The Kittyinaz Christmas Prompt contest will be closing on Saturday, November 21st at midnight.
Here are the prompts:
Remember, you need to tell us which prompt you used, so we can tell the readers which one you are using. You can use more than one, and you can enter more than one time. There are no word limits, and every story that qualifies, will get a banner made by me.
Here are the rules and how to enter:
Must use prompt(s). Indicate the one you are using please.
Use fandoms I write it. (It can be one from a story upcoming also. Just ask if you don’t know, you can ask Rissa if you don’t want me to know!)
No letting anyone knowing which story is yours. If this is leaked, your story will be removed from the contest immediately.
If you submit, you can grab the Banner for Participating for the month. You will also receive a banner for the story you submit.
If explicit, you need to warn people in the title.
All entries must be received by kittyinazwritingchallenges@gmail.com by Midnight CST at the end of the 21st of November.
Yep, it’s a weird title for the post for Monday, but it works. I have good news, bad news and the ugly.
Good news:
My muse visited me last night before I fell asleep with the next chapter of Breathe. No, it is not posted, I am trying to work on it and see where it goes.
There is another chapter of Picking Down Clocks ready to go. We should be fine through to when I leave on Vacation.
I am still feeling, which is great next to my last weeks of depression!
I got to spend time with the nephews on Saturday, they came here, beat up M and we all enjoyed the time.
Vacation is coming soon!!
The weather is cooling off!!! Thank God for the cooling, though I wish the warm, humid air didn’t come in before the cold fronts.
Watching the dogs since their surgery has been hilarious with the cones on their heads.
Bad news:
I have either 2 or 3 days depending on how you look at it for the instructions from the vet for the dogs. As funny as it is for the cone heads, we cannot wait to go back to ‘normal’. Not much sleep when they cry for each other through the night when they are separated.
While the depression is going away, the insomnia is sneaking back in.
For those who I read, it will be slow going, my iPad is acting up and acting like people or things are touching it when there are none doing so. I get frustrated and end up putting it down alot.
My vacation start may (probably) be moved to December 14th.
Ugly:
Paris.
Syrian Refugees
Kenya
Yemen
Nigerians
And the rest of the world that is being victimized by these senseless acts fo violence.
I do not think anything else can match that. So I will leave it at that. Remember, the hardest part is now, for the survivors, who are feeling guilty for doing so, the families and friends.
In addition, I would like to post this in hopes that someone reads it and thinks before the racial profile:
Oh My God. This world makes me wonder, but this is unacceptable. My prayers and thoughts are with you in France. I found out when a post to my group and CKat’s post went out.
My heart is breaking for these people, no one deserves this, and for them to hit on a Friday evening is only allowing more people to be hurt. And then on a Friday the 13th? No. This was very, very deliberate.
Take a moment and send your good wishes, thoughts and prayers for these poor souls, both the ones who have suffered, and for the ones trying to stop it from tearing apart more families.
I was sitting here, thinking no one likes the story. I saw likes, but no one was leaving anything, and finally I asked in the group what was going on. They told us the comments were being declined.
I turned and reported it to the awesome 4Padfoot and she got on it.
Short story, the comments are now fixed.
Sorry for the confusion!
Now I am back to listening to the Immigrant Song and convince myself not to write Eric and get these ideas for Breathe out.
But, there comes a time when you find out, you can’t do everything on your own anymore.
As you may know (depending on your browser and OS), we have been attacked by someone. We paid for help to fix this and thought it was. Until one day I got attacked again, as well as the Better in Texas team when they clicked on the contest link.
Not acceptable, so 4Padfoot went to bat for us today. Only to find out we are dropping that company, and going with another. This company is taking action, and assigned a tech to work only with us (which is great that we will know our tech personally!) and he only stopped working on it when he had to go home, and will continue tomorrow trying to find the issue.
We also took steps to make the site load faster and also help protect it. When we find the issue, we will implement the change and the site should load easier for you guys, no matter what device you are using.
Unfortunately, this all takes money. And I was always taught to talk money is crass, but to be blunt, we need help.
Amazon has not been hit up by many, and even then, it was $20 a month if that. I would be paid 6% at the highest for items. Barely enough to pay for all that the site needs. So, after talking to MamaKitty, she suggested a donation button. As she put it, no matter the fees for it, it is better than nothing. And since 4Padfoot and I have been paying things out of pocket.
So, we implemented the Donation button. It is easily found on the side on either the posts page or on the chapter pages.
Once we have recovered the cost out of pocket for what we have spent in the last month alone (Almost $300 in a week!) we will be applying the money to making sure the site is safe, and adding new features that will help speed up the site. None of the money will be used for anything but the maintenance of the site. In fact, as you will see it will be going through 4Padfoot to make sure that she will be handling it and be able to use it for emergencies like the one we are dealing with now.
Tomorrow, I promise I will post a chapter. I am hoping I can by then at least, if not, it is because the guy is still looking into the site to see where all these attacks are coming from. None of us can be on it behind the scenes when this is going on.
I will keep you updated on what is going on. I am also writing, and fighting my depression. Thankfully 4Padfoot got online and was talking to me this afternoon about the site, and gave something to get out of bed about. Everyone tells me it is because of the pills being different, but I can tell you it’s hard. RL is not making it any easier on me, throwing curveball after curveball at me to the point I don’t want to know anything bad anymore.
Unfortunately, someone tricked me into being an adult so I can’t build a blanket fort and stay inside it, coloring. Though.. That might be for the best since none of my pets would let it stay up, nor would they allow me to color inside it.
I will mention the Amazon thing, since that is still going forward to pay for things, like the digital storage we store all the pictures and documents on so that none of our computers being fudged up will lose all that work, as well as for now, it is still going to pay for the site. Instead of worrying each month if we will make the minimum for us not to pay out of pocket, we may be able to breathe a little.
Not too much!!! That may invite something else to happen!! I’m knocking away already on my desk!
Thanks for taking the time to read this, and I’m sorry I am asking. But it has come down to this.
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