Yep, it is that chapter of Clocks. Late, but then…
One – There is a movie playing in the middle. It was supposed to be a gif, but nobody would use it (WordPress and FB gave me issues). Then it played too fast. I adjusted timing. It is still fast. All I can think is that movies are faster than gifs.
Two – As many of you know, I am often sick. I don’t work and this is often because of all the crap I deal with. Lately, it seems to be hitting me harder, but thank God that I am not in the middle of the worst of the depression. Most of the time we know what will set it off, and do try as hard as we can to make sure I don’t have that happening. But sometimes, it just comes, and I feel exhausted all the time. My body is rebelling against me, and I often want to curl up in bed and rock myself.
The fun part? No one knows what is wrong with me. I need my own House, MD. The best anyone has figured out is that it may be many problems going on, and they play off each other. If my insomnia acts up, I get sick. If my tummy doesn’t like anything I eat, the insomnia ends up being worse, and I get sick. If my back starts hurting and spasming, all the above happens.
The good news? The pills (Bio – X4) do work. I am NOWHERE close to what made me lose my job because of the constant pain and the inability to leave the house. I don’t think I can take that again. There are side effects to it, however, none of them are bad for me. They might cause others to hate them, but for me? Nothing. Nowhere close to what I was dealing with. It’s mostly the pure exhaustion that is wiping me out. I want to sleep, and my mind laughs evilly at me.
I may only sleep 4-5 hours, but hey, it is sooo much better than the none or 1 hour I had before. (I am taking something from Target called Olly Restful Sleep. It has melatonin plus something else to help quiet the brain.) I am trying to be better, though last week was a fail on all accounts. And I found out what happens if I get off the pills and everything.
So I have this week’s chapter ready, and of course, the ladies in my group were leaked all sorts of stuff and have been reading it as I write this. I am sorry there are not more pics, but frustration has gotten the better of me.
I will be back to working on the timeline of In The End this week. Also, I have a very awesome lady, named MissPharao who went through In The End and corrected all those German translations for me. I have to correct a banner still, and then upload all the corrected chapters to all the places. I will do this, but later. I really want to get to writing this stuff out.
I just wanted to tell you guys what is going on, why I am falling behind on obligations and so on. I really wish my health would listen to me, but then, if it did, I would probably be still working. I also wanted to let those out there that suffer, there are others going through it. I am not trying to get sympathy, I am just telling you what is going on. Frankly, I don’t want it. I am needing the anger to get me up. The more I get up and deal with things, the more I will win over this. Obviously, there are times I give up. (last week) However, I am now happier to be here working, helping others out.
Also, please don’t forget to read and vote for the Writing contest entries!!!! As well as there is the new one ready for you to enter.
Here is the contest that I spoke about in the Kittyinaz’s Facebook group.
The Soulmate Prompt Challenge.
For those that follow me personally, know I share a lot of stuff on Facebook. Seriously, tons of stuff. One of the things I love is the Best of Tumblr. One of my first betas that I still follow turned me on it, and I share so much of it.
Lately, some of the ladies that have friended me have commented that the ones about soulmates would work for a writing contest. Many of them were inspired by the prompt, and after talking about it, I decided that I would make it into the next contest.
Except, that it has come very late due to all the issues I have had.
Now, I have changed one of the rules, but I have also explained WHY I enacted this rule to begin with. I am talking about it being fandoms that I write in. The reason I did this one is so that the people who take that chance and write, will have readers that are geared towards reading their fics.
However, I figured I would put the WHY and then relax that rule. If you want to write in another fandom, then please do! I want this to encourage the muses to get their chosen to put fingers to keyboards and share their amazing talents. Would I have entered something like this when I started? Heck yeah!!!
Why?
I am entered with others, in a way no one would know which piece was mine. They would read and comment on them without knowing if I was a well-known author or if this is my first work. The fact that ANYONE can enter would make me nervous, but at the same time, as I read the reviews, well it would be hard to not say who I was.
