As you most undoubtedly know, the final rounds of the You Want Blood Awards are live.
And I made it to the finals rounds in the following categories:
Hybrid Award for Picking Down Clocks as well as Put Your Feet Up To The Edge
Favorite Author (which I am completely thrilled and squealing about more than you can imagine!!!!)
Van Gogh Award.
So.. please go vote for your favorites. There is only one vote per entry, so make them count!!!!!
And good luck to all the awesome stories and authors that made it through to this point!!!
As for me, I am going to work on editing, I have been very sick and working to get better. I need to write, but heck, I can’t sit for very long, but dang am I bored to death of reading stories. LOL!
And I watched an interesting Brain Teaser that talked about shadows. And realized how I can type, listen and so forth. Interesting lessons learned today!
The banner will take you to the ballet form.
And don’t forget we have some awesome stories as well here to read. As well as seeing some of my talents at banner making for the Outlaws and Angels contest.
But I have finally gotten time to make the banners and host the contest.
And while the site is not moved, nothing will be happening until after this contest is over.
But for this contest, I will say the Banners are all different. And mixed up.
Let me explain.
The Turning Point was something different completely but was scrapped when a mistake made the banner more awesome than I could imagine. And even then, I played with it for awhile, trying to change the color of the border, but it wouldn’t work. But I am seriously in love with this banner.
Next, I tried to work on Worth Fighting For. I had this idea of a wolf running being the main image, but nothing worked. I seriously worked on it for hours, and finally gave up. I went on to Charming Outlaw’s Angel, after asking the author a question. To only find out the image I had been working on all this time was perfect for this story with tweaks.
Then two nights ago, I woke with an idea for the banner for the last one and had it done in a half an hour. I will tell you that it has a lot of the story points hidden in there.
Now, The wonderful, amazing, completely awesome 4Padfoot, who does the poll, not only did that but also made it where the contest is live as of now. We truly had some awesome entries, and I hope I have done them justice with the banners I made them.
The contest is on until the 15th, (which is the due date for the other contest entries) and I will announce the name as soon as I can.
After this one and the Other Worlds contest, the last one will be for the Annual Christmas contest. Once I get the inspiration for the banner, I will make it and let you guys loose on it. The entries will be due before the 1st of December, just what day I will be cutting them off will be what I need to decide. For I will be home this year, and decorating the house is my thing for the day after Thanksgiving, and sometimes takes a weekend.
What can I say? I love Christmas!!!!
Enjoy the stories, the banner on the top will take you to the main page of the contest. And make sure you vote and leave comments, which the authors can reply to once the contest is over at midnight on the 15th of October.
This is it, folks. You have 9 hours to get those entries in unless you have talked to me about an extension. And you still even have time to contact me about them! And don’t forget to pick up your Participation Banner!!! It’s in the page, that is linked to the above banner.
Also… Once those entries are in, you have limited time on the site…
See we are doing what I suggested before… We are moving hosts. We had Blue Host but got insider information, so our wonderful Robin aka 4Padfoot went out and has snagged us a shiny new host. I am going to make sure all the other sites are updated to not make it where you have any interruptions in reading. I am on: Better In Texas, FictionPad, A03, TWCS, Fanfiction Affliction and Fanfiction (but not really). My name is the same on every site.
What does this mean? This means Thursday night, the site will go down as we move the site over to the new host. I say we, but it is really Robin who will be doing it. I will assist her in any way I can, but there is not much on my end. I am the writer, banner making sometimes and someone who is working her way through how to do things on the site. Heck, I am happy how to figure out how to add things to the site, though Robin has to go behind me and make sure everything is ok.
She is awesome!
Reminders,
GET YOUR NOMINATIONS IN!!!!!
I admit, time slipped through my hands, so the next thing I am doing after hitting publish is going to put in my nominations! Are you going to join me?
Also, there is the new contest. I am excited about this, the possibilities are endless. A crossover is your only restriction. And then I gave you some hints courtesy of BuzzFeed. I would love to drop on that post, and tell the lady who compiled all that, there are some answers to her requests!
I just did this interview over at the Non-Canon Awards!!!
About me – I have stated that for now I am only editing chapters for fanfiction, (I have 30+ on Sacred alone!) and until I am done, I will be doing on that as I work on writing the Original Fiction. I have only months left to get that done. If I don’t then Fanfiction will be dropped to push through the dream of working through writing. So please, no demanding comments that I have to finish stuff. I want to finish stuff, I really do. The muse goes where it wants, and do you really want lackluster chapters? Written for the purpose of only giving you chapters and no meat in it? Why?
