Hey everyone,

today is my daughter Samantha's 20th birthday. For obvious reasons, there will be no party.

This song is either the singer's (Florence Welch) ticket to immortality or her never-live-it-down moment. Or both: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhHOEs-1tQM

And this poor buck is probably traumatized for life. He'll have performance anxiety, and PTSD flashbacks. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbBwLlmd-y0

Okay, I've not done this before, but I thought I'd while away the time and start a new book and keep a log of progress as I started.
This is day one and I started one hour ago @ 12:45 GMT .... I am now up to 2228 words.

The Book is called Charlie's Trials and is Book 2 in the Limbo Series.

Going on from the blog entry by Melanie yesterday about keeping up with the news trends and the dreaded Virus, I thought I'd write something wholly contemporary and include everything that is happening in the news.

The more distance between us, the better I look. ;-)

Boyfriend Lets His Quarantined Hairstylist GF Experiment With His Hair
https://www.boredpanda.com/doing-boyfriends-hair-quarantine-...

We might be living in the Golden Age of Authors on BC.

But - do we have enough readers?

And - what percentage of readers are total takers, downloading the stories with no intent of ever commenting or leaving a kudos?

There has NEVER been a high correlation between the number of kudos and comments and the quality of a story. That said. . .there have been some mighty fine stories posted lately that have gone relatively unnoticed. And - it seems to me the number of hits for stories seems to have gone down lately as well.

She moved from the Tenor range to the Soprano without HRT

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/20/world/americas/opera-mari...

So, my 25 year old son - our youngest - starting running a fever of 100.3 last night. It’s just a low grade fever, plus he is achey and tired, but he definitely is sick. Now it could be Covid-19, or it could be the flu, or something else. We had to call it in to Public Health, but all we can do is feed him Tylenol (Paracetamol for those of you across the pond), force fluids, feed him, and keep him warm.

Yup, Spring seems to have arrived!

It was kindly brought to my attention by the Cropredy Kid that there seemed to be something missing in Chapter 1 of 'Antonette's Story' and to my surprise and chagrin, I discovered that quite a bit of text at the end of the chapter wasn't there, although I distinctly remember writing it. I have now written it again and inserted it in the last part of the chapter. I hope that makes Chapter 2 have more sense.
Bron

Hi everyone, I've put a short stand-alone story up this weekend. Thanks to Xtrim for encouraging me and proof-reading this.
I hope you enjoy.

Morgan

The Fall of Kruhl - Worlds Apart

The Fall of Kruhl - Worlds Apart By Daniel A. Wolfe A new revelation sparks a theory concerning Kruhl's home, but with it comes a realization that shakes the once-king to her core.

Last Friday, a woman who works in the same building as my spouse decided to go into work with a fever of 103F. She stopped into my spouse’s office for a few minutes to use the postage meter, before returning to her desk in another part of the building. She was later sent home, and then tested by Public Health for Covid-19.

We found out about her being tested a few days ago.

First, Id like to express my humble appreciation for the attention New Tale has received. Though I would not classify it on the same level as many of the fine works on BGTC, the response to its message is more than I would have hoped for.

This story has been an addiction for the past four years. One which has never drifted far from my attention, even when greater priorities took center stage.

I'm going to try getting back to my Noise Universe among other things but I was wondering if anyone was interested in writing for it after reading my initial story.
I have an end point laid out for the original Canon when many battles will occur between the start and the conclusion. As outlined in the original story most of the conflict will focus on the Pacific theaters, with many peoples taking part.

I've just finished rereading Dawns 'A Second Chance' for the third time.

I'm anticipating lots of reading time coming up for some of us, so what are the books that you come back to and reread?

Well it looks like I will have the next 3 weeks free to devote to writing. Our school district has officially closed its doors due to the corona virus until April 10th, which means I'm on unpaid vacation for 3 weeks.

Well as the title suggests

With almost everything from the schools to the colleges to the bars to the sit-down restaurants in this state, Ohio, being shut down, the grandkids will be here a lot. This may slow down publishing new chapters of 'Tommy - The Trials and Tribulations of a Girl?' a little bit. Hopefully, the schools will only be closed for three weeks and the rest of the school year.

There will be chapters of Tommy, but with two pre-teens in the house, it's hard to work on things.

Teddie

Due to flu-like symptoms I have not had the stamina to sit down and write this weekend.
Hope that it clears soon

This blog expresses curiousity. It's NOT a complaint

Just wondering what makes the music business such a fertile field for the authors here when it comes to young prodigies.

This blog is based entirely on my memory, which is fallible, and I have certainly missed many stories. However, my impression is that the frequency of stories about a young M2F person making a splash in music as a performer is much higher than other fields with the possible exception of modelling.

Since we just finished a story challenge and had some good offerings from it, I'm considering making a new challenge.

Just read this:

73% of fatalities are men. Two thirds also suffered from other diseases.

There isn't really any huge changes, just fixing typos and changing it to books of a series called the Huntress chronicles, also changed the name of the first chapter to Mother knows best. Because I really liked the name of "To save a monster" as the name of the whole first book.

