The Kill Bill Contest is ending tonight!!!
Please have your entries in no later than midnight CST. After they are in, it will take some time for me to make the Banners for each.
Please click on the Banner above for more information. And if you have submitted, please grab it for your participation banner for this month!
I just wanted to say Happy Thanksgiving to each and every one of you wonderful people!
I just got back from the Kittyinaz Family Meal. We had two types of fried turkey, a baked one (For the stuffing) and a ham. then we had tons of sides, the best being my sister in law’s sweet potato casserole. I think nothing was left over but that tiny bite that no one wants to take.
Then we had 5 pumpkin pies, my Pumpkin cheesecake (Made for Grandma!) 2 pecan pies and some chocolate one.
Mr Kittyinaz has to work tomorrow so we came home. Murphy is all happy we are home, since he is not trusted, and Connor is just happy someone is home. As I am typing this up, they are fighting under the desk for the spot. Fun!
What have I been up to?
We made a new Facebook group for anyone that has questions, especially geared towards FanFiction writers moving to WordPress. I have answered the same questions for people, and figured making a group to help newcomers out will benefit all of us. The WordPess Whisperer is also one of the ladies as well as Queen of Area Five, hisviks and some of the ladies who work with me all are part of the group to help answer questions. We hope you take advantage of the opportunity. Click the banner above to be taken to the group, it is called WordPress Help for FanFiction. It is an open group.
I also been dragging Christmas stuff out, since normally I try to do it and shopping tomorrow. Not happening this year with Mr. Kittyinaz working. the check coming will be nice, but the time he must work for it sucks. this is why I am pushing to get stuff out to the betas so I can sit back and write.
Just a reminder for the Black Friday, Amazon has a bunch of specials, and please use the banner to be taken to the site for shopping. As long as you use it to go to the site, you can sign in as yourself and I still get the credit if you use the log on button. Please help out, it will cost you nothing at all as you use Amazon, but can give me some extra dollars.
I am going to finish tomorrow decorating/cleaning. I think the last thing will be the tree, and I gotta wait for Mr. Kittyinaz to come home and drag the tree in for me. I will then be sitting down here at the computer. I hoped to write for this week, but it looks like I need to head back into editing. I am going to be finishing up the Mummy Crossover, then head back into IND to write up some chapters for you guys, then finish up with the chapters for stories that I have started, or have chapters for. What If is top of that list.
So enjoy your holidays, be safe out there, and I will see you guys hopefully next week with updates!
Seriously!!!
Her stories are down. All of them. Harley, who was the secret ok’r for me to start publishing, is thrilled. So am I!!!
First all, I am so really thankful to all of you for what you did. You stood alongside me, and I heard so few (Like under 5) naysayers but had hundreds of people pour in their support. This is amazing. I really hate to go through and post another post today on all my FanFiction, but I am unsure what to do. I have so many people who follow me!!! I think I will reload the page for my readers to know it was resolved…
Harley’s thank you can be found here:
Now for the bad news.
I will be moving myself off of FanFiction. It should have never come down to this. This should have been solved the first time we brought it up months ago, and we move on with our lives. Instead, Harley lost all those reviews, and for what? A petty disagreement on the behalf of the Plagiarist? A cheap shot?
This worries me. Seriously. Think of what this can mean. IF someone doesn’t like you, they can report you and get everything deleted.
I have my stories elsewhere, and I will admit, I am a packrat and keep every single review in my inbox on my email. All sorted into folders for each story split into their bigger parts. C’mon. This is me!!!! Not organize it?!!?!? Yeah right!
But for others… this is not an option. I did it because I had a wise mentor who told me to do it, to be able to just open a folder and see all the people who have reviewed. My first story? 259. 184 of those come from FanFiction. 821 is the highest reviews from FanFiction.. but per my count, 1,320. Wow.. There is a reason I am going to do Edge first. Dang do you guys rock!!! You’re will be next since it is 42 off from a thousand.
But still. This is not an option for many. So FanFiction rips that little thrill from Harley and others it has deleted. And it leaves many of her readers confused for awhile on if she is posting or stopped. Not right.
So… I will be moving to posting only on sites that don’t require my beta Meridian to spend extra time to rip out the items that would violate TOS. It is hard enough to post on other sites. I will miss the traffic I get from FanFiction, but can you guys really blame me? No matter how careful I am, all it will take is someone being petty to have it all ripped away anyways.
I do post on TWCS (Thanks! You know who!!!) A03, and here. FictionPad is another place I am posting. I am looking into BetterinTexas, but since I got this site, I am not seeing me moving over there also.
We will do this in a way that there is no doubt to the readers of the stories that they are moved. Everything will be finished. For the lady who asked about Tea Shoppe, it is being reworked since when I went back to it, I can’t write in past tense anymore. It messed it all up and I spent more time trying to figure out the right word than paying attention to the story. It is still a favorite. I am clearing the slate of the smaller stories so I can concentrate on the epic ones better.
For now, celebrate the win as we all are. (I’m opening up my Appletini!) Read the new Mummy Chapter. I am making the banner for Cross the line, but the chapter is ready to go. Give me some time before you click the Cross the Line banner below.
Mummy:
Cross The Line:
Remember, this is the last story post until Monday, December 1st for stories. My ladies are taking a time out for their families.
Also, I had one lady kindly ask me for an update on Murphy. So here it is:
He is off the Allergy pills as of today. He an Connor played all day, woke me up as they ran masquerading as a herd of elephants up and down my hallway. He is starting to grow his hair, and his head is no longer stiff and coarse. There is no bones showing on him now, beyond healthy. This little dog is a fighter, a survivor. He is adorable. Now if he will only learn to be potty trained….
See you guys later (Since you know I will wish you Happy Thanksgiving!!!)
Yesterday, I was out with an attack from the mother of us all. If you follow me on Facebook, or especially if you have been around on Facebook you will know what I am talking about. For the rest of you, you can just wonder.
So what happened?!?!?
The thief, that stole stories, has come back out and attacked one of my friends.
Not acceptable.
Not at all.
So. I will tell you what I have gathered. A lot of people are angry. So angry that they are taking action. Which I full heartedly agree with. They are keeping this clean folks, we are not descending down to her level. But we refuse to be silent, since that has done nothing but make her think she can continue to do things.
I seriously believe that this person is young, or young in mind. The way she goes about things is not mature, nor is it something that a bunch of adults need to deal with, but since there seems no stopping, there is a time that you have to say stop.
But, Kitty, you are replying to her! You are feeding the troll, you are giving her the attention she craves!
I will answer to this. I ignored her. My friends ignored her. And she didn’t quit. We took the very high road. And she did not learn a lesson. Instead she acted out on accounts she has POSTED that are hers but she is not able to access. This smacks of a young person who does not think the consequences of her actions all the way through. It may have been good enough in school, but this is the real life, and the world doesn’t operate like that.
She has been warned. But she has not learned a lesson. She has somehow got it in her head that this is allowable. That she has some right by being published on Amazon that allows her to be better than the rest of us. That she is right.
I’m sorry, but lessons in real life are about to commence. We are taking a stand, and asking others to join us in this. Over on Bertie Bott’s site, there is a petition going on. I highly recommend you go there and participate in it. One stand instead of many might get the attention of FanFiction.
There are advocators for the rights of FanFiction writers. While I get traffic from FanFiction and use them to gain interest from stories, their attitude that FanFiction Writers have no rights, has gained me nothing but disgust for them.
So here is my plan. I will reply to Bertie‘s petition. Then I will do my own campaigning, taking this morning to report each and every story. I know there is more plagiarizing going on, and I have asked for people to read her stories, to check for their own being stolen. There are storylines I have seen being taken from stories I have read on Twilight, she is now writing for other fandoms to help hide her tracks. It isn’t working very well if I noticed. So I will report the stories.
If I am taken off FanFiction since I have the audacity to complain about another author, say la vie. Less work for me to update on. I will NOT be working any new stories to the site. The stories that are there, well they will be stopped soon. Sorry for the FanFiction readers, but this is my stand.
