And I found out the hard way I ran out of reviews on the Non-Canon Awards.
So guess what I will be doing today? If you wish to be featured, (as in a review and interview posted the same week) leave a comment. When you do, an email is sent to me with your email address you use, and I will contact you that way. Of course you are free to contact me on Facebook.
I am going to get in some WIP, then I will go back to the older stories to give them love. Everyone deserves some love.
I plan to finish up the first chapter of Clocks here this week. Yes, the editing is very LONG. Reordering things mean that verb tenses and lines have to be redone. The songs are all messed up as well. Right now, I am committed to working on it. I want it done so I can be past the 7 chapters and then my life will be back to being normal.
Right now I am watching over a kitten who has so much more energy than before. We switched her good to Blue Mountain brand food and holy heck. We thought she was bad before, now she does the whole, I will run through the house for the joy of it. Well, she loves it more when she either chases the dogs and older cat or they chase her. And yes, she has chased the dogs into the office to hide from her.
And we found that Connor is a picky apple whore. I am spoiled, and only like Envy apples now. They just came back to the HEB by us, and I bought some immediately. Connor was raised on treats such as Bananas and anything else that we checked he could have. He LOVES Bananas, to the point of no matter how sneaky we are, and where he happens to be, if you get one, he will appear at your side giving you puppy eyes for a bite. Ninja dog for Bananas!!!!!!
He loves pears, and we have to share those, since any like that with seeds, you have to be careful not to give him any. He has been turning down apples, but yesterday he begged, and I gave him one bite, and he stayed in an awkward pose to get one bite of each slice. Seriously. Bent in half…. And now he is beside me since I cut up another one. Apple Whore…. Stuck up one too.
Murphy? He is being a bully, purposely leaving treat to where he can beat up Connor for getting them. Mean. But he plays with the kitten the most. He closes his eyes and pushes her around with his head. Weird. But then M points out all my pets are weird.
You guys are rocking the Fairy Tale contest!! Seriously, all the reviews are awesome!!! Thanks for letting these authors know you support their work!!! I am not doing another contest this month, since Gyllene is extending her contest to the end of the month. Click on the banner below to read more on it. I always try to support my team when they host contests, and this time I can do so!
So I am off to the races to get all this stuff done. There will be at least one chapter posted this week, unless betas tell me that there are others. Summer time is harder for everyone since there is so much going on for everyone. Me? I am just happy no headache for the first time all week. And no it aint the computer, since I retreated into my office and played games yesterday. It is so freaking hot, and your AC is supposedly working as long as it keeps your house 20 degrees below the heat index.
Yesterday at night it was 80. In the house. Safe to say if I am not online, it is because I am reacting to the heat. Well the humidity and heat. But then, while I was better in Tucson, I still hid away a lot during the day in the middle of summer. But still 114 is nothing to the humidity in Houston. Right now it is 90 with 62% humidity which makes it feel like 100. And today, the UV is a factor. There is an Ozone alert. Its so bad the dogs who love being outside are in the house and only go outside for a couple of minutes.
I spent all day working on these. I am happy, shoot thrilled with all but one. And that one, well when the contest is done, I will be getting with the Author (whoever they may be) and talk with them. There comes a point when what you picture so perfectly in your mind doesn’t transmit to the photoshop.
Especially when you cannot find the dang pictures.
Two banners had that problem, but thanks to a random comment from 4Padfoot, one got finished. The other, well no one could help with that one. It didn’t help that one of the characters wasn’t who I was picturing for it. Stupid banner muse.
But they are done. I cannot say which is my favorite, since they are all so different. Of course, I wasn’t really trying for it, but I went with what the stories told me. The picture, the movie that played in my head inspires alot of what I do. I will say for one, it turned much more dreamy aspect than I expected, but after I drove MamaKitty nuts playing Carnivals of Rust for it, well it worked. And I used a pic of Alex I have been itching to!
I will warn you. The ladies left warnings in their stories. READ THEM. Seriously. I read each and every one of them, and I will say the warnings that were left were very accurate. Not all the stories had them, but remember, this is to encourage new writers to step forward and play ball with our authors that are already in the fandoms. All is even on the playing field. I have no idea who wrote what, or who even entered! ok. I do know one person, but I cannot even guess which one was hers. I suspect, and we will see at the end when Rissa gives me the envelope, but I have been wrong often.
Now here is your jobs:
Writers, please tell people it is going on!!! Use the Fairy Tale banner to advertise it.
Readers, please read them all, and let the readers know what you think!!!! Leaving a review helps our new writers get the confidence.
And everyone, VOTE!!!!
Seriously. Without you guys, we wouldn’t have this contest. We wouldn’t be encouraging new blood into the fanfiction world! Some of my own betas have started out writing in my contest, and they are now staples in my reading. When I say I have no idea, I really don’t.
