Why am I saying this? I just found out reading something that I had only read a part of in the past, and left.
Why?
Because while I am all for people being themselves, and actively say something against other people trying to make choices about others bodies, I just didn’t care to read about it. It did nothing for me, and wasn’t my cup of tea. Nothing against the pairing or anything like that. But then there are fandoms I don’t read, and there are pairings I don’t read at all (Bill/Sookie? Ewww!!!!!)
My choice.
The way I always thought about it, was it was like getting your hair done. It’s your hair. You have the right to do with it what you like. Shoot even now I can see the looks on family faces as I color and cut my hair. But I’m the one who has to live with it. Has to look at it everyday. If I can’t be true to myself, then how could I look in the mirror?
Sadly, while so many people would agree on this, those same people would think they have a right to tell me what to do with my body.
Let me ask you, if a woman couldn’t have kids, did that mean they can’t get married? If a man is impotent, or was injured, could that mean he wasn’t a man? If a person was burned to the point you couldn’t tell what color his skin was, much less any other defining feature, a lesser being?
Let’s put in more stark ideas. If someone was saving another human being, animal, or really anything, is that person any less of a person?
No.
But all you people with your claims that a lesbian or gay couple shouldn’t get married because it corrupts the idea of marriage are deciding for these people that their bodies, minds, souls are yours to judge. That you are the master of them. That you own them.
My personal belief system says there is someone else to do the judging, and that other person in my belief is my God. And he ain’t on earth. Joe Blow on the street, sitting in the coffee shop across from you, in the train, working with you, working ON you, or saving your life, has a different opinion.
Does that make them less of a human?
People this is not hard. I’m sorry to say even the bible was told by humans. Shoot, right now, the original words would make no sense to us. Seriously, do go try to read the Dead Scrolls, or the original books. If experts still debate on the meanings of the originals. And even then, It was told by humans, and I hate to say it, but I cannot write what the muse tells me without putting it in my own words. Especially when she gives me a picture, and I have to struggle for the words to tell you what I see. How was it that these people who had no idea how God thought, could interpret his thoughts without putting their own twist on it?
But this is not a debate on meanings and such. I came about these conclusions after being encouraged by my Bio Dad, to read and go through all the versions of the bible. It was eye opening, and I learned a lot from it. One is that how I believe in him is no different than someone believing in another God. Did all those people, who never even heard of God going to hell just because they didn’t even have a chance of knowing about it? No. My God is not that way. And if he is, I truly would rather believe in something else. He is supposed to be better than all the human bigotry and so forth. He is NOT human. But this is my belief. I do not shove it down your throat, shoot I don’t even tell you the exactness of what I believe. And some of it will throw you for a serious loop. But that is my opinion. That I read and came to separate from another telling me.
Educate yourselves. Don’t be sheep. Don’t accept what I am telling as the gospel. Don’t accept that the person in Government is better than you. I only wanted to be president in 8th grade. Never again later. What says that the smartest people are running for offices? What makes you think that they can make your decisions for you? Think about it. If they came out and told you, sitting next to a black person is a crime. Would you just accept it? Or even more basic, that you sitting next to the other sex is wrong?
Children understand the truth much easier and sadly, they are so much better than we are. They don’t care who they play with in the sandbox. The most you get is they will run away from another saying they have cooties. And we laugh. But isn’t what labels we put on people just grown up versions of cooties?
Harry Potter. Death eaters. Voldemort. We are familiar with this story. The Death Eaters are bad cause they are killing Muggles and those not pure blooded in the minds of these people. They are hated and the sheep of the Wizarding world just hid away. We cheer that the good guys win, because it was wrong.
So how are we, prosecuting those that are not the same, because they believe in something different, were born different, or even dared to have different opinions, any different?
How is refusing to serve gays and lesbians any different than refusing to serve someone based on their color?
Do we really need to go back in time, and have to live through the atrocities of the Holocaust, the race wars? Did we not learn anything??
Do we need another 9/11 attack to wake us up and shove the truths into our faces?
I would like to say no.
For myself, growing, educating myself, and changing. I do say no.
What do you say?
