I didn’t do this yesterday, but it needs to be addressed…
Don’t mess with my friends.
Simple right? You won’t believe how many people don’t think of this as a simple idea to not do. I can forgive and forget with the best when it comes to me. Ask Meridian. But when I stand up for something is when I see something happening to another. When others attack my friends, when I see injustices happening, when people do wrong things to my friends. I have no problem getting into someone’s face, and will say things.
That person who cuts in front of another in a line? Yep, I am the one who said something. My mom left a store one day when she thought I was going to get into a fight. It is my weakness. I just cannot forgive and forget. Turn the other cheek and so forth. Who deserves to be picked on, to be put down and so forth? It happened to me a lot, and it is not something anyone should veer go through. When you talk or write or whatever you use to communicate with, think of who it might hurt.
Turns out another one of my friends got her story plagiarized. What the heck? This is becoming a trend, you know that whole history repeating itself crap. (See how I tied to another post I did? Yep. I do that shit.) I can give tons of kudos to the lady who did it to me, when I talked to her, she took the story down. Huge kudos for her admitting the mistake and owning to the mistake. You guys don’t know what guts it takes to admit you are wrong, especially to the person who you did something wrong to. It happens all the time, and people try to ignore it, or use excuses to try to justify themselves. They try blaming others for their own shortcomings, and when you try to help them, they refuse the help. It’s a downward spiral that normally doesn’t hurt the people you think, it is those innocent souls that get hurt. And that shit aint cool.
Wrong is wrong. I have done wrong, and it is why I forgive easier. I have a temper. Yeah, I know. You are shocked. I control it well. Actually, let’s give credit. I am slow to anger when it comes to myself, and I excuse people thinking I am overreacting even when the person takes a knife and stabs me in the back. Yes. True story. Well not literally, but yeah. Actually… yeah story for another time. Back to what I am saying.
I have been inspired reading stories. Or songs, movies, books and so forth. We are all humans, and inspiration can hit in many ways. When I know about it, I give credit. Shoot, that song on top of each and every chapter? That is my credit to who inspired me to write the chapter. The fandom I am writing in? Another nod to the creators. I don’t claim to own anything but my idea. Royal Ember is one of the examples of a story that someone else agonized over, worked on and so forth that inspired a spark in my head and so is Blood on your Lips, Feral Blood. Shoot, I know I was so inspired that I wrote to the author, and after promising her I was not stealing her story, I got permission. And if you read it (What If), there is not much similarities. I could only hope to write as well as her!! But I gave credit.
In my story In The End, there is a similar situation, one that I never dreamed of being a idea from another author. The author Mavrosal. I use a panther. I did not even think about it until I read something later and went looking. Why did I choose a panther? The green eyes. The same as Olivia, my character. I have LOVED panthers and Tigers since I was a little girls. I love the cats, but those two are some of my favorite, along with cougars.
I picked the panther because I wanted the creature I saw them as. Majestic, loving, affectionate. Loyal. Their sleek coat to me was perfect for the whole story and being sneaky. Nothing else. I had the idea and then tried to figure out how to implement it. I let my fingers do the typing thing, and she became Sookie’s guardian. Never once did I think of the Dying Series. Not. One. Thought. So if I took the idea from her story, I am sorry. My bad. It was never meant to be. It was a nod to a cat that I love. If a tiger would have worked, yeah. And no I didn’t know about the panthers in Hot Shot yet either.
There. I admitted my mistake. It was unintentional but because it was brought to my attention I gave credit. Was that so hard? No.
When you steal someone’s story, you are stealing their work, their tears, their time and their frustrations. You take the from them the pain from banging their heads against immovable objects when the story is not quite going the way they want. You take the smiles from their faces when someone comments on the story or favorites them.
And while the worst are the ones who actually steal it word for word, there is equally the ones who paraphrase your story. The one you spent nights up late losing sleep to pound out an outline, to talk with someone about it. The one you agonized about publishing. The one you spent hours on the internet making sure what you are writing is right, finding those pics to inspire you, to get everything down pat.
All we want is that credit. A quick line saying, hey, I read this amazing story and it inspired me to write this. It takes away from your work, cause people are going to think, I read this already, or did they steal another’s idea? And you lose readers. Because it pisses a lot of readers who are actually writers off. And if they though they read it already, and am looking for a new story they x out of it.
This has happened to my friends. And to me, but like I said, the person was nice, owned up and removed the story. I love my fans and the support I have from them, that this was awesome. But sadly, the latest perpetrator doesn’t want to give credit.
Don’t mess with my friends.
They have a deadline in my head, and if I hear nothing resolving from it, I will start acting on the options I have. The nice civil ones. And go from there.
I have others who think they are hurting others, but the ones they are hurting are the true reason why we are angry at them. Remember that whole I forgive you for attacking me but not for attacking my friends? Yeah. That. Bad. Very, very bad. like poking the angry tiger, or hornet nest bad. You don’t want to do that. Not at an innocent soul. It pisses me off.
The lesson here? Give ducking credit where it is deserved. And don’t attack my friends.
