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Uncertain origins

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I see that my description of my pup's origins have garnered a lot of comment.

I really don't know what his pedigree is, though there has been a lot of speculation. He is definitely part chihuahua. He is petite and has the typical coloration (colouration for those who read English.)

Happy New Year

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Well, the clock has now passed midnight and the Valley of the Sun has welcomed the New Year.

It's been a quiet evening for me, watching movies with my 'boyfriend' (Skipper, the 3-year-old Saluki-Chihuahua mix I adopted from a rescue shelter in October), and finishing up proofing of another story from one of our premier authors.

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Closed!

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Closed!

You probably wouldn't like it
if one of your favorite story sites were closed,
but it could happen.

Please, let's all be courteous, kind and considerate
in public comments attached to author stories.

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Taralynn's Desk

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Hello, I'm Taralynn and if you didn't notice my link is now up in the TG Fiction section.   I'd post the link here but I can't seem to get the hyperreference tag to work right. Sorry ^^;;

I'm trying to get everyone's opinion on my new stories and the site itself. If you'd be willing to check out my site and give me your thoughts, that would be great! I'm trying to build a better site for all to enjoy so any feedback is appreciated. Especially on my new story, Crew Shift. It's only got two chapters so far but I plan for many more.

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Wen Spencer's Blog

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Today I went to professional author Wen Spencers Blog located at http://wen-spencer.livejournal.com/69789.html to look for an article about how to go about getting your writing published. Her Blog has some really good information, because she detailed her own struggle. Todays entry was good for it talked about her and her husband playing on-line games. The funny part was Wen was playing a male character and her husband playing a female. People was making the mistake that he really was female and he couldn't convince them otherwise! A case of virtual TG? LOL!

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Genomorph 2 Teaser at The Vault

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Chapter One of "Genomorph 2: The More Things Change..." is up at Scott's Vault. Be warned, it has practically nothing to do with the overall plot of the story. It's like the little 'Opening Gambit' bits they used to do on MacGyver - the little mini adventure Mac would have before the credits ran.

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Just one more...

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I know what I said, but I was mistaken. I have been handed the perfect opportunity to get one more out (I hope) for the competition, which should be with you before Christmas.

I can't tell you anything about it - I want it to be a surprise. Anyway, it largely depends upon whether I can get an editor (proofreader - whatever) in time. Fingers crossed.

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Thanks BC

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Hi there to you all and Merry Christmas!

I'd just like to say a really big thank you to all who are involved with BC from the people who run it to the people who just like to read from it, you've all been very generous in the reviews you have given my stories. This is by far and away the best site of this type on the net and it pains me to have to take this rather enforced break from being able to read from and add to it.

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Nicki's Blog.

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Yet again a possibly good site goes down the main stream and states that says - Welcome to the best in EROTIC Transgender (CD, TV & TS) stories on the Web! And the only premium TG story site. Where does an trans-author not interested in erotic stories go and publish there work. A lot of the readers have stated that my work is good, but words don't pay the bills.

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A Public Apology to Jezzi

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I posted Surprise! over at Sapphire's Place, not realizing that somehow I had crossed a line I didn't know was there. While replying to a comment left by someone else, I said something about Jezzi that was not true. I thought I understood something about the nature of some of her stories, but I was very much mistaken. Jezzi, I am very, very, very sorry.

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Experiments

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Some experimental work on the site caused a few crashes between about 11:45 pm Sun and 1:30 am Mon. Sorry about that if you were on and did something because I had to restore the database so anything done in that time period is gone.

Thanksgiving - Counting My Blessings

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Today is Thanksgiving Day, and I'd like to take a moment to count the blessings I have been given.

First off is my health. Some very dedicated doctors have kept me going far longer than even the most optimistic projections when I was a baby. Now, there are some who might argue that it's not that good a thing, but I'm not complaining! So Thank You, Dr. Lawrence, Dr. Miller, and especially Dr. Rebecca, my current physician. I suppose I should also thank the various pharmaceutical companies, but my substantial cash "donations" should take care of that! ;-)

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Want Your Own Home Page?

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I've got some software setup on the new server to help create a community of authors and readers. Each member would have their own homepage, free, with quite a bit of control of how it looks, who can add to it and what appears there. I'd like to test this out before opening it up to everyone so if you are interested in trying it, send me a PM at Erin and I'll send you back the web address for trying this out.

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Story comments blocked as "spam".

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Last night I attempted to post a story comment. For some reason, when I clicked on "Submit" I received a message to the effect that my comment had been blocked as spam (and I was logged on), subject to moderator approval. I looked this evening and the comment hasn't appeared. Do I need to repost? If so, how do I avoid the spam filter?

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Hello, I guess

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While I have been around for a while in one guise or another, I thought I might actually get active.

Those who read authors' credits and pay attention to such things might recognize me as one of the volunteer proof readers for some of the authors who post here.

Is shifting the narrator's voice cheating?