How will you explain the deaths of others, for your choices to your children? To any child period. Look into their eyes and when they ask why, you tell them it is because we didn’t learn the lessons over and over and over again that there is no difference in a human being from another. That all Man was created equal.
Think about it for yourself, and not as a sheep, not as a Death Eater, Nazi, racist. Or whatever label it takes for you to wake up and realize you are no better than they.
So we are down to the end, I am sooo much hoping. 6 stories folks. That is all I have to do until I am free to work on the rec database, and to also get ready to work on my own original fiction.
I am excited, since I haven’t been writing anything new, just editing the crap out of stuff I have already written. And it taught me a valuable lesson, don’t get so far behind!!! I know why it happened, I was trying to finish stories before publishing them, but the group in Facebook ixnayed that one.
I am actually happy on that, since I seem to work better when you guys are so nice to tell me what you think. I know I am so very inspired to get back to writing for a lot of the stories.
Also, I need to say again, my beta team rocks!! As I mentioned before, they are all awesome, and they have jobs, and or write in addition to that, and somehow have time for little ole me. Yes, I am continuously surprised that you guys read me. Seriously. I like my stories, but never in my wildest daydreams did I think you guys would.
Carb0408 made the new LOTR Banner for the front page. She did an excellent job!!! Here it is for you to gaze upon….
So, the beta for Tin Man is almost done with the edits, and next week in fact, will be the last of the published chapters. After that we will be publishing new chapters until we catch up to where I was. Then it will be up to what the muse has for me.
The chapter we are up to:
And I apologize for the All I Want missep. My fault. I fixed everything, and if I still have it all wrong, let me know. There is a reason 4padfoot does the linking and not me.
Don’t forget the stories this month!!! Please vote, there is only until Sunday left!!!
I finished with all but Fictionpad’s updates, and that is only because they are down. So I can finally get back to the chapter I have been trying to edit for three days. And it is simple. Just a pair of dogs that have been a pain in my ass has been holding up the production. They seem to think that 2 chewies a day thing is flexible. So they nudge me all day long until they finally get the idea that no, they are not going to get more. They get one at night and one during the day.
No worries, they have bones everywhere and so on. They are spoiled rotten.
I am off to work on chapters, and hopefully send a bunch to Mknue, then I can move on to Dying to Start Again, since the beta has been ready for it. Then Clocks… maybe with a ITE break? We will see!!!!
Enjoy the chapter for those that want to read the Tin Man again.
I admit, this week has been bad. But..due to some comments on Facebook, and on here, I have decided to do this so maybe people may have an idea what I am dealing with. Getting a request each day on one forum or the other on a story is getting slightly tiring.
Here is a list of every single story I have (except the one shots completed) and their status. (Epic comments means 50-100 chapters estimated):
Alice 2009:
Tea Shoppe: Pulled for publishing
Revelations of an Hatter and an Alice
Alice and Hatter: Complete
Revelations, Legends and Champions: WIP, Getting ready to go over Chapters for publishing to catch up site to FF, as well as any possible chapters pending.
A Revelation of the Past: WIP, Once chapter that is prologue is corrected, will publish it.
Inuyasha:
Blood of Innocence Burning in the Sky: WIP, Epic. All Chapters are released, this is holding until after Original Fiction novel is done.
Once Upon A Time
The Best is Yet to Come: WIP, Epic depending on how the muses let us go. I need to edit the large chapter I wrote and add in the Killian parts to the episode. A small part after I was done adding him became approximately 1k that was originally 250 words…
Tin Man
This is Not the Beginning, This is Not the End: WIP, Epic. Huge Epic. I am currently working on getting all the chapters written out to the beta.
True Blood
In The End: WIP Epic Kinda…. I have one chapter to edit and release. Then when I am done writing my own Original Fic this is top on the list to be worked on.
Learn to Live Trilogy
All I Want: WIP, Complete on my end. All chapters have been released to Beta. Currently aiming for Monday releases.
Sequel: Not started
I Never Did: WIP. No idea how long it will be. This needs to be read and gone back over with a comb. I plan on working on this on free time. This was to be a release of mine from everything I am writing and ended up taking off on me. I plan on doing this after the original novel.
