I'm so very sorry for not posting in such a long time.

It seems like it was almost someone else who wrote Accidental Magic and all those other things.

I am rewriting Accidental Magic, at least the first few chapters, and I have a chapter 28 or 29, whichever it happens to be.

Anyone still interested in it?
Let me know.

ALLY KAT.

...since the last time I blogged/posted here.

It almost feels like another life, but that is what happens I guess.

How many ways can I name Terri's future version, without actually calling her Terri?

Doppelganger
Lexi's mother
the other...

The problem with having a conversation between two versions of the same person is that how do you help the reader tell them apart.

Any suggestions?

Yesterday, my muse struck me hard. I nearly got in trouble for going too long on my break. But the last few paragraphs came to me and I had the good sense to jot them down.

Thank you all for waiting..

Oh, I haven't thought of a preview for the next chapter, mostly because I haven't figured out what part of it I could take a snapshot of and still leave you all waiting to see it.

I'll just stop wondering for a bit and try to get the actual chapter finished.

Ally Kat.

I know that my update schedule (or lack thereof) sometimes causes people to forget things that happened or to get some details mixed around.

I can relate.

I need opinions here.

I have a few short story ideas I'd like to throw about. They are transformational gender-bent stories that have, admittedly, taken a little time away from Accidental Magic. though some are just random ideas made into small vignettes and mostly unfinished...

...Would anyone be interested in reading them?

Do you know how hard it is to write a story that is tied to, and mirrors at the time, your emotional state, only to have your own life quickly and unbelievably changed around?

I literally don't have the same feelings now, that I did when I started Accidental Magic. Trying to maintain my existence in the real world has done a number on my creative juices and sent them in off in other directions. I spend a great deal of my time just re-reading my own story to remember why my characters were feeling the way they did.

The last time I wrote a blog entry, I was so sure I had 22 done.

I know you can read it now, but it originally ended with the line:

"Of course I do, She's my daughter."

...and 22 is easily half done, with what isn't fleshed out is clearly defined.

Not long now, since the bits to follow are long ago written and need only touch ups.

Okay, the whole, "I'm going to let you in on every little secret" idea isn't working. It all came down to almost fifty scene cuts and made it nearly impossible for even me to follow, AND I WROTE THE DANG THING!

Experiment: Failure

What am I going to do tonight? Same thing I do every night, Try to take over.... I mean, Cut out all the garbage and tell it like a damn flowing story.

I will show off some twists in the end.

Please don't go off on me on how I should know these things. I worked inbound Tech support for Gateway computers back at the turn of the millennium. I do already had a keen grasp on this concept. I actually kept a log of how many grown men broke down weeping after I told them that neither their "novel" was okay or Gateway was responsible for a hard drive crash.

Okay, I thought I would lay down my thoughts of Accidental magic.

I have been having a great deal of fun writing this, as well as reading the comments left by people about it. The speculations as to what I have in store for my characters is what amuses me the most, since there are so many good ideas there.