Hey everyone,

I'm still fighting the battle against writer's block, but I think I might be winning. Today I've posted Chapter 5 of A Cold Fey In Hell on Patreon for my patrons. Chapter four is now available here for everyone though, as are all previous chapters if you want a preview before it comes to BCTS next month.

*big hugs*

Amethyst

Somewhere along the line we lost all the singing and all the dancing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dW2KdR7QmOU

_Angel of Earth_ is about a quarter of the way written. I have the beginning and the end and a little of the material in between. Oog...

I have written some on the next Masks story and the next Freddy on the Loose.

Part of the problem is simply that there's a lot to do away from the computer. We've had so much alternating rain and Sun I have to cut the grass about every five days.

Ok, it should be common enough knowledge that elevated heels on footwear may hurt one's feet, make one walk funny, add noises to the progress, and of course add to bodily height.
What should be added to the cautionary list is banging your head on stuff, jamming knees under steering wheels and tables and suddenly being unable to reach items on the floor and low shelves. Thank you so much Rocket Dog.

You never know what's going to snap you out of a block. I actually got a couple paragraphs written tonight.

Transgender Apps? Seems iffy

https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/19/22433056/transgender-tech...

Personally, my most important pieces of gender related software are Bbedit and Safari...

(oh, and FaceApp, I suppose.)

So somehow, I missed my 12th anniversary of being on this site.

can I still get some anniversary huggles?

When a man goes on a date he is wondering if he will git lucky. When a woman goes on a date she wonders if she will survive.
Transwomen and the LGBT+ community are at even higher risk. Yes, the absolute rates are low but they are much higher than for cis men.
And of course non-physical assaults are higher than physical assaults.

Societal acceptance is the real solution. And maybe in some long future utopia that will happen. But that is not true today.

I saw this product advertised: https://www.shesbirdie.com/

A couple years ago, I saw a photo of Jupiter and Uranus, magnified the same, juxtaposed next to each other. Uranus was a dot down at the bottom next to Jupiter, pretty much a comparison of their view through the same telescope.

I had noticed that this date was coming up at the beginning of May, but with 1,001 different things happening this week, I hadn't realized that it was upon us. May 18th 2021 marks the 41st anniversary of the eruption in Washington State of Mount Saint Helens.

This is something that I've always been fascinated with. I love studying geology, and I find it interesting, the amount of devastation that can occur from the eruption of a single volcano.

managed to delete an hours blog writing - i'm not in a good mood so here's this weeks chapter

back later in the week

Mad

just a reminder,

if you want to see my little speech for the International day against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia will take place Tomorrow at 2 PM UTC-06 – 3:30 PM UTC-06 here on Facebook live, and then will hopefully be available elsewhere after.

I hope I don't embarrass myself . . .

I'm going to share something a bit different this morning. A fantasy humor piece resurrecting a character I created close to two decades ago. I hope you enjoy. There is no TG whatsoever.

Song of the Dwarf Daniela A. Wolfe A lone traveler in the woods is set up on by bandits, but what happens next will change his life in the most unexpected way.

Hello out there,

I noticed a trend. It seems that I put out around 2 chapters of Walker's Path a month.

I'm actually pretty happy with this type of rollout.

I'm seven pages into the into chapter 8 and feel pretty comfortable with the timeline I've been working with.

Let's just say the night is over in the next chapter. Mostly because it's literally past midnight.

I hope to have this one done by the end of next week.

Lots of love,
Katherine

So I guess I forgot to mention here that after my sleep study the doctor recommended me have a CPAP machine, and today I picked it up.

hopefully I can get used to wearing one, as apparently I stop breathing 100 times every hour.

Hi there

im looking for a story about a school for magic where excalibur is put in a lake in the end and morgana is not exactly the evil beeing

thanks a lot for the help

Carpe diem

I'm in the process of updating/editing Peaches. It's been on Amazon for many years and will probably find a new audience with an updated version.

In the process I noted that hard copies are being offered at $930.

Never did I dream that my little book would command such a price.

We'll see if P. T. Barnum was right.

Jill

Fun early morning. About 2:30 this AM, as I was trying to get to sleep, I was disturbed (I'm always disturbed, but this time, it was more than just my imagination that did it) by squealing tires, a crashing sound, and a thud so hard, it shook my house.

I hurriedly threw on some jeans and a t-shirt, and ran outside. I found a crowd already surrounding an overturned car in my neighbor's driveway. My son and daughter had hurried out as well, and my son said he saw the driver walking down the street when he hurried outside.

Hiya people
Just a little update. I have been working up You are a Meany and the next chapter should be to my editor by Friday. The hardest part is culling back on the story. I want to make sure that the story is open-ended yet at the same time solve all the big issues in it.

Written a start to a transformation and want to give away.

Happy Mother's Day to all the amazing mother's out there.

In case you are unaware, Battle for Earth, the prequel to this series is now available on Amazon Kindle. Please consider supporting me if you enjoy my work.

Legacy of Earth: Genesis Can of Worms By Daniela A. Wolfe After going through some of her grandmother's things, Kayde makes some startling discoveries about her past.

Editing the latest Legacy chapter is taking longer than I expected. I’ve found a lot of overused words and it’s a pain in the butt eliminating them. I’m hoping to have it up some time Saturday or at the very latest Sunday morning.

Sorry for the inconvenience, I’m going to bed…

Have a deliciously devious night,

Well the next part of Meagan's tail...intermission Pixie!! is up.

this chapter took a LLLLONG while to get done with life little issues popping up and me more than kind of not feeling like writing .

but on to the show and readers have at it and have fun!

