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    Prompt 826 and Prompt 827

    By comicfan,


    Prompts
    I hope everyone enjoyed their St. Patrick's Day even if you were quarantined. The world is different place than it was a month ago. However, I usually focus on the positive and hopefully one of the prompts this week will help brighten your day.
    Prompt 826 - Creative
    Tag - The Good Day
    What makes a day a good day? Is it the morning kiss from your significant other? Maybe it is the cat not throwing up a hairball in your shoe? Or making all the lights going to work? Write a story where your character just has a good day, not perfect or outrageous. What constitutes a good day for them?
    Prompt 827 - Creative
    Tag - First Line
    "Oh, that gives me a great idea! Wanna help?"
    Maybe one of these prompts will appeal to you. If you decide to attempt one please remember to include on the prompt page. Until next time, stay well. Remember to read, write, comment, and like.
  2. comicfan
    Just felt I haven't said much in a while. Time for a bit of an update.
     
    I have been dealing with dad. He isn't fully recovered and I guess this is my new reality with him. Life isn't exactly as it was, but at least it isn't as bad as it could be. He is about 90% back to normal. Balance is slightly off and he has mood swings. Part of what he is like now.
     
    My own health is all over the place. The doctor wants me to go for some tests. Not sure for what now but always not a good sign.
     
    I'm writing and grinding out work lately. Nearly done with Jonas after what feels like forever. Have one and half chapters of the end of Seeon done. Just trying to find a beta for that one. Wish me luck.
     
    Otherwise life goes on. I am happy to see spring arrive. I am trying to keep up with the prompts and offer people something new.
     
    On my friend watch there are some painful things going on. One friend basically lost his job and is now in danger of losing his home. Another has lost a close friend and is still reeling from it. A third is becoming a father, is facing a lot of turmoil, and is afraid he isn't a good person. I wish I could help them all but all I can do is listen and be there for them if they need an ear. That isn't always easy. I like to help out, but not in a position where I really can.
     
    Not much else I can say. For the rest I hope your spring is a peaceful and good one.
  3. comicfan
    Funny, I knew the date and tried hard to put it off. Dad and I just don't talk about it, but he has it worse than I do. Remembering my mother. Today would have been her 75th birthday. He went to bed a few hours ago. I don't think either of us mentioned it at all to each other. I couldn't let the day go without saying something. I posted it on Facebook and I am commenting here.
     
    Next week I know he will want to go to the grave site. The snow should be gone and it will be their anniversary. March isn't an easy month between these two events in a week. We still haven't hit the anniversary of her death.
     
    What really got to me today was we have an older gentleman who works at the security desk at my job. He always plays the oldies station and Anne Murray came on with Snowbird and I nearly lost it completely. Was one of my mother's favorite songs.
     
    Most days it is okay. Occasionally I remember her and smile happily, and sometimes it is with a sharp pain of loss. You go on, the pain lessens, the hurts fade, the good memories remain but you never completely forget.
  4. comicfan

    Well, its already late

    By comicfan,

    I've worked hard this year and there are spots where I just can't seem to get ahead. Sometimes it is my fault and sometimes I have help.
     
    I am way behind because with my now way overdue holiday packages I plan to send something homemade. I bought bananas and had pumpkin ready to go so I could make my breads. I left in the am, getting done early for a change, figuring everything would be cooked finally tonight. Dad tossed my bananas saying they had started to turn brown (which is when the sugar is at its highest if you are cooking with bananas) and bag of pumpkin I had brought down to defrost, he thought was something that had gone bad so he threw that out too. So on Tuesday will have to run to rebuy these so I can make my stuff to send.
     
    Also working on Jonas again and have another two stories that were suggested to me that I am also working on. So, things are late but I am finally working on them again.
  5. comicfan

    Quick thoughts

    By comicfan,

    I've been in a rotten mood the last few days. I guess that is an understatement.
     
    For anyone who knows me, they know I have grown to really hate retail and wanted to get back to teaching. Funny, but occasionally you are willing to do a lot for someone else that you wouldn't normally think of doing for yourself. It is what happened for me. I had been working like mad to find a way to be closer to someone I had fallen for and was even applying to teach English in another country. Lets just say when the truth is finally spoken it can be devastating. I just had removed my name from the list only to get the mail last night telling me the list of things required, because they had offered me the job. Horrifying cause I would go there to teach now no matter what. It would be far too painful.
     
