I bet you guys want to be doing that right? Or is this the gif that fits you better?
LOL. Don’t worry, I do it to when I have people talking to me when I don’t want to talk to anyone!
So.. I bet you are wondering when the group got the tidbit for this one? Yesterday.
Yep, it was posted yesterday! Click above if you wish to join.
See, I was having issues, and 4Padfoot came on and fixed them for me. But I hit publish one time, and said ‘F*ck it’. I wasn’t going to go around unpublishing it, so I let the group know, and waited for my meds to kick in.
As last we heard, everyone but Mr. Kittyinaz and I are sick in the house. So I am being very good and taking all my meds to make sure I am good, but they are a strong decongestant for the allergies from the poor plants that are actually flowering outside, thinking it is spring. Yes, the weather has screwed up with the plants too. I just hope we don’t have a freeze before the real spring hits… And I suspect Monday, when it will be in the 30’s again, will be a shock for them also.
Stupid Weather….
I have been working on switching my sleeping, and because of the meds, I am actually doing it. But this morning, I read a story in the HP universe that completely sapped my will to get up. Seriously. The story was awesome for nothing to happen in the end. I ended up reading more of kjwrit’s All In, before I remembered I had duties today as a chauffer. I even thought of wearing my hat that can pass as one. But my hair is cooperating, and who messes with a good hair day with a hat? Not me!
So I am up, waiting for 11 minutes to go by, and hoping I can finish the post before then.
Ok… There is no chapter tomorrow. I am working with my beta for Tin Man, and we are gunning for it to be done. I have found a new beta for the LOTR, but we will see what she ahs to say, though she has returned the first chapter to me, to prove she can do it. It was awesome.
Yes, I do have stories still pending betas. Yes, they are NOT TB/SVM. A lot are crossovers, because I like crossovers. But the end is coming before I go to the other side of my brain, and brush off the cobwebs to use it. Wish me luck when it comes!
I have no idea what is pending, since every time I think that everything is great, and I will be finished, RL throws a wrench in the spanners. I am trying, but hey, I don’t control everything…::thinks of the good she could do if she could…::
Ok I have NOT changed the music yet, but I will be looking at it when I get back, or even will try from my iPad. I gots to get ready to go…
Chapter:
Beta responsible and whom I am REALLY jealous of right now:
We are working with Chapter 3 of the Tin Man, going over it. If you click the banner above, it will take you there. And yes, the main banner is redone.
I have to say I love working with my beta kbholtz. She has great questions. She is asking the ones that make you dive into the story, and try to find the answers. Luckily there is an invention of IMDb out there for me to look on for answers.
But if you are wondering what is going on, she is working on these back chapters, before she starts the new ones. The earlier chapters will be up, once I get the emails and put in the new Buttons.
So enjoy the chapter, and you can read ahead, just ignore any mistakes. If you do notice them, blame me. Always blame me. I’m the idiot who made the mistakes in the first place!
Once we get to the new stuff, I will be posting on Tuesdays. I will post on Tuesdays how far along we are on the other stuff, but this way you guys can look over the work this way.
The results are in for the January 2015 Writing Challenge. And I will admit, I was so shocked on who wrote what!!!
It is my honor to host these contest and read these amazing stories. I love that not even I can tell who writes what, and some are often my betas! This time, without knowing who won what, I read the results from the golden envelope 4Padfoot gave me, and asked the betas, if we can do 4 places. You made your opinion clear, and we acted on it!! Yes.. There are 4 places… And there were over 200 votes!
Just so you know, Charissa is the one in charge of the entries, and giving me the stories, and then when I am ready for the names, gives me them for the banners. She gives them to me after 4Padfoot sends me the results. And they send them in separate Messages, so no one but I am the one to know everything at the end. Yeah complicated, but it works for it!
Without much ado, here are the winners:
Writers, feel free to respond to your reviews, and to grab the banners with your name on them. They are now yours, and I very gratefully thank you all for participating in the contest. I hope you are inspired in the future by a contest.
