My apologies but there's no way the next action-packed chapter will be ready for publication Sunday.

A number of you have very kindly been worried after 'Cassandra' - Chapter 20 failed to materialise a timely manner.

First of all please don't worry, I'm fine and the story is definitely not being deserted. It's just that real life got in the way.

Here's the story. I'm currently retraining as a high school teacher (US) / teacher - KS 3 - 5 (UK). My year long college course to be certified as a teacher started on Tuesday and the last two weeks have been manic keeping me busy with 10 hour plus days.

Well, for better or worse i'm back in Yorkshire, I won't say home as its not. I'll bore you with some photo's and stuff later when I've had a bit of a chance to sort the 3.5k images!

Hello out there,

You wonderful people once again have helped me become a better writer.

When I posted the first draft of my book on here it was met with a lot of praise. I was so excited and happy. Then there were those of you who were critical and sent me PM's.

You must understand that I'm a person who likes criticism because it gives me something to improve on.

I got one critique, in particular, saying that the Prologue was boring. Another saying that the book wasn't as engaging as the 'Tuck' series.

Ike knew he'd forgotten something...

new story up: https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/fiction/80772/imp-pulse

Growing up, I always wanted to be a writer. To have my books loved by people around the world would be a taste of heaven. Unfortunately, I am a horrible writer. I know what I want to write, how the scene should look and what the characters would say, but I just can't get it out of my head and onto paper or a screen. I have idea's for 2 different stories. One is inspired by the anime My Hero Academia, the other is a sort of mid-evil magic adventure. A basic chosen one scenario meets Harry potter meets an abbey full of magical monks.

Hello out there,

It appears Rairy just can't catch a break.

As I write this story I feel so sad. I'm one of those writers that feel's/feed's off the emotions they are writing and reading. So if I read something extremely depressing I can get really depressed myself.

Rairy is not a reflection of myself, but there are parts of me in her. She is so much braver than I ever was.

I see a lot of authors here talking about publishing their stories. They all seem to be talking about self publishing. Others have pointed out that there is not a lot of money to be made this way. Perhaps another way to go would be to get a manuscript as ready to publish as you can and submit it to an agent or ten. Acceptance is probably a long shot but you will never know if you don't try. If you fail the self publishing option remains; if you succeed you might find your book supported by a major publisher.

Hello out there,

I wanted to let you all know that I did a very minor update to the 'Adrian' book.

So because of you fantastic people, I decided to write a new introduction for Adrian. It's right after the prologue.

So the change is pretty important.

It does five things:

I really enjoy stories that are well written, and are NOT Fanfic. I love writers who use their own brains and imaginations.

My new collection, Unforgotten and Other Stories, is available now from Smashwords and Amazon. (Smashwords pays its authors better royalties than Amazon.)

It contains forty stories and 335,000 words of fiction: twenty-six short stories, seven novelettes, two novellas, three short novels, and two reviews of imaginary books and TV shows. Thirteen of the stories (over 180,000 words) have never appeared online before, and three others appear here in a significantly expanded form. Each story has a new afterword or introduction; many of the afterwords have recommendation and links for similar stories by other authors.

Here is the tentative chapter list:

1. Soak Up the Sun
2. Steve McQueen
3. All I Wanna Do
4. Light In Your Eyes
5. Every Day Is a Winding Road
6. My Favorite Mistake
7. Strong Enough
8. If It Makes You Happy
9. Picture
10. Sweet Child o’Mine

Is the story any good as it stands?

Hello out there,

I know I should probably be working on Adrian stuff but putting my mind into a 13-year-olds point of view is a bit tiring.

So I've been working on converting one of my stories from a 3rd person point of view to a 1st person point of view.

I don't know if it'll ever make it here mostly because the main character is not trans and I don't know if stories about cis people are allowed here.

Just wanted to say "thank you" to everybody who has given a kudo on my latest story. 161 kudos is pretty amazing for a story that took less than an hour to bang out.

Again, my thanks to all of you. You guys rock!

Hello out there.

My names Katherine and I'm happy to meet everyone here.

I am a transwoman myself and have gone through a lot this year. From a Breast Cancer scare, my Grandmother dying, my 14-year-old cat dying, and writing this book.

It all started Back in October of 2018 I found a lump on my right breast. It took my doctor a series of tests and 5 months to tell me that the lump was benign.

I'm writing some more parts of "the Forsythe Saga". My problem is that of where two basically separate stories take place in much the same timeframe. They are also separated by 150miles.

I'm terribly sorry to everyone, but I will not be posting Chapter 19 of Cassandra tomorrow (Monday). This does NOT mean the story will be abandoned. I'm planning to have it ready by Friday

No chapter this week. I wanted to write another chapter this week to make a bigger buffer. It didn't work out. I'm hoping to get that chapter written sometime this week so if I do, I'll try posting Ch.7 afterward.

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Daniel A. Wolfe

About 10 ½ years and 500,000 words ago I posted “An Incremental Journey” here; since retitled in my files as “Cynthia and the Incremental Journey.” I have changed several other titles as time has gone by. “Cynthia and the Reluctant Girlfriend” followed. We found out about Bobby Schmedlap at the very end of the previous story. Cynthia Lewis had been Alfred Gontarski, a very unpleasant, overweight man with no social skills, who just happened to be transgender. Bobby Schmedlap had all the support he could want from his family; however, they were living in near poverty.

So I've written a very short piece that has been festering in my head for a few days.

A number of months ago I posted story that probably went bit too far. It wasn't the TG content. It was my expressing my discontent with the current political situation in the US. I also went into great detail about the genetics of magic, trying to keep it as realistic as possible. This was not important for my stories. The readers didn't really care about this; however. it was important for the construction of the stories. The readers just didn't need to know the details. These stories aren't a Perry Mason crime story. They are just stories.

And it is likely the penultimate chapter! I've been really enjoying writing this, hopefully the first of my stories, but it will soon reach its conclusion. So... Has it been worth the read? One of the readers, Sara Hawke, offered some helpful critiques (thank you for the respectfully presented opinions Sara :-) ). Are there others? Questions unanswered? Did you like the world I created?
How about the writing style in general? I honestly would like them as it will hopefully help with future efforts.