Something So Right: Not started. It’s stewing in the back of my head, and will start around the beginning of season 3.
Never Changing Who I Am: Winner of Kelpie’s contest. WIP: I am finishing this then handing it off to be co-written.
Twilighted Stories:
Twilighted Tea Shoppe: Pulled for publication.
What If: WIP, may or may not be epic…. All chapters that had been written has been released to beta. Will work on the rest later. I started this in a different frame of mind that I am going to be changing things up in it. I am not that person anymore, nor do I want to be.
Wisdom, Justice and Love: WIP. Wisdom is completed. Justice has not been written at this time. Aiming for this when I am done with Novel.
When I Pretend: WIP, Epic. No lie, this was never planned, and was written when I was in a different frame of mind. It is so different from anything else I written, I need to get in the right frame of mind. I am trying to complete other works so I can move on to this one. What If at least will need to be completed. But this will be epic length at the very least.
Black Velvet: Halfway finsihed
Charmed/Twilight
Dying To Start Again: WIP. Chapters will be released once edited to Beta.
Harry Potter/Twilight
Such a Heavenly View: Year 2. WIP, All written chapters released to beta. This is one of 6 books planned….
Lord of the Ring/Twilight
The Sun Holds the Moon: WIP Epic. Chapters released to beta. Received the first back, haven’t had time to go back over it.
The Mummy/Twilight
Light Up the Path: Done.
Sequel: Not started, researching lightly.
True Blood/Twilight
Showed You My Scars: Researching and thinking of, not started.
Set You Free Trilogy
Every Dark Night Turns Into Day (aka ED): Finished
Put Your Feet Up to The Edge (aka Edge): first two chapters written, and will be editing before I go to writing my Novel. Planned for when I get back, within the top two!
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Picking Down Clocks (aka Clocks): Had major revision, will be editing and releasing chapters before I work on Novel
Vampire Diaries/Twilight
Game of Life: WIP, Epic. No Beta. All chapters written are released.
Free Will is Everything:
You’re All I Am Asking For: Finished
You’re All I Want: Not started. Hoping to start this one soon.
You’re All I Need: Not started
Anthem of Angels Universe:
Cross the Line: WIP Epic. Need to write some more…
Original Novels:
Brotherhood of Aos Si: Need to be finished 1st in series
Brotherhood of Kaschei: Started, 2nd in a series
Brotherhood of Tregeagle: Broad ideas written out
Our Road is Long (Going to be renamed into a Brotherhood story): Need to be revised
Tea Shoppe: Need to be finished and majorly revised
This is not including all my other obligations. I review for the Non-Canon Awards, I am part of the team for You’ve Got Blood awards as well as I contribute to the Food Blog and maintain the Anthem of the Angels site and the reblog site. I also take one day a week and go through and update the other sites with the stories. I try to make sure the Kittyinaz Group on Facebook is interesting and end up having to play the calming influence. I also make banners and host writing contests. I also host a Rec page on this site that a lot of people still use enough that one page from that section is always in the top ten pages of the day. I try to be nice to everyone, and lately this has been backfiring in my face to the point I feel like it isn’t worth it.
For those that think I shouldn’t start stories, well, if I hadn’t nothing would have been written beyond Revelations and Tin Man. It was due to a very dear friend Faeregina, that had me come back to writing. I had even started What If during that bad time, and let me tell you, it is very depressing to read what I wrote in that time. I refuse to be that person, and to be frank, it was a bad time in my life.
I truly understand the frustration of not getting your stories updated. But I am one person, who is not getting paid to share these with you. I am doing it of my own free will. I am putting aside some obligations to make sure that all the chapters I have written are released to everyone before I work on other things. I am not obligated to write, I do it because I truly love to make up these stories. Your reviews are often what make me move forward. And if you really can see the results, you would be highly shocked on what would be updated if I could make my muse work when I tell her.
