• The most boring time in the world is waiting for the story you just wrote to come back from the editor you sent it to. Time crawls too slowly.

Well, I've been spending a day converting doc files into lit files, to save space and to give me a more portable format for stories here.

It's fun. So whatever.

Not really a TG post, but I have to beg for some help right now.

I have a page up at this location:

http://www.davensjournal.com/APlea.html

I have bad news and good news.

I was looking around on Japanese Maid Cafe sites, and I found this lady....

Just a general complaint.

I hate it when a story doesn't gel correctly in the brain.

For those of you waiting for a new Sissy Saga update, sorry it's going to be delayed for a while.

Well, having become a TS author, I have to say that I like it. I find myself checking my stories about 40 times a day (literally) and seeing how many times they have been read, how many votes that have been garnered, and if any comments have been made.

I'm finding out that I LOVE comments.

I'm a bit disappointed that the most recent chapter, Sissy's Debut, hasn't seemed to be as well received as the other chapters.

I do have more that needs to be written. I know where the next two or three parts are going to say, and the story is shaping nicely.

...how shocked I am that the Sissy series is getting as much good feedback as it is? I'm thrilled and gratified. I was truthfully expecting that it wouldn't be that well received, mainly because of the improbability of it.

But apparently there are people who like it. Wow.

I downloaded and paid for "Shannon's Course" from the lulu store for here.

I'm going to be talking about the plot, so if you haven't read it, don't come in here and read the rest.

I think I want to share just a bit more here. I have several blogs around the Internet, one for my religious stuff, one for my personal stuff, one for memes and so on, one for me as Joy and this one. But here I think I can open up some.

See, there's a lot of pain in here. I don't know how I as Joy came out as well adjusted as I did, mainly because of some of what has happened. Just like the character in my stories, I worked my backside off to fit into the world of maleness. Just like that character, I now feel trapped with no way out.

I wrote that and used it to get a lot of crap off my chest. Yes, most of it is true. I do come from a broken home, my father did leave at 15, I was considered the man of the family (raised Mormon, so any male is automatically better than mere girls), so on.

I was in home ec. I could sew and cook, and I loved the gingham apron. I was one of three boys in there.

I did have to conform. I was in Scouts, I did play things like Army with them. I had Action Figures and cars.

I have to tell you all, I hate writing dialog. Really. I don't mind writing, but the back and forth between people, the conversation and the "" marks really makes me go nuts.

1. Stop talking about politics for a moment or two.

I've been asked to write an article for a book discussing Transgender and Paganism.