Fair that way. I am not influenced on what I make on who did what. Everyone gets my head banging, growling at the stupid Google and so on. I wish to thank the following for their help while I did banners, My Beta ladies who cheered me on, especially: Royal Ember (for the use of Alex!!!), Mknue (I still didn’t get that room but thanks!), Rissa, (For everything you do, but your help in finding red Leightons!) and 4Padfoot, who gave me the idea for the banner when I was hitting a blank wall, and so was she!). And to SecretNerdPrincess for her cheering me on while I worked on them in the group. (if I messed up your name, Sorry!!!)
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So go read, enjoy. The polls close in a week. The main picture for the post is the link!
P.S. From 4Padfoot
Yes I have high jacked control from Wendy who is supposed to be on vacation I think. I have added polls to each Story, the main challenge page and even the sidebar. So no excuses for not voting. But remember you only get one vote! So make it count! Then just for me I have to add a Josh gif! Enjoy!!
Until the entries need to be in. Last count was now 7. With that many, there will be 4 places to win! I can’t wait to read them!!!! Also don’t forget to grab the participation banner for yourselves!!!!
Really. I have no idea what I had, but yeah. Glad it is gone. I am drinking some gingerbread tea today to make sure my tummy is fine. Personally I think it was something I ate, which the length of it is a huge indicator of that being so. Who knows. Not me, or I wouldn’t have stuff like that happen.
Ok. Tonight is the deadline people!!! We got five entries so far, so feel free to enter!!! I will be starting on the banners soon for those five…
I will also be figuring out what the new contest will be, I want to get the other entries done so the new prompt will be showing on the page last.
Great news!!! I have chapters of What If to go over from the beta, and I will be publishing the first one this week. I have had alot of requests on it, and it was my fault. I forgot the beta had not signed onto the new site yet. Thankfully we got her cleared on, and she has been working on them.
I am also working on Clocks. It will be slow to get that one going, only because we changed the chapters and the flow to make it easier for you guys to keep track on what is going on. The bad thing is that things that originally were flashbacks are now current. So I am doing my part, but as much as I am trying, I expect that there will be some issues for the beta. I am going to send the chapter through Grammarly before sending it to her, hopefully to make it easier on her.
I also am still making banners for adoption. Funny story on that, seems Stormy likes to watch me make the banners as I do them. So to chill her out sometimes, I make banners for her. Remember, any banner you like, I am willing to change the characters. Just message me on it, and I will work with you.
This weekend is July 4th weekend. Thankfully M is off on Friday, so we will be running around with GrandmaKitty. She loves it when M is with me, and since we will be grocery shopping, it will be even better for her. Seems she loves when we have the whole, It’s not on the list, it is! arguement.
Stormy and the dogs are still running around the house. They right now are in my office. Well Stormy runs in to get the dog’s attention, and then runs out. She doesn’t understand the whole Office is where to be thing the dogs do. She will get it later.
Other than that, I have alot going on, so I will be back hopefully later with a chapter or two. Just gotta see where the betas are at!
First off, I would like to reuse a gif. It fits how I feel right now!
Replace that we’re to I’m! Holy cow!!! I didn’t expect to win anything much less any of these!!!!!
I get the idea you guys REALLY liked All I Want. I will promise you this, if nothing else, I will write it when I am back in Tucson this winter! I am going for about the same amount of time that I did two years ago, and it inspired the first one… I am truly blown away that you guys picked it as first place!!! Over my favorites even!!! I am truly blessed!!!
And then to win second place in Otherworld, and 3rd for Romance?!?!? Thanks!!!!
Finally there is You’re!!! I get the idea!! I will be working on that as soon as I can!!!
Truly…. I did this when I read through the awards this morning:
The vacay was awesome. I spent the time with my mother in law, and we (including M) went all over Houston. She had been here on a convention for Emergency services. And she was quite amazed by our cities readiness.
And of course they had a laugh on TS Bill at the convention. I told you he was a joke.
Huge reminder, the Fairy Tales contest is ending at midnight tomorrow. Get your entries in. This means on the first, I will be busy making the banners for each entry. Once that is done, then 4Padfoot needs to set up the polls and so on. We try to get them out to you as quickly as possible.
So while I was gone, I would hit up wifi spots to reblog things. I kept seeing something that I had done good in the Fanatic Fanfics, but I didn’t look it up. As it was, trying to explain that I really feel like my muse is not me, and how I often don’t know the ending to my own stories, until it is written. And how there was all these little clues I scattered into the story without knowing and so on, well let’s just say its a good thing my Mother in Law knows me so well, or I would be in a white coat this morning.
It is really hard to explain it to someone who has no idea. M even tried to explain it. He made more sense, but he told me it was a little more out there than most would think. But his description? My subconscious is my muse… If so, the little bitch needs to behave even more!!!!
So I squealed, then tried to explain it. And gave up. She supports me 100% but doesn’t really understand. I can deal with that.