Writing comes easy to me, I can pound out a couple chapters in a day if the muse is working with me. But the editing can take me 2-4 days. Think of it as this, my writing is a rough draft, detailed, but rough. The editing is what most people would call writing. I also talked to my betas, and one of the ones that know me best, basically told me to go back to the old way. I was kicking out 2-3 chapter just editing obvious issues. But for those that have stuck with me awhile, I normally add 1-2k or more words to a chapter. I am back to doing that. It is not easy for me to edit, I have to read each chapter once to get the idea, then go back and add missing words and keep going over it until it feels right.
My husband has supported all of this, but he has put his foot down. I need to work on the original novels. If need be, I will stop everything to work on them. I have few chapters and stories left to do, but I will and can just stop and leave you guys to wait until the novel(s) are done. If the muse is willing to work with me and I can write more than the one, then I will be going through and working on as many as I can.
I cannot tell you the stuff going on in RL. It involves more than just me, and it is a mess. It is highly stressful and not something easy for any family to deal with. It is more important than anything else going on, and it started yesterday. This is my outlet, my way to deal with the stuff.
And then there are the wonderful group of ladies I call my betas. The ones I can rely upon to listen, and who try so very hard to get to the chapters I am working on. They have their own jobs, their own lives and even their own fiction they write. I never nor will I ever demand them to put it all to the side for my stuff. I release the chapters to them, but will NEVER demand them to work on anything. It’s not my place.
There is the Banner making I do to help relieve the stress of writing. I used someone’s comment to work on a banner for them to relieve stress before I wrote this. And then slept, cleaned house, and even cooked, and couldn’t just release this from just being written and never stating how I feel.
Please be patient, I know there are people who want updates, and you would be shocked at what the numbers would tell me to update, if I went by them alone. Instead I am going by what the muse lets me do. I am working on stuff, just be patient.
And again, this is not everyone. Not by far, but imagine being asked every single day when I am going to post something, or please work on these stories. It gets wearing and makes me feel like sometimes people think of me being a robot. That I just churn out chpaters easily. I try my hardest to make each and every story interesting to anyone who reads. I have asked for betas since I know I am no where perfect and make common mistakes. I don’t want to overwhelm who I have, so I mention I am doing this story, they read it and if someone wants it, they tell me. That it how the process works. I tell you guys more of what is going than most people, just so you guys understand what is going on. To allow you to know I am alive. I could just say blah, blah chapter is ready for you to read. And leave it only there. However, I understand being frustrated with not knowing when my story that I like is going to be updated.
Before posting this, I had a long talk with a few friends. And they told me their thoughts. Some were shocked, and told me they just love when their writers updated. They make sure to say thank you for sharing a piece of themselves. Others who are writers shook their heads. And yet others pointed out that at least people love the stories. All of these are correct. In fact, I have told myself the same many times. However, again, I am stating to feel that I am being thought of as a machine who can churn out stuff. With my stress in my life being so high, I just want to come into my office and work on my stories and escape for awhile.
I am off to add the chapters to the other sites, then hopefully, I can finish a chapter that I have been trying to work on since Saturday.
For those of you who are part of the Kittyinaz’s Group, this is one of many banners I made for their use for their Facebook Pages. We are also holding the voting for the banner for next month. 1st place is for the Group, and 2nd place is the banner for the Kittyinaz Page. This contest is held monthly, open to anyone who is part of the group. I put ALL the banners on my site, and you can find them all here.
Also, the Writing contest is ending tonight, so get those last votes in! There is still time to vote. And since it is the last day, clear those cookies and you can vote as often as you want! Poll Closes midnight CST.
Now. For the long speech…
This past year has had many things happen for me and the site. The number one is that we moved over to this site. Thanks to everyone for your patience as we did that. We have been busy doing family things, but hopefully this coming year we can explore options and work on getting things even better for this place. I really want the ads to work for all of us!
A huge thank you to my Betas. They make this all possible. Huge thanks to our new ladies, you guys have started to teach me more. I really appreciate it. If you want to join these awesome ladies, please contact me on Facebook. We are looking for experienced betas to be able to hit the ground working. I have about 23 stories who are active, and my muse still likes to drop more on me. From there I talk with the Betas, and we decide from there.
