For logged in members, all the advertising on BC now has off switches in your |My Account| tabs. At least, all of it does if I did it right, I'll be checking.

Hugs,
Erin

See for yourself in the link below on UK MSN.

http://news.uk.msn.com/odd-news/article.aspx?cp-documentid=9...

Angharad.

Yay!

Thanks to Erin, I have a way to share PDFs! Hopefully this won't have any browser issues. Anyway, if you want, you are welcome to have a peek. This is probably not the final version. At the very least, it will have a cute little cover and all that. Again, I would love an editor as well as general criticisms/critiques, so if you are so inclined, please drop me a note or share here:)

I hope people are following the "Skin Horse"* comic I now syndicate at the bottom of the blog pages. :) Today's fan-drawn episode features Tip, the crossdressing hero(ine) of Skin Horse and Wil Smith as MiLBDs so I've added it to the bottom of the front page, too. :)

Hugs,
Erin

OK, it's intermission time. Go out to the lobby and get your drinks. The lines are still short at the WC. I am going to work in the garden for a while.

I have been rewriting Kelly's Journey as readers asked, but I have a bit of a problem. :-) I am finding that my muse is having me to go back and add even more to what I thought was a completed chapter.

I fully intend upon posting the story, but should I change the Title since it is a saga, or keep the Title? I could call it the Kelly Chronicles too.

In an amazing finish, Cooke outsprinted Vos and Arndt to take the Women's Elite Road Race World Championship in the same year as she won the Olympic gold. What an athlete, what a woman!

Angharad.
(in danger of exploding with pride).

In writing Bike and Bonkers, plus a few other bits and pieces Charlotte has been a little neglected. I plan on remedying that as soon as possible - it might also get one or two of you off my back. So please don't start on about Snafu, I'm well aware I haven't done any of it for ages, but I can only do so much at once and I have worked 12 hour days for the last few, so be thankful that Bonzi has been able to help me write what we have between us. He's the hardest working cat in Christendom (so he tells me).

When I logged out just now, instead of going back to main page, went to Access Denied page. Does this happen to anybody else?

The main hit counter for stories is working, the daily one is not. The story scheduler is not working correctly, either. The 100 comments is not working, as I said before.

No idea why, but we're also throwing some errors in the error file that seem to have to do with loading of some software.

or, How Long and How Often?

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!

@< @< @<

Now MOAR STORYS PLZ

Melanie E.

Site has still been under attack. This is getting ridiculous.

-- Erin

I just read Kaleighs blog and it set me to thinking. I've been working like a dog, but when I haven't, well, I've been reading. Stories here and on paper, kill the trees. I finished a wonderful novel by Ted Bell, kind of like a Tom Sawyer story, and now I haven't been able to put down a silly little thing by John Grisham, Playing for Pizza.

The first part of Zapped! - The Lost Pages is now posted on Stardust.

As usual, your comments posted over there are always appreciated.

Bob Arnold

Hoodwink, a character I created for my Promethean Universe, will be appearing on Fictioneer in occasional vignettes dealing with his struggle against Brass Nails. I just posted the first one earlier today.

I won't promise how often I'll be doing these, and they're very short, but I'll do them as often as I can.

About the German usage in Rough Waters: PB was under the impression that all the translations had been double-checked by a friend in Germany, who runs a German language TG story site. But apparently some fell through the cracks. For this I am sorry. I was made aware of that fact a week or so ago, and just today received the corrected German for RW 7.

Okay, I am not sure what else to call it, but I was approached by someone the other day about my experiences transitioning in my job with the state and what helped and did not help.

As this is titled I am having a time dealing with some confusion with life. First there is something missing in my story and as hard as I try I can't seem to see what it is. Secondly I recently found that my brother is SEVERELY Trans-Phobic... This does not bode well with me being who I am, then suddenly his demeanor changes around me and he is more protective and somewhat supportive of me.

On Thursday I was sitting with my friend Anne in a pub drinking a milky coffee, Anyway, after we had managed to catch up on what we had being doing over the past two weeks since we last met, the subject changed to what we were reading at the moment. I mentioned that I was just finishing off 'The Lost Continent' by Bill Bryson and was just going to start 'Labyrinth' by Kate Mosse. I admitted that I was sidetracked as usual by reading some stories from this site, when she asked me a good question.
"Why do you read TG fiction?"

He's back, and this time on the TopShelf server. Bob and I are working on it.

- Erin

Someone asked about the title. Well, one it's a story sort of parallel to Kelly Girl, only different. ;>

Having returned somewhat damp from my holiday in the sunny (not) Pennines. (In the good old UK, for those without an adequate sound geographic education). I swiftly put on my writing hat and got stuck in.

I went to see the surgeon that operated on my leg last Thursday, I expected for him to clean out the dead tissue then.

He scheduled an operation for this Thursday. He says that it will be same day surgery meaning I return home that day.

I am due at the hospital at 9 A.M. I do hope that there are no complications.

I never knew that the funny, irreverent Margaret Cho had her own online blog, but I'll be watching it from now on!

Here, she laces into homophobes who claim "Christian values" as the basis of their hatred and "righteous intolerance":

Just wanted everyone on Earth to know that I passed my last test !!!!!!! Yaaayyyyyyy!