Ask questions and post your theories of the plots next parts?

I want to apologize to my readers for my absence. It's not that I don't want to write, it's that I can't. To give a bit of background, my wife moved out a few months ago, causing not only a financial drain, but an emotional one as well. To make things worse, I wrecked my car and had it in the shop for a little over a month. In the mean time, my only reliable transportation has been a bicycle, so many days I would have to wake up at 6:30 in the morning, ride 10 miles to be at her place to watch the kids untill I had to ride 10 miles to work, get off at midnight and ride 5 miles home.

Kirstyn,

I just wanted to say that even though I don't always show it, I 100% support you. You are brave, and so pretty. I love you just the way you are. I heard this song a few minutes ago, and thought of you right away.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMuGZTAVTFU

If you ever doubt my support, baldspot me.

Love you so much.

xoxo,

Aimee

The teen wanted to "make a statement" and wear a dress to high school prom.
Personally, he looks great and the dress..., I'd borrow it if it was my size.
I believe the couple showed great class by NOT responding to the derogatory remarks
https://www.newser.com/story/305457/ceo-fired-for-mocking-te...

I just got huge news.

A short story of mine has been accepted by a magazine, and they will even pay me for it, which is a first.

The story is called "Under the Stars", and you can read it here: https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/fiction/44433/under-stars

I'm . . . stunned, honestly.

And it would not have been possible without this place, so thank you, Erin and Company

I was sitting down to write this morning, and I realized that today is the "birthday" of Marcia Chatham, the "Arctic Fox". Of course, that also means that tomorrow is the one year mark from her biological mother's death (which for some weird reason, I put on my wife and my REAL anniversary. Go figure.)

Having recently posted this comment to VotV #40, stating that I would not be posting chapters at the rate I could do in the past, I then did the next one in seven days.

How? Simple. This one was a Set Piece. Set Pieces are different from the normal run of story building.

Because I'm not a writer, usually the story and names are given to me. My only task is to transpose it to paper and ink. At times the names become so redundant instead of inspiring I seek to add my own flavor to the story which doesn't seem to antagonize those, whoever they are where the tales come from. Doing name searches on the net when a foreign name is needed helps. If it's a U.S. name I make a pass through the cemeteries taking note of the names and dates on headstones. It's unique as the names change from the older parts to the latest additions.

Looking for a story

Set up a 24 hour monitor of my blogger blog during the week. Several surprises in the country results which I’ve pasted below.
Especially surprised at the similar number of hits from US and pudding island in view of the differing population numbers.

https://ashleylazlo.blogspot.com/

Would be interesting to know how this compares to OP’s blog

Two of my recent posts have disappeared. It is sad that the readership is seen as so fragile that they can not stand an honest opinion.

What ever.

Gwen

Why I have not been writing much if at all.

Well to start off lets go back a few years.

Since 2014 I have had to deal with emotion turmoil.

first my step mother came down with stage four lung cancer. She did not last long and it tore my dads heart in two.

His health deteriorated moved into a seniors residence.

my cousin shot himself in the head with a nail gun, on purpose. took him a year to die.

my uncle passed away in may of 2016 and in june of 2016 my father passed away. His heart just gave out ..alone in his room. It hurts.

It truly would.

I could wait until my parents are gone and take a bottle of painkillers or muscle relaxers from their room. By the time they got home it would be done.

I could break into my dad's gun cabinet. Glass doors are only a deterrent when the person getting in is worried about damaging them, and what would I care, given the end goal?

I could simply walk out to his shop. A rope from the rafters, or his chain wench, or any of the various knives, power tools, and so on, depending on how much I wanted to make myself suffer.

As it could be upsetting to some.

Some time back, I posted about having a mole removed from my back and finding out it was melanoma. So, after seeing an oncological surgeon, she sent me for a PET scan. My PET scan came back negative, which was of course great news - but there was of course the fact that my mole still tested out as stage four melanoma. After the PET scan, this was reclassed to stage three based on the results of the scan.

well okay, maybe not but today is distinctly cooler and damper!

Back in 2019, something happened with my depression medication. We still don't know if it was the pharmacy or the psychiatrist that was at fault, or both, but somehow my depression medication went from 60 mg to 0 then way up to 100 mg. This caused me to completely whig out.

The 30th will mark the second anniversary of actually allowing someone to crack open my skull to remove a meningioma from my brain. I suppose the benefits of it being gone outweigh the problems I had before it was removed, but there are times it's hard to see how.

I used to sit down and compose music with no trouble, but now, I find that the creativity just isn't there. I can orchestrate a pre-existing piece, certainly, but to make something new doesn't seem possible.

This is not my own, unfortunately. The late, great Raymond Smullyan may have created it.

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Boy -- Proposes Marriage to Girl.

I wish!

In case anybody was wondering how my writing is going, here is an update.

I can't even get near my latest story idea cause its way too triggering right now
which leaves me with a sequel I'm blocked on, an essay nobody will care about, a D&D story that is simply not working, and TTSD 4 and 5, which are also at a standstill.

so bottom line, nothing is gonna come out for a bit, sorry.

When a roughneck from an oil rig takes a new job, he may have found a new sort of rabbithole to disappear into...

...and he won't be coming back from

Been doing a bit of self care stuff the last couple of days. I got a brace for my knee, and got my hearing checked, which showed my hearing has declined, but probably not enough to be worth buying hearing aids.

I'm also still really struggling, so hugs appreciated.