While this past week came about, I got two new Cousins, (Nephews). To be clear, I have 3 normal Nephews. As in they are my nephews because 2 are my brothers, and 1 is my sister in laws. However, because of how close the real family used to be, I was raised with my cousins being closer than cousins. So all the current babies call me Aunt Wendy. And M has a butchered name, but it is accepted by all of us. They have slowly made it into fics. I have Riley, need to add Evan and the new ones into it.
One of them was Korbin, which came first. And then came Noah. Noah was special….
About 3 years ago my Grandfather died of Alzheimer’s. That had started my year of bad luck, since Bear died, and then the following year is when my dad died as well as my mom being diagnosed with Breast Cancer. It is what made me go to Tucson for a month and half to get away from everything. And what led to AIW being written.
But my grandfather’s birthday would have been yesterday. And Noah, after much pain for mom, came into the world in the last hour possible to make it a day we still celebrate, just with joy and slight sadness for the man who had the birthday first. What a way to honor him…
I am meandering alot this day, sorry! But being on vacation means that the slight control I had over the muse, is gone. Which is good since I have alot I need to get done!
The review for this week from Non-canon Awards is the following:
It truly is an awesome story, and if you follow her on her site, you get updates one day earlier!!!
There should be more stuff to tell you, but I am completely lost if there are!!! There should be an update of a story this week. No Promises, since The betas have RL and they have to get back into gear like me!!!
Oh yeah!!!
Stormy!!! She is out and about the house. The dogs watch her every step, but she loves it. Here is a pic for you to aww over like I did when I took it.
A joke. A huge big ass joke. Unfortunately, it looks like the rest of the nation in its path is supposed to get flooding rains. I hope that Bill is again his normal self, a media hype of a big fat nothing.
Seriously. They had us thinking that this was to happen:
Which don’t get me wrong, that really happened a couple of weeks ago. But for us because of Bill? Not so much. The above pic explains it all. And that was more damage than I got!
But it was an enjoyable day to spend with MamaKitty as she worked from home that day. We had her special blend of tea, and worked on stuff. Or she worked. I had alot of other things going on, including attack kitty.
Seriously. Morgan nor any of my other cats were this bad.. I seriously look like I got into a fight with a weedwacker, and lost. Before, I could have won… but not anymore. I won’t show you the damage. Stormy is earning it’s name.
So innocent of a face isn’t it. But I am glad I have it. (No we STILL cannot tell what it is. Could be a boy.. could be a girl. But the name is Stormy, it answers to it now). Stormy though can stand up for itself against the dogs. Not enough for us not to be standing over the dogs to check on it, but Stormy thinks she defeats the dogs and hates being in the bedroom now. Escape artist is that one!
Ok for the meat for today. The contest!!!
As I have told you guys before. I only give the places up to 4th depending on the entries. With 3 entries there is only one place to give. But the contest and the stories were awesome!!! There was only a few votes between the places! Great job to all the contestants!
The first place goes to:
Congrats!!!!!!!!!!!! I look forward to reading more of it!
Click on the banner above to see who wrote what, or wait for it to come through the carousel below:
I have been working. And last night.. PS 2015 happened. I will be going through it, (they have more options for my favorite feature, shadows!) and looking through Lynda.com. I highly recommend it to anyone wanting to learn anything. They have everything from Office, to WordPress, GIMP and Photoshop and so on. It’s videos and its done by experts of their fields. Anything you can imagine, if it is a program, they have it. MamaKitty heard the new PS video explaining all the fun things you can do say there is more on that site, and she gave me her access to it. She has it for CAD which is what she does, and she has recently been watching it for OneNote.
I found Access classes, (my specialty, yes I really have one! I built many for my old workplace, that made mine and their lives easier..Until I was gone and they couldn’t get them to work if they broke them… ::insert evil laughter::) and WordPress. I am going to see if they have my theme and so on. I am also going to look at the classes for Lightroom and anything my heart thinks to play with. I also was trained in CAD and loved to make 3D objects.
Hi, my name is Kittyinaz and I am a Nerd/Geek. Whichever you want to use since they both apply to me.
I am waiting for stuff to get back to me. Betas have real lives, shockingly. And most of mine now write and beta for others on top of that. Nothing has been abandoned. It’s stuck between me and them. 90% of the time it is me. I hold things up, and work them over again and again.
Don’t forget this month’s contest! As well as anyone who is part of Better in Texas, they are hosting their own contest. There is Bertie Bott, Mommy4Thomas, 4Padfoot, as well as Harleen up for the running. It is only open to members, but if you are one, please get over there and look into it.
I am off to take GrandmaKitty to the Physical Therapy place. And then she is treating M and I to dinner for all the running around we do for her. I refuse to take the gas money. This is her way of contributing. For us, it is time to spend with her. Which is more valuable than anything else.
Oh yeah!! Next week we are all off!!! If I get a chance to post I will. And.. my tea came in.. So I will be here tomorrow with cuppa and working… Gotta love the tea. Thanks for using my link for Amazon to pay for it. And M for agreeing to add to the fund to make sure I can keep up the subscription.
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