    Anyway over the eating bit finally. I am one of those who, when they are stressed, eats everything in sight. Just will take the time to mend and then try to begin again.
  6. comicfan
    Alright, no one jinx me, but I've been a bit busy. Yes, my muse found me and has kicked me right in the ass. Last year I could barely get the anthologies out. This year, for whatever reason, I've been finishing one project and jumping right into another.
     
    At the moment Last Christmas is at its mid point. People seem to be reading and enjoying it. For me that is time to do the happy dance. I'm glad when people take an interest and comment. Lets me know where I did right or where I went off the mark. I've also been working my butt off to get a prompt story done every week. I just want people to know I am working.
     
    Mrs. Benson is my next story. It too is completely written and I am sending it to my editor tonight. It will begin posting the week after Last Christmas is done.
     
    Then I got a little wake up call. In the last week alone I have received not one, not two, but three completely different notices asking if I was ever going to finish The Strange Life of Jonas Marks. Well, to be honest, the story was shelved when my life hit the skids. First my father's health hit a real rough patch and I nearly lost him. Then I had my back issues. Trust me it is hard to write when you are in pain or taking medicine for that. However, time is a healer. In answer to the many requests, yes Jonas is being worked on as well. At this point I have two chapters completely written. I am looking for a beta, but Rustle has generously offered his assistance in getting the story out as my editor.
     
    So there is my writing at the moment. If I can find a way to wind my poor anthology down Bill W has agreed to beta that, and Rachelg. has agreed to do the editor work on it. Trust me, that is like magic. Did someone send a Fairy Godmother my way?
     
    Anyway we are now just three days from Valentine's Day. My cards to my friends have all gone out and hopefully are with everyone now. I wish to those who are in love a sweet day with the one you love. May you be happy and have fun. For those of us who are single, well just forget the mushy stuff, get a nice bowl of popcorn and sit down to watch a few good movies. Right.
     
    - Wayne
  7. comicfan
    Well, some people on here know I enjoy mail. Not junk mail or bills, God knows everyone gets enough of that stuff, but actual mail. You know cards and postcards. Well, to be honest, I am sort of a one man army to keep the post office open and in business.
     
    I have friends from all over the world. When I send cards they go from Connecticut to Texas, from England to South Africa, and from Germany to India.
     
    Now let me say this, there are post offices that work and some that don't. I mail things to Canada, no issue. I mail things across the USA, okay a bit slow at times but no issues. I can get mail to any part of the United Kingdom, and again no issue. The same is true to Germany and South Africa. However, there is one country where I mail things and I call it a black hole, that is India.
     
    I've sent cards, packages, and postcards to Frosty but not a single thing ever made it through. Sort of frustrating. I believe only three items she ever mailed out of it actually got out.
     
    However, Asamvav also lives in India. He mailed me a Christmas card. Well, it finally arrived. A little late, but it made my day. So once more - Happy Holidays one and all.
  8. comicfan

    A look back at 2013

    By comicfan,

    I sit after having done some of the things my mom always did for the holidays. I put a coin in the window as wish that I wouldn't ever be totally broke, had a piece of fish for good luck, and I was going to watch Dick Clark's Rocking New Year's Eve but just don't have the desire to see the new hosts.
     
    I look back at this year and am ready to see it go. There have been many issues. Sometimes I wish I could have been better prepared. My back was the main and over all issue of the year. From the moment it went I have been spending money for doctors and treatments. I am finally getting to the point where I am not in constant pain, but it has wiped out ever dime I had put aside. Just in time for my muffler system in my car to go. As I was always told, if not for bad luck I'd have no luck at all. lol. However I am not too worried. Tax time is almost here and at least I will get that to fix the car.
     
    I watched my father's health go through a few major bumps this year as well. Sometimes it is like an armed truce but I promised to help him as much as I can.
     
    As I look forward to the New Year there are a few things I hope to accomplish. I am in search of a new job. I want something that will allow me a life. I use to have one. Hell, even when I ran the restaurant years ago my hours were more set then they are now. Hard to try to date or even meet up with friends with no weekends or evenings really free, or when your schedule is nothing alike one week to the other. Hell this year they change the schedule almost daily so you never know what you are doing.
     
    Secondly, I am out to just have fun again. Find people to connect with. I hate being at work where I am in my forties and the next nearest person in my work area is twenty three. Not exactly fun when they are talking going out to three am to drink. The days, which I never really did when I was that age, of going out to bars and clubs are behind me. The older I get the more of homebody I become. So need to find a place and people my age where you can actually talk and be heard.
     