I thank God and everyone else who helped me a long the way!

Gwen

But now I can't see through the white out. :(

I went to see the surgeon that operated on my leg last Thursday, I expected for him to clean out the dead tissue then.

He scheduled an operation for this Thursday. He says that it will be same day surgery meaning I return home that day.

The leg is improving. I can see where it is healing around the wounds. Thanks for the prayers.

May Your Light Forever Shine.

I tend to like stories that have some sort of transformation in them. Seeing how people cope and adapt in unusual or changing situations is very interesting.

One thing that bothers me about this sort of story is that usually the changed character comes to terms with their changes. This is a wonderful thing, but it leaves me with a problem... I couldn't do it.

Melissa [Prairie Girl passed away earlier this year from the bitter fact that her body finally broke down. Her best friend Melanie Dixon was kind enough to post her epilogue.

Hi folks,

It's piddling down here, grey, overcast, no sun--all that negative stuff, but am I down and depressed?

Not a bit of it.

Who's that girl has just hit 2000 and I'm really pleased that so many of you out there have taken the time to read it.

A brand new feature for BCTS starts today!

See if you can find it. :)

Hugs,
Erin

The Road To Haifa has made me really introspective.

I'm not finding Eli's reaction to Sarah strange at all. Since the devastation and smoke in my own life has begun to clear, remarks from my siblings, past aquaintances, and an old boss all point to one thing. It was always there right before their eyes; clear to them; unseen by me.

Well I've done my bit for another year. The weather driving from Dorchester to Tiverton was awful. It absolutely chucked it down. This stage of the race started at Chard, in Somerset and went on to Burnham on Sea in Devon. I was marshalling at Tiverton.

To the citizens of the United States of America from Her Sovereign Majesty Queen Elizabeth II

A few readers have asked for more on "Kelly's Journey," and to tell the truth, even though it was complete, I wanted to go back and add in the parts that had been left out.

Well, I have been working upon the revised version and I must admit that it is a challenge. I am adding in where Kelly and his Daddy are bonding and then how his death hurt Kelly.

This is perhaps a touchy subject for some, but I really want to try to learn more about the point of view of a certain 46XY Complete Androgyen Insenstivity syndrom person I know. Apparently she did not find out about the problem until she was like 17 years old. She was raised as a normal girl.

My once carefree web surfing seems to have gone extinct and I am not sure why. I am not a computer geek, but I enjoy what I get into and I love writing and reading stories. Several weeks ago Microsoft said it was going to stop supporting XP, then last week SKYPE offered me a new version.

I use BBEdit from Bare Bones Software, possibly the best programmer's editor for the Mac, but have recently learned that they introduced a freeware product they call TextWrangler, which has a considerable subset of BBEdit's functionality. It has spellchecking, of course, and can easily accommodate American, British, Candian, and Australian versions of English using downloadable dictionaries.

The nurse came today to tend to my leg. She has to unwrap the bandages and clean out the gunky padding from where the leg is draining still.

She says that the leg is looking better dy by day as the medicines work their magic.

My spouse and I were out walking our dog a couple of days ago. As we approached an intersection, a cyclist rode up on the opposite side of the street, stopped, and promptly fell over (fortunately onto some grass). She said that she was alright and had forgotten that her shoes were attached to the pedals. I know about tow clipless pedals.

To my several loyal (if somewhat mad) readers, I have to say that I am once again off to the wide blue yonder on my late summer hols.

The little darlings (kids) are going back to school, leaving the way clear for me and the better half to go exploring the hills (and pubs) of Yorkshire.

When I penned my story Kelly's Journey, I thought that it was complete as is, but from comments made, I feel that there is more to tell about her journey.

So I have a question, I completed the story for the contest and I wonder if I should expand upon the story. I can see where i can expand it and add to the story.

I've been watching a TV feed out of New Orleans, and there are some problems starting to occur with water over-topping the levees in places. Say a prayer to the deity of your choice. So far things are doing fairly well, all things considered.

OK so I just finished writing the first story I am going to publish and I need some help in the profing deprtment . I am in desprate need of the fallowing :

1X Editor
1X proofreader

And a whole lot of end audience :).

The story isn't that long ( 2,400 words or so) but I want to do it right.

So please feel free to P.M me or response here.

Lily.

This month was the anniversary of Darla Raspberry's death. Not sure what to say, just that I still think of her/him just about every day. (I am her ex-wife.) Just that I am changed forever, and so is her son. That we have learned first hand the terrible mental and physical effects that were caused, most likely, from a lifetime of living in denial.

I'm sure I'm boring you all stiff, but I have just completed another ride up the ridgeway, this time on my race bike - something a few days ago, I wouldn't have believed I could do. This bike is higher geared than the others, with only a compact chainset instead of the triple. It goes faster but takes more effort.

Some, if not many of you, don't know Scotty, but he has been an unofficial ambassador to many of the 'girls'. In the past year or two, Scotty has traveled to several of the girls homes to visit and, in a few cases, to get them out of their houses or wherever they live, and out into public for a meal, or just a drive. Some of them had never ventured out of their places of residence en femme.