Well, I had an upsetting moment the other night but because it involves my faith, I'm not giving details publicly. The last time I did that my blog got pulled. So if you want to know, PM me, but otherwise, just know I'm not a happy camper at the moment.

I didn't want to write this in with the other entry, since this is a much different sort of topic. The previous entry today was much harder to write, so I decided to do it first. Anyways!

My weight loss goal of 140 pounds was reached as of yesterday morning. I lost roughly 45 pounds between late June and now.

I still have a little bit of remaining pudge in some areas, but that should go soon enough as I move on to the next stage of my get healthy plan: muscle toning.

First of all. the surgery itself went very well, but I re-affirmed my belief that the squeaky wheel DOES get the grease. For months, the V.A. tried to tell me that my blurry vision was a simple problem that could be solved by using eyedrops. I insisted that it was much more than that, and finally went to an outside opthemlogist who informed me that I did indeed have a cataract! I went back to the V.A. with the proof and they finally did a more detailed exam, confirming the cataract and finally scheduled me for the surgery.

Sorry Everybody who's waiting for this weeks "You Have it all Wrong" by SaraUK this week, I'm afraid I'm had a thumping headache most of the day and I haven't got the HTML done for it. Hopefully I'll feel better after a nights kip and if so I'll do it first thing Sat morning.

Huggles

Sammi

Thought I'd post a quick update and tell everyone that the sequel to Incompatible is finished. As I mentioned before it's roughly half the length of incompatible at almost 12,000 words. Once the story is edited I will post it as soon as humanly possible.

For those that haven't read my previous blog entry, the title for this particular story will be 'Transfigured: Makings of a Spellbinder'.

So it's been a while since I posted anything of real substance, no?

Well, here's the sitch.

I think I've already said this, but I've moved back in with my parents in my home town. I've got another job (at a surprisingly small pay cut) and I'm getting to see my cousins more often than I have in over ten years, which is great, not to mention playing with my niece Shelby and spoiling her with lots of toys.

Hi Everybody,
     now that most the work with transferring servers seems to be finished, I thought I could take some time to post this note.

Some of you may know, but other's probably don't, that I've been making book covers for not only my own, but other people's stories.

I make these using Stock Art purchased or found freely (royalty free archives) off the internet.

Here are some examples of my work:

My grief lies all within, and these external manners of lament are merely shadow to the unseen grief that swells with silence in the tortured soul. ~ William Shakespeare

I would like to remind ALL readers here of the 2011 Transgender Day of Remembrance, November 20, 2011.

I know it's more than a month away, and I will probably submit this again next month, BUT, if you haven't visited the Day of Remembrance website, http://www.transgenderdor.org, I would encourage you to do so.

Why is this so important? Because trans people are in greater danger of being killed.

Link to Guardian story on victory in Australian courts regarding change of legal status without full surgical reassignment.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/oct/06/transgender-aust...

Angharad

Well, I got the green light. I started female hormones today. (Does a little happy dance)

very quickly. Back from surgery. All went well. Back up tomorrow for followup. still blurry but looks promising. Lots of eye drops to use...clear shield over my eye to protect it until it heals. touch typing sucks. LOL

can barely read what I'm typing...can't even start reading responses. Thanks to everyone who responede to my blogs. will type more as I start seeing better.

Be seeing you all soon.

Cathy

Greetings all,

I am wondering if I should continue with Maiden of Magic. I only had 7 comments from people other than myself on the second chapter thus far. The lack of comments is disheartening, since I enjoy reading the feedback that I get from them, which helps with writing the additional chapters.

Also, are the retcons themselves disinteresting now?

Comments?

Drakira

Off I go to have things stuck in my eye. I should be back this afternoon. Hopefully I'll be able to update. If not, don't worry. Simple surgery for the cataract and I'll be okay in a few days.

Thanks for all the info and encouragement you all have shown me in my previous posts about this. I feel confident and I'm looking forward to be able to look forward, if you get my drift.

Be seeing you all.

Catherine Linda Michel

I just wanted to thank Erin (and all her other personas) for creating the atmosphere of this site. I must say, I enjoy writing and I enjoy having an audience. But this site is so different than other story sites. It is so supportive and user friendly. I know that some of what I write doesn't appeal to all (or most) but at least those that appreciate what I am trying to accomplish let me know. I posted two stories yesterday, one seems to be a hit, and the other is moving up the hit list at a leisurely pace (like usual).

A few weeks or months ago I posted this on another site and was directed to ask it here...

Now before I ask my question I feel I should state up from that the other site suggested I ask directly if this site would be able to host my site, but I do not honestly think this site would be able to do such so instead...

I am looking for a web site host that would be friendly to transgender fiction stories, as my site is a personal site I doubt it ever be that big or use that much bandwidth, but I do need functioning PHP.

Just a note on how "Its for your own good" came about. See, I was reading Moongoddess' last chapter of "Magnetic Personality" where they tried to turn Lorna into a straight woman, and the thought came to me, "what if they had succeeded?" So I found myself having a nightmare that basically became the story. Its scary stuff, so I'm glad it was just a dream ....

I got a few very complimentary comments on my latest short story, and today I happened to notice that the read count had already broken 3,000. This got me wondering...

Not literally. My entry titles are often not literal.

Remember, though, how in Cinderella, the way they determined who she was, was by finding who the missing glass slipper belonged to. They determined that by trying to find who it was the "perfect fit" for.

Well, you may recall that I'd never been able to find gloves that fit until I couldn't find mens small and tried womens, finding that, for the first time in my life, I could actually understand the phrase "fits like a glove".

Heres the cover of the Gabycon guide

Mads

Okay

to start with theres a new chapter up on BC of book 7.

More important though is the release today of the Gabycon 2011 official guide which includes pictures from the weekend as well as an exclusive first peek at a new Angharad Gabfic and the first chapter of book 9!

follow the links

http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/gabycon-2011---the-off...
http://www.lulu.com/product/ebook/gabycon-2011---the-officia...

ttfn

Mads

Well, last night, things were zooming along great until after the last coffee break. Then the slightly shaky feeling I'd had on and off blossomed into a full blown flashback that left me in tears and gasping for air. One day I would really like to be free of these blessed things ....

Something happened to my last change, and for some reason it did not appear on the site. Unfortunately I wrote the new stuff ON the site. RE-wrote it, and hopefully it is at least as good as the first version no one ever saw. It is really up there this time. I promise.

As mentioned at the start of the public (free) publishing of the completed version of Jaye's Quicksilver story, it will be unpublished on the tenth of this month, in preparation for publishing in several formats. I encourage anyone who wants to save it as-is to use the "printer-friendly" format button on the title page for the series to grab it all at once. It's yours to keep, a gift from Jaye and me. I think he would be pleased. I know I am.

Thank you for all your comments and kudos.

The Family Girl Blogs (aka "The New Working Girl Blogs") Blog #12: Channeling Mary Or, "Retro? What retro?" To see all of Bobbie's Family Girl Blogs, click on this link: http://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/book/28818/family-girl-blogs

Does anyone know where the word/prefix "retro" comes from?   I'm sure many do, but I didn't so I had to google it.   Anyway, it's a Latin prefix that means "backwards" or "in the past."   Hence you now get words like "retrospective" or "retroactive" et cetera.   Last Monday, I indulged in a little bit of retro-ing.

Well I thought I'd post an update and tell you folks that I'm almost finished with the sequel to Incompatible. The main part of the story is finished I just need to tie up some lose ends and maybe add a few details. I hope to have it completed by the end of next week, but it just depends on my schedule and how much writing I get done. The Sequel will be roughly half the length of Incompatible, but is an important bridge between the first and last stories.

But the next couple of stories won't be filled with sunshine and puppies. Sorry.

The past few weeks have seen some interesting occurrences. Mostly positive, but, you know what they say about "interesting times"...

For 36 years I have lived a conflicted life. I went through abuse when I was younger, but I made it through. I took up wrestling in High School and did pretty well at it. I have memories of my life as Keith that I will enjoy, but I have decided that the real, complete me must be set free. I have decided to transition, but maybe not in the way that many may think. I didn’t go out and buy a bunch of dresses (though that would be a hoot) and I didn’t start wearing makeup (I doubt I would do it correctly without practice) and I am not shouting out to the world I am trans accept me.

I know we all have car problems from time to time, and in speaking to a friend about mine realised she'd had problems too.

Well, my muse has been a busy girl. This is where things stand for me at the moment: "Notification Service", a look at a future war between the sexes with a focus on a family caught in the crossfire - status, almost done; "Command Performance", a dark story from one of my nastier nightmares - status, being beta tested; "Quest for the Silver Cleric", which will be my D & D story - status, in progress; "Indestructible", a slightly different super-hero story - status - in progress; and story whose title I cannot reveal, because it will give the game away, but it is also in progress.

Thought this might be of interest to many.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/28/walmart-adds-transg...

That pretty much covers it, chapter thirty of book 7 is up for your perusal bringing book 8 ever closer.

Furthermore i now have 7 chapters of book 9 under the editor in chief!

Enjoy it,
TTFN
Maddy

לשָׁנָה טוֹבָה תֵחָתֵמוּ וְתִכָּתֵבוּ

L'Shanah Tovah Techatemu VeTikatevu

HAPPY NEW YEAR 5722

Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year begins tonight and runs two days Thursday and Friday. While it is the New Year, it commemorates the the sixth day of creation, “When man(kind)is called into being", when Adam and Eve were created, which was the culmination of G-d's creation.

To all of my many friends here at BCTS I wish you:

Leshana Tova Tikateiv V'Techateim
Leshana Tova Tikateivi Vetichatemi

Daughter to Demons, the second of four stories by Jaye Michael I'm completing on his behalf and at his request, started posting today. It seems particularly appropriate to the days leading up to Hallowe'en and the days of all saints and the dead, respectively.