    Third, I want to keep losing weight. Between my back, my health, and my best friend's wedding this year I have enough incentives to keep losing.
     
    For everyone else I just wish them health and peace of mind. As wild as my year has been I have had friends with major health issues, deaths of family members, and more issues than anyone should have to deal with. If I could grant a gift it would the chance for them to relax and enjoy a better year.
     
    So as one year ends and another prepares to begin I offer the wish of a Happy New Year that finds everyone with a deeper love, a healthy mind and body, time to reflect, and smaller problems.
     
    - Wayne
  9. comicfan

    World Aids Day

    By comicfan,

    Today is December 1st and it is World Aids Day.
     
    AIDS
     
    Yeah I grew up in the time that terrible thing reared its ugly head and made everyone afraid. AIDS was a death sentence when I was a teenager. There wasn't a chance of survival. It was just a wasting death.
     
    1988 when I was in school there was still so much that wasn't known. People thought it could be passed by sharing needles, drinking cups, spit, and you name it. That made everyone suspect. Eventually it was known to be passed during sex, . I can remember going to a Health class where as you walked in you were handed two sheets of paper. One was folded up and the other was a large sheet where you were asked to go in and get five people to sign your sheet. In a class of 28 students two opened the folded paper to find a black dot. Each person they shook hands with was then infected. It was scary to see how easy it would be to pass that along. Because no one knew who was infected. It scared me and put me off sex for a long time.
     
    Before I was 21, five friends had become part of the AIDS Quilt. People were dying, people were blaming, and people were hoping for a cure.
     
    Twenty six years later there are drugs to help you survive. There still isn't a cure. The idea of being careful is again being forgotten. More frightening then ever are people who want the bug. Life is so precious and this dreadful killer still stalks so many world wide.
     
    The only thing I can tell people is be careful. Remember those who came before you, learn from their mistakes. You don't need to repeat them to learn them. HIV and Aids are preventable, but they aren't curable. I'd prefer not to see another patch for the quilt ever made for someone I know.
  10. comicfan
    Well it is Friday again, looks around, and I seem to be able to steal the spotlight for the moment. Since I managed to slip in again I get to pick what is featured as well as introduce this week's prompts. So let me see if I can entice anyone with this week's offerings.
     
    Prompt 230 – Creative
    Tag – First Line
    “I never said this wasn’t going to hurt.”
     
    Prompt 231 – Creative
    Tag – List of Words
    Use the following words in a story: silk tie, dog toy, chain, bubble bath, and leather gloves.
     
    I hope someone finds a little inspiration in one of them and decides to show us their take on it. Now two weeks ago, yes we had to deal with that nasty business last week, I managed to find some takers for both of the prompts. However James Savik really took off with prompt 229, which was : You entered into a contest and have won the chance to spend the day with your favorite star. Who is it and what do you do?
    And here is just a snippet of his story so far.
     

    James has a lot more of the story up. Want to read it? Of course you do! Read and leave him a comment here on the prompt page http://www.gayauthors.org/forums/topic/36938-prompt-229-creative/
     
    Of course you might be interested to know someone also did Prompt 228 so go read that too. http://www.gayauthors.org/forums/topic/36937-prompt-228-creative/
     
    Hopefully next week we might get a chance to read something new from you. Enjoy your weekend everyone.
  11. comicfan

    Good things coming.

    By comicfan,

    Okay as I promised I am working on things. I finished my Halloween story and I have a beta going over it even as I write this. Huge thank you to KC.
     
    I am revising the end of my Prompt Story. The sucker is over eight pages and still not finished so looks like it will be going outside my usual "The Prompt You Say" stories and getting a heading all of its own. I never do that unless a tale reaches ten pages. I will be shopping it around for a beta soon.
     
    Work continues on my other two main projects - Jonas and Seeon. I hope within a week to have the next two chapters of Jonas off to my beta again. Wish me luck with that.
  12. comicfan

    So July begins

    By comicfan,

    It wasn't how I wanted to start the month. I missed the chance to go to Connecticut and see my friends. Instead i was home dealing with the heat and (fingers crossed) getting over being sick. I hate that. Oh well.
     
    This month my brother has his birthday. Not much else to worry about other than my monthly cards to let my friends know I'm thinking of them. Hope everyone had a good day.
     
