Just to let you guys know, The website will be down on October 18-20th. We are moving the site to a different set up that will make it easier for us since this theme is n not keeping up with updates.
Sorry for the inconvenience, but hopefully this move will solve a bunch of headaches for us on the backend that we have been dealing with.
Kittyinaz
Am I posting an actual update!?!?!?!?
Why….
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Yes, I am!!!
I am going to try to get these chapters out so I can write more and not feel guilty about leaving you guys hanging.
There is news though.
The site is going to have a renovation to it. Ms. Robin and I talked today. And I paid for the new site layout, so once she has time, she will be moving the site to the new theme. We will try to coordinate things since I do work now and part of being Assistant Manager was that I worked every other Saturday.
I am trying to get time to myself, but with that title comes responsibilities. Like last week, I needed to finish a quick quilt top for us to display. Once I get it quilted I will take a pic of it and show it to you guys. It was gorgeous! I have to still get some things down, but I will pic one week to work and so on. I have finally gotten it into people’s minds that I have a life besides making quilts. It is my hobby but writing is my passion.
So without much more to say, here is the chapter.
Enjoy!!!
Kittyinaz.
PS, 4PAdfoot wanted me to remind you guys there is a donation button. IT is for year long, and it goes ONLY to the site maintenance. I will be donating to it myself next week. I never realized that she has been paying close to $60 a month for this site!
A story was written. It was shockingly well received, and the author started to think of more.
She thought about this idea so much she had dreams and it rolled around her head as she continued to think up new stories. She gained some friends, who supported her completely and she finally voiced the idea, to have everyone shocked then say it was awesome.
With this support, the author went and realized everything tied together, though no one else could fully understand it, they supported her and she made a prophecy to help guide others to begin to see the possibilities.
And she started world building on a huge grand scale, thrilled to be able to loosen the bounds of her imagination, to dream of whatever she wanted.
Then things happened as they do. Life got in the way, friends fell on the wayside, and the author was convinced of writing to publish it for money. While this frightened her, she agreed and started working towards it, scratching ideas and trying to work it out to be stories that others would like.
Life got in the way as well as the doubts from the author and these ideas fell to the side. Trying to change stories to not give away things, made it where the author fought against her subconscious, and ended up stressing her out, and working to the point that her ideas stalemated and nothing worked.
She went and learned something new, quilting. It helped relax her (though she kinda overdid it as normal) and it ended up leading her to this point. No one is to blame for this, cause who would know it would cause stress to the point that the words would not flow anymore. It took a while but some realizations have come forth.
I have a job, but I don’t need it.
I can quilt and make stuff, but while it is fun, I long to write.
So late the other night while insomnia was working its wiles on me, I thought, ‘why not do what I originally planned? Why not write a world built on ideas that others started and that I turn to be my own? If it gets somehow seen and wanted for publishing, then I can deal with that then.’
Right now? I want to have fun, write my ideas down, and see if the rest of the world wants to read it.
What does this mean?
I am back.
I am changing back one story to be back to Damon and Bella since that is what it is written for, and it will make sense hopefully to others then. Though the ideas will stay. Which to be honest, I ended up seeing them as Bella and Damon, and when I changed it, the story got lost.
I am going to start with whatever I feel like, but secretly hopefully, I will finish Tea Shoppe also since I need to talk to the beta for that one and see what we are doing. But I will say this, I seem to be falling in love with Damon again, so I am starting on that sequel you guys were waiting on. The one that got sidetracked when I tried to remove the back story from.
And for all of you guys who wrote reviews, you are the ones who inspired this. You are the ones who made me realize that writing what I want was better than writing nothing. And I hope you enjoy me being back.
And now for the Prophecy…..
I will translate for those who cannot later…. Have fun deciphering it. I will tell you now, that some of these events have already happened…
I know a lot of you are wondering where the heck am I? And what is going on with your stories?
Well, here is a sort of an answer. I am not abandoning anything. But there are complications.
M (aka Mr. Kittyinaz, but he wanted to be known as M), asked me to get a job to 1) have some money coming in from another source, and 2) to get me out of the house and make some friends. He had told me over and over that, for the most part, the money would be for me unless we needed it for bills. He only wanted a part-time job that would not aggravate anything to do with stress.
I did get that job in October, and it has been fun. It is at a quilt shop called AllBrands.com aka Sew Contempo. I have been learning tons of stuff and finally getting somewhat knowledgeable about my job, and comfortable with being there. Then I was thrown a loop in the middle of December, of being asked to become assistant manager of the location I am at. Basically, I would be handling the administrative side while the manager does what she is best at, selling machines. I am taking over the displays and so on while listening to the input of everyone who has worked there for a while.
It’s still part-time for now, (which I say since I can be bumped up to fulltime at any time) but it’s still fun. We are hammering out some details, but it is all settling down and we are moving forward on my plans and so on. It’s only a bit above minimum wage, but for me the discounts are awesome.
Which brings me to what is going on in my life. I am working on some quilts and display things, along with finishing some quilts and making me one for my bed since I had to retire my old one. No biggies, but when you work from 8-6, on your feet all day, it takes up a lot of time. I am starting to settle into what is going on, and maybe with no holidays and so on going on, I can move forward on getting things ready for me to return to my big love, writing!
I think of writing each day, and hopefully, after I finish some quilts for displays and so on, I can move back to balancing my RL and being able to indulge in writing again.
For the writing contest, I received only one entry, and I hope to work on the banner to the author since she well deserves it.
For now, please bear with me. I never expected a way for me to relax away from writing, turn into what it has, but the more it goes on, the more I am wanting to return to writing. It’s just now, M and I are starting to relax, sit down and start talking about what we can do for making the house the way we want, with the big renovation being making us a master suite. At the same time, we are also making it easier for me to work in my office/hobby room. Cutting tables are a huge plus!!!
So, I am off to work on the baby quilt so I can get that out of my way, and relax into making everything else I have. I hate having something hanging over me, but I do like the term that quilters use for these things, UFO’s. UnFinished Objects. I think I will adopt that for my stories as well. It seems to make it more fun, but at the same time, where I want no more UFO’s hanging about. They might kidnap me!
But my Facebook Group is the reason you are getting this contest this year.
They had a choice to vote for prompts or for a theme, and I chose Home for the Holidays for the Theme. The Banner built itself for the most point, so I give the kudos to it.
Click on the Banner to be taken to the Contest page, we will get it linked into the general site later. The contest entries need to be in by 12/10/18. IF you need an extension, please contact me on Facebook or at the email on the contest page.
Can’t wait to see if anyone is inspired!
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