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The story I just finished used a technique that happens around here fairly frequently, a first person narrator telling the story in the past tense. And as with many pieces, my narrator starts out male and becomes female at the end. But as I was editing it, I noticed that the voice of my narrator starts out from the point of view of a man, and gradually shifts to that of a woman. I didn't want to do a rewrite, since it seemed to work, but isn't it cheating, in a way? If the story is being told in past tense, shouldn't that mean my main character has already become a woman before she started telling her story, so starting it out with a masculine tone to the narration is wrong?

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Volunteer Editors

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I've had some communications lately from writers wanting help editing and/or posting stories here on BC. If you'd like to help, please respond to this forum post so the would-be authors can get in touch through BC's private message function. Then if things are sympatico you can exchange emails. Much thanks.

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Help I'm being dragged away!

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Dear friends;

My alter ego is spending all of next week attending some work related training, some place called Kalamazoo MI.

Of course, I have to go along for the ride. It shouldn't be too bad, because I like flying, especially when someone else is paying for it, hee hee. Also, I get to have the evenings to do some writing or sight seeing.

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BigCloset Holiday Contest

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It had been my intention to have a BC-TS Halloween writing contest this year but while I was distracted, Sapphire started one and I don't think we need two Halloween writing contests in this community. :)

So...announcing the BigCloset TopShelf Holiday Story Contest. Any story with a holiday related theme posted to BC before December 31, 2006 will be eligible. Yes, that includes all the way back to 1999.

A rant on transgenderism and homosexuality

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By Amanda D.
A rant on sexual preference and transgenderedism:

Can someone rational please explain something to me, cause I just don't fricken get it. Why with everything that happens in the universe, planets being formed, suns going nova, huge black wholes, why God would give a rats ass who we find attractive? I mean it seems to me that he or she, if those words even apply, has way more important shit going on to care about something so silly. I have way less on my plate and I could give a shit who anyone else is attracted to, so why would the almighty?

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3rd Time - Comments Disabled Without Reason

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When I posted Julie O's latest earlier today, using the Fiction entry, I did not check any boxes (and do not remember even seeing any) to deliberately disable comments. Julie *wants* comments.

Yet, this is the third consecutive story I posted where comments were disabled without my doing anything. Something is definately wrong here.

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Just Like All the Other Chickens

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Variety adds spice to life. When I was in high school, I once had a summer job working on my uncle's farm. One of my chores was to take care of the chickens. I quickly noticed this one chicken walking around all by itself outside the fence of the chicken coop. I asked my uncle about this and he said watch. He picked up the chicken and carried it inside the coop and set it down. It squatted down on the ground while all the other chickens ran up to it and started pecking it in the head. My uncle then picked it up and carried it outside and let it go. He told me that if he left it in the coop the other chickens would kill it. I've thought much on this over the years, and the only conclusion I could come to, was that the other chickens felt threatened by that one chicken because it was somehow different than they were.

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Challenging the cliches

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All genres of fiction have their stereotypes, whether it's the hard-boiled detective, a roguish/whorish character with a heart of gold, or the orphan with the royal blood/special power/great singing voice. TG Fiction easily has as many, if not more, cliches as any other genre, and while there's nothing wrong with happily dwelling in them, challenging the cliches or using them in subtle and different ways can be a lot of fun as well.

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New Mac

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Just got my new Mac. :) I'll probably be playing with it the next couple of days. I used the Firewire connection to my old machine to configure it and it's ready to go. :)

- Erin

What ever happened to Wendy J................or am I opening a can of worms?

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What ever happened to Wendy J................or am I opening a can of worms?

I'm cleaning up my Story folder, and begain to re-read Wendy J's Midnight downloads. Now, "I think" (sure with what?) I'm one of the fortunate, to have the complete sreies "I hope," 01-50 and was wondering if Wendy was ever going to come back and write more! Now from what I've found at Sapphires and what I've heard Wendy, snapped when George Bush, got re-elected. I don't know if its true, but if it is true then I feel sad when someone goes coocoo for cocopuffs. Now I figured I'm opening up a can of worms, but what the hay I'm bored and don't have anything better to do. So dose anyone have the 411 on this subject?

"May the schwartz Be With You!"

"We" are not amused!

Checking in

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I hadn't submitted anything in so long, I thought I would drop a line to my blog. Nothing is really happening with me. I do have a few story ideas but I seem to have motivational problems getting them from brain to electrons. I do drop in and read occassionally.

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"If I Knew Then: A Nightmare Becomes Reality." An Erotic Science Fiction Thriller Novel

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Dear Forum Moderator:

I am interested in announcing to your readers the availability of an erotic science fiction novel published recently---a novel having transgender content. For advanced information on the novel please refer to the following URL: www.ifiknewthenthenovel.com. The title is "If I Knew Then: A Nightmare Becomes Reality."

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The Synopsis

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Erin asked what makes a good story a while back, and there was a good exchange of thoughts on that. I thought we might benefit from a similar discussion on the synopsis. Are you concerned because your stories aren't getting the read counts you think they deserve? Maybe you should take a look at your synopsis.