The last series was posted as a marathon, very rapidly, in order to get at much as possible out in the world as quickly as possible. This story will have a more leisurely publication schedule, once a week or more, depending on what else is happening in the world.

This is an interesting article, with video.

http://www.cnn.com/2011/09/27/health/transgender-kids/index....

Well here is a story that is so close to some written here.

http://news.yahoo.com/video/desmoineskcci-18191122/football-...

Yep, football player becomes cheerleader, unfortunately he isn't wearing a skirt though...

I wanted to try on womens cycling kit without doing so in the presence of the guys who work at the local bike shop just down the street. Some of them have known me since I was like eight years old. Others, since they've started working there. I don't know if any of the rest of you are familiar with the kind of bond that forms when you're an extremely regular customer at a shop of that sort for 18 years, but if you are, you'll understand my reluctance to out myself to my "bicycling family".

Because that's exactly what the folks at Reggie's Bike Shop are for me, a second family.

http://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/fiction/8941/susie-and-jeffrey...

"If you want something doing, Jeffrey, do it yourself."

"That's what gran says, Susie, but I've begun to doubt the wisdom of her words since I met you."

"Are we ever going to visit your gran, or is she a comedy device like my car?"

"I haven't decided yet - I'll have to discuss it with my other half."

"You are your other half."

"Not Denise - Jamie."

"We'd be better off dropping that persona, Jeffrey. Our little blog did better than his 50,000 word epics."

The Family Girl Blogs (aka "The New Working Girl Blogs") Blog #11: The pluses with the minuses Or, "So that's what it's like?" To see all of Bobbie's Family Girl Blogs, click on this link: http://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/book/28818/family-girl-blogs

Two weeks ago, I was scheduled to go abroad, but that got changed quick, coz, the Saturday before, one of the guys in the office died.

When I first went online looking for answers for my gender issues, I came across a site called Daily Strength that I found very helpful. (My profile can be found here: http://www.dailystrength.org/home/profile ) One of the features is the ability to create a goal, and I decided that mine was to "become whole". I wasn't 100 % clear what I meant by that, and in fact my idea of "wholeness" has radically changed. When I joined that site, I viewed my need to be female or as feminine as possible as a form of addiction, and hoped that somehow I could be cured of it.

The God Bless the Child trilogy has really been the most complete work that I've ever done. It is the only work that I put serious thought into while crafting it, and the only work I actually sat down and edited (sorry to admit this but the rest i just type as i go and then post, I don't even do a second read) With the trilogy I actually kept close tabs on character's personalities so that they responded consistently (on two occasions I had to re-write scenes to put the right character in there because of the response I needed).

And I lost another inch from my waist and an inch from my height.

I've always been 5'5.5" ever since... mid-high school? Fairly recently, I've been feeling like I'm slightly shorter, and when I googled "m2f hrt shrinking", there were results, so apparently, some people do experience a slight loss of height on hrt. So I decided last night to check, and I was 5'4.5". Decided to measure again this morning to be certain, and it came up the same, maybe a sixteenth of an inch higher.

Hi everyone,
I've just finished my halloween story and I'd be greatful if someone could edit it.

As you may or may not know, english is not my mother tongue and suggestions on how to improve the grammar and the text in general would be greatly appreciated ;)

Zoe and I went through both Chapters 1 and 2 to make them present tense, since we both liked the read on Chapter 3 in present tense, those who read the stories before, the only things changed is the tense from past to present.

Hope you guys enjoy my story as it unfolds:)

I've not posted a new story in awhile. It doesn't mean I've
stopped writing. It just means my writing's grown more and
more into the gray area of TG/AR. I think we've had this sort
of conversation on TG sites again and again and often times
the opinions and comments are the same. "Freedom of speech"
comes up, or someone might mention the book and movie "Lolita"
as reasonable excuses for TG/AR to creep into the creepy.

It's a TG story dying to be written though but nobody seems
brave enough to post it. I certainly can't post mine without

Kurt Weill actually wrote the music years before for another musical.

As I mentioned in my last entry, I got a hug from my ex last night. Well, she had also tried to get me to talk to her, and even said, "I'm not your enemy" It made me think that the time may come very soon for me to come clean with her. Too bad I'm such a scardy-cat. Ah, well.

But my bustline just had some redistribution occur.

My bust measurements had been 34, 38, 35. They are now 33, 38, 36.

In plainer terms, below the bust used to have a 34 inch circumference, at the bust, 38 inch, and above the bust 35 inch. Now, below the bust is a 33 inch circumference, at the bust is still 38 inches, and above the bust is now 36 inches.

Even plainer terms, I lost an inch from my chest (not bust!) and added it to my cleavage (not bust!).

My bra size is still 38B, but it APPEARS more prominent.

Something I found interesting while randomly surfing wikipedia: