Well its here, Gabycon 5!

There will be a full report next week of this meeting of writers and fans this year held again in Dorset England.

TTFN
Maddy

I am trying to get back to writing; reading a few of my old stories to see what I liked and thinking. The first story I published on this site, drew a comment that said something like, you have a nice little story here that needs fleshing out. Another said that my story rambled a lot.

So, I decided that before I forged ahead on finishing my last story, I would try to conduct a little "self seminar" to try to tune myself up. Who knows maybe I need a book called, "A Tune Up For Wanna Be Writers"? :)

Suggestions please?

Hugs

Gwendolyn

Whoo, boy!

Well, in the last month or so things have been cah-RAY-zee for me.

About 25 days ago I turned in my two week's notice at my job at the hotel. I'd just, well, I'd had enough of everything, and of being stuck where I was, and so I decided to push the issue and set myself a date to move back home -- Monday, the fifth of September.

Thinking ahead, I decided to go ahead and fill out an application or two online ahead of time so I'd already have some prospects brewing before the end of my time at the hotel.

This is where things got weird.

One of the few people at work who is kind enough to call me Dorothy got hurt last night. She's been struggling with back pain the last couple of days (She missed Sunday night because of it), and I guess her back went out again, and she went home halfway through the shift. I hope she'll be okay.

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Maddy

This is the formal end of our journey into a possible future, although there’s a tiny epilogue still to come, already written, which will be posted at about this time tomorrow. This ‘last’ chapter is a long one, 15,000 words or so, but the epilogue is very handily short, so they shouldn’t be too dreary if one thinks of them as a unit.

Hello, Everyone! My heart is singing - once, because the Surgeon did his work well and it's all running smoothly now.... and twice, because I'm well enough to make a first visit to California....... This Friday, arriving at L.A.'s Hollywood Heights Hotel - I hope to audition (joking!) for "Priscilla, Queen of the Desert 2" - oh! if only!!

Love you all! xx Ginger

There seems to be some "controversy" and concern regarding "Fade to Black," especially the concern for the author. In reality we who are transgendered are more prone to violence, including that which is self inflicted. If you're even thinking about ending it all please make a pledge that you won't. I thank G-d every time I remember those who have made that pledge to me. The violence against us is bad enough without adding to it.

shalimar

I just wanted to take a few minutes to let people know the Wren Phoenix is in the hospital and having surgery, I am not sure how long they will be keeping her there but for those that know her it would be nice if you send her a message to let her know that she has friends here that are thinking about her. She can't login to the bigcloset at the moment because of the firewall at the hospital but I sent her a list of web proxies and maybe using one of those she will be able to access the site but either way I am sure she would like to hear from all her friends here at Bigcloset.

Cain129

This guy has come up with a unique way to keep Idiots off of the internet.

http://www.happyplace.com/9574/grammar-test-keeps-idiots-off...

Melanie Dian

Fellow beings, Hello. As you may or may not have noticed, i'm a little behind on part 5 of Magnetic Personality. this is more or less because i paid little attention to hard science in school and more attention to science fiction and comic books. well... I've really been trying to understand the fundamental science involved... I've wiki-ed, I've Googled and even asked Jeeves... the basics are making for brain aneurysms in my poor button head, but i want to be fair to those who have, well despised (smiles) my lack of scientific knowledge.

I'm just about ready to publish my little SRU story. Its very different (I think) than anything that has been done in that universe. I rather hope you like it.

By the way, I want to say I'm really proud of all the people who commented on "Justice?" We got a good range of opinions, all well thought out, and yet stayed civil with each other as each person stated our views. Well done, one and all.

Bringing you all up to date. About 8 months ago, I noticed a "blurriness" in my left eye. It went away, but then came back, and for the past few months has been coming and going resulting in moderate fogginess to outright total loss of useful vision in my left eye.

I've heard the stories. You know, the ones that go "you take your boobs and put them between two metal plates, and drop an anvil on them"... Funny, huh.