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Things you don't expect.

Well, since Erin and some of my other favorite authors are starving me, I started watching some YouTube, and when I do that I often do lots of research on the authors, studios, cast and um stuff. I was going to start watching 50 Shades again, but started Twilight instead. Twilight by a Mormon woman, and 50 Shades by a BBC person. Hmmm

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Can Anybody Help Me? Formatting

Hi to everybody, and in particular senior topshelfers in this closet.
I have a story which I would like to post, but it has a series of images which have captions to them. I could post it as a pdf which I have done in the past with stories that have several images, but Erin tells me that I may be losing readers by doing that. I have tried going on line and using some code to place images right and left to try and wrap text, but it just does not come out right. Can anybody help me with formatting?
Maryanne

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Small Excerpt of Frozen Core.

Hello out there,

I have an excerpt for you today! This is a story of mine that I converted from 3rd person to 1st person. I really liked this scene so I thought I would share it with you all.

Enjoy!

“Ready?” I asked.

“Three,” Andrew said.

“Two.”

“One!” and we launched the game together.

The box area I was in melted away and was replaced by a grassy field that stretched on for miles. In the distance there was a small hut with a fireplace puffing out little ringlets of smoke. The Scene was Gorgeous.

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I miss books

I've done a lot of reading since the library was closed, both on line and e-books through their web site, but it just doesn't feel the same. I went through it before a couple years ago when my arthritis wouldn't let me handle a real book and I'm very glad to have the other options. It's just that I actually found myself looking at the trash in the grocery store paperback rack. I'm jonesing bad for a good book in my hand.

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How much Peters is too much?

I use Fictionmania to throw out sketches and I have recently been told that as a result I am the largest contributor to that site (by number) knocking our dear Dorothy Colleen off that spot (sorry Dot). But here was the message posted on the board over there:
Posted by vini87874® on 07/03/2020 at 19:17:58
Subject: Mariane Pepers
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Ultimamente temos a Mariane tomando conta do fictionmania.

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Life and You Are a Meany

Hiya Everyone
Sorry for the delay in the latest chapter of You Are a Meany. It is finished and I will be putting it up right after this post. . Life has been extremely busy for me and the little amount of time I had to write it was hard to be in the right mind space to do so. Then if I was in the right mind space I had to take care of more important situations.

The only good thing about this space of time in posting is that I did work on the last couple of chapters of the stories also so there should not be as big of a lag.

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Beer or Wine and what Kind?

Your protagonist has been living as a woman for 20 years and has the tackle to make it real. A man that looks a lot like Sam Elliott has taken her to dinner. He's gotten her a very nice Rib Eye, done barely legal with Asparagus, and Mushrooms done just right. What kind of Wine? All I can remember is Gevurtz Antramer 1972.

She's expecting some action.

Gwen

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Camp NaNoWriMo

Hello out there,

I hope all you readers and writer's week is going well.

To get right into it I joined in on this month's Camp NaNoWriMo. I set a goal of 10k words for the month. My main problem has been that I haven't really been writing like I used to.

Back when I was writing like every day. I was sending everything to a Trans Fiction website like BigCloset and using the feedback I was getting from them to help the story along. I found out that this sort of behavior is not something that publishers really appreciate so I stopped doing it.

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Goodness !!! What a delightful story

I thought I had done this entry earlier but once again my ineptitude with the Computer is confirmed.

I've been reading "Butterscotch" and believe it is perhaps the most delightful and funny TG stories I have ever encountered. I would say it is an intersex story but it remains for the author to confirm that. It is also on Patreon.

Enjoy.

Gwen

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Are you vicarious?

The word "vicarious" is defined on Dictionary.com as "felt or enjoyed through imagined participation in the experience of others". I think that many writers are being vicarious with their writing. It pretty easy for me to identify with my main characters because my interest in this subject originated with the problems my inter-sexed sister had when her gender problems came to light. Both she and I were very young when it happened but, of course, it made a big impression on me so I remember quite a bit about it and I learned more as time went by.

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Thank You

Thank you to all those people who have taken a look at Collected on Amazon. I really appreciate your time and energy. I worked really hard to make it my best work.

BTW: I am in the process of reworking Terry and the Wildcats, Wildcats 1, Wildcats 2, Wildcats 3, and Wildcats 4.

I also have a new Wildcats 5 and Wildcats 6 that will be added to the entire collection and republished as The Big Book Of Wildcats, all 1,500 pages of Wildcats. The whole thing should be up and available in September and will cost less than two books, at $4.99

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Hello, Again

A few days ago, I posted a blog in which I whined horribly about petty grievances.

I announced, quite pathetically, that I was going to take my ball and go home.

Over the next few days, I received about three dozen comments, PMs, and emails. They were almost universally encouraging and sympathetic. Some rightly called me out for the shortcomings I displayed.

