Sorry, we had a family emergency last night and my heart was no longer in looking for and posting chapters. The situation is good now and we are waiting for news for what caused it. So, for those ladies on Facebook who offered prayers for a good resolution, while not knowing what is going on, thank you.
Now, to the second story I posted yesterday.
If you want to go back and read from the beginning, well you have two choices. There is the beginning of the series:
Then there is the beginning of this part of the story:
There will be at least one more chapter updated on a story for the ladies in Facebook, and 2 more for you guys who are not followers of the Group.
Plus, as I announced in my Facebook group, I feel like Shenanigans.
So…. What does this mean?
It means I will be publishing things today. Since I am not sure when I can get another chance since I was supposed to be cleaning and so on. Not sure what I have from the betas, but we will start in the A’s (Alice) and go from there. I will also be making notes of what stories are available after this for posting as well. Maybe spend a day making banners and making chapters ready so all I have to do is hint publish and link? Maybe…
This means of course that the Facebook Group will get the notices ONE story before you guys do.
I need to reward their patience with all my teasing, especially when I am not able to start editing their new favorite until the end of the month when Dr. Strange comes out.
The bad part is that we seem to have to be shopping for it a lot. I did get new furniture, for the first time in 15+ years. Seriously. My chair is absolutely awesome, and I can’t tell you how much I enjoy being able to sit in it and be comfy. This is only the third time I sat in it since Thursday, but we have been busy, busy, busy!!
I am the driver for my grandmother, and I had a lot of appointments for her last week and only one this week. Tomorrow was supposed to be a free day, but I broke a filling, so I will be seeing if I can get in. If not, then I will be getting my oil changed. Or both. Who knows?
Tuesday will be taking her to an appointment, and Wednesday we get the new fridge we desperately need as well as someone coming out to look over the AC and to see what we need to be more energy efficient. Thursday I may actually get.. wait… Nope. I have to go for the woman’s torture session that we have yearly.
Friday!!!
But…
We might be starting the first room to redo at that time…
So we will see!!! My desk is seriously piled high with papers for me to scan for the house as well as other items we have.
But hey, new furniture!!!
And trying to get a lawnmower on sale is freaking difficult!!! Just saying!!! We have a huge yard, thick grass and no we are NOT going to try the push mower again. Yes, we did try it on a 1/4 acre of land, and I will tell you, misery!!!!
But this will all calm down soon. Or at least I hope it does!!! But…
I will tell you it is a great feeling knowing you own the house you are in. And thank god my parents and others are willing to help when we have questions!!!
That is all for now, I am tired and getting sleepy, so I will be signing off. Just wanted to let you guys know that life is running me over but in a good way.
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Now, that THAT part is done with, (I hate asking as much as you hate reading my begging), now to the fun stuff.
The vacation is over. It was nice, and I got a story I had been stewing in my head out of it and talked with my muse. I still need to work on the original story, which I will be starting to edit in hopes to inspire the muse in what was fun with it.
I may not have enough time to work on much for awhile. RL interfering and so on, but hopefully, it will be over by June, no more than December of this year. Hubby is determined that my story will be a bestseller and so on. I have tried to tell him otherwise, but he is dead set on it.
I am getting ready to start editing chapters. I had a frustrated as heck day since I wanted to start on this sooner, but I had issues. My wifi Adapter pooped out on me, and I needed the chapters I had on Drive to sync up so I could work, as well as I was being irritated with the delay in the house closing moved to Friday. Hubby fixed the internet issue with us buying an ethernet cord to stretch from the living to the office. The delay in the closing, well it is out of our hands, we have answered all the questions, proved what we needed. It is up to outside sources and they verified that for us.
Oi Vey. I think I will never want to buy another house after this one.
So I am here ready to work, and will be editing chapters for Betas. Also, any betas who have NOT read the notice in the Beta Chat, please stop over there to juts give an indication of what you wish to do. I promise this makes more sense once you read it.
For those who are wondering, I did start another chapter for IND. We will see what happens. It depends on my health and RL. Neither being very kind to me lately.
Reminders:
Writing Contest!!!!!! I am looking forward to this year’s first!!! The pic is your prompt for this one…
And nothing else yet. LOL!!!
Enjoy the stories, I appreciate coming online and seeing people still visiting the site, as well as reading the reviews left. Some of you are going back to read some of the older stories. Wow!
So the new year is upon us. Hope this finds you all well and happy!
I, for one, am jubilant 2016 is over. I’m still waiting on the closing of the house, but that is all snafu’s and so on. Thankfully my parents are the ones selling us the house, so they are willing to wait. All I can think is that since we started this in 2016, some of the bad luck of the year is following over? I hope that will be all that will be followed over!!
