I know, I know. Very cliché. Do you really expect me to not take the cliché exit anymore? I think I've proven beyond doubt that I adore the library of cliché available to me and other writers these days

Why an alternate reality? Why not?
It all started with a readers comment sent to me by Shelly shalimar. She read "The Girl Who Touched the Stars" and apparently enjoyed it, and sent me the comment to let me know. Now I get nervous whenever I Include a "real" character in my work, but Shelly was one of the residents of The Neighborhood and deserved a place in the tale.

Ah there's a question. What is it that motivates people to scribble away and then plonk it on the net for anyone to see and comment on... or not.

i know not all of you will be able to read this but give me some time as i want to translate it with meening and not just so it is translatet

Há¶r nicht auf fá¼r das zu leben an was du glaubst, glaub an dich und schá¶pfe Vertrauen und Kraft aus deiner Familie die Nacht fá¼r Nacht deine Seele bawacht und dich liebt ganz egal was du tust, was geschiet, die dich wie eine Há¼lle umgibt, wenn du diese Glá¼ck hast hast du fast gesiegt, fast gesiegt.

Took a week off for my birthday!

Just thought it'd be better to let you all know that :)

I came to Kansas City Monday morning early, and I'm not heading home until late Sunday night, spent this week here with a friend so I could unlax (unwind+relax) leading up to my birthday -- which is today :)

I'm 32 today... :(

But I just convert it to metric and I'm 4 months shy of my 27th birthday ;)

Edeyn

Doing my laundry. Everytime I do laundry lately, one of my washcloths disappears. Very mysterious.

I ran across a Reuters story on Yahoo News the other day, telling how researchers had changed the sexual prefences of female mice by altering the functionality of a certain organ in them that processes pheromones, the vomeronasal organ.

Kevin and Kell by Bill Holbrook is one of the oldest webcomics and ocasionally touches on TG themes as part of its humor. Like this one: Kevin and Kell 2007-08-08.

Repost to Stardust at http://www.stardustr.us !!

The commenting proportion is similar to BC, there's a lot of overlapping readership so some of your old fans are bound to be reminded of an old favorite and Bob Arnold is just a nice host!

Note the posting restrictions at the top of the Stardust main page, they're different than BCs. :)

Hugs,
Erin

Hiya everyone! I've been trying to create an audio-book version of my story, Shoes. I've been using a program called Record Producer by Voyetra. I've got the whole story recorded in .rpp format, but for some reason, the program won't save it as a .wav or any other format most people can use. Is there anyone out there who knows how to turn convert my recording into something a bit more useful?

Okay, I said I'd have Sk8r Grrls Episode 16 today, but real life went kablooey! I'll write it tomorrow and post it by dinnertime (6pm USCentral)

Hello Everyone,

My name is Julie Richards and I am a transsexaul woman. I have not had my SRS, but all other aspects of my transition are in place.

I have been speaking with Kristina LS and she says that she has heard about the flooding in the UK and thought many others would like to know what has happened. I can't tell you much, but what I saw yesterday was pretty horrific.

Parts of Oxford and Gloucester are under feet of water (A Foot: That's about a third of a metre for the metric among us - not measured in units of toes). Rivers have burst their banks after approximately one months worth of rain fell in an hour.

Well I posted my first attempt at a story, it's called "The Unexpected". Hopefully someone will enjoy it.

Eddie aka Hopeful

I do at times... take a chance I mean. My somewhat chaotic head has all sorts of thoughts and ideas that sometimes correspond with reality as most see it.

I have a few story idea's and would like to try my hand at writing a couple story's.But I need to find a good software for my computer any recomendations would be helpful.Thanks Amy.

I just received this and felt I should pass it along. The US FDA is warning that there is a risk of botulism from certain nationally distributed canned chili products. Here's a couple of links with the full details:

Emergency Email & Wireless Network

US Food & Drug Administration

Botulism is extremely serious so if you even think you may have a suspect product please throw it away.

Yesterday, Wednesday, I had my first visit with an endo. She was VERY understanding and helpful, and I ended up with patches instead of pills for my hormone treatments and, for the first time, progesterone, as well. Additionally, I made serious inquiries about an orchiectomy. I was told that the V.A doesn't "do that", but there might be a way around that.

This was at the V.A. hospital in Buffalo, New York, and I have to say that I was treated at ALL times, with respect and understanding, as well as compassion.

I may have started something.

BC and Stardust (and perhaps now Tor der Traume, in German) are the only open TG sites, I think, where this story could be told in this way. Since I did Urban Renewal, Adonna has begun Blue Moon at Stardust and now Angharad with Easy as Falling off a Bike here: serials told in daily, or almost daily, short episodes. Edeyn's two recent serials may qualify for this category, too. :)

What shall we call this new artform? :)

- Erin

Why don't I get magic? Of all of the stories I read those that depend on magic are the ones that don't press my buttons and that includes everything from BC stories to Harry Potter -I couldn't finish the first book.

