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Hello out there,

How is everyone doing on this lovely morning? I'm doing pretty okay today, yesterday was pretty trash but I'm feeling a lot better today. Depression blows.

I want to share a small story about myself today.

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The Huntress Chronicles, Huge Update

I've done a huge amount of editing on all my stories. Nothing too bad, just taking away the bold from them. Using Bold/Italicize/Underline/ect didn't give the effect I wanted. I wanted it to be a way to separate human and monster voices but instead I was given feedback it just confused people, and so I've fixed it and removed it from every story.

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What's in a Name?

I have a terrible memory, especially for names. There's a sort of hereditary aphasia in my Mother's family which I seem to have a double dose of. Using "Denver" for "Detroit" in a recent story is one symptom of this. That I am having nerve problems with my hands which affect my touch typing isn't helping.

I recently discovered I had accidentally referred to Vic's wife Michelle as Melissa a few times in a few stories. I believe I have corrected all such instances. However, if anyone finds future incidents of this sort of name problem, please let me know.

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Something New on the Horizon

Greetings!

It’s been a while. Maybe I got lost or stopped just to think things over.

I’ve had trouble finishing projects that I started, and time seemed to pass around me. But, last night, I uploaded a new book to Amazon called Collected. It should be available soon. I’ve got a novella to share here next that I hope to turn into a complete novel. If it all comes to fruition, I want to donate the money.

Peace,

Leslie

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The Fall of Kruhl - Revelations

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The Fall of Kruhl - Revelations

By Daniel A. Wolfe



As Kruhl and Teressa struggle to free Waldere from its enclosure, new revelations come to light, forcing Kruhl to confront a devastating truth.


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I finished a book-length story!

It took me nearly 9 months, but I wrote a book (well over 100k words). I know there are many, many authors on here who have already accomplished this, and probably did so at higher quality, but I am pretty pleased with myself right now. I wasn’t sure I could do it when I started, but I’m happy to find that I was able to finish.

There were many people who reached out to me with encouragement or explained why my story might not be for everyone (X-Men fan fiction with lots of explicit sex, violence, and a rape scene - I can see where it's a niche market).

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No story chapters this week

Hey everyone,

Just a quick note here to let you all know that I probably won't be posting much of anything this week, if indeed anything at all. The last week and a half has been pretty rough. My PTSD, anxiety, and depression have been in high gear and playing around with my head and heart like a soccer ball, and I haven't been sleeping due to the insomnia and nightmares. This was making it hard enough to focus on writing anything, but now I've caught a cold and it's making it impossible to get anything done.

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Butterscotch -12- Home - Free on Patreon

Can Kissy go home and back to being Davey?

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“I want you to take me home,” I told her.

She nodded.

“Mom is going out with friends, and if I get home before her, I’ll have time to get all—get rid of all this—stuff. And go back to being D-davey.”

She shook her head and pulled me against her. “You can’t,” she said.

I flared. “The hell I can’t,” pushing her away, or trying to. “You can’t make me do anything I don’t want to do.”

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The story has to end

My writing process is a little weird. I get into these moods of depression, anxiety, and a craving for soft pretzels that will never be appeased, and the only way out is to write. Allison's Pledge was the first time I shared my frantic writing with anyone, then came Woodcrest which was a failure because honestly, I was just trying to ride the wake of Allison's Pledge. Guess the popularity was kind of a rush but in the end, most people didn't like it. So here we are in another depressive funk, a binge drinking episode, and The Interview at the center of it.

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Tuckerspawn Forum?

Where happened to Tuckerspawn Forum? Is it archived anywhere?

