Picking Down Clocks

Check Your Clocks!!!!

by Kittyinaz | Mar 1, 2016 | Picking Down Clocks, Twilight/True Blood, Update

Yeah, it ain’t the greatest title for a post, but you knew there was a chapter of Clocks right?

So.. Interesting things happened last week and yesterday.

First is on Friday I went up and saw my newest Jacob who is finally home with grandma (who is his great grandma!). He is so tiny next to all the ones we have had lately. And of course, I love him just as much as all the others.

I found out that if I take more than 2 days to edit a chapter, I need to give myself a break. Work on something else. For me, I watch a movie in my head of what I write down for you guys. Imagine watching it over and over and over. Not so much right? Especially one small piece of it? That is what was happening to me on Edge. I had to walk away so I can come back to it after I work on something else. Otherwise I just stare at it now… And there are a lot of details that make the chapter richer, that I need to write in and look over…

The other thing was I complained of a headache last night and Hubby (otherwise known as M) started mouthing off how I had a headache every day. It bugged me as I lay down and then it came to me, See my iPad still had that corner popping up, and I pressed down one day to pop it back in, and it cracked the screen. and will not work now… so I have been reading on my iPhone 5. Needless to say, the print is very tiny. So M gave me his iPad (which is the first one and was mine at the beginning) and I gave him mine to fix for himself. He never uses his as much as I do. Now we wait with baited breath to see if I can get a new one, and especially a new phone. Mine needs charging sometimes 3 times a day…. It’s old…

So what does this mean? For now, a chapter a week to update at least. If I know I have one for the next week and one comes up done, then I will publish it. Sorry. The old pace was when I got alot of editing done and sent to the betas. I’m trying, but I am also trying not to stress myself out. That would be bad.

Also it will help if I stop hurting myself and doing stuff. But hey… at least I am trying!!!!

Here is your chapter courtesy of the most wonderful beta MistressJessica1028!!!!

Enjoy, and also, welcome to all our new members of the Kittyinaz’s Facebook group!

It’s that Time again!

by Kittyinaz | Dec 8, 2015 | Kittyinaz Writing Challenges, Picking Down Clocks, Twilight/True Blood

First, Happy Holidays to everyone that is here. Since I am literally am over the world, I wish to let you know you have my good wishes for the season. As the darkest night of the year approaches, I hope your world is full of light, love and happiness.

Merry Christmas to those that celebrate it, as well as a Happy New Year from the Kittyinaz family. (including the pets!)

Now to what you are devouring this post for.

Yep, I finally finished the Clocks chapter!

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It’s Time~~~ For more Clocks!

by Kittyinaz | Nov 28, 2015 | Kittyinaz Writing Challenges, Picking Down Clocks, Twilight/True Blood

I know.. too puny for this time of night. Or day if you are on the other side of the world…

It’s been a long day, but I wanted to give you this chapter!

Right now, I am decorating my computer, as 4Padfoot plays with the backgrounds to decorating the site for Xmas. Since I am leaving in two weeks (yeah!!!!!!), and will be gone until the 18th of January, I will not be here to really deal with the Xmas stuff. (as well as me decorating the posts… warning!)

*Sighs*

But I am excited for the upcoming trip. I made a list for my iPhone that is just the Xmas songs and the more popular songs right now. It’s only 813 items, nowhere as long as the other ones. IT’s two days long, so it should be good for the trip, and how my hubs and I like to skip a song if it doesn’t fit the part of the road we are on.

Now here is the bad news. I am officially on vacation. The ladies are on vacation. Everyone is on vacation.

Well, except 4Padfoot for emergencies. And she will probably play while the boss is away.

But what does this mean??? Means it is time for me to write….

See, I have this week, which I will be more around than any afterwards. But next week? I will be running around, making lists, researching things and so forth.

And trying not to murder my iPad.

Seriously.

I have to turn it off, bend the edges and then work it for about 10-15 minutes before repeating. What is it doing? It’s called ghost touching. I can lay the thing down, walk away and no one close to it, and you can watch it move around, open apps and so forth, all on it’s own.

Yeah, it sucks.

But I will be backing up the laptop that I will be using, putting the last touches on the banners (the names and so forth) and putting the files I will be using on a thumb drive in case I can’t use the google drive. I can’t think of why I cannot, but I am not taking any chances.

Making lists, and checking them twice, and wrapping all the stuff we have already. I will also be taking the traverse for an oil change and all that fun stuff.

The weekend before we leave, Connor will need to be washed. And we will be packing the Traverse that Sunday, so all I have to do is get up, get ready and leave with the dog. Well, stop and grab me a Cherry Vanilla Dr Pepper to help me wake up.

LOL!

OK…

So some reminders..

First up, is the Christmas Contest is live and ready for you to read. Go forth, read, review, and then vote for your favorite! There are some seriously great stories in this bunch!!! And have you found the easter eggs in the banners?

I will mention that the swan has the words from the story on it….

Yes… I did put that much effort into it!

The other thing, is please remember the Amazon link!!! It does pay for things that we use monthly. I know Cyber Monday is coming, so I am not only putting the link in the pretty picture, but also as words. I saved the link as my Amazon link to the site. That is all you have to do, is click through the link once, and it will give me credit on it.

http://www.amazon.com/?_encoding=UTF8&tag=kittyinaz-20

So I am off. What do I want to do this year? Write the next part of this series:

Then work on finishing this story:

Then moving on to where the muse takes me. Hopefully she comes back and works with me on the two above!!!

Here is the chapter:

And remember, you feed the muses for not only me, but for the authors who entered into the contest with your kind words. C-ya later!

p.s. I will try to get one more chapter of Clocks out for you! No promises though!

Finally!

by Kittyinaz | Nov 21, 2015 | Picking Down Clocks, Twilight/True Blood

I about gave up on getting anything done, and I have to apologize. For some reason, pics and so on are not showing up.

I sent a note out to the WordPress Guru, so that she can figure out what is going on.

In the meantime, I already sent the ladies in the group the link as soon as the chapter was ready. So they have already been reading if they are paying attention. lol!

For being here on the site, you get the chapters before the other sites. It’s my little thing to say THANKS for following me.

So what have I been doing?

Pouting.

Seriously.

I was supposed to go to AZ next week and now I am staying here until Hubs M is ready to go. And we have to wait for Monday the 14th, for one lousy hour. Yep. You read that. One hour. Basically, he will get up, get ready, then wake me up to finish doing whatever I need to, then I leave (after the fun part of getting Connor into the car), only stopping for our drinks. Then I make my way there, and then we will be on our way out of town.

Needless to say, we will make it there in the same day, unless traffic is truly horrendous.

However, my muse has decided that she is on vacation. I spent 4 hours the other night, first trying to find a story to write in, then finally finishing a chapter in Edge. Four freaking hours. I normally do about 3-4 chapters in that time.

So I will be relaxing, playing games and making banners.

According to the amazing Miss Rissa, the woman I can’t live without being around. Literally. She works miracles and keeps up with things that I would be lost in trying to do! But she has told me so far 5 stories have been submitted. However, she tells me that most of you will turn them in tonight.

Please remember, if you need an extension, please let her know. I am planning to publish these on Thanksgiving so that you will have something to read after Turkey dinner or for those that are going to be waiting in lines for Black Friday. Letting me know kinda ruins that whole, I don’t know who is who thing.

I am planning to run the thing through the 15th, which means right before I leave, I will be adding the names to the banners, but I will not do it until the Friday before (since I will be spending the weekend making sure things are packed, the Traverse is ready, and double checking we have the gifts already).

And I am about to go off to research iPad issues, to see if there is a way for us to fix the issue. I hate my phone and using it to read sucks. It hates me. (which is why I hate it!)

So enjoy the chapter, I am off to eat my dinner of Cheesy as heck pizza. And play a game. See you guys later!

What time is it?!?!?!?

by Kittyinaz | Nov 12, 2015 | New Story, Picking Down Clocks

I couldn’t resist the Gif… Sorry if you have it stuck in your head like I do now….

But, seriously!!! I have been up and working on your present, and it is STILL blacker than coal outside.

Is there no more sun? While I slept in my oddball time yesterday evening, was there an announcement that the sun took the day off?!?!?

*huffs*

As you know all too well, insomnia thinks it is my best friend. It sent me a necklace last night in fact. So I am back to sleeping for little hours, cat naps really, (why do they call them that? My kitten naps, along with the 7-year-old cat and they sleep for hours. Cat naps are supposed to be small increments of time.)

See, Connor and Murphy are becoming eunuchs today. Murphy is very, very aggressive lately. Connor needs to be since it makes them live longer, but seriously, it is Murphy who pushed this sooner on us. So I will be leaving here, with two hyper dogs who think they are going for a ride, then drop them off for surgery. We will pick them up later, and I for one, am so happy this is taking place today since it will mean there will only be one day that I will have to take care of two dogs alone.

So, while I was lying in bed, trying to get more than 4 and a half hours sleep, I noticed the most awesome, mighty, wonderful Beta, MistressJessica1028, had sent me the first 6 chapters of Clocks.

Let me tell you about the story behind Picking Down Clocks. I wrote it, then edited and sent it off to be betaed. MJ sent it back saying it was a little too jumbled in time. She suggested that I tear it apart and put it in chronological order. I was too anxious having my lovebirds separated, so I had them together remembering the time before. However, MJ was 100% correct in having me reorder it all.

The issue? I suck at verb tense. And it’s quite bad. For me to tear apart the chapters, (Thank GOD for OneNote, it made it a breeze to move things around and do what I needed to do!) then go back and work on them…it took months. It got to where I would watch the video for the story that 4padfoot made for me as well as the cheering in the Kittyinaz’s Facebook Group for em to struggle with it. I started to hate it frankly.

When I got out of the chapters, I was just too happy to get past them, and finish what I had written. I sent it off, and breathed a huge sigh of relief.

This morning, I got them back and opened it up to work on it. I was hesitant, and played a game of Candy Crush in fact. When your beta tells you it took them forever to work on them, you know it was bad. Then I took myself in hand and started to go through the notes MJ left me. And soon I was laughing. She left notes, rants about oddball things. All in all, I was so entertained by the whole thing I am thinking of doing the next chapters as well.

This story is one of the ones that the group ~~begged~~ asked for and is, in fact, the one that they broke my conviction of not doing any until they were completed.

So please take a moment, and give mighty thanks to MistressJessica1028 and her wonderful patience with my messed up chapters. She deserves it.

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OK. So here we go!!:

Many huge thanks to the lovely Gyllene for her banner for the story!!!

Description: A chance meeting in Las Vegas changes everything. Suddenly a future that had been a brief glimpse of, is possible, and there is nothing the Blood Line will not do to make it happen.

This is a Twilight/True Blood Fic. Eric and Bella. There will be a mix of cast in here, and no worries, Sookie is going to be around.

Here is the Video that 4Padfoot made to inspire me to do more for this: