Alright, for various reasons I have been a bit slow preparing the next section of "Princess For Hire" for posting, so here's the scoop. Would you rather:

A) have a short posting (two chapters) today, with another short short (single chapter) within the next two days? Or

B) wait until tomorrow and get all three chapters, with a normal update on Sunday as well?

Just over a day being posted, and Princess for Hire has more than 1500 hits and 40 comments (35 not by me!) Wow!

As of the writing of this blog, my story Dear John officially has twelve dozen votes! YIPPEE!

So, yesterday me, my roommate, and two of her friends went and saw Harry Potter -- which was great, by the way -- but it seems that I confused everyone when we were out.

How, you ask?

I used the men's public restroom at the movie theater.

I spend a lot of time on this site. I mean, a LOT. One thing I do from time to time is click through the names of active users to check out their profile pages and see what stories they have marked as favorites. I like the idea of going to the page of an author I enjoy and seeing what stories they recommend or are inspired by. Unfortunately, not many people use this feature of the site, one of my favorites.

In everything there are certain stereotypes that get played upon constantly whether people intend to or not. Everybody knows that not everyone fits them, but when we think of whatever subject they apply to, they immediately spring to mind. 'Baseball players do steroids,' 'the good guy always wins,' these are just a couple of the more common stereotypes and tropes that people can easily identify from popular culture.

Here's my question: what do you consider to be the stereotypes of TG fiction? There's a ton of them, so they should be easy to list. Bonus points for catchy names for them.

http://www.thebookofbiff.com/2008/12/15/655-dill/

Well, I thought it was funny, anyways. Gotta be careful with them pickle jars, don'cha?

Melanie E.

I'm working, I'm working!

I'm back in business! Thanks to the wonders of grand opening sales, I am now in possession of a computer again! You know what this means? I can actually work on my stories again without having to worry about being fired if my boss catches me! YAY!

What this also means is that hopefully I'll be posting chapters of my stories a lot more often, since I'll have more time to work on them, and I won't have to wait until I can borrow a friend's computer to post them. So, be on the lookout the next couple of weeks, 'cause new chapters is comin'!

Melanie E.

I do a lot of reading, and I mean a LOT of reading. Sometimes, though, I have trouble finding stories I haven't read that fit the theme I'm in the mood for, even after searching the categories.

Like all us here tend to do, I am as of right now suffering from a bad case of Writer's block. Sadly, it's not just on one or two but ALL my stories. Add to that that the flash drive I use for saving them has gone AWOL, costing me a few days' work (I had a backup past that, thank gods) and my writin's not doin' too good.

I'm also re-re-re-rereading Tuck, so that's a bit time consuming as well. I hope to have more of Cassie and Miriam out by mid-February at the latest. Wish me luck, please!

Melanie E.

My god, I feel so bad right now. I just had to give one of my friends the 'I just wanna be friends' speech.

Mudbugs, crawdads, crayfish, whatever you call 'em, Boys of Summer needs a recipe for how you cook 'em.

This Saturday, I embark on an epic quest. More horrifying than a term paper, more thrilling than gator wrestling, more geeky than converting your entire D&D campaign from v. 3.5 to v. 4! (Though I'm doing that, too.)

That's right, people- this weekend, I attend my first Anime convention.

Before setting out on this most dangerous endeavor, I feel it is necessary to set my affairs in order. Therefore, Friday shall see the posting of Boys of Summer 16-20, as well as the submission of Echoes 5 to John!
Ras

I posted the second (technically fourth) Writers' Challenge on Saturday, and so far no takers! :(

Maybe if I acknowledged some kind of 'winner' of the last one, but it really isn't that kind of challenge.

Very well. The winner is... all us readers lucky enough to get to read your stories! The prize? A duck!

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Now MOAR STORYS PLZ

Melanie E.