My team behind the scenes, Rissa, Robin and Gyllene, thanks so much for all you guys do!!! Without you three, I would be staring at the screen, trying to transition from writer to tech side. While I could do it, I’m so glad I don’t have to. And Rissa….There are no words to thank you for all the stuff you do!! You not only keep my stories right, help me out when I try to figure out things, but you run the welcome wagon part of the Group, keep track of the stories for the Anthem of the Angels and so much more!!! Without you, I would fall apart soon, and never be able to write. Never doubt your contributions, milady!
And then there is you guys. The ones who make it all worthwhile. Thanks to you, I won some awards this year, but more importantly, you have encouraged me to keep writing, by your comments, and even by you stopping by. This site has had over 600K of hits, and this particular has had over 150K. hits on it. Wow!!!! You guys have supported us with all the plagiarism, and your help has taken down the person who did it to one of my friends.
We have had some awesome responses to the Writing Challenges. It has helped some new writers get started, and it has also given birth to other stories. One of them inspired me on one of the One Shots!
Your patience overall through the bad times and the good times has helped. I am truly thankful to stumbled onto such great readers! You give me the confidence to work on my own novel and hope that it does well enough.
Thanks to those who are following the reblog page. It is getting more and more followers. I reblog everything I get in my emails for WordPress. If you are a writer, please let me know if I am not following you, and I will happily reblog you on the page!! If you are looking for new people, hop over to the site, and sign up.
The Kittyinaz’s Food Blog is also taking off, thanks to Megan and her 25 days of Christmas! I look forward to seeing what she has in store for the next year, along with Leigh Warner who are the two ladies in charge of that site.
For those who follow the Anthem of the Angels site, we are planning to see more happening to it also. I think the Crossover Haven will be getting a makeover.
Thanks for helping make our first You Want Blood Awards such a huge success! We are planning for it the new year’s in May, so be thinking of who you want to nominate. The rules will be slightly different, so be looking for that news coming in the new year.
Also thanks so much for taking a chance with me on the new crossovers and so forth I have come up. Nothing has been abandoned, but my muse seems to enjoy bringing up new ideas.
All in all, we love your interest, and thanks to you, these sites are up and running.
So what does the new year hold for us? Well the Banner above should give a hint of what I am going to try to get to!!
As soon as all the written chapters are off to the betas, I will be working directly on getting my rough draft for my novel out for the betas to all tell me what they think as well as the proofreaders. After that, I plan on finishing In The End, and then to work on Edge and continue from there. Since I am planning on doing things a little different all around, I am hoping that these chapters will be turning around quickly.
Remember, writing is always evolving, especially when you are me. I like to be better and often work towards this. I am trying something new with the new Charmed story, and it is working well. I may end up sitting down and working on putting all the ideas for the story in their journals, that way I can make sure we end up where I want, while giving my muse the freedom outlines didn’t.
And because of my plans, I am actually worried about overloading my betas, since many of them beta for others, as well as write themselves. I fully encourage them to write, and to do their thing. so I want to make sure they have the time to do all they need to. They do this all for free, and I don’t’ want them to feel obligated to do my stuff instead of them. Ask any of them, I am real insistent on their lives come before my stories.
I am also planning to work harder on my rec lists, to get them done and in the database. I am working on SVM/TB soon, since the You Want Blood Awards will be kicking in soon.
I also plan to work on all the obligations I have, like the Non-Canon Awards and so on. RL came in and while nowhere as bad as the past two years, it still kicked my butt.
For me personally, I am planning on balancing my work and my family. I am so very lucky to be married to my husband, who fully supports me doing this, and only has asked for me to concentrate on working on my novel. He gives and gives, and I love him for it. I wish to plan to keep up what we have been doing this past month, and spend time in the evenings together. Though he completely understands the need to write or make banners.
I do not do resolutions, since I hate failing at anything, and often have set so high of plans, I fail and beat myself up about it. So I plan to do better. I wish to get healthier, which has worked. I have been less sick than normal this year, now if my body will stop tearing stuff, I would be awesome!!!
