Yep it is that time! I did Godric’s interview while I was making lasagna. So I was a very busy bee yesterday on my day off. Many thanks to Meridian for Betaing, to the WordPress Whisperer, for putting it all together, and to MissRon80 for the Kick Ass Banner for this month’s interview!
It was again fun, and as per the Queen of Betas, had reminded me, no editing, no nothing after I was done. I handed it off to Rissa, and then went to bed. My hubby has had a miserable couple of days. He had been telling me it was all allergies and his asthma kicking in all at once. I believed him and when he refused me making Homemade Chicken Noodle soup, I thought he was right.
Boy was he wrong, I went to bed once I was done making all the food. (And my fridge is PACKED with food from that one day, luckily they took food to work to share with others. THANK GOD!!!!!!!!!!!) And this morning woke with my body feeling like a huge Charley’s horse, and my throat hurting so bad I can hardly believe it. And the drainage!! OMG. So needless to say, I am out for the count. And my hubby is getting text messages telling him if he does NOT bring some damn Nyquil, I will be hurting him.
Per a review I got today, I feel I need to explain something. My mom got diagnosed with breast cancer in what feels like months ago, but has only been a week and a half. What is worse, is there is intensive family history all on my mom’s side of family, of my older female relatives dying from it that no one ever told me. So I had been hit twice with information that is shocking. My mom has cancer in both breasts, and is dead set on surviving this, and will do so. I fully support her, as she is with me. Yes, they have begun the testing to see if I may have it cause the form she has, does not show up on a mammogram or ultrasound, nor do you get lumps. The only way was for a MRI, and they found it by accident.
As for writing, my Betas promptly removed both the sites (WordPress and Facebook) from my care, since my mom is meeting with a surgeon this week and I will be her primary care person while she is here. This is meaning that until I leave on 13th of December to go to Tucson, I don’t know what times I have to write or anything. With this understanding, I promptly finished editing ED since so many had asked for it. Now I am to only write, not edit, anything for awhile. I am highly stressed out, which is why the food blog is getting so much from me, since it seems when I am stressed, I bake/cook. ALOT.
So for When I Pretend, or really any stories? Who knows. I did not plan to have all this dumped on me, and while I know you are upset, it does nothing to upset me right now. As stressed as I am, I am not the easy going person of norm. So the plan is that NO story is ever abandoned. EVER. And I am only to write, not edit, what I feel like writing to help get the stress out. If you wish to know more, you can contact the betas at their email, or see if you can catch me in our group. But you can ask any of the ladies, I really am not into much but trying to find ways to be happy right now, since I am the one who needs to be happy for my mom, due to what’s happening in the house.
Shoot even for this post, I have Connor being a little snit and tearing into everything cause he wants me back in bed. So enjoy the interview. And anything that is ready to be posted, will be done so by my Betas.
This is a comment I received on my story Tin Man. It is one of my favorite stories, but not a lot of love was received for it. As mentioned before, my muse is a bitch. She will reluctantly work with me when she doesn’t feel like we are appreciating her. I am NOT a review whore. I am so far ahead of where you are reading, this should not be a thought in your head. If I was a review whore, many of the stories on here wouldn’t be. A lot of them are late comers in being liked.
I started off writing on August 27, 2010. Yep, in two days it will be 3 years that I have been writing. And at that time, I did it not believing anyone would read anything I wrote. Why would they? I was a no one. I have a brain stuffed with all the rules of English, but for reading purposes, they really suck. Then I remembered a teacher who told me, as long as it flows, the readers will forgive a lot.
So I started to write. I wrote Alice and Hatter. It is based on Syfy’s Alice. (Which is also on Netflix, just to let you know.) I bought the damn movie in so many forms trying to find one I could use. Ended up with a Amazon version, You Tube version (which both sucked), a DVD that took my husband and I a day to search for cause, (those online updates what stores have, sucked back then). And finally, a type in for fun of Andrew Lee Potts landed me the iTunes version. Which is still on all my devices and where I can watch even in the hospital. Did it!
I settled down with a song playing on my iPod and watching the movie, over and over and over and over. (Cause I was stupid, and didn’t turn subtitles on.) I wrote out the story, posting as I went, sometimes multiple chapters in a day. Let me tell you something, it is hilarious to read my own comment. I was surprised and giddy when I hit a hundred reads.
From that grew Tea Shoppe; a sequel to Alice and Hatter (Revelations); then Tin Man. After that, What if. Then I got sick and was more concerned with not moving to prevent agony in my body, and at that time, it was very important to not cause agony, it made all sorts of bad things to happen. Faeregina came from nowhere after I learned of the True Blood universe after I was healing. She LOVED my work. We talked, and slowly but surely, she encouraged me to write again. I started ITE for her. As a huge thank you.
And from there, you have all this. (gestures to the site you are reading) Now this is a long beginning for a comment I received that actually is making me go down this memory lane. I will say MUCHO thanks to the reader who left this. It’s true for all of us. And now, I will go back to fighting the need to write, and giving up. (I’m actually waiting for THE SONG to play for me to start.) Now without much more ado the review who inspired another Post today. (But I am still going to find a gratuitous Skarsporn for this post):
Okay I am writing this as an over all review for readers looking to read this story, Tin Man. Yes, we all came to find Miss. Wendy’s lovely stories different ways. Thru friends, other blogs, other stories recommendations or maybe just surfing the internet. But when we got here some of us…yes me included…ignored this little story. (yes at this time it is only 8 chapters out there) Most of us go scrolling on by to get the True Blood, Twilight or Vampire Diary stories we eagerly wait for updates on. So I am going to say “HEY STOP!!!” Scroll back up to that one little story *Stop it scroll back up, thank you* and here is what you do. Almost everyone has Netflix now…if not come find me I will loan you my login…go and watch the Tin Man miniseries I am pretty sure it is on you tube too. It is in three parts. Great Story! (My daughter, Christina, now can’t get enough of that story thanks again Rissa) WATCH it all. Then go on the adventure with Cain, DG, AZ, Glitch, Raw, and everyone else. (don’t want to spoil it too much) You already know that Miss Wendy is a wonderful writer or you would not be here looking for story updates in the first place. So how can you doubt that this is not a good story too. I will be the first to say that Wendy and Rissa both converted me and I will continue to follow and read ALL of her stories. Not a single one has failed to be excellent yet!
Now on a second note…this is not just for this story but for ANY story we read. We are GREEDY and all beg our favorite authors for updates almost as soon as we finish reading a chapter that was published. But I want you to think for a few minutes how many times have you sat down at the end of a chapter and typed more than a few “Great chapter or Love it?” Now think back to how many hours it took any author to focus and get the correct story in their head and write a single chapter. Then you can’t take five minutes and tell what you like and didn’t like even. How it makes you feel when you are reading. All of these things help keep an author loving their work. We all know what happened to Harris who fell out of love with her characters and most believe she kept writing for the money. But I truly believe if we would spend a tenth of the time sending reviews with all the happiness or even confusion (I have sent those also) authors will respond with more chapters. I know when I wrote I did. Every time I new review came in it gave me a little buzz.
SO Wendy here is your BUZZ for this story … I Love it I wish there was more than 5 stars I could give it. I bow down to Rissa’s wisdom and Will continue till I have all the chapters of all your stories reviewed! Thank you for keeping us entertained and I hope you reach all your dreams.
Thanks!!!!!! And I will try to take a break to get the other written ones up. Hopefully, I will get where my muse is eager to take this one up again. It is going to be freaking epic, and I want to get it out of my head so that I can go back and reread it later.
Yes, I am writing my little heart away. In fact, ED should be done this month. I will start on the next, making sure that I don’t need to go back and add stuff to make it more rounded. But if not needed, I will be editing and giving over to my beta next month to publish once a week. Wednesday again.
Yes, you are seeing some more fics popping up under the main pages. But they are mostly all under construction. The reason, well I like this finishing something before handing it off to the Betas. I trust all my Betas very much so. So I feel very easy to write away.
So yes, there is another Damon and Bella story. It will take me awhile to write because it is angsty from the beginning. It is also part of the Brotherhood Universe, and in fact it pops up in the ED story with the Brotherhood names in it already. It will also fill in some blanks in the TB world from the SVM universe. But because it is angsty, and so different from what I normally write, I want to take my time with it. It has been three years in the making, not having found a universe I liked to write it in. And knowing it will become of my very own universe is making it easier to write.
I am NOT giving up with my other stories. Nope, thanks to MissRissa81 and Meridian, I seem to adding, not subtracting. Yes, all those story plots are floating in my head. Multiple ones. And yes I somehow keep them all separate. Yes, I am working on finishing to give you some stuff to read, knowing that you no longer have to wait for that particular story to finish. It is easier for me. I am not getting so sick anymore from trying to push myself to finish editing and writing 12 stories at once.