I would like to congratulate Darkest Falling Star for winning the First Place on the Banner contest I host for the Kittyinaz’s Facebook Group each month.
Our very own Padfoot won 2nd Place, which is used on the Kittyinaz’s Author page:
Unfortunately, the Gif won’t work as the facebook cover, but she did such an amazing job I asked for it to be a new signature for me… lol
As most of you are aware, I put the site on vacation while the holidays are going on, since I am usually overwhelmed, and I suspect others are also. But once the holidays are over, I still have the site on vacation, but I normally get some stuff done.
Like what you ask?
Generally, we start shuffling things around for the new year, open up the new year for Banners and so on. General Site Maintenance. If there is something you like, let us know, and if there is something you would like to see, do let us know.
I also spend this time just floating around and seeing what I did bad and good the previous year for writing. It is always a learning process to figure out what worked and didn’t.
I do know I will never release a whole story at once on the site since I get told over and over that no one knew about Crossing the Fine Line.
Forcing myself to write is not a good idea. I didn’t do so well for stories last year.
I need to go back to my way of working before; it was not perfect, but it did produce more results.
Do banners as I edit. It may seem small, but I seriously spend a lot of time adding pics and banners at the end. Now, I am going back to where if I send the chapter to the betas, I will be ready to push publish. I used to do this so that the beta could just hit publish and let me and Robin know, so we could add in any links that were missing. I have no idea where I got away from that, but I need to go back to it.
Publish either one day, or set days. But only if I can do what I said above. I like having people knowing that something will be released on set days. It also helps me with my depression and getting out of bed to work on things knowing you guys are waiting on it. I sometimes need the motivation.
Work when and how I want. It seems like a repetition, but I will tell you why this matters soon.
Most importantly, have fun!
Not much, but you see, I started a story I had been meaning to write since they announced the Dr. Strange movie was coming out. Nothing big, I just wanted the idea out there. But thanks to the people in the Kittyinaz’s Facebook Group who went gaga over the chapter I asked if they would read it, and many huge kudos to TB Viking Addict, who inspired me to keep writing. I finished it.
Yes, I worked and finished it. Now, for some reason, the Marvel stories seem to come in shorter chapters, but still. It is finished. For the Marvel, I am waiting to see where things go, though I may be working on the sequel to Tired Wings.
I am working on finishing Tempered Grace, for those that are Skyeward fans. And that one is NOT short. Too many things have changed to stick to the Marvel ideas anymore.
So while I am working on at least a chapter a night for Tempered Grace, I am rereading Sacred to finish that one, so that I can go back and finish some others without my muse constantly tapping my shoulder about it. It’s quite an annoying feeling, so I am not going to ignore it.
I will say, during this time I lifted all restrictions on me with writing writing, there are now at least one chapter or more, waiting for I Never Did and others.
All I can say is it is a learning process. I want to finish stories, but ignoring the muse lead to last year having really nothing done. Though I did finish Tired Wings, I didn’t finish editing it. Oops…
And technically I should be editing Sacred as I read it, but since I am near the end of what I wrote, I think I will finish reading then go back and start editing.
But seriously, when I wrote six chapters in one night vs. struggling to write one, I think I can see what I need to do.
So I will still be working on getting things done, this year will be odd, with the remodeling we will be starting once the house is ours. It needs to be done ASAP on the front of the house for cost savings, and to make it more ours. But at the same time, in anticipating this, my hubby got me a laptop so that I will have a way to write still. It has helped the last week and is where I wrote all that I did….
Hopefully, I will see you soon!!! I have chapters done for the Alice stories, and for a couple of others. I am going to work on sending others soon. Hopefully, the cooler weather starts again. Difficult to believe this weekend was deep freezes for the South (My hubby will be happy that the Devil plant as he calls it, can be trimmed back majorly!) and now I am in flip flops and it is in the high 70’s. I’m a sad panda…
I am staying off of social media except for the Kittyinaz’s Group for the time being. I am also going to be working on my dream story, which may not be very long, but we will see. Mostly I am trying to end the year with minimal stress, and hopefully the excitement of owning a house here in the next couple of days.
Right now, I am just too overwhelmed with all the things happening in the world, that I think we all need some breaks. Once I get this story out of my head, I will be editing some chapters so that 2017 will have some chapters to go for you guys in January.
I am also going to warn you that the first couple of weeks is a lot of looking through the site and seeing what needs to be done for 2017. Adding banner contests and so on, seeing where we are funds wise, and so on.
So while I don’t have anything for you now, I have plans. Manageable plans. Hopefully, the Muse will work with me.
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