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Hi everyone!l

Just a quick update on my story writing goings-on. I am working on a story for the All Souls Day Contest and I'm hoping to have it up within the week. After that, I have some older stories I wrote a little while back and I'm thinking of posting those -- unless a new idea creeps into my head, and that does happen!

Cheers,
Lisa

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Sharphawlad's Blog

Thursday 16th of October. I got an E-mail from a member on here requesting me to consider posting on this site. Well I have been a member for over three years and in that time I had not even considered posting. A short while ago I got in a discussion With Maddy Bell. The result was I sent her some of my fan fiction. From this you may realise I like the Gaby series. I also Like the Tucker-Valerie by Ellen Hayes and have quite a few fan-fiction in that series not sent in anywhere yet. Other peoples work I like are the Education by Karen & Penny. Christina Chase.

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Courtney's Diary

Edeyn Okay, so the latest entry in Dear Diary didn't quite fit, to me. I couldn't put my finger on what was wrong until I looked at it again tonight before bed. Hah! Yes, I fixed it. There is a bit in there that changed, so those that read it may want to look again.

Thanks!


Edeyn Hannah Blackeney
Wasn't it Jim Henson who said, "Without faith, I am nothing," after all? No, wait, that was God... Sorry, common mistake to make...

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Sleeping and Writing

After spending the last couple of months in a writing wasteland, my creative juices have once more began to flow. The first result is that I actually see the end of a story on the horizon (of the 10 or so which I have tried, The Shootist Disarmed percolated to bottom of my mind and closest to the spigot of exit).

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Kelly's Journey Is Coming

As I have been requested, I have revamped Kelly's Journey, But I am retitling it so that each chapters title reflects the story within.
That includes a Title Page.

I must warn the readers that there are several scenes where you will need a napkin to dry your eyes. For me, this story has been a journey of self discovery, because in many ways, I am Kelly.

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Trying to locate a story

Hi, everyone. I was trying to locate the name of a story. It involved a guy being transformed into a video game heroine. All I remember is that she had purple hair, had a weapon (or two) that was sheathed underneath her skin, and that other people were transformed at the same time that she was.

Can anyone lend a hand in my search?

thanks

O. Kaysonel

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GabyZone.Com

Just a general FYI, the GabyZone.Com domain is currently down due to DNS issues that are beyond my control (I host the website, but not DNS for the domain). They GabyZone Chatroom is still available via standard IRC access, and from the web through http://www.cyberbrats.net .

-P

P.S. I will post an update if/when DNS is working again.

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If ever you should just need someone to talk...

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Now with Video!

Edeyn I have started doing the Video webLOG (VLOG) thing on YouTube. I'm easy to find on there, but I'll drop the link here for you all anyway, because the easier I make things for you all the more my block of code for this blog drives Erin nutballs:

( Edeyn's YouTube Channel )


Edeyn Hannah Blackeney
Wasn't it Jim Henson who said, "Without faith, I am nothing," after all? No, wait, that was God... Sorry, common mistake to make...

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A 19th century dilemma

I've heard from a few readers who have been following my tale Forever Claire about how Claire would handle male puberty and become the woman, if you've read in the beginning, that she becomes.

I had some good advice about this, but to be honest, I wrestled with even addressing it. I want Forever Claire to maintain some the form of sweetness and innocense that I've tried to portray.

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A tribute to a friend ......

I first want to praise all those writers and admin staff on BCTS for the excellent content which appears here. For myself, I knew nothing of this site until my friend Mellissa (prairie_girl_64) passed away. I was entrusted with looking after her estate and all her subsequent stories upon which she started and have yet to be completed and/or are completed and need editing.

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[grumble] ISP [grumble] rural phone lines [grumble, grumble]

I've been having trouble getting on line. I downloaded a bunch of stuff at the library, but that required the use of an anonymous server. They have this whole site blocked. I couldn't log on through the anonymous server. None of the anon servers let me log on to my account.

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Bed Bugs

I'm OK; I can be a nasty little bitch when pushed. However, should anyone be getting little bites that heal poorly, you may have them. There is a Yahoo group detailing aggressive ways to deal with this. Please use it. Otherwise, you will live in hell until you quit relying on the pest control operators.

Gwen

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Shivers up the spine and goose pimples

I was on the M25 the other day on the way to picking up my significant other from Mummy in Law.

For those lucky enough not to live in, near, around or have to encounter the M25, it is the motorway that bypasses London. You can go all around it and pick your exit to bring you near to your destination without having to go through London.

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The Boy in the Dress

Here's an interesting one from the Guardian. It seems that a guy named David Williams has written a children's book titled "The Boy in the Dress." This piece is about a shopping spree with a reporter while he's wearing a frock and having to deal with papparazzi, etc.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2008/oct/05/celebrity...

Xaltatun

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What to do with "The Heart of the Beholder"?

Hello everyone,

I want to thank those who took the time to comment on the story and or send messages to me directly. There were some good, strong critics about the story's weaknesses and I thought I would try to elicit some further discussion.

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Life imitating art?

Is Tom and Cathy's survey too late? See below from the BBC website.
Angharad.

Mammals facing extinction threat
By Richard Black
Environment correspondent, BBC News website, Barcelona

At least 25% of the world's mammal species are at risk of extinction, according to the first assessment of their status for a decade.

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A scary thought?