Tea Shoppe will be finished, but I figured it won’t until the muse gets encouragement. Me forcing her did nothing but land me here staring at my screen drooling. Over nothing. So, We will do this her way, and she is happy, and making up new stories, even though I told her she will get nothing for it.
Doesn’t see to bother her now. Persnickety bitch.
Hope this clears up stuff. And as always, if you have questions or want to help out, you can visit the Facebook group. They helped me make some decisions for ED just this week. And the Teaser picture folder just got updated for them.
See you soon, hopefully with posts on stuff you CAN read stories on! I also put Skarsporn up since it is his Birthday! We are not putting ages up since he was born the same year as me. We will just say, wow!! You look great at 29!
So all I have been hearing about is how Brian is all upset since he doesn’t feel he could have a cliff hanger on if Eric died or not.
Well, WAKE UP!!! You could have done it, held the information. Supernatural does it, most TV shows do. The Vampire Diaries did it with their star, Elena! If you didn’t want to spill, you didn’t have to. I, for one, am tired of you crying about how unfair it is.
Yes, fans were upset, including me. Was I glad to get the information? Well, hell yes! But what I held out was hope since you guys didn’t show the gory end like you normally do.
As for the Sookie/Eric Romance. Well hell yes I want that! Anyone who knows me, knows I ship it! But they also know I ship Hook/Emma in Once Upon a Time and that is unclear. I also ship Jasper/Bella and we know that is never going to happen. It’s why I write and read fanfiction.
Now for why I watch True Blood? Hope for that romance. Bill and Sookie is dead folks. He is bad for her, and we all know it. All you will be doing is making people boo and hiss. Yes, in this universe, he does not rape her, but damn, he did everything else!
And how you are painting Sookie? A whore basically. I loved the beginning of the season and how strong she was. Stephen Moyer did an excellent job of doing the first episode and it gave us a fond hope for them. But then you trashed that. Thanks. Really. (Don’t you wish there is a sarcastic font?)
But you guys needs to have some continuity writers. Or editors. I have a team. And no one but them knows what is going on, but they are careful with my stuff. It don’t take much. I know of thousands of fans who would volunteer to do it for you guys. Shit, we do anyways!!
So all in all, please shut up with the whole, I wish I could have kept the Eric living secret. You could have. It’s no different from all the fans who usually lash out when there is a cliffy season ending. You may have been ‘shocked’ but truly? Eric is a fan favorite. Has been. And voting going on ALL OVER THE DAMN PLACE, shows this. So shut up, wake up, and stop whining. Please.
And if you can do the shocking thing and give us an Eric/Sookie happy relationship? We would love it. WE sure as hell expect that you won’t since you never do the thing to make the fans happy. Bill not being dead is a sure sign of it. And if you need fun ways to Kill Bill? Well, I have a lot of friends and fans who would volunteer their ideas. Just saying.
I just wanted to let you guys know I am working away over here. I had been abandoned by those wonderful muses for the stories you guys love for a couple of months. They are creeping back. Slowly. My Muses are being sassy when they walk back in too.
For those who are interested in my Original Fiction, well, there are connections being made all over the place. I have most of it planned out. And I am excited since a lot of the favorites will be there, changed big time, but the stories will be there.
Thanks to all the well wishes. I have you know, Meridian, my Beta of the ED story, came up with a wonderful idea. She thought since I was upset, and not able to write the morning after scene for the mating in ED, that a new story would help. All that research and such. My mouth and body said, NO!
My brain on the other hand, thought over it, and without informing the rest of me, came up with a story. Then it brought up a story idea that I thought up three years ago, and have been unable to 1) write it, not finding a story I want to make AH for it. 2) It is full of heartbreak at the beginning, actually having a lesson in it. I know, a moral story!!!! But it merged the stories and presented it to me.
Then as I cussed out Meridian, and MissRissa81 as they agreed with the know-it-all muse, and loved it, my brain, aka bitch of a muse, continued to mess with the story, all without my agreement. I wrote the prologue on the female side, then introduced our major hero in the next short chapter that is also a prologue of sorts. I wrote another chapter, that had me boohooing, and then it all solidified. Yep the bitch is sitting there in my head laughing all the way as she tells me what to write. But MissRissa81 tells me I am not crazy, even with all the muses in my head. I am starting to think we need a second opinion.
This is another Damon/Bella story. It ties directly to the Brotherhood universe. It also features a Damon much like the book version. But still played by Ian, because, hey, its Ian! And if you are a member of my Facebook group, then you know how much I love Ian.