For those that ask about When I Pretend… All I can tell you, is that Every Dark Night has made it hard for me to continue with the plans for What If. I am having to shit that story cause I can no longer write Alice the way I saw her when I first wrote her. Also, I wrote that one in the midst of losing my job, sick and barely able to leave the house. To say I was depressed to one of the furthest reaches I have gotten is not far off the mark. I have struggled with it, and am bringing it out of the darkness it resided in. I have more to write on it, just haven’t got there yet.
However, When I Pretend is going to be worse on Alice and Edward if not the rest of the Cullens. I cannot write and finish What If if I work on that one too much. That is not fair to that story. I had warned people from the beginning that I wrote When I Pretend to some requests of fans, even though I had not written much beyond the first couple of chapters. It was in the section for pending stories and never meant to be more than that.
Now, the people who follow me here and talk to me through here, have not been as pushy as others in the other sites. But there are a few who do it here as well. All I have to say is that telling me to write on a story or else is not the way to get me to work on it. If anything it makes me mad and I could work on it, but never release a chapter, cause why should I? To have you get hateful when I go to others?
So let me go where I want. I will ALWAYS finish stories. Never giving up on any of them. I am going to work on reposting Tea Shoppe for Twilight and Alice fandoms here when I get a breather. I have no beta for it, but I have people asking for it. While I can add it to the Universe I am building, I figure why do that when you guys want it so much? I never thought the story would be liked as much as it ahs been. Shocker to me.
I am off to post some chapters to the other sites, then go back to working on my original Fiction. I have a chapter of In The End and Our Road is Long out to betas. They have real lives as well, so give us all a break. I know there are stories out there you want, but some of them are waiting for real life issues, and I rather give my betas all the support through their real life issues than demand chapters from them.
First off, don’t forget you need to have your entries in by the 31st, midnight. That is on Wednesday, CST! If you need an extension (since I did when I entered one in the past) just contact me.
Second, as normal, I have gotten the next contest ready. This will be the last ‘normal’ contest, the next one will be the annual holiday version, done like I did last year to give you guys reading material for the holidays.
This is mostly a crossover challenge, made possible by the wonderful people over at BuzzFeed. But this is NOT limited to the ones listed. These are to fire up the synapses for the muses. I would love to see ANY crossover. Marvel Cinematic Universe and True Blood? Awesome!!!!! (there is that Nordic influence there ya know?) Twilight and You’ve Got Mail*? Go for it!! I didn’t finish mine, but someone else could do it!! Anything your mind can come up is possible. Replace the characters of one universe with another? Go for it!! You want to redo the Gods and Generals* with others? Go right ahead!!!
Here is a link to the Buzzfeed article that inspired this whole thing:
I just wanted to give something that might interest you guys…
These will be due by the 15th of October. Midnight CST and all that jazz. There is a Participation banner on the main page for it. And yes, I had some fun making the banner.
And just a hint of what is coming this year for Christmas? Think of the past…. Hey… I couldn’t give it away too early!
*You’ve Got Mail is my favorite movie, and Gods and Generals is one of the ones my hubby likes. (Civil War)
Yeah, I was not kidding when I said I would work on Weekends on Fanfiction. But I may or may not do another update.
It takes me like 2 hours to work on updating the site. I make the banners, add pics, and then do all the linking. Luckily when I need a second away when something is frustrating me or if I wanna know if my idea looks alright, my ladies online help out.
Every other week (which this is one of them) I have Grandma day, that means I end up spending the day with her. the last two times, (including yesterday) I end up not sleeping the night before. Yesterday I crashed at 6:30 pm, and only woke up about 10:30 for a brief break and crashed again until 1:30 this afternoon. Evidently I needed the sleep. (more…)
Yes, I had other chapters I could have done, but I wanted another chapter of Sacred done for you guys since I need to edit so many of them. There was alot of back and forth’s. One time of me erasing all of tj6james6 hard work for a couple of words change. Yeah, I try to forget that one.
But, I have it done, banners done and so forth.
You can run off to read…. But…
Have you voted yet in Bertie Bott’s contest today? If not, click the link, and vote. I participated and am excited to let you know which one is mine hopefully this weekend. If allowed. I think. LOL.
And have you worked on your submission for the writing contest for this month? Outlaws and Angels. There is no minimum, no maximum. You can do a poem, a haiku or a story. Just put your pen to paper, fingers to the keyboard, crayon on the wall (only if it is your house.) Whatever it takes! (and don’t forget to pick up your participation banner if you did submit!)
Also, if you are a blogger, have you sent me a link, banner and so forth? I will be working on some of those tonight. I am not only doing it for Robin’s site, but for my own site, so if you want your blog advertised for free on my site, do it now. Later on, I don’t know if I will be doing blogs once it is running, so I won’t have the chance I do now. Above are some of the banners done for the site…
I am currently working on doing some chapters, but I will admit Sacred took alot of that time when I could be editing to get ready for you guys, but I hope you like it!
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