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Posting a rewrite of Wildcat Fall

Dear Readers,

When I took a break from writing Wildcat Fall, I ended up rewriting the story from the beginning. It's working better. But I was confused about how to reintroduce a story from the start.

So, I reinserted the newest version in place of the older one.

I know that sounds complicated, but it would be helpful to start again from the beginning.

Leslie

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666

Ok, full disclosure: I have nothing to do with the beast or the number thereof. I just used it to get your attention.

However, some of you might have noticed that I have an obsess... eh fondness for numbers. I blame that on nature and nurture (accountant father, mother who made a career out of statistics, engineering school and so on (I don't include dabbling in the black art of Business administration since most people in that field can't count)).

Get to the point?

Oh all right. Today two significant milestones regarding my stories were passed.

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Open Arms Chapter 5: Wheel in the Sky

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I am working on the next chapter of “Open Arms” and I’m going to mix it up a bit with this version’s storyline about the Joels, in order to set in motion the reasons they are intertwined with the Robison family,
Here is a painting of Damion Joel that Greg sees hanging on the wall in the Joel’s living room.

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More "Angel of..."

Something from the revised version of the first "Angel of..." story which becomes pertinent in the one I'm working on:

She chopped a few carrots, then thought of something. Melody caught Aaron's eye.

"Which brings up something I've asked about before, but not actually asked _you_ about. How do you - you, personally, and those you work with - manage to get so much done? I mean, even with superhuman intelligence, physical acts still take a finite amount of time. Arielle said something about you being able to boost your speed, but I don't..."

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Wildcat Fall Update

So, this is killing me. I've written almost 40,000 words and twenty chapters of the book and I'm dying to get some feedback. But posting it here didn't go so well.

I've thought of simply sending out a PDF of the rough draft to some readers interested in just reading. No proofing or editing, just a read through for some feedback.

Does that work for anyone?

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My muse is at it again.

I'm determined to finish some of the stories in my bone pile. To that end, I've been working on one that I call "Extra Credit" about a young man will graduate middle school in June. The hang up is he's not been doing his homework and his social studies teacher counts homework and 50% of the grade. He gets A's and B's on his tests, but his fall term for the class is a D. His mother wants to enroll him in a top tier prep school. But with that grade pulling his GPA down he'll never be accepted.

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Heatwave!

Yes i know some of you get higher temperatures but for this little island sitting above 50 degrees latitude, that's north of the major Canadian cities and all the USA except Alaska, doesn't often get temperatures into the 30's C.

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So readers what next?

So readers what one of my characters to write next?

Vantier
Meagan's tail the mermaid
The Drow twins Shadowsblades
in high school
or as adults?
or the adult twins VS the CIA?
Warriors way-The Amazon with the greek armor

I am kind of lost and lacking feed back on what you all might like?

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Opening Doors

That, folks, was the end of 'Closing Doors', as the last sentence carries a huge amount of freight for those who know the full extent of Mike's story. I feel it wraps up the story arc neatly, and didn't want to over-egg things. As I explained in a comment, it is the reason I chose Diane as the narrative voice, so as to bring neutrality to events that will have left Mike incoherent.

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Kern - A little help for patient readers!

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Hi everyone! For you hardy souls following the Kern saga, I know the story gets pretty involved, and there are a fair number of characters, both major and minor. What with the story being posted over the course of half a year, I imagine it’s easy to forget who’s who and how they are related. So I thought at this point it might help to post my notes on Carmen’s family tree as of the summer of 2024, when the story takes place.

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My biggest problem with stories posted as serials

It used to be that a good story was posted a chapter or two at a time and I got sucked into the story and invested in the characters; then without warning, the story was abandoned. That doesn't bother me so much any more. There seems to be very few of them that have had that happen.

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New Chapter of Another Country on Patreon

Bobby goes out to dinner with the family accidentally wearing the same thing their sy=ister-in-law is wearing

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"It's not like we did it on purpose," Bobby responds when his big brother teases him about how hard it is to tell them apart.

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Nothing to post this week.