I plan on drinking more water type stuff. Since I don’t drink water except when excising, I am planning on more tea and soda stream stuff. Especially the tea, for Christmas, I took all the gift cards and money sent to me and got myself a tea maker. This things does everything BUT add the water and tea to it. It keeps it warm, it heats up the water to the right temperatures and so on. Right now with my tooth aching so much, the warm tea helps so much. And to do nothing more than those two steps, well it helps. I’m thinking of getting another blackboard for my mom, to write down the recipes I am coming up with. the Tea Blog will be brought back up so I can experiment with the tea maker to make the blends. Right temperature of water helps so much!
We are getting a fence, so I also plan to spend some time each day with the dogs. Throwing a ball training, whatever. And hopefully, this year we can do a garden again. So many plans, but for the first time, I am having the energy to do it all. I also plan to go back to the gym, the trip to Las Vegas is a go, and I want to be able to keep up with everyone! Gotta look good for those pics!
All in all, thank you for a wonderful year, and as you can see, I have plenty of plans for the next year. Now I am going to go off to my drug haze, and be with my hubs.
Thank you, and please vote for the awesome stories for this month!
See I went and tried to write a chapter of I Never Did. And got 626 words into it. That is it for the entire night. (Teaser below!!) (It’s rough people.. pretty much my thoughts as I type!)
Song I listened to for this chapter: Marchin On (feat Timbaland) by OneRepublic
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He shakes his head slowly, and then moves to be in front of her. He cups her face softly, and then he kisses her as the room just stares at them, shocked.
After he allows her to breath, he looks down to her, “I apologize, if I had known, I would have never left. I gave up the hope of you long ago. Will you forgive me, mein gefahrte?”
Now:
The whole room is frozen as they hear what he said and it vibrates through their head. Then Eric slowly chuckles.
His little mate is still out of it in his arms, and he plans to soon have her in their room. But this defientely changes the game. He wonders if she had known…
Brandon is just blinking then starts to laugh. When his family turns to look at him, he shakes his head. “I didn’t know of all of it, and like usual when a part of whatever it is comes true, it comes clear. This is one of the reasons he needed to come back. Aisling needed him.”
Godric is looking down at his little mate, and he asks, “So you are my Dotter’s assistant?”
She is staring at him, and nods.
Frey chuckles, “I don’t think she would ever be that silent!”
Griffon, Gainor and Carter all grin at each other. However, before they could say anything, Eric shakes his head at them.
He has a huge grin on his face, and relaxes even more. Unless something happens to Aisling, his Master will be here for a long time. And nothing could make Eric any happier than he is with his mate here, bonded and pledged with her father, and his, here to be here.
Eric gently lays his little one down in their bed, and he just watches her for a minute. He commits every part of her to his memory, as he does each and every time he has a moment to do so. When everything is as he remembers it previously, he takes a finger and trails it down her face, loving the fact he can do this any time he wishes to.
She is his.
Finally.
And in turn, he is hers. In every way, but then, she has owned him since she walked into his bar that night. He just refused to acknowledge it. He fought the war against allowing her in; not knowing it was way too late for it.
No. That time is over. Now is the time for their beginnings to happen, their happily ever after. Or it would be if there wasn’t all the mistakes that have happened.
Like him not killing Russell. Mistake number one. And he is sure that there are more, and that not killing Bill Compton will be one of those things to come back and haunt him later on.
Quickly undressing, he moves to Sookie, and looking down at him, he gets a mischievous look on his face. Within moments, there is only pieces of what had been her clothing floating on the air as he gleefully on his handiwork.
A naked Sookie.
A naked Sookie on their bed.
A naked Sookie on their bed waiting for him.
Wait…
“You think you were going to get away with that?”
He slides in behind his love, kissing her shoulder. “Me?”
A silvery sound of laughter sounds out, as Sookie looks at her other half, “The innocent look doesn’t work so much for a 6’4” Viking vampire. Just letting you know.”
Enjoying the feeling of her enjoyment in him like those bubbles he sees in champagne glasses popping inside his
And that is as far as I got in 6+ hours of trying.
I normally write about 2k words per chapter and about 2 chapters a night. Needless to say I gave up and went back to editing. Clocks had been edited up to chapter 4 last night.