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Arrival

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*an image takes shape in the mind of a sentient being, like a glimmer*

*it is considered for a moment, as to what it may be*

"is that me? that shape in the warm place?"

"hmm... i've a thought... that's new... aye, 'tis me in here"

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Missing Something...

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Erin, I'm unclear on the reason you'd add what seems like random story chapters -- Zapped 9, Kelly Girl 9, and a Nom de Plume sequel -- to the front page. Is there some connection there that I'm not getting? (Personally, I'm not up to date on Zapped or Kelly Girl, but I'm further along than that, so I know those aren't recent additions to BC...)

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Ooops! Julie O's newest - comment problem

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I'm not sure what happened. I did not deliberately turn off comments when I posted Julie's latest story, but there doesn't seem to be any way to change that when I put the story in Edit mode.

I was wondering why I received a few comments in PMs and there were no comments posted for everyone to see -- very strange for a JulieO story!

Idea for collaborative blog

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Normally about now I'd be plugging Transplanted Life, which just hit its third anniversery, but I won't kid you - I don't have the time to update it nearly often enough to really tell a good story right now, and don't see me getting back up to that level in the near future. Serial fiction thrives on consistent new installments, and I don't know how well I'll be doing at that for a while.

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Moldy Oldie

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We had a leak inside a wall that we were unaware of until it started making a circle of carpet wet. They came to fix it today and ripped a nice hole in the wall so they could replace the pipe, stirring up a fair amount of dust. I don't know what set me off, mold in the carpet or wall, the dust the workmen made or smoke from the fires on the mountains--I didn't think much about it til about 20 minutes ago when I almost passed out before realizing I was having an asthma attack. Good old inhaler put me right but of course now I've got a headache and I probably won't sleep tonight from the side effects. Better than a trip to the emergency room, though. :)

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Dangerous Servers on Home Machines

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I don't know how else to put this warning out but someone, whose ISP appears to be in Virginia, is running a webserver on their machine. When I look at my logs, I can see the ip address of the router and that there is a small local network. Evil types could use the available info to break into such a server and hijack it for nefarious purposes.

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Sy Nusidis

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It's ba-a-ack!

Guess I'll be sinking into pain and misery till I can get to the doctor. I woke up with a sinus headache today and it's only gotten worse. Can hardly stand to look at a computer screen. And since I'm going to ComiCon this weekend if I'm at all able, it may be Monday before I get to some things I promised people to do. Don't hesitate to remind me, I'm terrible about forgetting stuff when I'm in this much pain.

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Site Down

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For anyone who was wondering, the site was down for eight hours today due to network problems at my ISP. Then, after they fixed the network problems it took them two hours to figure out they hadn't turned my server back on! SHEESH! It's all back and fluffy now, though.

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The Black Dog revisited sort of...

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To pout or not to pout or narcissists unite or is that nutters or something..

Last week after a slightly hurtful comment exchange, which normally would not cause more than a ripple, if perhaps a little sulkiness on my part, I 'said' I was leaving.

Who cares? you may ask. Well maybe a few. Was this the response of an attention seeking, petulant drama queen? Or did the real world conspire in a dastardly manner to smack me about a bit, just for the hell of it?

Depends how cynical you are I guess.

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Care and feeding of writers and critics

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Another writer has left the fold. Why does this happen here every so often? Look around. This site has got to be the kindest and gentlest of writing sites. It is more of a community than any other. Of course that is the reason that it happens here; people’s emotions get spread to everyone. I mean, leave FM in a huff and who would notice? Other sites seem to be very much about one person. (Yea again, Erin. How do you make all of us feel so welcome and a part of this?)

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Google Searches Find Nothing

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I was attempting to use the BigCloset TopShelf option on the Google search bar at the top of the home page, and was unable to get any results no matter what I typed in.

(Started out with "Diane" -- I was trying to find  the  chapter of Rhod's  Trip to America where Sandy implies that Diane Biggs is TG.   When that didn't work I typed in major character names from various front page stories (Rhod, Mfanwy, Jones, Jerry, Karen, Becca, Rita, Davy, David, Matt, Kitty), common story words (wig, dress, hair, girl), even story titles (Constant, Bagwell, Tuck).   Every single one said that no document could be found that matched my request.)

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This Is So Wrong!

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I just found the following news story on Yahoo:

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Dutch pedophiles are launching a political party to push for a cut in the legal age for sexual relations to 12 from 16 and the legalization of child pornography and sex with animals. The party said it wanted to cut the legal age for sexual relations to 12 and eventually scrap the limit altogether.

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It's all stuck inside

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It's been bugging me for a while, but I just can't seem to get things into writing lately. In fact it's taken me over a month just to get this little ramble into writing. I wanted to be nice and let all the readers of Their Worst Nightmare - My Dream Come True know why I haven't posted part 3 yet, well it is all ready and complete and looks great; the problem is it's all in my head and I can't get it out! AAAAAAHHHH!!

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