This is a repost from a little over a week ago to make sure that everyone got a chance to see it.
Due to the number of inquiries I've been getting as of late...
A number of people have been asking about writing characters that have already been chosen. Sadly, I have to tell them that those particular ones are unavailable at this time, because other people have chosen them.
There are a number of authors/potential authors that have chosen characters and after a number of months, and in some cases over a year, have posted nothing.
Due to the number of inquiries I've been getting as of late...
A number of people have been asking about writing characters that have already been chosen. Sadly, I have to tell them that those particular ones are unavailable at this time, because other people have chosen them.
There are a number of authors/potential authors that have chosen characters and after a number of months, and in some cases over a year, have posted nothing.
I'm doing a story that includes an upper class character in Wiltshire. I've searched and searched for a decent website that can show me how a person speaks from this region of England. The closest I can find is heavy slang and street-talk which my character wouldn't use.
I'd rather not use the cliche "upper-crust-snobby" speak... unless that's the way they really talk. I can't imagine that being the case.
Anyone out there know of a site or is from the area that might be able to lend a hand?
Some of you have been keeping track on my blog and offering good will wishes for someone that is special to me regarding a diagnosis that was given a few weeks back.
In short: I took her to the ER for severe abdominal pains a few weeks back. An ER doc and a Oncology doc told her she had ovarian cancer and she'd be dead very soon. Nice huh? All of this without a biopsy just a CAT scan. I twigged the next day that it wasn't possible to declare it cancer without that.
Enemyoffun was nice enough to post a blog letting some of you know that I've been incommunicado for the last three weeks. My motherboard and CPU had to be replaced on my new laptop that's not even a year old yet. Of course it had to happen right during an epic writing spree and on NaNoWriMo. I would have had that sucker beat in the first week! GAH!
Anyway. I'm still returning emails and PM's, so if you haven't heard from me that's why. I'm back now and my fingers are seriously itching to write something. So to work I go.
I've been contacted by a number of people regarding The Center, and whether or not the two recent stories are authorized and whether or not they can write a story as well. Yes, they are, and yes you can. In Chapter Nine (Comments) I made it an open universe to anyone that wants to write in it. There's no need to ask permission. Though if you want questions answered or more inside information about some of the characters, that didn't get revealed too much, for your own story, then PM me.
If you do write one, just credit me for the characters and universe. That's all I ask.
Since I've gotten a new computer, I've had problems accessing BC with both Firefox and Explorer (up to date versions).
The only thing that has changed is that I'm running Windows 7 now instead of XP. All other sites I try to access work normally.
The error messages I receive are either "Problem accessing page cannot connect to server" or "DNS Lookup Error" once I refresh about a dozen times I get through, but it's getting old real quick. Anyone else having a problem or know of a solution?
Why did I publish "The Calm of My Stream" when I said I was going to wait until the next chapter of The Center comes out?
I just got a really good opportunity to take part in an anthology that's going to be published by an actual publishing company that you don't have to pay. It's not the big time, but I have an opportunity to get my foot in the door of mainstream fiction, that you can actually buy online or in your local bookstore.
So, I'm concentrating on that this week. No Center this week unless I run into a major block on the paid-for writing.
For those of you that have been keeping track in comments and on Twitter. I was well ahead of the game when I first started the story. So's why the updates were fast and furious.
I was about 8000 words into Chapter 8 tonight, and in a couple of words 'It Sucked'. So, I'm pulling back and starting over from about 3000 words. What a incredible waste of time and effort, but that's how it is sometimes. It's all plotted out and it looks cool on outline but in execution it's choppy, annoying, and even well beyond the realm of realism.
With last night's outage, a lot of people were not able to read Chapter 4, so I'm not updating with Chapter 5 today. Instead, I will have it out Monday morning, so people will have a chance to catch up. Not to worry, it's already written. Chapters 5&6 are in the can and I'm working on 7 today so it should be ready by the the time Wednesday roles around. Then we'll be caught up.
I'm not telling you all this to be pretentious. I just didn't want you to think that I'd forgotten about you, today.
Random Movie Plot Generator (See some of the things it pulls up, below.
Everything you ever wanted to know about Sapphire
He was a flame-haired father of 3, who had a a love of Autumn and shoulders of concrete. She was a lovely female soccer star wannabe who was looking for the holy grail and hated it. Together they traveled to another world. Fighting the devil and loving each other.
Okay, I've done the google thing but didn't really find what I was looking for. A character of mine is going to die. I need a really top notch embarrassing way for it to happen.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) – Bank of America, Verizon, Chipotle and other companies have pulled advertising from a Sacramento radio station after talk show hosts referred to transgender people as "freaks" with mental disorders.
During a May 28 show, one of the three hosts on KRXQ's "Rob, Arnie & Dawn" show said he would hit his son with his shoe if he put on high heels. Another said he would tell a boy he was "a little idiot" if he asked to wear a dress.
Hello all! Over at my blog at TGLibrary.com I am trying to work out a different way for a male to "work through" being changed into a female. I could go through all the cliched "OMG I'm A GIRL!!!" things that have been done to death.
Just in case you think some lady that owns a salon won't do the revenge thing in real life I submit this article. This story *so* should have been TG instead of pr0n'ed.
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