Ok, today’s post is brought to you by the wonderful letter, E. For Early.
Yikes. Nothing like being woke up only after a couple hours of sleep. The good thing? I can go back to sleep here in a few minutes. Hopefully, after I finish this post!
Lots of things in this post, today.
One, I added a few pages to the site last week. We have the 2016 Adopt a Banner, 2016 Kittyinaz’s Group Banner Contest (which is going on right now!), and a new page that I put up. It has all the Stories I completed and the year that they were completed. This includes One Shots. I have links to the stories embedded into their banners as well as descriptions for all of that. You can find it here. I will also be doing a post later this week featuring a completed story, starting with last year and working backward. Since I have had a lot of comments that people didn’t know there were some that I completed for contests.
Two, I wanted to thank each and every one of you for using the Amazon Link. This helps out greatly for the programs I use to do everything for the site. It helps pay for storage offsite which means I don’t have to worry about the computer crashing and losing all my stories and pictures. There was a time two weeks ago that this was a big deal! It also helps pay for the Photoshop and Grammarly. Which as you guys know very well I use a lot. The Donate button money goes towards the site only. Any monies donated there, 4Padfoot uses to pay the site costs as well as the security for the site. If there is any left over, she looks into ways to make the site be easier and faster to load for you guys.
Three, I also wanted to thank you for reading the stories on here. I love sharing them with you as well reading your comments. Many times I have gone back and read comments and they have cheered me up when I am having a bad day. I keep all those in folders (yes, I am OCD and getting worse as time goes by) and if I want inspiration to keep writing, I look at them. Your support and feeding the muse often help me!
Four, The writing contest ends on the 31st of this month! If you need an extension send them to the email address for that. I am looking forward to seeing what you guys came up with. Later today I will be thinking of next month’s contest so that can be given as soon as possible to you guys.
Five, Chapter! This chapter is brought to you by the lovely and very talented MistressJessica1028. If you have not read her stories, click on the button below to be taken to her site. Also, the chapter had been released to the Kittyinaz’s Facebook Group yesterday. I always like to give an extra thank-you to the people who follow me over there.
Now, I think that was everything since everyone is gone and I just have to let out the brats. Then back to bed, I go! I look forward to waking up and seeing what you thought of the chapter!
So…. It is official. Everyone in my house has had the flu or having it. I hoped to be over it, since I somehow got away with a light version of it. Instead, I am so freaking exhausted and body aching, I’m afraid I get to go through it again.
Yuck.
Right now, I am waiting for meds, chamomile tea and whatever else can happen to happen while I am writing this. I’ve taken care of myself and M and been sleeping alot. When I am not sleeping, I have been working on editing the next chapter of LotR. See, when I work on that one, I need to have as many source material open and double check myself….A L O T. All before I hand it off to the Beta for her to wave her magic wand and make it readable, as well as a second pair of eyes to check that I didn’t fuck up the universe.
Which makes me wonder what I am thinking since I am going to be taking that universe and take it for a spin with some other characters. That belong there. Yeah. It makes sense in my head.
Plus with all that, I am having issues with writing things. I want to work on something. I am bored. But I feel like I have pressure on me to edit, so I can eventually write.
I am setting a timer on this post. Why? I want to reward all my ladies in the Kittyinaz’s group chat on Facebook. They have been my cheering section this week, so I have let them know the chapter is live.
So for all those wondering, Eric appears in this chapter.
And I have to tell you that you cannot kill me for the ending. If you do so, the last beta’d chapter will not be released, and you will not ever get to read it!!! And I promise you, you will want to read it.
Also, due to feeling bad about one story that I soooo want to continue, in response to a review, I left a huge ass teaser in it. In fact, it is everything I have written so far. Have fun finding it.
So how are you guys dealing with the time change? Me? I am jealous and wanting to be back in AZ with them not ever changing time. Yuck.
yeah… about last week… See, I was having computer issues. I had my computer keep losing the wifi, and it was all in my computer’s head… So I would restart.. then restart yet again and again. Then I uploaded a new graphics driver, to have the computer black out the screen. Had to restart it twice for that. At that point I was so irritated, I went out to get a new driver for the wifi, then read the instructions on how to load it.
