. So I apologized yesterday aka this morning, and I am doing it here, since my fuckup was on here.
But today, 4Padfoot was hitting the messenger, and I caught it once by accident, something about my video being worked on. I smiled, but went on reading What If so I can work on the edits, ignoring the Messenger while on my iPad. Then…She told me it was done.
I couldn’t stay away after that.
The Kittyinaz household only has myself and the pets home. And ironically, they are all here in the office while I worked. However, the dogs were running around earlier as I squealed, then squealed again and again as I watched the video. Anyone passing by may wonder what was going on. LOL!
Since my belief in the world is upright, and I am not kicking myself heavily for a mistake I made, I finished up the banner finally for Light up the Path. Seriously, this past week really has been bad with Drama, and last night was the last straw. I couldn’t make a banner for the chapter all week, and have some BAD examples of how badly they sucked that I promptly deleted once I made the one that worked. Oi Vey.
Before that mess up happened, I played with the site. I got the Amazon ads to run. Now here is some information… Off to the right, you will see a mp3 player. For now, this will showcase the song from every story current. Yes, that means when you go into the latest chapter for any story, the song snippet is there. If you decide to buy any from there, they can be added to iTunes or any place. And yes, it credits me. The ads also link to the product and give me credit. If you click on any and go from that spot to shopping, I get credit for the entire purchase.
Thank you all for your support during Christmas since it is going to be used to help the site. We are thinking about adding music for each chapter and so forth. I am also replacing the home page banners to reflect the current stories being updated. If you click on the banner showed, it will take you to the cover page for the fic. I am thinking of having contests to replace those banners on the Facebook Group. This time, I did them, but I am going to start a thread on the group, and Open it for others to showcase their talents.
I have also done away with the chapters on the side, since it was getting to be ludicrous. I am also looking for any suggestions. As for the ads, if you want space on the site, we can talk. Betas, as a thank you, get free advertising. I have thought about leaving doing a spot for donations, for those that don’t shop Amazon.
So where am I on the whole editing process? I have finished LoTR, and Game of Life. I am working on What If right now, and then I will be doing the following: Edge, (yes the sequel to Ed!!) Dying to Start Again, ITE, Clocks, Revelations, Tin Man, and Best. When I think I am done, I will be double checking all the documents, and making sure that there are no more chapters hidden up my sleeve. Everything will be sent to the Betas.
Then I will be taking a break to work on my database for the recs. I am participating in HisViks’s WordPress idea. I will be donating all the fics I have recommended once I get done adding them to the database. Well all the TB/SVM. I know many of you are wondering why am I doing it. See, I read. ALOT. And to update the Rec pages, was a lot of work. Since you guys hit it up so much, I wanted to make it easier to update. I also wanted to add the blog stories as well. It is a slow process now, but once it is done, it will be adding as I go. I also needed this to be done before awards come up.
As for the awards, well let me tell you, I have huge respect for anyone who does them!! You truly need to know the fandoms to do this. As much as I read True Blood and SVM, there were still some fics I never heard of nor the authors, and luckily someone in the group of ladies who did it, knew them. WE had planned to do it for all the fandoms that had vampires in it, but frankly, we ran out of time. I would love to do the other fandoms, but I don’t know Vampire Diaries enough, and need more than me for Twilight. I though of doing one for crossovers only, but again, need more than me.
Now for the stuff you have been waiting on, I have two chapters for today, and the video!!!
Ok.. First, Don’t forget to read, comment and vote on the stories you like for last month’s Writing Challenge, nor forget the new challenge.
Heavenly:
Light up the Path (There is only one more chapter left!)
And the video for Every Dark Night:
Every actor on the character page is in here. Can you find them all?
Yep. It’s THAT chapter, the one that ends the first book. Karen has had it up since midnight, and she let the ladies on Facebook group know about it while I slept peacefully in bed.
I know you probably ain’t going to read the rest of this, but here it is. Next week, and the week after that, all betas are off work. If they happen to post, then all the good for all of us. But other than that, don’t expect no posting from our site. The Holidays are a special time and family is supposed to be number one, no matter if it is blood family, or a family you have made for yourself.
Good news/Bad news time. Tonight at midnight the voting on the five questions ends on Facebook. ED’s Eric is the lucky guy to be interviewed. I am also looking to finish All I Want this week. Looking at the thing after mapping out what needs to happen, well I seemed to have written myself into a trilogy or even 4 books with this one. But it will be finished!
We have a beta for OUaT, Yeah!! She is reading through the story and as soon as I can get with Robin, we will be adding her name to the Betas list. Please say a hearty welcome to RealJena. And check out her site!!! (Click on her name!) I am going to work on the next chapter to send to Sharon once I finish this fic this week.
After this is You’re, and then I will edit All I want, then Aos Si, edit You’re work on the sequel to ED. And so on. I am finishing fics. I am trying to get to the point I am writing, and there is work for the betas at the same time. I have so many stories to catch up on! But I will be working on them, even though I am fighting MamaKitty on her story, she really wants me to write up one I came up with while entertaining her. It kinda amazed her the fact I could sit there and tell her my story to keep her entertained.
So for now, you settle down, read the last installment of Every Dark Night, knowing there will be sequels following as soon as I get these other trilogies started also. When I start a new story, you will get it once it is done. Yeah?
Other things I need to touch on:
The food blog is up and running. I have been using it heavily on vacation to cook for my inlaws, and we will be cookie diving soon. My aunt has given me her Taste of Home magazine and Light Cooking for me to send to the food blog, (With all credits) so there is a lot of stuff Megan is working on getting into there.
This is award season! The Diamond awards are open for the nominations, and the Bloodthirsty Awards are open for voting. Go vote!!! BertieBotts Thirsty is up also! Please vote for us… How can you deny Connor?
The Amazon Partnership is fully up and running. Right now it is giving me some percentage you pay, and there is no difference in how you pay, just how you get to the site. Marty and his mom tested this by using my link and going through it, and not using my link. No difference in the price, but one way pays me for referencing you to the site, the other, Amazon gets all the money. The monies will be going towards this site, and paying back my generous husband for his money he has paid towards the site until now. Guaranteed arrival is if you order by midnight today, so have at it! Link is on the side, and later we may dedicate a page to the Partnership. It has been telling me about sales and such for the future.
Feel free to contact the Betas if you spot a mistake, or have questions for them. They set up an email just for this purpose. Also we are still looking for Betas, so if you want Bennies like being able to read ahead, and hear me talk and plan, get ahold of Karen aka Meridian and she will administer the tests to you. No worries, she makes me take the damn tests too.
Also please take the time, along with me to acknowledge the great time and effort these ladies give. They give up the time of their free time to look over these chapters and have been there in ways you cannot imagine when RL has gone to complete hell with me. They stepped up and took over so much to allow me the ability to write and edit. Without these ladies, this would be nowhere near as nice a site (Thanks 4PadFoot!) nor would the stories be edited to the degree they are! (Thanks Ladies, Alicia, Mags, Robin, Karen, Rissa, Sharon, Marnie, Ashley, Ellyn, Jena, Molly, Hattie and Nicole!) And special thanks to Rissa for catching any errors making sure I don’t spend all my time going back over my stories to make sure there are no Continuity Errors, and Sharon for making so many of the Banners here and on the Facebook site.
Facebook group is where I hang out. There is a link on the side if you wish to join. I’m on spotty internet, but I try!!!!
Enjoy the chapter, and the holidays. No throwing rotten fruit or eggs to me, Karen put a shield up, cannot get the inlaws house so messy.
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