To read the entries again, please click on the above banner to be taken to the contest page. I updated everything, and many thanks to 4Padfoot for all her hardwork to make the site look awesome. She made it a breeze to get through the updating.
For those that were wondering where the chapters went, well HP is delayed until this week’s posting. When I tell you RL takes precedence, I am not kidding. The chapter is ready, but I will publish it Friday, and hope the beta in charge of the story has a chance to get better. My betas health is more important than getting chapters out.
Today’s was another instance. But the beta had it ready for me late yesterday, but I am not on the computer on Sundays. I will say that I cheered this chapter. Eric gets a haircut!! I have tons of pictures of him with short hair, but hardly any of him with the long hair as you guys could probably be able to tell. So from now on, I will be able to dip into my artsy side for the chapter banners.
As for where I am, I am working on Tin Man, which will probably go pretty quickly. Then I will be getting the rest of the stories out. It may a couple of weeks, but we will see the rest of the chapters come out from the betas. Hopefully, I will be working on the original story at that time.
Once I am done with the rough draft, I will be starting on the other stories, but there will be a short time until I undertake editing, my old way adding lots of stuff to it, and then I will have to figure out what to do with the finished thing. Well after the betas all get their hands on it. Yes, I am not taking a chance, and with all the wonderful betas I have, I am hoping that it will be pretty good.
As for personally, all I can say is that the weather. WE will be going from 76 yesterday to 30’s today. And for the next few days we will be cold, then warm up then repeat. Mamakitty has already gotten bronchitis from the wonderful weather and DadKitty is getting sick. ::knocking on wood:: that my hubby and I don’t catch it. Flu season has hit Houston badly, and it doesn’t look like the weather will be helping!
But I have a warm Connor on my feet, my fingerless gloves on, and I am working on staying healthy. I need to get to writing the new stuff for all our sakes!
Reminders:
Click on any of the Amazon ad’s around, to be taken to the site with my tag and I will get credit. Also, Don’t forget, I add the newest songs for the chapters I update on the mp3. 4Padfoot and I were talking about trying to add the music to the chapters also. Unfortunately, due to the weather on her end, we had to sideline that right now. Stinkin’ weather!
There is a contest over at the Non-Canon Awards going on for crossovers. As a judge, I cannot enter, but I encourage you all to enter! It has been extended…
The February Writing Contest is up and waiting on entries.
Yes! This chapter was brought to you by the amazing beta Mknue! She gave it to me early, so I got to schedule this. And you know what that means right? Yep. The chapter posted early. This time 2 hours earlier than the post.
If you were in the Kittyinaz Group, you would know this. I posted the notice at 1:27am Sunday. Just saying!
Ok,, what else is going on? Oh yeah!! The banners were updated on this site with the chapters of stories that are or should be updating. (By the way did you know you can click on the banner and be taken to the cover page for the story? 4Padfoot is just that awesome!!!) I will be also changing the song (Since I am writing this on Sunday at about 1:30 am.. well you can see the mix up of tenses!) on the side to reflect the song on this chapter.
I did nothing as far as I know on Sunday for editing, I will probably still be reading the chapters and spending the time with family. There is talk of pedicures and so on.
I hate making this so short, but it is hard writing for the future. I wish I could write from the future to the past, I would give everyone the lottery numbers. After I got it and shared with my betas. Hey! They deserve it!!!
This chapter is moving forward with the hits. I chuckled all the way through reading it. And there is character advancement. And if no one has noticed, I have changed the Sookie. She is changing, it is mentioned a couple of times. But there is old Sookie (Anna Paquin) still there. It’s not easy to do this, I am NOT good at this stuff.
Enjoy the chapter and I will see the lovely reviews you leave on Monday, and it will hopefully motivate me to get up. And work on Stories to see if I can get those chapters all done.
So today started off crappy. I was very upset, and had considered taking myself off Facebook completely. I decided to stay away instead, since I do more than sit on there, I run my group, and I chat with the Betas on it. It is how we talk and communicate.
