StorySite, GabyZone, ReluctantPress, and TGFiction.Net are down, and will be down for the next several hours. I am re-loading the OS, and upgrading a few things. This isn't a planned outage, but wasn't completely un-expected.

-P/KAF

Lately, when I've been writing stories, I've been feeling a little ... lost. I've been starting to get story ideas again and writing them, but I'm wondering if I'm really reaching my readers as well as I could. While I like telling myself little stories, the ones I write down are the ones I'm hoping others will enjoy. If there's anyone who read any of my stories and has any thoughts on how to make them better, I'd love to hear from you. :)

I'm the author of A Summer's Odyssey. Several people have commented about the Christian messages I've included, all are real and can be found online.

I am aware there are parentage questions of at least two kings:

Edward III: was his father Edward II or William Wallace? (source: movie Braveheart)

Too late...

Don Piraro had a TG restrooms cartoon that was moderately cute.

Tonight I started to read the newest installment of "Maiden" but had to go back to the previous chapter to Reboot my memory. I remember distinctly reading it a while back and I am quite certain that I voted on it because I have been following the author for a very long time and just love her work.

Lo and behold, I was able to vote again. So, does this mean I have yet another oportunity to double vote; or even tripple, :) for my favorite authors?

Did the thang zero its self? I really do doubt that I forgot to vote before.

HMMMMMMMMMM

Gwendolyn

The last chapter of Boy's School has been recently posted. If you haven't read it I encourage you to the first chance you get. I don't think I have any spoilers here but why take the chance?

I have insomnia a lot, and I find myself increasingly using that time to think about the abstract.

... the right actress to play Wash-as-Linda in the Firefly revival based on my fan fiction? The series after Serenity, the Big Damn Movie?

As Angharad doesn't seem to have spotted this yet - or, if she has, not got round to posting - here's an article in today's Guardian Education supplement that may be of interest here.

The highest day ever in terms of visitor and the second highest in terms of pages at 43,739. (We had one freak day last February with just over 50,000 page downloads because of several site reapers running at once).

But 13,658 visitors is more than twice the number of visitors on October 31, 2008. A few days later FictionMania went down and BC began a runaway traffic inflation. So fast that Bob and I have spent a lot of the last three and a half months trying to keep the server from crashing on a nearly daily basis.

I don't know how long its been and I don't want to be a pest. I would like to know whats going to happen with with Maisie. Is everyone alright with Kaleigh. Last I heard, she left a blog that her wife was very down but she was coming out of it. Has there been any more complications?

A work colleague linked to this today. For some reason, more than other stories of this type, it's just left me feeling so sad and angry. I bet those parents think they're such good Christians.

Ok, I am loving all the comments for my stories and I am enjoying writing. My question to you dear readers is which story sequel would you like to see first.

So I've posted my third story, it's imcomplete but I needed to post what I had to intice readers in giving me ideas on how to continue. Also it gives me time to start the sequil to "My life in a dress" and "Matt's Dilemma".

I am really amazed and quite thankful that Erin and Bob were able to do this whole move and reconfiguration thingie and have it all work so soon.

Thank you very much.

Gwen Brown

Just a quick note to say that Angharad is having computer problems and will not be able to post an episode of EAFOAB tonight.

She told me over th3e ’phone that she's going to bed with a book.

I just posted Part 5 of my novel, Standing Up to Life. I will be posting the final part, Part 6, tomorrow night sometime. Just thought I'd put the word out there in case it gets buried in a flood of entries tonight :-). Thanks for reading!
-Tiffany Shar :-)

Well, I am almost done with Chapter 13. It should be up in no more than a week and a half. It's been tough but hopefully I can regain some momentum here.

See you all soon.

I am making myself available to anyone needing an editor to review their writing. My native language is Texan, but I am fairly fluent in American English. All I can offer up for credentials is the fact that I got an A+ in College Freshman English with Composition back in 2003. Examples of my own writing can be found on my LiveJournal site: http://dv8nekomimi.livejournal.com/.

For those who have not just gone ahead and purchased the download, Tiffany has posted part three of her wonderful book. Unfortunately it appeared so far down the list that many of her fans may miss it.

Never fear, however! She told me a few days ago she was going to try to post a segment every day. It's just not possible to do it faster for a number of reasons.

Hugs
Carla Ann

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090211/ap_on_re_us/courthouse_k...

I just now tried to enter the zone, but it is down for some reason. I hope that Piper has it back up soon.

this is a wonderful story and i would advise you to read it the story can be sensitive full of suspence wondering what the next chapter will bring but in all honesty i believe that you need to read the full story instead of waiting for each chapter to be realeased i took the opertunity to download the full story from a site called lulu.com and thought it was worth paying the $3 to download it believe me it was worth every penny i paid but don't take my word for it download it and you will see what i mean i look forward to reading the next book due out in march

Stradapc

BUT, I feel that I should. I want to draw attention to Angharad's Bike series to the many readers that have come here from FM. When she first posted the series, I thought, this isn't for me. I waited for a year and a half to start to read it, and the story wasn't what I thought it would be. It's very touching and much like a column in a news paper which is published every day, except without the waste of a bunch of paper and trees. I know how hard it is to write a series and my bonnet is off to Angharad. What I'm saying is to please take a chance and become hooked.