Instead I was going to post this one shot Gyllene had fallen in love with since my awesome Beta Mistress Jessica went ahead and did it. Figured you guys would love it, and we all be happy this week.
Until last night I was trying to find something and went on my laptop to the Google Drive that holds everything. And found out my laptop was not updating to the Drive.
Remember all that head banging?
Yeah I was doing it again.
I went back and looked, and nothing was updated. I should have checked when Jessica had mentioned about the verb tense, but while I thought I fixed it, it is one of those things I get wrong. So I thought I missed some.
No wonder she said something.
So I had to go to her and apologize late last night. I was embarrassed as hell, and mad that I walked away after I fixed it all. And you guys don’t get the chapter, since I did clarify a lot of things in the chapter when I went back to Edit of things that just didn’t sound quite right.
My fault!!!
Everything is fixed, and I will be carrying a little thumb drive back and forth until I can get the laptop updating like it should be. I bet you are wondering why am I still using the laptop? I got ALL of the Mummy done in one night. I got a lot of Clocks done in one night. Frankly I get a lot of work done out there in the other room, and spend more time with family. A great win in my books.
My laptop is great, but it is old. I bought it back in 2007. It can keep up with things, except where memory comes into the equation. It has, I think, 4 gig memory harddrive. Yeah. My desktop has a TB and so does my Google Drive. And while one has pictures and stories on it, the other has the programs to run all of the above as well as the precious iTunes. And they are about even. I am Kittyinaz and I am a memory hog. I seriously have to edit what goes on EVERYTHING I own. All in the interest of memory.
So I do what I can, and am still fiddling around trying to find what works to get out the stories to you guys, and to keep me happily writing. I am working on editing only because it works right now. I will need to go back read everything over, make my notes, go through Rissa’s timeline and then start drawing on my white board what is going to happen to start writing a story I have currently going on or I am writing the sequel to. And I have 20+ stories to do that with. Things are happening, you are getting chapters, but I am doing what I can. I like to write, it’s the editing process I hate.
Basically, we are working on updates to all the other sites, in fact, right this minute we are taking down the Tea Shoppe stories. I know they are down from here and FictionPad. This is also the last week All I Want and Wisdom, Justice and Love are being updated on FanFiction. I was not joking when I said we were going to start pulling away from the site.
Because, ficlet78 announced another story of hers was plagiarized. And as she said, it’s getting stupid. Funny how it seems to be FanFiction that holds most of the plagiarists. I enjoy the majority of the fans, and it is NOT their fault. But there comes a time that you need to realize enough is enough. And I have long since given up on the site.
Anything new will follow my fellow writer’s Dr Harley’s example. First chapters will be published. I publish on other sites, A03 (Archive of Our Own), FictionPad, and TWCS (The Writer’s Coffee Shop). I hear rumors of another site by some of my ladies, and I will support that one with everything I can. But I cannot spend my time chasing thieves instead of writing. I can’t even reply to comments since it takes days for one story. Much less all the ones I have going on! I try to answer the questions, and grin with glee when I get the others. It has given me days of being taken from being in the dumps, to grinning like the Cheshire Cat.
So I am going to go back to making sure everything is ready, make some Homemade mac and cheese for dinner. (The recipe and step by step pictures are on the food blog!) Then edit my heart out for the rest of Clocks so I can move on to another story. I think I will be overworking my poor betas!
Enjoy the night, and when I can publish again, I will be!
LMAO…. ok how many of you went crazy this past weekend? I didn’t get to, but this coming weekend I will be out of commission as I shop my heart out for Christmas.
So… You know what day it is right?!?!?! Yep. Monday. And instead of offering you a special deal of 99% off, I will give you instead a free gift! A Chapter of AIW!
Click on the banner to get there, the links will be active once the WordPress Whisperer whispers cunningly to the internet and makes them magically appear.
Yeah, I am in a good mood. LOL. I be you guys couldn’t tell could you??? Why?
Because for one thing, it is Christmas. My favorite time of the year. The good vibes off everyone is enough to make anyone smile. To have Christmas songs playing (Joy to the World by Faith Hill right now!!) I was happier until I sat up and realized that I have downsized a pillow from the attentions of Murphy and Connor. Ah well. It’s just money.