    My thought for the day is this -
     
    Being sick I can deal with, besides it beats being dead.
  13. comicfan
    Welcome to real life. It is messy, beyond our control, and sometimes you just have to do the best you can, and that might just mean hanging on by your fingernails and saying a little prayer.
     
    Dad is recovering nicely from his skin cancer surgery. They believe they got it all but he will continue to be monitored and checked out. My sister-in-law has begun her treatment for her throat cancer. Me, I've decided to put myself on the front burner for a change. I had let Weight Watchers pretty much fall to the weigh side, while I dealt with everything else going on. The weight in the meantime has gone up and down the same 6 pounds for about three months now. Tired of that. If I want to get my required 15 pounds off by June I need to recommit and do it now.
     
    I finally just stopped listening to what everyone else wanted and started my own list. I have almost completely caught up on the work other authors have been waiting on. Some were just a few hours old, but some were nearly two weeks old. For those reading their works or waiting for something new, I'm sorry, it was truly my fault.
     
    Finally I have two things in the works right now. One is the next chapter of Jonas. Yes, I realize this is now week three without something new. Sorry, my life outside of here took over. The other is my retelling of The Pink which I will be publishing on the sister site.
     
    So that is about all right now. I hope everyone enjoyed their Easter, Passover, or whatever you may celebrate. Just remember, you might feel you are nothing in this world, but to someone else, you might be their world. Take time to relax and smile, smell the flowers, enjoy the sunlight, and live your life. Till I can get something published, bye for now.
  14. comicfan

    Judgemental much?

    By comicfan,

    Wow. Been away for a mini vacation and am finally back. One of the reasons I have always loved getting on this site was the fact most people are respectful. I say most because I don't care where you go there are going to be a few who feel everyone is entitled to their opinion.
     
    First off, I know I'm old. I came from the age of, if you don't have something nice to say, shut up and keep it to yourself. For me that means if I can't say something nice about something someone has written I just don't say anything on the review. That doesn't mean if I find an error I shut up. I just send them a message telling that I am enjoying their story, but there was this problem that they might want to fix. That way I feel I've helped them without embarrassing them.
     
    However, I came back today and found one thread that was getting a bit nasty, and one friend who seems upset by something said to him. What ever happened to common respect? I am not saying lie if you feel something is horrible but do you have to attack someone. I am hoping not to lose a friend from the site. I just think some people need to get off their high horse and remember they are human too. If someone is doing well, wish them that. If they are in pain, does it hurt to listen? Sorry.
     
    Oh for those who watched the Grammy Awards - Didn't Adele do a great job? I am so happy that she still has her voice.
  15. comicfan

    Bits and Pieces

    By comicfan,

    Alright anyone who knows me, knows I have no problem trying to help others if I can. It was part of the reason I had originally become a teacher, to help others learn and enjoy what I loved. Trust me, this is just a round about way to get to a few subjects.
     
    First up - The Prompts. I enjoy creating them so much. I hope they inspire others to take a chance and just have fun with them. They shouldn't be a problem. The other thing is you should never feel like you are doing wrong because the prompt that spoke to you isn't one from this week. The prompts are there to help you explore new ideas, get away from the regular routine, rethink how to approach something, and most important, to have fun and let your imagination take flight.
     
    Secondly - There are many wonderful writers here. They fill so many gaps that exist in the published world. I enjoy taking the time to read some, but I will admit that lately I haven't had as much time as I would like to poke around and read. However when I do read anyone's work I do try to leave a comment. If you are expecting something cruel from me, forget it. If I do find an error in something I read, I do pm the author so they know and can fix it if they like, but I will never put that in a review to embarrass them. To me, that is just simple respect for others in my craft.
     
    Third - Publishing. I am proud to see various authors on here get their work published. If you find a publisher willing to take your work and put it forward I commend you. I know how hard it is to get that done, and have more than my share of rejection letters as well.
     
    Finally - I work as a writer and as a beta. For years I wrote and had a group of fellow authors who passed their work back and forth and wrote all over the copies making suggestions and fixing grammar and punctuation. To me, working in a group helps because it shows where a weakness is in a story as well as its strengths. To those I work with now as a beta my only job is suggest things to help you and make your work shine, never feel you must take a suggestion as the final word. You are the author and the story is yours. To those who have worked with me as a beta and to those who will in the future - my gratitude to you knows no bounds.
  16. comicfan
    I know, I am on a writer's website so what is surprising about doing some reading? Well nothing really. Just that lately between my own writing, my beta work for various authors, my job, and something I joking refer to as my life, well I haven't been reading and commenting as I would like to on people's work.
     