I have this evening just been released from hospital this evening, after suffering another stroke. I have received the best treatment from an updated stroke unit which is being improved again. I thank them for treating me with their first class therapy including a new clot-buster drug, which hope has sorted my problem. I hope to be writing again soon,

Angharad.

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For the past several days I have been re-reading Elsbeth’s works…….

I don’t know why, but I just started re-reading The Other Side of the Forest, and I’m not even sure how many times this makes. That of course led me to reading The Lost Queen again, which led me to reading essentially all of her work again. I lost track of how many times I have read her work a long time ago.

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What does Pete look like in a football uniform now?

Pete, after a brief time pretending to be a cheerleader, is ready to go back to playing football. But has the way she wears the uniform changed? Probably not as much as she fears it might have!

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Follow Pete's adventures on and off the football field on the BigCloset Patreon page a week early and see what she really looks like in a football uniform. :)

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Hollow Vale Chronicles Universe

I have decided to move forward with creating a new universe based at Hollow Vale Academy. I've spent the last few days working on a Google Doc with a lot of basic info. The Doc has rules and guidelines, as well as some background and various other things. Its constantly growing.

So far its a handful of us developing stories. If anyone is interested, DM me with an idea. I'll explain all the specifics then. The ideas do have to be presented to me first so we can make sure they fit within the rules of the universe.

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New story idea based on a YouTube story trend

So, I find myself listening to software narrated science fiction stories on YouTube lately, based on the concept of HFY, or "Humans, Fuck yeah" from the r/HFY subreddit, and have contemplated writing something based on the concept. As such, I am wondering how such a story might be viewed here, since it is mostly science fiction and not erotica as so much seems to be lately. Any pointers or guidance?
Hugs
Diana

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Too hot to write

I know I have been very slow lately and there are mostly medical reasons for that. I have to add that I do not intend to expire just yet!

The latest heatwave has not been helpful. I write in a small upstairs room originally set up as a nursery, it is approx 8 feet square with what was a built-in wardrobe at the back. This wardrobe contains almost all the computer equipment apart from the desktops I usually frequent. The room at present is 30C and the wardrobe is 33C. I intend to shut everything down once I have posted this.

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A Hollow Vale Universe

Recently I published a story on site called Anything Better Than This. In the back of my mind, there was always a potential to expand it into something much larger. After thinking it over for the last couple of days, I truly do think there's a potential universe there. But I don't just want it to be a universe for me. I'd like others to take part in it as well. This isn't an official announcement for the universe, its more like testing the waters.

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An Angel takes flight again...

Sitting here at nearly four in the morning and editing stories, what joy!

Hello everyone, Alyssa here, writing more bloggy things when I should be writing stories.

Fear not, Fake it 2 is on the go, but I had to take a short break for what was INTENDED to be a quick edit of my story Angel On Her Wing with the intent of passing it to my editor for publishing. Unfortunately, I realized the first half was kinda novelaesque and the second half... novel. So I had to fix it!

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Book Promotion - Unpossible Me

We've got a new distribution channel through SmashWords and Draft2Digital so I'm trying out their coupon code system. From now to July 14, you can get Melanie Brown's new book, Unpossible Me for only $1.99 USD if bought from SmashWords. Just use coupon code DRMTS at checkout.

Let me know if this works for you --or doesn't!-- in a comment. Thanks, and I hope you enjoy the book, I helped Melanie write the novel expansion from the original novelette here on BC. :)

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Girlfoe Chapter 4

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Meet Rikki, an inspiring musician that has a chance meeting with Justin, the golden boy of her high school, who leads her to budding love and fame, only to rip the petals away, one by one.

Chapter four should be ready sometime this week.

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My upcoming post of "A Better Hand"

I'm about to post "A Better Hand" and I feel there needs to be some forewarning and explanation of the work considering it the sequel of another's work that is not readily available. The prologue follows:

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Men in Petticoats -- All In The Cards Bea’s TV Station

It seems my muse has doomed me to write continuations of other peoples work. A couple of decades ago, there were lots of authors with their own websites. I was one of them, as was Bea. Bea was a prolific author and hosted a series of websites to display her work. The most recent is, “Bea’s TV Station”, which is still up.

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