Now… go read your favorite author, smile and it will all be ok. Leave them a review to let them know you acknowledge their sweat, sacrifice, the mental torturing we put ourselves through and all for writing something we hope will please you.
Happy Father’s Day to any Dad’s reading this! I am not sure who all is following this anymore, so I figure I will give it, since Dad’s do so much for us all.
Today is the first father’s day that I only have one dad. More than some, I know, but since both of my dad’s have been around me my whole life, I never known to have only one. I lost my granddad’s early in life, or didn’t know them. So I had one of those for most of my life, and he passed away a year ago. Well a year and a half ago. But he had been gone much longer than that.
So all in all, a bittersweet Father’s Day. Luckily, my dad, my stepdad, understands. He laughed yesterday when I stole someone thing he wanted to buy out of his hands and bought it for him. Hey, it’s guaranteed to be something he wanted right?
I am sorry I haven’t been keeping up with the Sunday posts, but let’s face it. Life Sucks for me lately. But I am tired of being down, so let’s try to cheer up!
News: Ok for those that are not aware (aka not in the group) I have been teasing chapters of a story Royal Ember inspired. It is not connected to her story, in fact not the same story at all, but her story sparked my muses to making me dream of it, so she gets credit! It is a Harry Potter/Twilight crossover, and so far my group is loving it. My Beta will be Bertie Bott, who is a potterhead to help me not make newbie mistakes.
Where I am in writing, I going to finish up the plotline that is pushing me to write Heavenly (The new story) and finish another crossover, then I will edit. I am struggling with the other two, so I want to get you guys the stories that are all set, and then I won’t feel like the world is pushing me. So there will be 3 new stories coming to you. Heavenly is going to break my no new stories posting until they are done, cause it will be epic. I will need cheerleading.
What If is the story I am working on, that is giving me fits, and I will edit the chapters I have on it. Then I will try to finish it after I am done editing everything. I want it gone, I was in a bad place when I wrote it and I am trying to actively not go there with everything going on around me. I want it done, and I am working to give you guys a suitable ending for it. I will not cop out with it, but I will tell you I will be changing it up to make it possible to write it.
You guys will be getting a new E/S/G, I have had up the video that inspired the story, and it’s called All I Want. Mknue will be the beta on that one. It is my fix for the fuckery. It starts at the end of Season 6.
The second new story based on my Points of Authority one shot in Twilight. This will be done in sections, The first being Wisdom. The fic is called Wisdom, Justice and Love. It is being beta’d by Bertie Bott.
The last I will finally reveal. It is a Mummy/Twilight crossover. Don’t ask why, but everyone who has read it, has been excited about it. It too will be done in three segments. Unlike Wisdom, there is no structure and no guarantee the length of the chapters. This one has no beta.
I will be editing what I have of What If, and that beta is Magsmacdonald.
When done editing, I am hoping to finish up What if, and write more on I never… did. You gusy are so excited for the story, as well as I am, that I want to keep it going. I will be finishing In The End (ITE) and will be starting Edge. I want to make sure you guys have plenty to read.
Ok. Who is up to be recognized? Meridian!!! This lady is freaking AWESOME!!! She is the Queen of my Betas for a reason. She is one of 4 betas who sync with my brain so well that its kinda scary! She is also the one who after seeing all the stuff I was working on before, told me I was insane and took off my hands the updating of all my fics on the sites, but for Fiction Pad. She also is the one who decides who will be betas, and partners them up with people, and doing all that stuff. She wants me to write. Seems she likes my brain or something. She also listens to me rant, me throw ideas and when I am doing nothing but brainstorming.
But most importantly? She jumps on board with me doing projects, and she is also the one who tells me.. slow down. She looks after me personally, and often listens to me when I ramble. She supports my efforts in Photoshopping, even if she doesn’t like it. She is one of those prized friends that we all need. One that is honest, and sticks by you no matter what. She tells you the truths you don’t want to hear when you need to, to support you when you need it and just there. Odd that I have never met her, but she is truly one of the few people I tell everything to. Even when she calls me a murderer on a story I am writing. LMAO
She also writes, and it is I who found her first. I found her by Anticipating, and bugged the shit out of her on Ao3.We talked, and then she shocked me by loving my stories, and then offered to beta the now Set you Free Trilogy. Holy shit!! This awesome writer wanted to work with me? Since then it has been a ride and a half. I’m still amazed that she loves my stories.
Then there is the fact she is the muse whisperer. She encourages the muses, and I think she whispers to them too much, but I love it. She is also the one when I said I wanted to write something Original, she jumped in.
So go read her stuff. It is awesome, and I will be featuring her as my first author, cause well, she was the first one to turn it in!! So look for the interview, and the reviews of her story to be posted soon.
Videos!!! Yes I will be doing these again, even though I still cannot leave a message on You Tube for the amazing artists to know they are being featured.
I think I will do videos who inspired Stories…
The first one is In The End Sookie and Eric. The name helps with the story. In The End. Don’t ask how, I can’t tell you, but it was watching this that started the wheels started to turn.
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