FanFiction repeatedly erases others works without the courtesy of warning them as an adult will. They refuse to be adults, so why should I continue to treat them like the children they are. Will this hurt me? Maybe. But I like to think I am established enough to make that decision. I will post a summary of any stories I write so they can be teased with what they are missing.
I am taking a stand, and I am tired of the idiocy that has overtaken the world. Plagiarism is WRONG. It is stealing and there is no religion in the world that accepts this as acceptable. This person thinks she is above the law, above the acceptable society acceptable norm. She thinks she is above us all, and treats the rules as not even a guideline to what is acceptable.
Basically. I will be reposting on my reblog all of the responses to all of this, and I highly recommend that you read them all. I also highly recommend you sign up on Bertie‘s petition. And finally. The person who has borne this attack.
Go to her site and follow her. Do it because she is a kickass author that deserves none of this.
Do it because it is the right thing to do.
Do it to show your support behind someone who only defended herself and had her stories removed from FanFiction.
Again, I am tired of this, and I am done with so much of it. And I will do what I can before I am probably taken off. I will break TOS in FanFiction to post on EVERY story I have about what has happened. What I think. So expect to see this post everywhere.
And if you don’t believe all this, I would like to redirect you to the actual exchanges I had with her on the subject that I posted here before:
For anyone needing these screens shots and so on, I have the actual emails I am able to forward on this.
Also. Sorry guys. But I will NOT be posting any stories until this is taken care of. Especially not on FanFiction. I know you guys are thinking this is a punishment, but hell. I am taking a stand and doing on of the things I think will tell of my stand on this. It is one of the ways I am trying to help. I will not post a single story or chapter on any site until this is resolved.
There will be radio silence until this is taken care of. The only things you will hear about is about this situation.
This is my line in the sand, and I will not back down. That line might as well be in concrete.
Thanks for your support.
Wendy aka Kittyinaz.
Have you ever had one of those days that nothing seemed to go right? That was yesterday. I got to the point that I was ready to throw my hand sup and say fuck it. Yes. I actually said the word instead of Duck. That should tell you that I didn’t care about Autotcorrect, to say what I wanted, I would fight the damn thing.
My phone was acting up. And wouldn’t sync a new song that I have drove everyone crazy trying to guess this song from NFL games and Marty’s Madden 15. All I could hear was the damn beat, however, I wanted the song. It ended up being Dangerous by Big Data. Thank you Siri. When a song catches my attention with the beat, it is safe to say it is on it’s way to inspire a chapter or something that I will be typing huge amounts of words when I figure out what story it fits. Right now.. the next You’re (which is not on the board to start) is playing around since I could see the song being perfect for Damon…..
Anywho, I wanted the song on my phone. I ended up having to reset the entire phone, which happened after I ended up deleting my major playlist off my computer from my phone. WTFH?!?!?!?!
Oh yes. There was a lot of that going on…. And cussing and so on. So I had to rebuild the dang list, and do you know how hard that is?!?! It is an ongoing piece of work, that I delete songs and add songs on all the time. I basically didn’t load the ones I know I have kicked off the list for sure, but I am having to listen to them all and am continually deleting songs. To give you an idea, this is the list I normally put anything that may inspire me to write more. Instead of allowing it to run in the background until my subconscious clicks and screams with the voice of one of the muses, “THERE!!! That ONE. Use IT!!!!” Yes, they scream loudly.
During this, my dad was home, complaining how Murphy, who we have had for 2 weeks now, isn’t potty trained yet. Really?!?!?!? Cue another head bang.
Then I remembered that I didn’t finish the chapter for this week’s Cross The Line. I left off to finish that one, ready to turn the above head bang into other outlets, and instead, my muse came out of left field. She laughed at my ideas of where the story was going to go, and forcefully wrenched my head out of planning tortures and the like, to the course she decided on. I was not happy. I wanted to let lose Gabriel and allow him to have fun. Oh what she did was Amazing, it was Stupendous!! It blew me away and I love it. But I wanted to torture someone.