I got my paperwork in the mail and I can now claim title as Lady Jennifer Campbell. I purchased a lease of 5 Square feet of land in Bandrum, Kingdom of Fife, Scotland. I am very happy to help preserve the land of my ancestors for future generations. I hold title in my family for 175 years and can pass it down to future generations in my family. This land is beautiful and deserves to be protected from greedy developers.

Parts of Australia have had terrible wildfires, over 130 people have died and many folks were burned, some may not make it.

Kristina LS and our other pals from Oz, are you okay, family alright?

I once had a very small cat.
So small I named her Quantum.
She never saw any buttons that
Were so ugly she didn't want'em.

There are loads of links, this one had a bit more text with it.The film is called 'Rage'.

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Jude-Law-Cross-Dresses-for-Ra...

Angharad.

You ever had one of those days where you wake up and roll over to look at the clock and scream because you're going to be late for work so you jump out of bed and rush around in a blind panic trying to get ready but you still know you can't make it in time so you slam the door and call to let them know you're going to be late and get a confused silence because you've been asleep three hours and misread your clock and still have over twelve hours before you have to be at work? I hate those days.

My wonderful husband, Grover, drove me to work today. On the way there we were talking about the blog "Women are Hard to Read". As the conversation went on, we then talked about the virtual whirlwind of emotions and thoughts that women go through during different parts of life. I told him I was cute and fuzzy when things are going well, but if someone I love or care for is being attacked (according to my perception) then the claws come out. He turned to me and said..."So...you're a Velocibunny!"

I am sorry for the lack of updates, but I've rewritten chapter 20 now nearly three times because I keep writing it into a place I don't want it to go.

I have a message from Nick B

He said he was sorry that he just dropped off the map and left without finishing stories or saying goodbye properly.

Gosh, aren't we lucky bunnies? For those of you who haven't explored the new sections in searches, do and be impressed. The stories are in alphabetical order - although why their seems to be more pages for stories starting with letter E, I'm not sure, it's KP and her Edumacation serial, I s'pect.

A question to you all! How many are taking up "DENNY'S" on there "FREE offer of a Slam Breakfast" tomorrow between the hours of 6am and 2pm across America? Richard

Bob and I will be experimenting with a new server configuration (not with the current BC server) over the next few weeks. If things work out well, we expect to be able to increase BC speed and reliability to a noticeable degree. Wish us luck. :)

Erin,
I know you warned us but I was almost watching it. 5,000,000 hits on January 31 at this end of the world. I went out for dinner and when I came back it was over.
WOW,
Joanne

with FM down i just realized that i will have a hard time find JulieO's works. I don't know how often julieo posts on topsehelf or stardust.She is my all time favorite author. I was also wondering if there is a offical list of stories by her and other authors in her universe.I know she has stand alone stories and ones that are connected in julieverse looking for the connected ones.

Gang; I just got an e-Mail from Angel saying she just got out of the hospital from emergency surgery and has been there since the 31st of December. She lost 50lbs while there and just needs some bed rest for now. Also I'm glad hear she OK. We will probally hear more from her as she gets better! Richard

I want to say thank you very much. As I said, this is a story which, I hope, will be just the first of what will be nothing but complete stories from me, from now on.

Links to a site called FictionMirror have been placed here but I have suspended their publication because the identified "advanced search" on the page brings up instead a series of pop-under ads for sports sites. I consider this technique a form of spam by deception.

This link is discussed in the WikiPedia article on FictionMania where it is implied but not stated that the FM TaskForce has approved FictionMirror. I would appreciate communication from some person knowledgeable about this but I will not pursue the information.

Hugs,
Erin

Yesterday I "ran" the Sisterhood Shabbat service at my synagogue here by having the other ladies do the various readings necessary to follow the service. Most of it went well. I was given the task of paraphraising the Torah portion.

shalimar

I accidently sent a copy of chapter 6 for chapter 8 to Maddy and did not catch it until a reader saw it. I want to thank that reader for catching that error. I will check in my files to se if the actual 8 is there or if it's deleted.

Sometime during the evening of January 31, 2009, TopShelf will register the five millionth visit in a period of three years, seven and one half months. Also, that day is likely to see BCTS to go over 1/3 million (333,333) visits for the month of January.

Yesterday I finally obtained a prescription for the anti-smoking drug, Chantix. This morning I took my first pill. I have set a date to finally be off cigarettes. March First is the date.

I see from the list of my stories, that Bike's initial episode has passed 8500 hits. So hardy souls are still taking the long ride to catch up with the present.

Sephrena, my fiancee has decided to take a one week break mew. She was feeling much too drained to type this herself, so I'm letting you all know that she's going to be awol from the site for about a week, until she can get the rest and recuperation she needs mew. We both wish you all well mew ^-^

There was a very nice obituary written for this very talented transsexual conductor and arranger, in today's Guardian, link below. She wrote music for the BBC and films, and helped arrange music for such notables as John Williams in Star Wars and Superman.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2009/jan/23/angela-morley-...

Angharad