But, I wanted to remind you guys the contest is going on. If you are not reading these entries, you are losing out on some great writers and their contributions!!!!
So please click on the link below, and just read these awesome stories. Your votes count. (The link works now, I forgot to add it in… oops!)
Right now I am going to be working on editing, and I look forward to hearing from you guys!!!!
Thanks!
Again, thanks for everyone’s patience. I am fighting another headache, so this may be the last you see of me for awhile.
Ok..
I am doing something new. On the February Writing Challenge page, please comment which story banner you think is the best. Why am I doing this? Cause I spend a lot of time doing these. The banners took me two days to make, and each is individual to the story the are for. To be blunt, these are some of the best ones I have made. Maybe I need to get sick more often when I make them?
The winning banners will be given a ribbon also to show your favorites. I will let you guys figure out what to do with it. Judge on how they fit the story, the most artistic, whatever you want. Have fun with it. I had mine playing with them!
And the stories!!!
There is one. Yes, one TB/SVM, one Inuyasha, one Alice 2009, one Harry Potter and 2 Originals (aka TVD). This is a varied cast, and caused me to dive into Google for images left and right. I will say Photoshop and I had an argument on His Boots. I have to go back on that one and recreate it. Won’t be hard, but I admit Photoshop was sneaky and erased the original file that has the details on it, while leaving me the jpeg.
Stupid Photoshop.
Also… Next month’s contest is ready to go.
Here is the deal. We go in a system. Quotes, songs, pics. Repeat. We had ALL of the carols for Christmas being done for songs last time, we had the lady in the lake pic, and the quote last time. This time is a song. The song is Feel Again by OneRepublic. For those that know me, you know I love this group. But since I cannot figure out what story will get the song, since they all want it, I figured if it inspires me so much, then it can inspire you guys.
What do you have to do? Be inspired by the song. Listen to it, and if possible, drop a line from the song into the story. If you can’t work it in, then that is fine. As normal now, any fandom I write in, you can use.
The banner below is the one for the new contest (and has the link to the page that has a video of the song in case you never heard it):
And this is the banner for this month’s current contest. You have until the end of the 15th to vote, same rules as always. There are some great entries, and I am excited by the chance we have to show these wonderful authors how much we appreciate it!!! Leave some reviews, and as you guys know, the authors can respond when the contest is over. No telling who is what, we want this to be fair. I hope you guys love your banners, thanks so much for the opportunity to make them for you!
Enjoy and I will catch you guys on the flip side!
Yeah, the Harry Potter is a day late. But we are not a dollar short as I mention above!
I guess I will say Friday-Saturday for the posts. A lot of time it is my fault. Especially this week. My hubs took me out Thursday and Then I spend the day with my Grandmother on Friday, with the night being whatever we are up to.
Last night we had dog crates since Murphy has vastly outgrown his crate. (Yeah!!!) He is growing still, so I highly doubt his 9 months age that we were given.. he is taller than Connor! He is running or rather hopping around the house still. It is awesome. Truly.
While we were out, I fell in love with a grey/white cat in PetsMart. I am working on Mr. Kittyinaz. For those that know me, Morgan went missing the day we found Murphy. No sign of her anywhere. Tucker is missing her as well as Connor and I. But I saw this kitty, and I want her so much. I wondered if she was playful, and as if understanding what I said, she went sneaking through the playhouse and attacked the other kitties, tail. LOL!
Besides that, I greatly thank each and everyone of you for your messages. They helped, since for a long time I have been only receiving messages of please update this story. In fact, one of my ladies sent me a message, and the email under that was a request. For an update from another forum. It just made me laugh. I needed it, since if anyone who follows me, I haven’t been online much. My hubs told me to take a break. He has since learned of what happened that day for me to react finally, and admits there was a reason. Maybe not the best, but there was a reason. Though I have heard in many private messages that other writers are having the same issues. There is a limit on when that request for updates weigh in on people. It turns from a request to feeling like demands when they themselves may be stressed in RL. It happens to all of us. We are only human.
Just think about it when you say, please update soon, or can you please update this story? Maybe say, I really enjoy this story and look forward to when you have time to write another chapter? Just a suggestions. Again, it’s not just me having rough times, sadly, these times seem to weigh heavily on a lot of us.
ok enough with that.
Good news?
I had a dream!!!!
LOL. I bet a lot of you who are new, are going WTF? Let me tell a little story. ITE, The Best, ED, You’re and so on started off as dreams. Many of my stories do, and depending how the muse is, depends on how many dreams I have on it.
Which story had the dream?
Let me give you a hint….
Yep!!!! And the dream was not even close to what I had thought! I will warn people.. There is a part of the story I was shocked my brain came up with, but I will say that the title is very apt….
So when I finish up a bunch of housekeeping stuff on the site and getting some chapters ready for next week… I will be writing out that one so I don’t forget. No one minds right?
During this, my muse is being a very busy muse, thinking on the Original stuff, and throwing out ideas and such. I am looking forward to finishing editing. AS long as I have time…
One of the housekeeping deals is linking some stories to the challenge from last month, as well as some stories to the banners I have done in the Adopt a Banner page. I also have a Tin Man newly revised chapter to replace. I think we are getting close to the new stuff. I hope so!!!
A reminder, I will be also starting to work on the submissions to the current month writing contest, which tonight is the last day to get your submitted! I have the next two months figured out. And the picture one will be quite interesting per the comments on Facebook…
Also, I have joined Spotify. In the group, I have done playlists for the currently being updated stories. Then there is 4Padfoot being more than awesome and working on another way to get the music to the top of the chapters. There is a playlist for Such a Heavenly View, as well as the song list on the side for Amazon has been updated with the song…
The chapter for today is here:
As always, Huge Kudos to my Beta!!! Please, if you haven’t gone to read her stuff, all I can say is her HP stuff is awesome. Then there is Damon/Bella and even Loki/Bella. She is truly the bomb, go read her please!!!
And I am off to work on other stuff, including the post I was doing yesterday on the death of one of my heroes…
p.s. Thanks to 4padfoot for my new signature!
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:
Inuyasha:
Once Upon A Time
Tin Man
True Blood
Twilighted Stories:
Charmed/Twilight
Harry Potter/Twilight
Lord of the Ring/Twilight
The Mummy/Twilight
True Blood/Twilight
Vampire Diaries/Twilight
Anthem of Angels Universe:
Original Novels:
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.
Yes, I moonlight once in awhile as a reviewer for the Non-Canon Awards. I do the TB/SVM section, which, is ALL basically Non-Canon. Hehehehe….
I decided to get back in the mood for the TB/SVM world, the same mood I was in when I started in this awesome fandom. I actually started in my Blog List, wanting to visit old haunts that I haven’t seen in awhile. The first on the list? Gabriella. She had a story I had read a lot of the beginning, but halfway through, I found I couldn’t remember the rest of the story. Score! A reread of a story that I didn’t know the ending of, it was completed as well being a HEA! See, I don’t do NonHEA, so if it is a rec of mine, it has a HEA. (more…)
Yeah!!!
The results are in for the January 2015 Writing Challenge. And I will admit, I was so shocked on who wrote what!!!
It is my honor to host these contest and read these amazing stories. I love that not even I can tell who writes what, and some are often my betas! This time, without knowing who won what, I read the results from the golden envelope 4Padfoot gave me, and asked the betas, if we can do 4 places. You made your opinion clear, and we acted on it!! Yes.. There are 4 places… And there were over 200 votes!
Just so you know, Charissa is the one in charge of the entries, and giving me the stories, and then when I am ready for the names, gives me them for the banners. She gives them to me after 4Padfoot sends me the results. And they send them in separate Messages, so no one but I am the one to know everything at the end. Yeah complicated, but it works for it!
Without much ado, here are the winners:
Writers, feel free to respond to your reviews, and to grab the banners with your name on them. They are now yours, and I very gratefully thank you all for participating in the contest. I hope you are inspired in the future by a contest.
To read the entries again, please click on the above banner to be taken to the contest page. I updated everything, and many thanks to 4Padfoot for all her hardwork to make the site look awesome. She made it a breeze to get through the updating.
For those that were wondering where the chapters went, well HP is delayed until this week’s posting. When I tell you RL takes precedence, I am not kidding. The chapter is ready, but I will publish it Friday, and hope the beta in charge of the story has a chance to get better. My betas health is more important than getting chapters out.
Today’s was another instance. But the beta had it ready for me late yesterday, but I am not on the computer on Sundays. I will say that I cheered this chapter. Eric gets a haircut!! I have tons of pictures of him with short hair, but hardly any of him with the long hair as you guys could probably be able to tell. So from now on, I will be able to dip into my artsy side for the chapter banners.
As for where I am, I am working on Tin Man, which will probably go pretty quickly. Then I will be getting the rest of the stories out. It may a couple of weeks, but we will see the rest of the chapters come out from the betas. Hopefully, I will be working on the original story at that time.
Once I am done with the rough draft, I will be starting on the other stories, but there will be a short time until I undertake editing, my old way adding lots of stuff to it, and then I will have to figure out what to do with the finished thing. Well after the betas all get their hands on it. Yes, I am not taking a chance, and with all the wonderful betas I have, I am hoping that it will be pretty good.
As for personally, all I can say is that the weather. WE will be going from 76 yesterday to 30’s today. And for the next few days we will be cold, then warm up then repeat. Mamakitty has already gotten bronchitis from the wonderful weather and DadKitty is getting sick. ::knocking on wood:: that my hubby and I don’t catch it. Flu season has hit Houston badly, and it doesn’t look like the weather will be helping!
But I have a warm Connor on my feet, my fingerless gloves on, and I am working on staying healthy. I need to get to writing the new stuff for all our sakes!
Click on any of the Amazon ad’s around, to be taken to the site with my tag and I will get credit. Also, Don’t forget, I add the newest songs for the chapters I update on the mp3. 4Padfoot and I were talking about trying to add the music to the chapters also. Unfortunately, due to the weather on her end, we had to sideline that right now. Stinkin’ weather!
There is a contest over at the Non-Canon Awards going on for crossovers. As a judge, I cannot enter, but I encourage you all to enter! It has been extended…
The February Writing Contest is up and waiting on entries.
I think that is everything. Enjoy the chapters!
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