See, I fucked up yesterday. I made a mistake and pissed off some very good friends. I don’t often make huge public apologies, cause let’s face it, I am of the species Homo Sapiens. And we don’t’ admit when we mess up often. But I did. So I apologized yesterday aka this morning, and I am doing it here, since my fuckup was on here.
But today, 4Padfoot was hitting the messenger, and I caught it once by accident, something about my video being worked on. I smiled, but went on reading What If so I can work on the edits, ignoring the Messenger while on my iPad. Then…She told me it was done.
I couldn’t stay away after that.
The Kittyinaz household only has myself and the pets home. And ironically, they are all here in the office while I worked. However, the dogs were running around earlier as I squealed, then squealed again and again as I watched the video. Anyone passing by may wonder what was going on. LOL!
Since my belief in the world is upright, and I am not kicking myself heavily for a mistake I made, I finished up the banner finally for Light up the Path. Seriously, this past week really has been bad with Drama, and last night was the last straw. I couldn’t make a banner for the chapter all week, and have some BAD examples of how badly they sucked that I promptly deleted once I made the one that worked. Oi Vey.
Before that mess up happened, I played with the site. I got the Amazon ads to run. Now here is some information… Off to the right, you will see a mp3 player. For now, this will showcase the song from every story current. Yes, that means when you go into the latest chapter for any story, the song snippet is there. If you decide to buy any from there, they can be added to iTunes or any place. And yes, it credits me. The ads also link to the product and give me credit. If you click on any and go from that spot to shopping, I get credit for the entire purchase.
Thank you all for your support during Christmas since it is going to be used to help the site. We are thinking about adding music for each chapter and so forth. I am also replacing the home page banners to reflect the current stories being updated. If you click on the banner showed, it will take you to the cover page for the fic. I am thinking of having contests to replace those banners on the Facebook Group. This time, I did them, but I am going to start a thread on the group, and Open it for others to showcase their talents.
I have also done away with the chapters on the side, since it was getting to be ludicrous. I am also looking for any suggestions. As for the ads, if you want space on the site, we can talk. Betas, as a thank you, get free advertising. I have thought about leaving doing a spot for donations, for those that don’t shop Amazon.
So where am I on the whole editing process? I have finished LoTR, and Game of Life. I am working on What If right now, and then I will be doing the following: Edge, (yes the sequel to Ed!!) Dying to Start Again, ITE, Clocks, Revelations, Tin Man, and Best. When I think I am done, I will be double checking all the documents, and making sure that there are no more chapters hidden up my sleeve. Everything will be sent to the Betas.
Then I will be taking a break to work on my database for the recs. I am participating in HisViks’s WordPress idea. I will be donating all the fics I have recommended once I get done adding them to the database. Well all the TB/SVM. I know many of you are wondering why am I doing it. See, I read. ALOT. And to update the Rec pages, was a lot of work. Since you guys hit it up so much, I wanted to make it easier to update. I also wanted to add the blog stories as well. It is a slow process now, but once it is done, it will be adding as I go. I also needed this to be done before awards come up.
As for the awards, well let me tell you, I have huge respect for anyone who does them!! You truly need to know the fandoms to do this. As much as I read True Blood and SVM, there were still some fics I never heard of nor the authors, and luckily someone in the group of ladies who did it, knew them. WE had planned to do it for all the fandoms that had vampires in it, but frankly, we ran out of time. I would love to do the other fandoms, but I don’t know Vampire Diaries enough, and need more than me for Twilight. I though of doing one for crossovers only, but again, need more than me.
Now for the stuff you have been waiting on, I have two chapters for today, and the video!!!
Ok.. First, Don’t forget to read, comment and vote on the stories you like for last month’s Writing Challenge, nor forget the new challenge.
Heavenly:
Light up the Path (There is only one more chapter left!)
And the video for Every Dark Night:
Every actor on the character page is in here. Can you find them all?
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