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Hi all was going to post the first part of a new story by SaraUK today but unfortunately my Internet is out at the mo :(
Hopefully it will be back up later.

Huggles
Sammi

(This has been posted from my phone)

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It felt good to write again

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Yesterday, thanks to a challenge that Dorothy Colleen put up, I was able to actually sit down and write. While it was a short 1000plus word story, it really felt good to do so.

Last weekend was the first days off I had taken since before Memorial Day, other then a day to take my son to Vermont to visit a potential college. He will be a senior in high school come September. So writing has been difficult both from a motivation and energy or time.

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Bike?

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As there have been no episodes of ‘Bike’ for the last few days, I spoke to Angharad yesterday. This is just to let you know, she is well.

While we talked on many subjects, Bike was not one of them.

As one of the fans of this story all I can say is I hope she will continue. Like Tinker Bell, I believe.

So the obvious question is, Do You Believe?

Love to All

Anne G.

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Collaborating

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As some of you know, I am the compiler of the DarkRealms Gazetteer. What none of you are aware of is that the DRU Gazetteer is the second list that I compiled. The first list that I came up with is for Penny Lane's "Somewhere Else Entirely" epic story. I did this mainly for my own enjoyment. I have recently sent her the most up-to-date list I have asking for permission to post like I did for the DRU. She came back with an even better idea so that the list would be tied directly to her story page for that series.

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Whatever happened to Arabella and Helene?

I was chatting and the Bill & Ted movies came into the conversation, that got me to wondering, could the princesses that Bill and Ted save be Arabella and Helene?

(Hopefully our two heroines will return soon. :0) )

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Serial chapter missing.

I posted Part 3 of my story The Accident, and now I can't find it anywhere. What happened to The Accident - Part 3 that I posted earlier? I cannot repost it without writing it over, and now there is no train of thought for Part 4. Will somebody please tell me what happened to my post?

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anyone willing to post

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I was wondering if anyone was willing to move Finding Jenny over to Fictionmania for me. I no longer have the files and my computer is so slow it would take me forever. Thanks.

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Mindful.

Well.

I've finally got my novel Mindful into print. Anybody interested in reading it can look on the Amazon Book Store and type in Mindful or Beverly Taff. It's also available in dead tree mode by Strategic Books.

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New Karin Bishop ebook!

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Solutions is my new ebook, available at Amazon for Kindle (they should have it ready to go in a few hours), and at Smashwords for all formats. Here’s the information:


Charlie has a problem–he’s trying to be like his father Chuck, a sexist cheat.
Charlie’s father has a problem–he can’t wait to dump the kid so he can take off with his new honey.
Charlie’s mother, Carol, has a problem–her husband Chuck.
Charlie’s grandmother, Gram, has a problem–Chuck has dumped Charlie on her farm for the summer.

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So there's more Gaby

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this week and Lulu have another great offer that runs until Friday.

There will be another posting next week but i'm off on my hols this time next week so it will be August before there's anymore.

ttfn, see you all next month.

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Lulu sale on books until Friday the 13th

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Lulu.com has a site-wide sale--18% off until Friday the 13th. Strange percentage, but what the heck--just a chance to save on BCTS authors' books!

Karin

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Where Are They?

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Admiral Krunch Being Christina Chase http://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/title-page/3034/being-christin... , Billie Sue Pilgrim [A Lizzie Jane Adventure] Lulu Martine Lulu - A Dark Comedy of Identity http://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/book/23744/lulu-dark-comedy-id... and Toni Trepasso http://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/book/35194/toni-trepasso ? All mentioned authoresses have stopped posting. WHY?

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Dead Reckoning by Mercedes Lackey

I've just finished reading Dead Reckoning by Mercedes Lackey. It is a very good book, and the main character is a FtM TV. The book is about zombies in the Wild West (1867). For those familiar with the Deadlands RPG setting, it is much like that without the Ghostrock(?) and physical changes, but with the Magic/Weird Science. For others think Wild Wild West with Magic, that isn't entirely accurate but a decent idea for the setting.

I highly recommend this story along with most of Mercedes Lackey's novels.

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Where is Megan Campbell?

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Where is Megan Campbell?
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She usually post another Sarah Carera chapter by now on Mondays. When she knows she will be delayed, she let's us know. Has somebody insulted her or something?



Stanman
May Your Light Forever Shine

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The Omega Unicorn Chronicles By rachel76m Delayed

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The Omega Unicorn Chronicles By rachel76m Delayed
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Rachel sent me a P.M. saying that the next chapter will be delayed due to work.



Stanman
May Your Light Forever Shine

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Apparently dried up.

Just to keep readers informed.I haven't lost my muse. I'm adopting a new tactic, namely write the whole story then break it down into chapters (or whatever,) and post it once nightly until the story's finished.

Busy writing 'Wheels and Wings' at the mo. Dunno when I'll finish it though.

Bev.

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Suggested Reading

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I have been reading some excellent stories that will appeal to some of the folks here.

http://www.chakatsden.com/chakat/FT-index.html

If you don't like furries or science fiction, don't bother.