So I did this, and the first step is to uninstall the driver. I did that and it went all to hell. Nothing I did, nor what 4padfoot could think of worked. We finally agreed to recover the hard drive, only to find that it didn’t have a recover point. That we both thought we turned on before. So it was going to be a reset while keeping my files… except it decided it couldn’t do that either…
At that point I walked away. I had to. That night I decided to check on it, and it decided that the uninstall was not something I wanted and reinstalled the driver. I was pissed. I fought with the damn thing for three hours and it decided to basically want to kinda work? But not reset, which at this point I wanted to just make sure there was nothing on the computer, since neither McAfee and Malware could find anything.
I was so pissed that I tore my couch apart, and washed all of it. The only thing not to be washed was the frame covered part. I also cleaned other things.. working until 6am the following morning.
Then I left the computer alone all week, especially since the one time I tried to do anything, it gave me a blue screen of errors. GRRRR
For the sake of us all, I walked away. Only to have today it give me another blue screen of death. My hubby fixed it this time. I still walked away for a couple of hours.
So….
Announcements.
The Writing Challenge is up. I’m kinda proud of the banner. Click on it above to be taken to the challenge page.
Also, if you are a writer that has participated in the past and continued the story, let us know and we will link the stories. I just did that today for Thanks for the Distraction. I also made her a FF banner since she publishes there still. The link is at the bottom of the story page for it.
For those that follow the blabbery, you know I am fighting with the depression again. Yeah. Seriously this shit can go jump off a short pier. I just need to remember to take it one at a time, and work on things as I can.
Now for the chapter, we have the beautiful and talented MistressJessica1028 to thank for it being ready. If you don’t read her, why not?
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!
Sorry had to. Couldn’t come up with a catchier name for the post today.
So, for those that don’t know me, or haven’t followed me over here yet, I will let you know, I ramble. LOL! And I seem to like to hurt myself, then try to ignore that I did that.
Yeah, I know not very smart.
I hurt my ankle last Grandma Day. I have a bone spur that instead of growing on the bottom of my heel, I have it at the back of my ankle. It has never bothered me until now. (Of course.) Instead of staying in bed with it up, I instead ran around all day Saturday and Sunday (well helped M put in a new floor, but I think it counts…) I spent this last week in bed, watching Fixer Upper (a guilty pleasure) and Vampire Diaries on Net Flix. I am happy to say that earlier today I finished season one of Vampire Diaries. Hey, there are alot of episodes! (and I finished Fixer Upper, but there are no more seasons of that on NetFlix, and since I only have the Apple TV in my room, there is no way I can watch more… yes. I am pouting…)
I also tried to edit Edge, and I am still working on it. I sent a segment that had been bothering me to my betas to get their opinions on it. I am going to use it, but I may look at it when I am done with the chapter. When it bugs me, it means I need to look at it again. I think my mind went one way and the muse another, so I need to fix it. It is no big deal to the main story, but it gives the wrong impression to me of what is going on.
I am watching the Vampire Diaries to get working on the sequel to You’re. Unfortunately, I have watched all these ones before, but not the ones for the next segment of the story. So I am going to be continuing to watch it while I try to work from the bedroom. We will see how that works.
————————Break for Computer issues———————-
And I am back. Sorry, you guys don’t know I have been gone, but my computer encountered an error and after emitting a painful noise through the speakers, it restarted. Sorry!
What If…. The good news, is here is the other chapter, the bad news? This is it for the pre-written and edited chapters. Seems I need to write more. I really need a clone of myself!
So here is the chapter, and I am loving the comments on it already!!!
Yes, the chapter was pre-released in my group. And they are loving it.
I am off to clean off all the stories and stuff from my outlook for the reblog, then off to the bedroom to work on editing, getting away from the dogs before I scream. They are fighting, literally over a bone that Connor is eating. Murphy doesn’t eat them, he only wants it to get Connor to come after him. They have already fought once at my literal feet, and the next time, they took off the door to my desk that houses the CPU.
So I am getting aggravated.
Enjoy the chapter, and I will hopefully get some work done here in the next few days.
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