In the attempt to save something from my brain, I won’t bang my head anymore. Never mind that crap. Pillow anyone?!?!
There that is better… and it makes you want to bang your head more s you look at it…
So I went to make dinner, while still fighting with my phone for not loading 500+ songs for unknown reason. But it did load the song I was after. Win or lose?!?!
But I did find some songs like Candy and some others I had forgotten I owned. For good and bad. Some I am still trying to figure out who loaded them on my computer.
ugh
Matter went on to make yesterday where my head hurt too much to head bang.
Cue today. Dogs. Yes Plural. Connor included, decided that today would be a day to test mommy. TO pee on the floor. Where I know who did what…
Then I noticed that I didn’t make FFN banners for my stories Wisdom, lost and found the Mummy one, and for the hell of it, made one for the Songs of Alice. Up above is the one for Wisdom, and as I mentioned I found the Mummy one and it is loaded. The Alice one? Yeah I got fancy and make a collage. I make them, I don’t have photoshop do them. I made it way too hard on myself in the end. Typical.
We can’t forget the family drama, that if I wrote it up, you wouldn’t believe it. Any of it. And next week it will be part of the Thanksgiving holiday. Oh Joy.
That is my life. In two lousy days this has come down on me, and I am ready to run for the hills. And they call me crazy?!? You have to be to deal with all this!!
But… Bertie Bott, who is having her own set of woes, worked to give you this chapter. She worked HARD!!!! SO you need to give her kudos. I will when she comes back. I just hope she didn’t decide to run off on me…
So click on the banner above for the new chapter. We have 2 more before this part of the story is done. I am STILL trying to work on Mummy, and then move on to Heavenly get a one shot out, and all the fun we have going on.
After the Mummy’s post, this site will be pretty much quiet. I gave the time off, and I will be using some of it to relax, to get ahead of my awesome betas, and to deal with the above mess while I cook for people.
So reminders!
Please use the link. Costs you nothing, gives me money for you clicking on it aka referring from my site. Thanks!!!
Kill Bill. Due on the night of the 30th.
Banner contest for the Facebook ladies, it is a Christmas theme. Have at it, and due on the 29th so we can vote on the banner for the month of December.
The interview. Will be done once I can get back to IND. I am trying!!!!
I think that is everything. If I forgot… Sorry!!! Enjoy the chapter!
This is not your normal post. I am online to do a class for Photoshop, well to do as many as I can, but I remembered I never formally did the post for the contest.
Oops.
So here it is. Kill Bill.
This is because I had a lot of people ask for it, and decided to go ahead and host it. I am going to see what the response is, and even if we want to do another. I do have other contests, including one for Christmas. Its playing around in my head, so I will let you guys know then.
Here are the rules:
Must use prompt(s). You either have to Kill Bill from True Blood/SVM OR mention the line Kill Bill in the story. Nothing more, nothing less!
Use characters in my stories.(Though you will get extra credit for doing this!)
No letting anyone knowing which story is yours.
If you submit, you can grab the Banner for Participating for the month.
If explicit, you need to warn people in the title.
All entries must be received by kittyinazwritingchallenges@gmail.com by Midnight CST at the end of the last day of the month.
To enter, you can send it to the Kittyinazsbetas@gmail.com or to the Writing Contest email, KittyinazWritingChallenges@gmail.com by midnight on November 30th 2014 CST. These are both permanent email addresses that Rissa checks for entries and really anything. Please include the name you want on the banners when the contest is over for Rissa to send to me. She sends the stories to me, and erases any way of me knowing who wrote what. They are due by the end of the month, and give me a few days to do the banners. If you wish to send them in early, please do, I will be able to do the banners ahead of time, and get them ready for publishing early.
The banner above is the Participation banner for the contest.
That’s it!
And so I don’t have to do another Post to tell you, The Cross the Line chapter is ready over at the Anthem of the Angels. Please remember to sign up for receiving the emails. There are times I may not be able to post the chapter, and the betas can do it for me. Thanks!
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