The Chakat universe involves Earth and the surrounding star systems a few hundred years from now. There are aliens, Earth-developed anthropomorphic beings, humans, star ships, and all the stuff that goes along with that.

The title species, the Chakat, are a race of felitaurs (think of a centaur, but with a cat body for the lower half, and an anthropomorphic cat for the upper half.

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I'm sorry

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Hi all,

I have to apologise for not writing much lately.

Real life has intruded and stopped me from doing much.

Firstly, we are trying to move and the sale is being a bit of a b*g*er. Secondly, my work is taking up most of my spare time. thirdly, I am in the middle of changing over to the Dark Side and am converting to an Apple Mac.

Hopefully, things will settle down soon and I will be able to inflict my woeful writings on my unsuspecting public once again.

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Please, how do I do this again?

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So, I think that I might redo some of my stories and resubmit them. OK, so I know how to post them, but I am not sure how to get rid of the old one. Do I just highlight the whole business and then press delete, or is there a better way?

Thanks

Gwendolyn

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A Thank You Card

Thanks to everyone who commented on the new episode of Crossdressing Charlie. I was shocked to see that it had nine comments when I logged on just there. Nine comments may not seem a lot to some of the greater, better-known stories that attract high readership and reviews here on Big Closet but I think it is great. Mainly because I could tell I was gradually losing readers but the views are climbing back up better than ever. Thank you all so much.

Be on the lookout for a new Charlie episode next week along with some artwork I will be uploading to my DeviantART account.

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Shutter/Shudder A pet peeve.

Okay look. I am by NO means perfect when it comes to word usage, but there are some common mis-usages that occur on a regular basis in a lot of stories.

Lose-Loose

Heel-Heal

Waist-Waste

and on and on.

One that just makes me SHUDDER, is using shutter, or vice versa. One may shudder, but one CANNOT shutter unless it involves a window one is shuttering. Fear can make one shuDDer, not shuTTer. One can shuTTer a window, but cannot shuDDer it.

When I run across one of these mis-used words, it jars me out of the story sometimes.

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My how plans can change


My how plans can change


First off I'd like to thank everyone who helped me our with my last blog. I ended up settling on the name Brynhilde.

On to my main reason for posting this blog...

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Added the missing chapters for A Life Ever Changing 3a 3b

I am so sorry about that. Well, it is fixed now and I will be fixing the graphics as well, but they are not that important. The story is now ALL THERE thank goodness.

Huggles All

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Would you pay?

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Hello everyone

I was just wondering if anyone would pay to read the finished copy of Nicole. If you would just email send me a pm. Also which are the good online publishers and do they allow authors to post on free sites like BCTS because I like writing here and i've noticed a couple of people here have stuff in the public domain thats available for sale as well. I won't stop writing for free but monetary appreciation would be welcome!

Sydney Moya

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The Omega Unicorn Chronicles Book 4 Honeymoon Trips By rache

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The Omega Unicorn Chronicles Book 4 Honeymoon Trips By rachel76m Delayed
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Rachel sent me a P.M. saying that the next chapter will be delayed due to work.



Stanman
May Your Light Forever Shine

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New Karin Bishop ebooks

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Desperate Measures should be available the 4th of July at Amazon in a Kindle version, and is available now at Smashwords in all formats. And will be trickling out to Barnes & Noble, iBookstore, Kobo, Sony Reader.

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Writing tips for novels

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I am in a writer's group once a month and much to my surprise, one of the small group is a published author and has written a few novels that I think are doing well. J P Blackmer, does that ring any bells? He writes Scottish fiction set about 600 years ago.

So, now to the point. He said that when he writes a book, he writes a little bit here, and some there, and finally in the middle and when he thinks he has a story then he works out ways to join all the little bits together. Hmmm. I wonder if I should try that?

Gwendolyn

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The Storm in the Midwest and how it affects me

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I wanted to let you know that my internet is gone, it'll take a good week to get it fixed completely. I'm posting this at my brother's house. Of course this means I won't be able to post my stories as fast as I wanted to. I've got chapter 9 up of The Crossroads. I'm in the process of working on chapters 10, 11, and the final chapter, chapter 12, and I hope to get these posted as fast as I can. Sorry about that!

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Vacation & late chapters

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A have a number of chapters that will take longer to post. My poor laptop shuffled off to its mortal coil before I got on my plane :'( im on my smart phone now. Not really condusive to writing long stories :-) I'll be back by the end of the week.

-Elsbeth

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SaraUK PG will be late this week.

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SaraUK Project Guardian will be late posting tonight as I haven't had time to get it ready in the last couple of days (family visiting).

I'll get it posted tonight when I get home.

Huggles
Sammi

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apology to Big Closet

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I wanted to apologize to the Big Closet community as a whole. I have not been a very good friend of the site. Currently I have two stories that are incomplete (A Pinkilicious Birthday and The Cure) and that is quite poor of me. It's not that I intended to start them and not complete them, but that is what has happened. With being robbed and with the legal mess that I am currently going through, I am not in a good state mentally to write anything. Besides that, a slight change in living arrangements has made me even less inclined to write, but I think that is more of an excuse.