Again, you do NOT need to reread anything, it's just some cosmetic changes, I am still working on the next book's chapter, I hope to be finished with it before may but I might be finished before that. I'm so glad all of you could enjoy this bizarre journey with me. I hope you enjoy what's coming next.

Well, we are all breathing a sigh of relief. Samantha does not have the Corona virus, so we've all dodged a bullet.

Huggles for everybody!

Since we are moving toward less touch in our real lives, I have decided to hand out guaranteed virus-free virtual hugs here.

Hugs Cheryl

For Friday the 13th, I present a challenge to everyone on the site.

- Find a story that you like, but instead of clicking on it to open it up, click instead on one of the categories the story is tagged with.

- Then scroll down to the bottom of the page where you can go to the next page with stories under that category, click on 9 and then scroll down again and click on 13.

- pick any story on that page and read it

First off, my apologies for the time span between part five and part six.
Second, thank you for your patience.
Third, I sincerely hope you enjoy Marnie's new adventures and welcome to any new readers.

Diana Howe, Moongoddess at Large

Coronavirus.

I urge you all to be very proactive about your own Medical Selfcare. Drink lots of water. If you smoke, perhaps cut back a little? Avoid crowds. If you see a NIOSH 45 mask, buy it. If you can, wash your hands a lot. Weak Coffee rather than Iced Drinks.

So far, I am "well" for me. I am COPD, and a bunch of stuff. I have good inhalers and use them. I live very close to two Hospitals and have been self isolating for over a week. Please be careful. I love you all.

Gwen

Anyone else having probs?

Something new... logged in but you try to view something and you get this: "Access denied. You are not authorized to access this page." - While clearly logged in I try to go to 'My Stories' and suddenly get the error message. Never had a problem until just now.

I tried to 'Login' again but since I AM logged in there is no re-login option! So I try to go to My Stories and it says "Access denied".

Maybe it's a temporary problem and not a sign of bad things to come.

Anyone else having probs?

Thanx,

Lady Valiant is an ongoing body swap sexy adventure superhero comic I've been doing for a while now. Check it out. Also, we have a patreon.

I’ve not made a post about the Patreon for Lady Valiant yet, but I’ve decided now is a good time to tell you guys about it.

I'm very sorry to have to do this everyone, but I don't think I'll be able to post any story chapters this week. I've spent the last two days so sick that I haven't even been able to get out of bed. I still feel horrible and I don't think that I would be able to write anything worth reading at this point.

Sorry again

Amethyst

I was surprised to hear an item on my local (Toronto, Canada) morning radio program about a father who is starting up a small company to make bikini bottoms for young T-girls, so that his daughter can go to the beach. If this first product is successful, other products will be added in the future.

If you are interested, check out the links below.

The news story that lead to the interview:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/swimwear-bathing-suit...

Reworking N21 and After Caesar

One of my problems is that I suck at making decisions. I flip back and forth, or just turtle and hope the situation goes away on its own. Well I'm dealing with that now in terms of getting stomach surgery. The closer I come to the time of the surgery, the less certain I am that I'm making the right call.

As I write this, my latest story, "Family Jewels" has 1250 reads and 81 kudos.

And not a single comment.

I know that I've ranted about this before but COME ON!

I'm grateful for the kudos, but WHY aren't there any comments? Weren't any of those 1250 readers moved enough by the story to say something about it?

Even something negative.

I don't appreciate comments that say "Your story stank." No writer does. And, truth to tell, comments where the person seems to take delight in pointing out typos are no fun either.

As I spend my last weekend with my dog, its starting to bug me that I cant seem to cry.

we've had her for 15 years, and I love this silly fluff-ball.

But somehow I cant seem to actually cry.

What's wrong with me?

I'm sort of stuck in writers... its not a block its more like a soup. Like you know the direction you want to go but are completely at a loss at the starting point. I know i want to write an epilogue for Helen's Diary but for the life of me i cannot pin down how far into the future i want her life to advance. I think i want to use the epilogue to branch into a new story because that is where my brain goes when one door closes a window is cracked open so you can break-in in the likely event you have lost your keys.(cameos) i just don't know how much of Helen i want in the next story.

Dipthong: an uncomfortable type of underwear, that dips between your cheeks and grinds on different parts of your anatomy.

After agonizing over it, we've booked an appointment to put Lady down. Wednesday we say goodbye. hugs appreciated.

Amazon today popped up with the ability to pre-order the next book in The Dresden Files by Jim Butcher, "Peace Talks"! Coming out mid-July, woot!

Fans have been waiting six years since the last full novel in this series came out, barely getting by with the release of some short stories in various anthologies. So every time as an author you feel guilty about taking too long publishing the next part of your epics, remember that Jim has us all beat on that score! ;)

Book one is finished of my story, it has been a wild ride and I hope you all enjoy what's coming. I know my story is hella weird, and probably not what you are used to, but for those who stayed, I am ever so grateful. One thing however that I will NEVER do again, is not name my antagonist right away. This chapter alone took all my effort to describe a character's actions who I don't have a name for, but I still want to stick to his true nature. So yeah next story I write, NEVER GOING TO DO THAT AGAIN UGH.

Tripping north