It is also why I am adamant on the rules being followed. If I ever find someone letting others know WHICH story they entered, I will pull the story. Now letting others know you ENTERED? Heck yeah!!! Get it out there!!! See how many try to guess which is yours!!! For knowing others and their writing styles, I still guess wrong. And I am the one making the banners!!!
Yes, I have no idea who is who when I do the banners, in fact, no one BUT Rissa knows who is who. (And if you can make it easier on her, make sure your story itself doesn’t have your name in it!!!) She strips out anything that would give it away to me. That way when I am done, I can ask her who is who. And even then, (unless I am going on vacation or extenuating circumstances come up) I don’t find out until AFTER the contest is finished.
4Padfoot gives me who wins and at the same time, Rissa gives me who wrote what.
So, you are probably thinking that I am not giving you a lot of time to do this right? How about until the 15th of JUNE? That is right, I am giving until the middle of next month to write this. And I am giving myself time to get the banners done. I am aiming to have the stories up at the beginning of the month, or earlier if I finish the banners in time. I will be doing this from now on, giving until the 15th of the next month to get the stories in.
This will mean if you are close to finishing, pop over to Rissa, and let her know. If you ask, we will discuss and it will be likely you are given an extension, as long as you finish before I post them. You still have to give me time for the banner, or it will basic and no one deserves that.
So here are the prompts:
Musical Prompt:
Clock Prompt:
Photo Prompt:
Swapping Bodies Prompt:
The main banner up top takes you to the writing contest page that also has the Tumblr post that the prompts are based upon. It also explains the rules more, that the prompts are not needed to be used word for word. They are just there to stir the muses. Please let us know which one(s) inspired your story in your emails.
I look forward to reading them all (a definite perk of all of this!!) and seeing what you inspire me to come up with as a banner.
For those that were looking for a chapter, well, you might get one, for a certain story that you all love. We will see what time I will have and how I feel.
Yep, you read it right. I have finally gotten with everyone to get this together.
This is mostly (99.9%) my fail. Real life jumped in and smacked me around, threw me down some stairs, and stood up at the top of them laughing at me.
I have had everything to losing over 1k of my pictures (all the background pics people. Seriously panicked), my computer kept shutting down as I made the last banner. No less than 10 times. Then I couldn’t get back on the computer. After all that, I was so sick I couldn’t even talk. To finally have a guest for a week. Since I am the one who is home, I was asked to take her around.
We even had wires crossed when I was trying to finish up, and just this was bad on my part.
But finally, I am done.
I have given a week for voting. Please read and comment on these stories. These authors took a chance to write, and I was thrilled to read them both. I got to remake a banner so many times, I thinkI can make it in my sleep now.
Also, for those wondering, I have a contest I am working on, and I am going to give myself some time to relax after this last one, then time to make the banners. No more quick turn-arounds for me to feel as if I failed everyone.
This is one of the ‘fun’ ones.
So off to read the stories, comment to encourage the writers to not give up (And again, I am SOOOO sorry!). Then VOTE!!!!
One, that I really have to thank whoever it is nominating my stories and banners for the BIT awards. Holy Cow!!!!!!!!
Two, that I AM working on In The End. I am currently time lining it as well as True Blood for Season 1 & 2. Seems I like rewriting them. Wonder why?
I am planning to not only finish it, but work on a bunch of stories that need to be finished. The ones that are up for consideration are:
This is NOT a Promise that these will be worked on, or finished. But I want some of these older ones gone to make room in my head for others. And yes, all the banners are links to their stories. I will be continuing to publish on Mondays (or Tuesdays if it happens) and I will be pushing to publish on other sites about that time also.
For now, I am getting my ducks in a row, as well as asking for help on translations. German is taken care of. Now for the rest….