Embarrassingly, I can’t even claim that I had acted out of passion, because I wrote the blog and let it sit for a number of days before posting it.

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new Meagan's Tail up!

new Meagan's Tail up!

Well here ya go!

and if you want more??

go bug Nuuan!

LOL!

edit

We are world building and trying to fill in what would happen in a world with mutants, supers, Fae and humans mixing for decades if not hundreds of years.

But to all please read on enjoy and comment on what you see like or dislike. Every comment counts and we do use them!

ohh and Toss Nuuan and Branek some love and encouragement

comments and kudos keep the muse happy and flapping wildly!

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Lead, Don't be Led.

In these days, the spirit of a mean selfishness has drawn us into being less than we once were. People are saying and doing things in public that their scruples once prevented. I'm not afraid to say that the stories and fellowship at this site have given me the courage to keep on, and to not end it. Yes, they saved my life and I have worked so hard to make my own life worth living by being an encouragement to others.

The stories I have loved range from soul tearing to so funny that at times I thought I might just split open from heart felt mirth.

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Goodbye. Sometimes you just gotta say. . ..

. . .”What the fuck?”

In the mid 90s, I’d grown weary of the poorly written transgender stories I read on FM, Storysite, and other online locations.

My massive ego (more about that later) told me that I could write better stories. In college, I’d taken every writing course I could and wrote a humor column for the campus paper, along with sports articles.

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Computer and Role Playing Games

I am really, solidly unimpressed with Computer and Role playing games. YET the other night I saw Horizon Zero Dawn (The Movie) on YouTube and watched all 6 hours of it in one setting. I sat down to watch it at 9:00 PM, figuring that I would stop at Midnight. I was completely surprised to find the cake all gone, and my beer glass empty when the movie finished. It is brutal to try to get up after so little sleep. It felt like I had the Flu.

The Movie is soooo good.

Gwen

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Butterscotch 10 Trust on BC, 18 Cowgirl on Patreon

Butterscotch 10 - Trust is up on BC. Marjorie has made Davey an appointment with a doctor. What's that all about?

And on Patreon, Butterscotch 18 - Cowgirl is up. Rory and Kissy are parked down at the beach. What are they doing in the cab of that Toyota? Patrons Only post due to 18+ content.

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"I figure Jon and I got mostly left alone..."

"I figure Jon and I got mostly left alone because trying to figure out how to insult us in French was too much work."

I've begun reading Brooke Erickson's story, as yet unfinished, in Karen Wagner's NiS Universe: Brooke Naked in School.

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Missing Authors

This has been hashed before but one of those missing authors worries me since it was the beginning of the corona virus she last posted anything and then went dark.
The Lost Queen Vol 3 Ch1 Shadows of the Past
Submitted by Elsbeth on Fri, 2020/03/27 - 12:59pm
Which is the last of March. By some accounts not that long and yet sixty days with all that is happening, kind of worrying. According to one of the girls Elsbeth hasn't even logged onto BCTS. If anyone has any data on the young lady it would be a kindness to let the her ardent admirers know.

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July 2020 Story Competition

So my muse hit me with a little bit of whimsy and out came Personal Protective Equipment. It was just a tiny bit of amusement in these strange times, or so I thought. But my muse didn't let up, and began expanding the idea in all directions. If I had tried to make a coherent story I could probably have stretched that 150 words to maybe 10 or twelve chapters. Unfortunately, I have too many balls already in the air to even consider that.

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Update on Astra

Hey everyone, it's me, again. I just wanted to let you guys know that I'm still laid up with a sore ankle and while I haven't found the stupid flash drive containing Deshima, I have been working a LOT on The Interview. It's grown from 32,000 words to about 75,000 as of right now so we're making a lot o progress. Once I've finished and edited, I'll be publishing it on Amazon and have it removed here, so that's something you can all look forward to.

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NEW BOOK on Amazon - My Fair Lady-boy

LOCK-DOWN SPECIAL

I am pleased to announce the result of just two weeks' work - MY FAIR LADY-BOY

Remember the story of My Fair Lady?
Or perhaps you recall the Book by George Bernard Shaw upon which the musical version was based - PYGMALION?
Well, this is not really a modern re-write, more like a contemporary story that borrows just a smidge from the original.

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Do you ever think...

Do you ever think about how disturbed your muse might be?
I was recently writing a scene, and everything was all neatly mapped out. There should have been no problems, but I was trying to come up with a nice segue, and The Dreaded Muse spoke. This is sometimes a reason to run and curl up in the fetal position, because my muse is warped. Suddenly, she told me, "you know... We could make this so much better if we just make a teensy little adjustment."
Stupid me, I asked what adjustment that might be. I should have known better.

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