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!
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.
……
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:
And here is the first chapter. I will try to update this as long as I can since I may be leaving in a few weeks, if everything works out!
You guys freaking rock the Kaspar! Seriously. I told you about the donation button, and you replied.
Eight of you stepped forward, and seriously made 4Padfoot and I’s day. I know I was so shocked, I had dogs and a hubby running in here to find out what was going on when I realized what 4Padfoot was telling me.
When I told them, he couldn’t do anything more than blink. Then told me, my followers were more than awesome.
I have to disagree. You guys Are Freaking Awesome!!!!! Seriously!
And for this week, so much bad news has been piled on me, that this was sorely needed.
I cried.
You are the ones who helped on that. And if you guys continue, omg… I will be flabbergasted.
As for the site, it is as far as we can find, virus free, and malware free. We have implemented the proceeds of the donations so far to help speed up the site, and to put firewalls in place to prevent this.
Live and Learn people. Live and learn.
If they continue to come in, we will be adding more things to make the site better for you guys. Remember, this may be a ‘WordPress’ site, but we self-host it, and a lot of the goodies that you have through the WordPress site is not available free to us. However, the opposite is true that you couldn’t have the donation or the ads I do have on the site.
Up until now, we have been paying a lot of it out of pocket. So we were limited on what we could do, but this may open up a lot of opportunities. To look for options that 4padfoot has passed by since they cost money, now we can implement them to make the site load up for your on your mobiles easier.
And for those of you still using the link to shop Amazon (Click above for the full link), you are still helping us out!!! We didn’t realize it wouldn’t be as much, but we are still planning to use that money to help defray costs that we have been implementing. In other words, in no way are we using any of it for profit. We are using it all for the site, and things to do with the writing process. it is all non-profit.
While I did go in to get What If ready, I realized that the beta didn’t get that one done. Sorry!!! I did get the Revelation’s chapter ready for those of you who read that. There are a lot of changes going on for it.
Also, don’t miss out on the Christmas Prompts contest!!!! I am soo looking forward to seeing what you guys have in store, and a little birdy told me that some have inspired authors to write more than one entry. Yes, you CAN do that. Remember, these contests are to help people to write!! So enter. You get a banner no matter what, and who knows, you may have bragging rights!!!! The more entries, the more places we do.
Other than that, I have no idea what else to put on here. Just a huge thank you. Seriously. You people have made one worry go away, and it was so needed. Hopefully, other things will continue to help out and we will get out of this rut, and I will be off to AZ to help get my levels normal.
And to write!
PS. Thank you to everyone for your help!!! seriously!
And I am not referencing World of Warcraft…. You guys seriously rock the boat!
So for those that don’t know me, or caught on with the symbols and such on the site. I love owls. Truly. And I can point to you the time I liked them was when I read the Belgariad by David Eddings. Since then, I have been fascinated by them. (And Hummingbirds, but owls are neat in an everyday thing, while hummingbirds are a sit and watch type thing.)
One of the awesome authors I have made friends with sent me the above gif, and I wanted to share him with you.
The winner is What If, however, the other story, Dying to Start Again started to pick up speed at the end.
Now here is the bad news. This is the last What If chapter Beta’d. And there are only 2 more in the queue. Yeah I know. I am REALLY trying to control the muse, but she is not paying much attention to me. I was lucky to get a bunch of chapters edited for Clocks yesterday. I am hoping I can finish the chapters that are done so I can move onto another story and closer to finishing the chapters that were already written.
Yes, I know that there are now other stories now in the queue. Like Some Sacred Place in Time. That one is up to 34 chapters right now. And maybe.. just maybe half way done. Not for sure. Which reminds me I need to give the teaser for this week on the Facebook Group.
I also worked on the sequel to the Mummy. One half chapter before she quit that one and jumped somewhere else. Oi Vey.
We will see if she will work on the last chapters tonight. This weekend, I am not allowing her to work, it will be a banner weekend. Plus I have my nephew’s 3rd bday to go to. So we will be working on the banners for the stories.
And the Charmed new story will be also going out also. I’m working it now, and once I am done, I need 4padfoot and her magic to happen also.
For those that like the Twilight/LotR story, I am happy to say a discussion in the beta chat has inspired me to go beyond normal in that one. Thanks so much to the betas for that fun chat!! And no, there is no spoof like I did with ED. It was an honest discussion and it sparked ideas that immediately got researched and approved on.
If I am feeling up to it, I can see in my stats (thanks to a nifty add-on that 4Padfoot put on the site) the pretty map down below. Yeah. That thing used to sit as the first thing I can see when I dropped into the dashboard of my site, and now I gotta go looking for it, since I also like to see the stats per day also. But it shows me I have Europe, The Americas (ignore the island that is white.. it is not worth your time!) Australia, Most of Asia, and maybe half of Africa. So I am on my way to dominating the world.
Kinda.
I do have a chapter for today, and I will be posting it further down…
But before we get to that, I will like to take a moment to show you guys what I am looking at for the challenge:
Harry Potter:
How many review would be generated if every follower wrote one review?
How about this:
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Or this:
Can you see what I am talking about? This one small change may take 30 seconds (and I timed myself on the iPad which I hate since I type one finger at a time!) to say, this is intriguing. It doesn’t have to be long. Just something that you say as you hit follow. On any site.
So will you take up this challenge? All those people that read my posts, and we will see if anyone will. I have one so far who has accepted.
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Can someone please explain to me why I am seeing more snow in March than I did in the entire months of December and January???? I should be getting ready for spring, not worrying about shoveling 8 inches of snow. The only way snow in March is acceptable is if it this is part of…
Hello lovelies. I cannot guarantee I will be back to publishing weekly, but I will try. My dear beta, kleannhouse, is in high demand trying to juggle the stories of three writers. She is amazing and she makes me laugh with all of her comments on my stories. This one especially. I started this story…
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