The fact that magic is so popular means that I'm the odd one out (guess I already know I'm odd otherwise I woudn't be here.) But Why?

Someone sent me a blog post to ask me if I thought they should post it. Thinking about what she wanted to say in her blog got me to thinking about timing and some things I need to say.

I write "The only Real Magic," a piece of fluff, and I get over 20 comments and it is quickly read by thousands. I write quality stories such as "Victor and the Witch," "Broken Glass," and "The Death and Life of Maxmillion Kagen" and get practically no reviews and low reading results. Am I missing something?

My intergrity insists that I write each story as quality.

shalimar

I'm sure you all recall Hatshepsut from Ma'at. Recently, in what has been described as the most important find since the discovery of King Tutankhamun's tomb, archaeologists have identified the mummy of Hatshepsut, a woman more powerful than either Cleopatra or Nefertiti. Tomorrow, July 15th at 9PM Eastern the Discovery Channel will air 'Secrets of Egypt's Lost Queen', which details the archaeological and forensic journey that led to her mummy being identified.

As we came into double figures in July, apart from my son-in-law's birthday on the 12th and my daughter's birthday on the 26th, I knew there was another significant date I should be aware of, but for the life of me I couldn't think what. It niggled at me but no answers came.

...the cable connecting our mobile to power burned up mid-morning. What with having to leave for a doctor app, it took about nine hours to,get fixed. And $300.

But all seems well now, except that during the frenzy of plugging and unplugging I can't find my phone charging cable. :(

Hope all ofmyou are well. :)

Hugs,
Erin

Update!

The details in my last blog (http://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/blog-entry/3604/fts-ending-jul...) are almost right. The only difference is the name of the room if you're using an IRC client. It should be #TG_Fiction_Authors

Okay! Hope to see lots of you there at 7:30pm Central (US)

Edeyn

Hello I was chatting tonight and a interesting idea come up. We have a wonderful group of talented authors here at BC and that got me to wondering what if any Non-TG materials they might have written. For that matter is there a convenient place where we can find these hidden treasures? I know some have their own homepages but what for those like me who are technically inept? Anyone?

Well maybe not a good idea, but just maybe...
hugs!
grover

One of the joys of writing Blue Moon is finding uses for elements I introduced earlier just for color or bits of business. Do people writing novels do this, too, or is the tuxedo cat stealing cream in chapter four never to be seen again?

What if you needed a sudden noise in the middle of the night in chapter thirteen? Wouldn't it make sense for Mr. Underfoot to turn out to be the same cat? And then, near the climax when the villain needs to send a message, poor little kitty gets a curtain call?

Grisly example but does this happen in novel-writing?

The BC server went down for about 90 minutes due to excess heat in the server farm. At the time, I had taken my mom down to a fastfood place so she could cool off. :) So that's why it took so long to fix cause I did not report it by phone until I got back.

It's okay now, I hope.

Hugs,
Erin

The first chapter of Bob's new version of this classic story is now up at http://stardustr.us

Got have a look. :)

- Erin

I've got a ton of stuff to do but I took the Fourth off to laze around at friends', eat, cook and talk. I came home last night and slept 10-1/2 hours, very unusual for me. Now I feel like crud, aches and pains all over, stuffed up sinuses and a sore throat. I'm going to take it easy today, do very little and hope I feel better tomorrow.

Hugs to all and especially those of you waiting for me to do something in particular,
Erin

I've lost 2.5 lbs since I last checked... bringing me to a total loss of 25.5 lbs since mid-April '07

Please pardon my enthusiasm!!

Y'all have fun,
DD

Acer returned my laptop this week, complete with a new hard drive and completely reloaded software.

I'll be picking up the pieced of where I left off soon, and for my 3 fans (special thanks to all three of you!), I shall soon be back with more installments of Nothing Stranger Than Life.

Y'all have fun and thanks for your patience.
DD

Okay, apparently, not only does Inspiration know no bedtime...

It's freaking nocturnal

I'm not a fan of forced fem stories. If it's not voluntary, making someone do something that will put them in danger -- either at the time or later on -- is wrong and would be construed as child abuse in most of the cases in which they do this. I guess I see them as way too formulaic. There's also the fact that I was severely abused as a child... from about age 6 months to around age 15 when I finally stood up and stopped taking it

I am writing a story (what I wish did come true) which essentially shows life as a without owner submissive/closet CD and a vanilla wife. What transpires is that she finally catches on that she can have the sex life she wants, the clean house, all at my expense. My humiliation is that she starts a transformation process with me doing the housework as a sissy... and progresses from there. Has bdsm elements, if anyone cares to preview it to see if it's worthy let me know.

Eddie

I just had to share this. I went by our local Home Depot this evening. On the way out I saw their sign advertising their upcoming 4th of July sale. It said:

For some reason I kept hearing 'Afternoon Delight' in my head on the way home...