    However, I have also been creating the prompts. I take that serious and every time someone either puts it on the prompt page or adds a connection to it in one of their pages I go and read.
     
    Well that is what I went to do today but the author, Percy, hadn't had the work through review yet, which is fine being a new author on the site. However, because I didn't find his prompt work I did find a story that had been put up.
     
    Guess what? Percy rewrote a fairy tale. So, finding someone who likes Fairy Tales is a good thing for me. He has an unusual take on Cinderella. Go give it a read and enjoy. If you enjoy it give him some encouragement. Truthfully I liked the tale a lot.
  17. comicfan

    Missing Stuff

    By comicfan,

    I never claimed to be on top of everything. However, this year I swore I wouldn't be behind the eight ball when it came to Christmas. I bought things all year long. In fact, i even bought a few things that I could use, just in case.
     
    So now we skip ahead to today. i did my Weight Watchers meeting (I gained a pound but I consider that good considering what is happening in my life at the moment), went to get my license and found I still didn't bring enough stuff with me to prove who I am and how old I am, did some quick food shopping so I could do my holiday baking, came home, and sort of collapsed. I guess all the long hours and lack of sleep caught up. Still not over my cold.
     
    Deciding the hell with everything I made up a batch of chicken soup from scratch, ate, and went back to bed. I still am 2/3 of the way through the last chapter of Accidents. I still haven't wrapped up all the gifts I have for friends and family. I found I am missing at least a bag of stuff I did buy and have no idea where I put it.
     
    I've miss placed the address of a few friends. Thankfully I never seem to get rid of email or text messages so hopefully I still have them there.
     
    Would it be too much to ask for it to be 2012? 2011 has been kicking my tush all year.
     
    Anyway, sounds like the wash machine is done and can I finally put my clothes in the dryer. After all I only have to be to work in less than 8 hours. I love my life. Have a good one all.
  18. comicfan
    Between being sick, working massive hours, and trying to keep up with my own stories, well I've fallen a bit behind. I do apologize. I won't even get into the holidays, the cooking and the rest of it.
     
    For most stories on GA I've gotten smart. i write the whole story out, beginning to end, hand it over to my editors and betas, and let them go to town. That way when I say I'm going to post every Monday, Tuesday, or whatever, I can do it.
     
    However, I haven't been able to do that with Accidents Happen. That is the story I created to see if I could do it. Well, who the heck expected to have people read it and want more? The problem has been finding a way to end it. Trust me, more than once Charlie refused to come so I could write and the temptation to have him, oh I don't know, hit by a bus, was fairly strong. lol. However, I knew it wouldn't be fair to Charlie, the readers, or me. So it has been a struggle. Luckily he only has a final chapter and then Charlie can go play in everyone else's imagination for a while.
     
    I am fairly proud of myself though. This week Seeon posted on time, Charlie finally got Chapter 30 out, and I managed to hand over the rewrites for Jonas to Andy. Nice to know when Seeon and Charlie end I'll have another story ready to go. For someone who hasn't done this sort of writing for a couple of years it is nice to flex muscles and get back into it. Oh, and I have a new fairy tale being gone over too, as well as new chapter for the story over on the other site. Having fun between work.
     
    Oh well. Off to bed. Night all.
  19. comicfan

    A Thanksgiving Wish

    By comicfan,

    May your turkey be juicy,



    Your taters have nary a lump,



    May your side dishes make no one woozy,



    while your desserts make everyone jump,



    and may your Thanksgiving dinner not go to your thighs



    forcing you into a new pants size.


     

    Happy Thanksgiving one and all.


  20. comicfan

    Progress

    By comicfan,

    Okay this is literally what I have as my check list this week.
     
    1) Complete Chapter 29 of AH - Done. In fact it is one of the longer chapters. I'm nearly done with 30 now. Thank goodness.
     
    2) Complete work on Seeon - We have successfully broken him up into chapters, expanded upon areas that were weak, and he is going for his last look over by the editor now that the beta and I have cleaned him up. Hopefully I will be posting chapter 1 later today. Remind me that prompts are supposed to be short stories. This thing kept growing, and growing, and growing. Three days and 47 pages later, a Seeon is born.
     
    3) Try and get past the midway point on Jonas - I am up to Chapter 6. I have no idea if that is midway or not.
     