There is a huge cast for this. This is Bella in name only, she is going to have her life ripped up from birth on, so don’t expect that Twilight Bella. Nope, this one will have a new life, and the only reason I don’t want to bother with an OC, is that I will have to make up a life for my female lead later that will explain how ripped up her original life is from the current version. The more I can change, the better off I will be with no pleas of me using other’s characters.
If you wish to put in your two cents, go to the Facebook Group and let us hear about it. Right now there is ranting and raving going on about a certain show’s finale last night, but there is an album showing characters picked out, and a chat going on about what is going on in my mind.
I will say, that I am writing. I was left in a room all by myself for a couple months all because I wanted to finish a fic, I had no muses in residence. Taught me a valuable lesson. Unless people feed the muses, they get persnickety and refuse to work. I think MissRissa81 told me she offered her soul for this story.
So I am working, and writing, when I am not ranting and raving over a show. Chapters take about a full day for each. And that is not counting the editing and all that fun. I wanted to finish ED before I edited it and let you guys enjoy a finished book. Before I started on the next. Along with the end of this bo0k of You’re. I’ll get there. I also need to work a day or two on Brotherhood, so my hubby will allow me to keep writing for you guys too. Though it helps, I did get another whiteboard, and with colored markers, showed how they stories intersect. Let’s just say after he watched me put it together after a couple of hours, he decided to leave me alone to it.
I am also trying not to burn out working on the stories all the time. I am trying to find a balance. My beta’s can tell you I am working on the stories, and Soon will be sliding back into publishing them again. If you have favorites, review and help encourage the muses. I give up on forcing them to work. They suck. Truly.
Hope you like the update. I wanted to let you guys know what is going on, and your outpourings of sympathy helped. The author had pulled the stories, and apologized to me. SO, no more hating the author.
I am really upset and pissed off. And feeling so betrayed at this moment it is hard to work around it.
For my stories, I spend HOURS researching and writing for one chapter. Then I go back over the chapters and edit them, sometimes adding thousands of words. Then there is all the time I spend on here adding pics and letting it look good. This is all BEFORE I even hand the story over to the betas.
Yes, I spend a lot of time on them. I also read a lot of fanfiction. And I can certainly understand if someone’s story inspires their own. It’s just going to happen. It’s life! Shoot, What If is a direct example of this. And because of this, I went to the author and told her my plans (even though they didn’t go that way) and we spent hours talking about it. She gave me permission, and even when it went off the script that we talked about, it still wasn’t her story and she knows all about it. I talk to her, and fully support her try to break out to the Writing industry. If she asks me to ever pull the story, well I would talk to her, but I would pull it. Its courtesy.
All I ask is the same courtesy. If my stories inspire one of yours, then please ask me if you can use the idea behind it. I’m pretty sure I would approve, I can’t guarantee, but I will tell you why if I can’t. But to be off reading while I am relaxing and finding one of your stories out there under someone else’s name? No. That felt like betrayal. It hurt.
It also made me consider what one of my betas said about locking stories. But I decided not to do it. This is fanfiction. We write our own stories based on the stories out there. As long as I am writing on that, I cannot say I will lock them. But my Original Fiction? Yeah that baby is locked up tight. And soon will be going through its own purge if there are people approved to read it who are not reviewing. Not every chapter, but at least something! I am asking for feedback so that when I go back and do the edit process, I can fix anything that needs to be fixed.
So the meaning of this message? Is that I am hurt, betrayed, and upset. Someone took something that literally has been a work on my part of hours, and on this particular story, no less than four of my betas have helped me look up details and such. Not to mention the Beta who works on it. She gives her time, but I admit it ain’t easy to make my work look like it does. It is a reason I have Betas folks. It was their time as well as mine stolen. Time I give up to get the experience to write, and to give you guys the stories, time that they give unselfishly to make sure it looks good. And all they get for a reward is access to the rest of my stories to read ahead. Nothing else. I get the reward of making some awesome friends in here, my group and my betas. And not a penny more. Ask my Husband. He can tell you all about it. In detail.
I have been hurt by demands for stories, when people don’t realize how much time I use to write this. I have no life. And with the help of my betas, they convinced me to relax. Because of this I am working actively on ED, and am moving forward in the story in leaps and bounds without losing anything you guys like. I am not putting in place holders to please fans, no instead, I am writing the story. I plan on finishing this and You’re before I go back to publishing. This way we all will have the updates and you guys keep me inspired and more importantly, my muse. She is a hungry, mean, bitch. And if I don’t write what she wants me to write, she leaves.
Thank you for listening to my rant. It makes me feel better to get this off my chest. I cannot explain how hurt I am by this betrayal.
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