I have a powerful need for contact with other human beings, and in spite of my own personal fear of rejetion, that need drags me out of my apartment and into the public. Inadvertently, I have spent thousands of hours working with a group called,"The City Repair Project", and have made dozens of friends. Oh, I am 61 and they are all in the 18 to 30 Age group, so my social contacts with them are less than what I would like but we have worked on several projects together. The good part of this is that they have seen a transwoman who is socially together enough to be a viable positive force in their organization

It is something that they needed to see, and I like to hope that little actions in many different places by transwomen will ease the way for all of us.

I just watched a documentary TV show on BBC America called Teen Transsexual; I hour long at noon MST. It followed a girl while she was 17 and 18. There was a little about her early life. She went on HRT at 16. After she turned 18 she was able to have breast implants. She was very slim and had had very little breast growth from the HRT.

Hi Everybody,

i just wanted to let everyone know that I've just started the MORFS Month-long Marathon! there will be a new MORFS story posted everyday during the month of February.

to read all the stories and to find out more info on the marathon, visit the MORFS Universe at http://morfs.nowhere2go.org

Just so people know, here's the graph from Sitemeter of monthly visitors for the past twelve months. :)

Hugs,
Erin

I noticed when posting a comment that the icons for Bold, Italic, etc have disappeared from the message body panel? Is it just me? I normally log in using Firefox. I know they don't appear with Safari, but they always have with Firefox.

A puzzled
Gabi

This was the most painful thing I've ever written.

All of the characters behaved badly and then suffered. And even when they tried to behave well, they suffered because the situation was just beyond their ability to deal with.

Nov. 3 1957 the first earthling went into orbit. It wasn't a man but his best friend, a dog. In honor of our own Laika and my own geek fascination with space I'm posting this link to a Msnbc article about the one and only spacedog. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21596557/
hugs all!!!
grover

Sorry folks,

I wanted to get the next chapter posted tonight, but I got home too late and I'm too tired.

Bob and I are planning on a chat session for Sunday, Feb. 10 at 1 p.m. EST.

I've got to unplug the voting module because of security problems. There is no update for this yet, I may have to do some coding on it myself. Sorry about this, we've all enjoyed the voting.

Hugs,
Erin

Okay, this is a "survey" sort of entry, I guess...

I'm gonna list all the things I've poked about on BCTS with that are still 'open' that I'd like to or am at least willing to continue, and I'd like you all to rank them according to what you'd like to see more of first.

Sk8r Grrls
Horsey Acres
Carlotti's Way
The Violet Ajah

Okay, I'm not doing a lot of writing during tax season, but I had a story explode in my head last night. I've not written any of it down, but I think it'll be an interesting Sci-Fi/TG/Comic Book Superhero, and I don't know if it'll be long or short, and I don't know if it'll be one part or many.

Lets be clear about one thing, being compared to Vicki Tern is a compliment.

A question for everyone:

I've recently been having discussions about the lengths of
stories, which I thought might be nice to bring out into the
group as a whole. The question is, how long should the post
be for a full novel; or, how would you like it served?

Do you prefer to have it all in one lump, so that
so that you can download and read at our leisure?

Last night I attempted to write an update blog, but the site ate it. Rather than re-do it right then, I figured I could do it today.

Hansel And Gretel vanished on me in mid-read? It seemed an innocuous enough story in terms of sexuality, etc.

I was googling myself and discovered that there is a porn star (or at least a model who frequently poses nude) named "Jennifer Brock." She seems to have been a Playmate. I'd like to assure both of my readers that I am not she, although I wish I had her figure.

1. Wake UP! Decide that you will have a good day today. A positive attitude can brighten your day.

2. Dress UP! The best way to dress up is to wear a smile. A smile is an inexpensive way to improve your looks.

3. Shut UP! Say only nice things and learn to listen to what others have to say. We have two ears and one mouth, so let's do twice as much listening as we do talking.

I had planned to write this post anyway, but Diana’s comment to my last blog really spurred me on. So this blog contains both a response to Diana and more general comments.

I'll never be able to fool anyone...

New Technology!â„¢

BCs network connection has been off and on this afternoon. At least two outages of more than two minutes. I've got a trouble ticket in on it but an intermittent problem like this can be the very crawdads to diagnose.

So I had forgotten how much ego it takes to post a story. I mean, I spent all those millions of hours alone writing the damn thing, and really thought it was pretty good till I sent it to some wonderful people who read it for me. Then I spent another million hours (at least) fixing it.

Thank goodness the first chapter got so many nice comments. I can exhale now.

I may have to go to the ER later today. I'll try to keep you all updated, but now I have to get ready for work.

I've started a new serial over at Stardust. Like Blue Moon, I'm going to post short chapters there and then gather up longer ones to post here.

As I started to look for background detail for the Edwardian set stories I've planned, I quickly realised I knew next to nothing about huge chunks of the period (as opposed to the forties setting I've used before when I could rely on books, films and personal reminiscences of family who lived through it).