LOL.
Ok so this past week when we were supposed to be all doing the holiday thing, some things went down. To answer the questions I am still getting, here is a break down:
Yes, I am phasing out FanFiction.net. This week will be the last chapter for All I Want on that site. I will be publishing the beginning of stories, and that is all. If it comes to the need to delete stuff, then the story is no longer being published there. I will continue publishing here everything. TWCS is another site that hosts my stories as well as A03 and FictionPad. But they are all published here first.
Yes, I am pulling all the Tea Shoppes and stories that have to do with it. This will happen on Wednesday. After a long discussion, my betas convinced me it really is good enough to publish. I didn’t think so. It has not ended, so it will be sold as a book instead.
I am still writing FanFiction. In fact, last night I finished editing the Mummy. And was very upset with myself for leading into the sequel. If I can wrangle the time before I need to do anything, I will start on IND. I find I can edit on my laptop better since I am not talking to everyone. I don’t like to edit. So I am easily distracted. oops.
I also edited a one shot Gyllene loves, so it is off to the betas.
After IND, Clocks is being edited. I plan to have EVERY story I have updates for to be sent off to the Betas soon. So expect more and more to show up for you guys.
Best was opened, but was found to be too tiring for me at 2am to work on. I expect you will be finding that one sent off soon also.
We started a new Facebook group for those who are switching over to WordPress, or who are users of it who wish to find new tricks, talk over issues they are having or so forth. It is a open group, and as people join and ask, we will discuss some items. I did some tutorial screen shots to show how to add media, how to use shortlinks and how to embed links in posts and pages through the use of either pictures or words. It is called WordPress Help for FanFiction
That is the questions I received this week. Here are your answers. Nothing else is being removed at this point. I am planning on finishing all the stories. The reason Tea Shoppe was pulled cause it was an original story being set to the fanfiction worlds.
We held our monthly Banner Contest over in the Kittyinaz Facebook Group. Members who wish to participate often submit their entries when I open the contest up. This month was harder due to the holiday. The first place is the banner of the month on the group page, and 2nd place is the banner for the Kittyinaz Facebook Page. Please see the Banners below to be taken to the pages. Congrats to our winner! (PS, no the banner does not snow on the Facebook Page. But I use these as opportunities to try new things!)
I received one entry. If you had forgotten, you have until midnight to get in your entry, otherwise the one entry wins. Because of the response… This is the last Kill Bill. I will work to find the theme for this month’s contest. I am thinking Christmas….
Amazon.. It is shopping season, and please if you use Amazon, use the link above in the banner to buy from them. It helps me out and does nothing but may help you. For those that rather copy and paste, here is the link: http://www.amazon.com/?_encoding=UTF8&tag=kittyinaz-20 Thanks!!
Murphy!
Good news on that front. He got his shots on Saturday with the normal Vet we use. They are trying to find some flea medicine to use with him since the medication on his mange is really strong. His fur is coming in, and you have above adorable pics last night as he slept while I edited. And yes, that is his tongue sticking out. He is getting the idea of house training, he is actually going to people before he goes inside. The problem is we have no idea if it is for affection or to go out. But he is telling us!
For now, I will let you soak in these things as I introduce the Person of the Week!
This week is Naima Demars.
This woman is amazing. She has never failed to help out in anything we have asked, or to take up causes she finds. If you are on Facebook, you know this woman as the person who shares updates on FanFiction Lovers as well as SVM/TB FanFiction. She was the one who spread the word on the You Got Blood Awards, and who also helped spread the word on the Plagarists. I even saw her comments on the person’s stories that she told them which stories they stole it from!!!!
She is so very loyal to those she sees as friends. Even though English is not her first language, she works with us English speakers. I am constantly amazed.
So please, leave her a kind word on her wall in Facebook. She more than deserves the credit for working to see the SVM/TB Fandom not dying as many have seem to have done. We well appreciate her efforts and continue writing, knowing she will be there cheering us on!
Have fun this week, and I will see if I can get a IND chapter done now.
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