I tried to use the wayback machine to get access to some of the content but I was having trouble finding the actual content despite it indicating that it did archive it. Any suggestions to access the following areas:
Future Tuck forum
Fanfic (particularly one - “after graduation”)

Thanks in advance,
A

[ sorry to have to ask what may be a bad question but I missed this due to a TBI and the subsequent recovery. ]

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In Defense of my Drunken Blog Post

I would like to apologize for my drunken blog post last night, but I won't, because we don't always get what we want. What I will say is that when I write fast, and good, it usually means that something is horribly wrong in my life and I'm trying to sort out my internal emotions by using the written word so what you're seeing is a basic representation of the shit show going on in my head.

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The Interview - Random Thoughts

We're about 2/3 of the way through 'The Interview', with the story getting ready to start winding down, but I had planned to do some expanded meta things, like blog posts, news articles, etc, to help flesh out the story. Unfortunately, I just found out that when I do that, BC moderators will actually remove the mainline story from the front page, meaning people won't see the latest installment. If anyone cared, Chapter 15 was released yesterday...and is now moved off.

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Plausibility in stories

In many/most of the stories I read, even the so called, historical ones, the burden of proof is often not satisfied. But if the tale is reasonably well written, we can like it as entertainment. That goes for written work, and movies.

A point of confusion for me, the movie, "The Good Shepherd" by EM Forster was very good, rivetingly so. I thought that he was a veteran of the Navy. Much to my surprise, he was simply a good writer. He also wrote, "A Room With A View", one of my favorite stories ever.

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Maggie Finson's "Peacebringer."

I seldom do this, but I must, in this case give a rousing, heartfelt, recommendation to anyone who hasn't read this incredible epic!.

I just finished reading it at Sapphire's Place after three almost sleepless nights of reading, almost afraid to sleep, fearing I'd forget where I left off the night before.

http://sapphireplace.com/stories/finson.html#quoth

Thank you Maggie for this and all your other works, so skillfully written and well told.

Cathy.

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You Are a Meany Chapter 17

Greeting and Salutations everyone
I am posting an update on when the new chapter of You Are a Meany will be up. It will be this weekend. I sent it to be edited and it looks like the editing is finished. I want to say thank you to my editor for such a great and quick turnaround. Even if it takes a couple of more days it will still be quick and great turn around.

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Looking for a story.

I am looking for a story that I have read several times but not recently. Do not remember the author, title or main character's name. The main character is a 65 year old male design engineer working in a small branch of a much larger company. His branch of the company is sold to another company. This has happened to him several times during his career. Each time in the past, he ended up getting laid off in a downsizing move before he qualified for company benefits. Feeling that history is about to repeat itself, our character gets a friend to help him present himself as a woman.

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I need my space!

...between paragraphs, that is.

Reading on-screen is different than reading on a page but any large block of text can be difficult to read if the eye cannot find an anchor point to return to when it reaches the end of a line.

Since HTML removes the indents at the beginning of paragraphs, the online standard has become to put a blank line between paragraphs. Or at least, a blank line every few lines (a la Maddy Bell) if the lines are short.

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Even After All These Years...

Dedicated to the One I love. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4M7gKZqgHn4

Reading Admiral Krunch's, "Being Christina Chase" once again after all these years is so very thrilling! In some parts I find myself bouncing in my seat like a child. I wonder what has happened to him and I do hope that he is doing well. I think his skills are great enough that he could easily have moved into writing his own published works in another venue, and I do hope that the years have treated him well.

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The Theory of Tuesdays

Science and Dan O'Neil both explain that Tuesday afternoon is the most productive time of the week. No one wants to work on Friday or Monday or any morning at all for that matter. And Thursday afternoon is taken up making plans for Friday; you can't get things done on Wednesday because that's Hump Day, for gosh sakes.

That leaves only Tuesday afternoon, you're awake and rested from the weekend, Friday is far enough away you can pretend you have plenty of time to make plans and you need room on your desk to eat your Hoagie so you might as well do some work.

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Missing Author...

Does anybody have any contact with Bailey Summers ?
The last thing they write "I have to drop out from the contest" in late January 2019 for heavy dose of the flu and cold, mixed with R.L.
That's more than one year with no contact...!

Peace and Love tmf

Peace, Love, Freedom, Happiness
and
Health

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The Geek that becomes a woman

I'm looking for a story about a long haired, Computer Geek who starts to drive his car over the mountains and wrecks in a storm. Kind, helpful Russian Immigrants pick him up, and mistake him for a distant female Cousin. They get him cleaned up and all the mud off him and get him into girl's clothes and all that. Later she meets a Lawyer who falls in love with her, and you know where it goes from there.

I thought it was AA that wrote it but it appears not. Oh, it was Christina Chase!!! but who wrote it?

Gwen

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New Chapter of Rairy Contrary out now!

Hello out there,

So I just released a new chapter of Rairy Contrary. I'm still not used to the formating here. So, for now, everything I post is going to look as is.

I've been having a really hard time writing mostly because of the pandemic. I've been really worried about my parent's wellbeing, have had to cancel Electrolysis appointments, and doing therapy on my phone is really weird.

I was able to harness these frustrated feelings and put them into this chapter.

I hope you all enjoy it,
Katherine

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Posting Mindful 2

I noticed at approximately 2030 UST that my earlier novel Mindful had been re-posted.
I was pleasantly surprised by this (Thanks Erin) There is a copy for sale on Amazon.

I then set about reading some of the old comments and somebody had mentioned that they preferred to read a novel length story in one session, rather like a book.

Consequently, I've re-posted the follow-on novel Mindful 2 in it's entirety but it is also up for sale on Amazon and the proceeds go to BC (I think)

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why I love big closet.

Why do I love Big closet? Because it's a friendly place. Not everywhere is. For example, here is a review of "coven encounter" on fictionmania: "you have finally managed to produce some thing more than a drabble." nice, huh?

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The Fall of Kruhl - Imprint

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The Fall of Kruhl - Imprint

By Daniel A. Wolfe



Imprisoned by her enemies, Amelia is confronted by the specter of Ashtar, who has come to issue a warning, but will it be in time to save the agent?


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what I'm working on

Its been a while since I've given an update on what stories I'm working on, so here goes:

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Dot:set in Amethyst's Hyperverse, its the story of a young man with gender issues, who is turned into a girly girl.

Rose the Bunny:Is it weird that I'm writing a Christmas story in May? This one is thanks to Rosy Redd, so when it comes out, blame her. :P

The secret of Myth:Its possible everybody gave up on this story, cause I had nothing for a long time. But its not dead yet ...

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Tommy - The Trials and Tribulations of a Girl?

This past weekend was a good time for writing, and then I was able to spend some time doing som editing on it. So, I just published a new chapter of Tommy - The Trials and Tribulations of a Girl?

Enjoy,

Teddie

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(still) In Search of a Story

Reposting this since nobody seemed to have any ideas the first time.
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Synopsis:

Guy gets asked to infiltrate a compound where brainwashing and cult tactics (plus drugs/chemicals) are being used to turn men into women. He happens to be trans, but also a expert on cult indoctrination and brainwashing techniques. Keeps track of time using coat hangers at one point.

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New cover images for Legacy of Earth!

Since, I decided to resume work on Legacy of Earth, after The Fall of Kruhl, I started looking at the cover art and decided to revamp the images for the entire series (plus the universe).

You can view the full-size images (and their captions) on my website. I love doing this sort of stuff and I hope you all enjoy them :)

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Special FX - Starring Halle Jones - now on BigCloset Patreon

I'm starting a story based on C.D. Rudd's webcomic, SailorSun.org, with his permission.

I'll be posting it on the BigCloset Patreon page for now, but it will be free to view, and will eventually be posted here on BC.

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Creative Process by Neil Gaiman 5/2/20 @ 7:30 EST

I found the following event and thought it might be of interest to writers and aspiring writers. There are also some additional virtual book events that will take place in May.

Neil Gaiman in Conversation with N. K. Jemisin: May 2

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