Still no idea what happened yet, the server was down for over 12 hours but the ISP said only "server up" and closed the trouble ticket. I'm annoyed.

But glad to be back!

Hugs,
Erin

Yesterday, I got myself into a discussion that I shouldn't have (I know - "oh no not again," you're thinking), but really, the argument was stupid because whilst we were both using the same language, we were both using it different ways.

Here's what I mean

For those of you who are post ops and living as a woman, would you do it again? I don't think I recall anyone telling me not to do it. It was after all my responsibilty.

I don't want a discussion with non ops here. It is too painful right now and I don't think I have anything to offer. I don't really want any comments.

I guess I was having a bad night. It certainly isn't reader's comments that keep me writing. No one could exist on such paltry feedback.

So where does inspiration come from? Tonight it came from two pieces of classical music (one by Schá¶nberg, one by Ives), Klimt's 'Judith' and an assist from Oscar Wilde.

I'm 300 words in and it seems to be going swimmingly, though there's a better than fair chance that when I read it back in the morning it's just going to be pretentious b*****s.

Oh well :)

I recently posted an older story, New Job, here. I must admit I was disappointed by the response. Although 2,000 readers opened the first chapter and 1,000 the last of five, there were very few comments. I suppose I should be used to that, every author ultimately gets less feedback than she would wish, but based on past reactions, I was hoping for more than just hitting the floor with a thud.

While reading alot of stories classified as TG I've wondered ....

If someone was happy BEFORE a forced change...

Are they actually TG AFTER ??

Even tho they've resigned to their fate....

Someday a boy will survive and return to what they wanted ???

I don't recall reading a plot where the boy comes out the end as a boy happily...

The most recent, ie part 10 are all new episodes which have not been posted anywhere else.

I know this one is not as popular as some of my other stories, but it's still the one I like best. To the other two who will read it, I hope you enjoy it.

Angharad.

I have a question that I can not answer. The answer would make life all the more confusing for me. I am not sure I want the question answered. A great many people I know are much nicer people than I am. They carry heavier loads, have more cares, and often they face bad health every single day.

I have a confession. it's hard to stand up and admit it, but here goes (gulp)

I have 'I'itis. For those who are not aware of this condition, it occurs where you use I too often and inappropriately in stories.

It started when I was knee high to a little grasshopper. I was doing a fan-fiction based on Jack and Jill, it went something like:

The BC galley at http://qnez4u.com/gallery was down due to a bad network cable. Pix hosted there were not showing up here but this has been fixed. :)

Hugs,
Erin

I have added some illustrations to Aunt Greta's Homework–the first story in the series.

Just thought you might be interested, and that it adds something to the story for you all.

Hugs,
Gabi

Howdy folks. I've been under the weather all week. That is to say, weather's been over me. I've been sick. Get it? Geeze.

Anywho, I will try to get the next chapter of Being Christina Chase up by tomorrow night, but I can't promise I'll get it in on time. It might come later in the weekend.

That's it!

- Krunch

The link below is worth a look for those who haven't seen it before. Essentially a charitable research organisation with some credibility in the UK.

http://www.gires.org.uk/Web_Page_Assets/frontframeset.htm

Angharad.

Joanne Barbarella was kind enough to send me a video clip and of course, I laughed like a drain and immediately went off in search of more. After all, laughter is like a drug isn't it?

Anyway, this is non-TG, but is so funny, I thought maybe some of you would like to see it too - hoping that you haven't already.

I had my first story posted on the fourth of October 2004 on Sapphires Place, the first episode of Snafu - a confection of New Age, transgenderism, military, medical and the occult. For some reason readers liked it, and I'm still writing it, although a conclusion could be emerging eventually.

Sephrena I just wanted to thank you for all the wonderful work you do to keep this site running and to try your best to keep all of us here in line even me and I'm not an author xD I think this has been long overdue, and I hope you enjoy seeing this when you get back, I love you Big Sissie :D *huggles*

Love,

Sephrena gave me a call this morning, they removed gall bladder stones from her and today they are removing her gall bladder. She called to let everyone know that she is okay, and that her surgery is today. I'm going to keep her in my prayers though, and thank you so much, I'll make sure she knows how much you all care :D *huggles you all*

Dear Authors,

Which are of course - reading, writing and relentless research (I never was much use at 'rithmetic).

I'd cracked on with my household chores all week to leave myself clear to write over the weekend. A story of my mother told me at Christmas gave me an idea for a neat short story plot set in wartime Wales, which I reckoned was going to be about 2000 words - so do-able over two days.

I will introduce myself, My name is Mellissa, however it was never this name. I was adopted at 4 months old by what I thought of was a loving family environment. Being so you young (male)was different and difficult. I realized at a early age I was different,I think 6 or so were my earliest memories of my dressing.