I finally got a minute and got onto the site and noticed that Angharad had posted a new chapter of Charlotte. (BTW, Thanks for that. I know it has been anxiously awaited by many.) Seeing it caused a scary thought to pop into my often evil little mind. I posted a couple of weeks back and made a comment about her other story line which is ongoing.

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My Hols

Just to give some advance warning, I'm away for a week from monday 20th October. I'm going to Menorca where I hope to do lots of walking and birdwatching (as in ornithology!). It's a favourite place of mine, although I'm going on my own this year - it does mean I can do what I want every day.

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Oct 4, 2008. 51st annv of Sputnik, 50th annv of NASA, today, the 5th, I go on vacation

Off on vacation today.

No email except via evil blonde's laptop or free computers in motels. Off to the UP of Michigan, Minn, northern WI depending on rain and color. Might go to waterfalls, lots of them.

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The Japanese musician Hizaki.

I recently came across this amazing guitarist that I thought I'd share with you all. The music starts a bit slow but when the guitar gets going it's fantastic. Just click the picture to full screen and watch his hands and fingers move over the instrument.

I realise that the enjoyment of music is a personal thing and it might not appeal to everyone but I really enjoyed this peice.

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Hey, I'm not too proud to ask

Hi you all. After watching Gwen's recommended song on You Tube,I figured what the heck and would like to recommend one of my own. It is on You Tube and is titled "Erik Carlson There U Are". He's my middle son and is trying to become a singer that makes money. I hope you'll take the time to watch it and others he has on line, Arecee

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Parallel Blog -4-

Well, I'm late posting the next Incognito. It's done but I want to be an episode or two ahead when I post. Plus, I'm aiming for longer posts, around 2000 words instead of 1200.

But the story is going nicely for me, Drew is easy to write. And the suggestions last time of names for girl-Drew sparked some ideas. ;>

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A Sort Of Anniversary

I was checking "My Stories" to see if anybody had read one today. I do this infrequently, not as if I'm anal-retentive, usually only once a day (OK, twice a day) and there was a "run" on the first piece I ever dared to publish on BC. Twelve reads!! What's going on? I wondered. Then I was scrolling down and I'm in the Jewel Box for a year ago. My first effort, a year ago already.

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What is real courage?

I read a story tonight on this site that got me thinking what if...it was fiction, it was so real.

It doesn't take courage to put on your sister's dress when you're eight and when no one else is looking...

It takes courage to ask your mother if you can wear that dress on Halloween...which is something I wanted to do, but never got the courage to do...

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King Of The Rim-Redux

This story has been expanded from its original posting. I decided to expand it when several authors said that I was getting better, and I wanted to show that they are correct. I do feel that I am improving, but i needed others to confirm it so that I would not get a swelled head about it. There's nothing worse to me than somebody who believes they are perfect.

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Nova Party Line

Bob has set up a micro blogging site for TG readers, Nova. Check it out! You can leave it open in a window and check it now and then, carry on quick conversations. Looks best in Firefox, BTW. Bob and I will be looking in often. It's quick and easy to sign up for and use. (Kind of like Twitter and other microbloggers.)

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New at this blog thing...

A little about me:

Torey is a persona of how I'd like to see myself. She's a soccer mom with two teenagers who have her pulling her hair out, or its going to turn gray before its time.

But she loves her kids. They keep her centered. She doesn't know what she'd do without them. She's a single parent who struggles very much to get by.

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The FT and Miss Vera

On the first page of this weekend's magazine in the Financial Times is an article on Miss Vera's who runs 'a finishing school for cross-dressers'.

It's all getting so very main stream. The Financial Times! Who'd have thought it. Must be all those bankers with fat purses and time on their hands.

It can be read on http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/31bf8aa2-8938-11dd-8371-0000779fd1...

Hugs,

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Wishes Fulfilled, Chapter One Illustrated

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:)

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10,000 Posts!

In about a month, BC will hit 10,000 posts. That's not stories, stories+chapters will be a little over half of that because posts includes blogs, forums, title pages, announcements, links and images. But posts is the easy number to count. :) There are about 1500 stand-alone stories and 350 serials with close to 4000 chapters on BC. Exact numbers aren't really possible because of sloppy coding.

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MiLBD

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

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Kelly's Journey

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.

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Petard Reference in Novel

I'm reading Elizabeth George's Inspector Lynley novels as I liked the TV series, and it's been long enough since I've seen the shows and my brain is small enough that I don't remember who done it. Anyway, one of the suspects said, "Hoist with my own petard" ("Payment in Blood" Ch 13) in response to being questioned about a previous lie that had been exposed.

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Charlotte's Tale

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).

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The Parallel Blog - 3

I'm thinking of taking suggestions on the story. Well, it should be obvious where things are going or why post on BC and SD? ;>

So how about some suggestions? Like, what Drew's name should be, what should Mom's name be? They can't use their own names, even if Drew would be perfectly fine for a girl.

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Bugs Murphy

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.

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BC Classic: Night Hawk's 'Once More With Feelings'

Dropped in at BC Classic tonight (while waiting for Kaleigh to post) and was reading Night Hawk's story, which reached Part 6 there. There aren't any further episodes here at BCTS, the link at the bottom of the story no longer works, and the author's not listed by that name on FM, StorySite or Sapphire's.

Does anyone know if the story was continued?

Eric

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You Know...

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.

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