One, that Mother Nature loves laughing at me. Last week we had a cousin we had never met come here to spend a week with us. It was fun, and so was she. Monday we went to Galveston, rode the ferry (and I sprayed a crapload of sunscreen on me!!! so no burns this time!) as well as went to lunch to one of the island local restaurants. The food was awesome. Then we went to walk down the Strand, which is where the Wall Street of the Southwest was in the old days. The architecture and history are amazing, as well as walking into the local shops. The Temp was 89 with 70% humidity. The next day we went to Nasa. Had a blast but after so long (and 87 freaking steps to mission control that almost broke me!!!) in the heat, we were ready to leave. the temp was about the same, with just more humidity. Wednesday was supposed to be rain. Lots of rain. It was a thunderstorm in the morning and that was it. lol! So that night we went bowling, her request. During that time, she mentioned she loved the zoo, so guess where we went Thursday? And it was worse. Heat indexes in the 90’s. Friday was spent visiting and at the Barnes and Nobles. And dinner with Bar-be-que.
Today? 69 freaking degrees at 1pm.
Why?!?!?!?
Two is that as much as I wanted to work, it did me a lot of good to have the time away. Though I vastly prefer the last week to the week spent in bed sicker than a dog. I was eager to get up, finish the banners for the contest, to think up a new one (which once I make it I will showcase it. It is one I have to think of how I want to do it!)I got that all done with and we are waiting only on the master website admin to get home to work on her part.
Three, I have a plan of action that may make you happy or upset. I am going to only publish what I have back from the betas. There is plenty out there, the next chapters of Clocks, The Charmed story and so many more.
Meanwhile, I want to sit down and try to finish some older stories. In The End, Revelations, and a good try to I Never…Did. I want to get them out of my line up and free the areas on my blackboard for some other stories.
I also have a bunch of books for classes on Photoshop and WordPress, that I want to look over.
And my books, I want to work on them without feeling guilty that I am not working on an update for you guys.
So I am going to take the updates and do them once a week until I run out. I am going to go through and work on finishing the other stories so that they are gone. Depending on how things go, I may get back to What If and so on. But I need them done so that I can feel free to work on whatever I like. Lately, I have been working on things for you guys and not paying attention to the need to write. With my new iPAd, I have been going back and reading stories, upset that there are no more chapters for me to read, and I WROTE THE DANG THINGS!
Now, for some news….
Thanks again to everyone who uses the link to Amazon. You just helped pay for a month of Google and Photoshop. My hubby, M, is thrilled that you did this and it isn’t coming out of this pocket.
For those that don’t know, the Amazon link doesn’t cost you anything, you just use it to access the site, and then if you buy anything, I get anywhere from 1-6% of your final cost for referring you to their site. This goes for the things I use for writing, Grammarly, Photoshop, and Google Drive to keep all my documents and pictures safe. Also on the side if you read a story or hit posts on the top menu, there is a donation button. This goes directly to the site admin to use to pay for the security (aka virus protection as well as hacker prevention), the site itself, and any enhancements that she can find to speed up the site and allow more to use it with their tablets and so on. When I was hacked, and 4Padfoot was telling me what was needed to fix it, Mamakitty came up with the idea of the donation button. And within a day or so, the response helped us with that cost.
None of the amounts get used for anything but those items. Photoshop and Google drive cost me about $20 a month. The Grammarly was $140 for a year. I get around $10 – 20 a month, with an increase around the holidays. Most of the time, we end up paying for something out of pocket, since the $20 a month is very recent that it was more than a month in a row.
Banner contest in Kittyinaz’s Facebook Group!!!
I am ending the entries for this tonight, (or aka when I wake up in the morning). The rules:
Banners are 801×250.
All need to have the words: Kittyinaz’s Group and the KittyinazsBetas@gmail.com on them.
They need to be one of the following:
Story banners with the story name on it,
Character Banner with a quote,
Pairing with the story name,
or an Owl.
And for this month only!!! – Civil War idea and/or May the Force Be With You with stories I use already. I am sooo looking forward to this one.
And last but not least, the chapter for this week:
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