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Writing Future

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I have a serious dilemma I've been plagued with as of late. My most recent story, Season of the Witch, is finally winding itself down and I've really enjoyed writing it but suddenly noticed its actually taken me nearly six months to do so. This is by far the longest time its taken me to write a story.

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looking for a story ...

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... that is about a family (of course) ... the child plays a guitar (really, really) good, and is accepted as TG'd. She plays spanish music, and the instrument is an old ... and can anyone help me?

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A Big Thank You

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To everyone who has supported my scribblings by buying either printed or digital copies of Gaby and all the other stuff.

Scaramouch, my publishing house, are celebrating selling 4000 units since they started in 2004, a copy of Wheels 2!

Whilst i'm never going to get rich, it does cover my internet connection costs, so thank you all very much.

http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/scaramouch

Maddy

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Programs for writing

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OK.. I admit it. I'm new to writing and would like some peoples opinion.

While I am working on my story I found that its almost impossible to keep track of my characters along with the story line. I'm not trying to do a SOTP story. I know where I'm going and all.

I've seen some programs that help with the structure, design and such. So what what programs do you guys use? Besides word that is.

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The Bodysuit In Fiction

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I have been using the all-purpose bodysuit in my stories to give my characters the bodies that they crave. Now, I know that such an invention would not be made due to the impact on medicine and society as well, it makes for a great story.That is why I am posting a story where it is first made, and why.

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Please help rename this story.

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I would love some help with a story of mine, "Battle Field to Crib". So many people, including myself think that story title is well, lame. So, I would like some suggestions on a new name.

I think I am going to greatly extend this story to 2 or 20 chapters, and if I decide to try my luck selling anything on Amazon or where ever, it will likely be this story, after I publish it here. I like the sweet, gentle story line.

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need new editor (again)

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Well I had it happen again. My second editor, Loki, the one who thoroughly understood the Whately Academy and Bleach universes has told me that due to IRL issues, he can no longer be my editor. The irony is he was exactly the editor I needed. So I ask for a third editor hoping that I get it this time. I need someone who isn't going to write off parts of the story I make as 'silly, goofy, and ridiculous' but who is going to see them as part of the universe. I also need a editor who is at least up to date with the Bleach dub (ep 257) or is beyond it.

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A very BIG thank you to all my readers!!

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I'd like to say a really big thank you to all the people that took the time to read, comment and Kudos on my 'To Make A Wish' story. I have been busy writing new stories, and one will be replacing 'To Make a Wish', so sadly you won't be getting much of a break from my writing (please feel free to run away screaming now)
I'd also like to say a super big thank you to SamanthaK for putting up with me and my writing, as without her help, I would have given up on my writing more times than I can count. Thank you Sammi *big Hug*

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'To Make a Wish' will be late this week.

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This is just a quick message to let everyone that is still reading my 'To make a wish' story, that it will be a little late being posted this week. SamanthaK is busy today, and won't be back home until late, and she does all the proofing, editing, posting and a load of other stuff that makes it so you can all understand what I write.

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SaraUK

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Anyone heard from Beth lately?

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It has been months I think since I last heard from Beth. I haven't seen her on and know that she was having some health challenges, but appeared to be improving.

Has anyone heard from her?

Gwendolyn

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23 million hits!

I've just noticed on the hit counter at the bottom of the page that we've now exceeded 23 million hits (plus an extra 9,000) since 16th June 2005. Yay us! :D

That works out at about 3 ¼ million hits per year, nearly 9,000 hits per day, 370 hits per hour or 6 hits per minute (have I ever mentioned I like playing around in spreadsheets?)

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Cathartic measures

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I ecently blogged I was willing to let another author work on my unfinished stories. Somme one suggested I hold on to them and when I felt better complete them. Today I opened one of my stories and spent some time following the them I am writing about and within two hours I felt better and my story is close to completion.
It was nice to have that cathartic feelng of accomplishing an endeavor.

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Information about Through the years

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When I first wrote this, I was afraid to put the name of the town down for some reason I can't recall anymore. Now, almost a year later I don't have that issue. For those wondering where Through the years takes place, Tracy's current home is halfway between Palermo CA and Oroville CA.

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Started stories but am wiling to let someone finish them

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I have several stories I have begun but they need to be finished. I'm going through a rough depression and am unable to remain concentrated to finish the stories. They are all meant for solo's but if somebody wants to expound or embellish I have no problem.

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Gathering Dust and Hidden Treasures

There are many very accomplished writers who have posted works here in years past; however, their works languish under layers of dust, and are relegated to the seldom accessed stacks. Our membership has increased greatly over recent years, and tastes of the readership have changed quite a bit. The stories with a few exceptions are leaning towards themes that are reflected in younger society in general. Vampires, gothic adventure, super heros seem to dominate the contributions.

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Odyssey III

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I just posted the last Chapter of Odyssey III

For the few people who hit it quickly, I accidentally reposted Chapter 13. Upon realizing my error I quickly corrected my blooper.

I hope you enjoy Krista's latest!

Thanks

Jennifer Sue

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