All of us have our calling. For a while, I thought my calling was to be a monk. That passed.

Currently I feel my calling is to express a qualified opinion regarding hits, votes, and comments at least once a month.

There appears to be a number of people who think the number of votes a story or part of a story receives has a correlation with the quality of the writing. In my experience this just isn't remotely so.

In order for the law of large numbers to come into play -- which makes statistics creditable - there obviously has to be LARGE numbers.

Next Time, A Map!

Whenever you finish a long piece, it's a good idea to write a kind of postscript, at least for yourself, about how it went.

The next part 864 of Bike has been written, I very nearly posted it tonight, but then thought you'll get too fat if I feed you too much.

I must confess that the character of Julie came out of the blue as I started to write, and I had difficulty stopping when I did. However, the plotline seemed so magnetic that I had to write some more - I know, saddo or what? So tomorrow's episode is about twice as long as usual, over 2200 words.

I will go with Adam's own for the moment. I may change some more of it to make it 'flow' better, for me that is :). On the other hand, one becomes kind of blind writing, and .. So if you see what you think is a blatant mistake, write me and say so.

Anyway, if you don't mind I will stay with that one and Jellyfish for the moment. I need to finish both, as well as some others. So if I do write something new it will probably be 'short stories. What do you think of Jellyfish btw, Is it boring? interesting, or just plain rubbish?

Gotta admit that to me it's kind of interesting :)

I've been searching for a story nad have not had much luck. I don't remember the title or character names. THe gist of the story is that a young man in his teens or early 20's was magically put into the body of a girl the same age. His body dies and he has to live her life. He now she has a boyfriend/fiance who in his previous life as msle was his best friend. Evnetually they get married and she realizes she is truly in love with him and he figures out who she was and all that.

There's been a rash lately of people moralizing about other people's stories. If a story offends you morally, you're probably not the target audience. It's probably a fantasy story based on a concept that makes no sense to you. Getting on a moral high horse about it makes you look prejudiced and clueless. Better to just say the story did not appeal to you if you comment at all.

I am up to my neck in one of the G11 stories, and had an epiphany because of it. In reading the story, a huge question mark in my life is closer to resolution.

I wanted to thank Erin and everyone who works to keep this site running for the new Random 5olos feature. Like several of us, I arrived here this year, well after this site was established and offering such great fiction. I felt a little overwhelmed at trying to catch up, given all the great writers who were here, some already with huge volumes of stories.

I read with great pleasure, and I admit, surprise that President Obama has appointed an openly trans woman as a senior technical advisor to the Department of Commerce. Appointment

I have been working on new TG fiction, using an entirely different style, making use of the one liners that those who know me in person find amusing. I have also been searching to find a way to write about some very lurid and steamy things within the confines of my personal beliefs.

The biggest problem, however, has been to write about space travel to several other Galaxies, making it seem merely inconvient and arduous, not imposible.