    4) Finish 2 beta projects - Well those are both done, but I understand one of my regulars has his anthology completed and it needs a going over so one more project was picked up.
     
    5) Nanowrimo - Okay, Granted we are presently five days into the month and the supposedly the novel. I um, well, I have only five pages done. With everything else going on I just haven't had time.
     
    6) Complete Thanksgiving Cards - I bought them, that has to count for something right?
     
    7) Wrap up and mail November Birthday gifts - Well one person is complete and partially wrapped, my father's is bought, and I haven't a thing yet for my sister-in-law and hers is on the eighth. Would I be a bad person if I just ordered something off Amazon and had it delivered?
     
    Oh well. Wishing all of you a good day. Keep your chin up and keep going.
  21. comicfan
    Okay, so here we are just two days away from Halloween. I mean you should walking outside, enjoying the falling leaves, the colors still changing, and air beginning to a sharp nip to it.
     
    Mother Nature however, has other plans. Today we are getting a snow storm. Let me correct that, there is a snow storm five miles north of me, I'm getting rain and hail.
     
    I have friends who still live up in Connecticut. They have been without power, buried under snow, no heat, and all the joys you might expect of a storm in the middle of December. There are parts of it up there that are already under a foot of snow in OCTOBER!
     
    I am not a fan of the freezing rain and ice that I will be facing tomorrow. For all those in the Northeast, I feel your pain but also am so glad that the worst of this storm hasn't hit me.
     
    To everyone else, I wish a safe and warm night to you.
  22. comicfan

    Waiting and Wondering

    By comicfan,

    First the waiting. I am as bad as anyone else when it comes to stories. I hate waiting. I have had to do it often enough. Stu has a wonderful story, Seeing Double, that had a few months between chapters. I know because I have been waiting for the end like everyone else. I presently am keeping everyone waiting because I am still trying to get things back from my editor and beta for Accidents Happen. I had hoped it would be done by chapter 30 but realize it will now drag on for one more chapter.
     
    The second part is the wondering. I don't know how people like Andy and Nephy do it. How do they keep putting out two stories at a time. I am just about finished now with Accidents Happen and working on a second project now. I have to keep going from one mind set to another and stopping to make sure I don't screw up. I give those who are able to write multiple stories at the same time a great deal of credit. I mean it wasn't hard when I was writing Red. That was only a short story that was four chapters long. I'm working on Jonas now, having to expand it and add characters and all so the piece really comes alive. I mean a short piece for the Anthology isn't the same a fully fleshed out story. What you do in four pages isn't the same as 30+ pages. Granted now you get to see a lot more and see some of the fun I had in mind but didn't have time to write in the original. I wonder what people will make of talking swords and magic underwear. lol. All I can say is remember to read the fine print that comes with anything you buy at Kroger's Emporium.
     
    Oh well. I have to get ready to run for work. Have a good day all.
  23. comicfan

    Back to the Grind

    By comicfan,

    Well my vacation draws to an end and I realize I got a lot but not everything I wanted done. However I did get to relax and didn't over do anything. I also got to enjoy the fair this year so really not a bad vacation at all.
     
    I have finished up one and half of the last three chapters of Accidents Happen. Tomorrow after one more look over I will send it to my editor and beta. That in and of itself is major for me. I have begun work on my next major story, the expansion of my summer Anthology piece. It will be out sometime next month and I'm titling it The Strange Life of Jonas Mark. I have a new person working with me on this and it has me really excited.
     
    So far my winter anthology piece has been thrown out three times. I have begun three different stories and just hit the point where I didn't like it and wouldn't finish it. So going to have to do some thinking and see what comes up again. You wouldn't think working off the idea of an aftermath would be hard. Sigh.
     
    Anyway, I'm sitting here typing this up on my phone. My power went out a half hour ago as I was about to go downstairs and put up my laundry. Guess I am getting up early in the morning now to do that.
     
    Anyway have a good one all.
  24. comicfan

    Saturday and catching up

    By comicfan,

    Okay so this is the second day I am off and alone and trying to get things cleaned up.
     
    First, I realize now why I never replaced my dog, Fawn. Pets are wonderful stress relievers. They are there for you even when no one else is. They crave your love and attention and ask for nothing but food and water. However when they have been spoiled rotten and left with you to take care of you can also learn what a pain in the butt they are. My father's dog, which I am use to being around in small doses, is now at my side contantly. I can't tell you thrill of having a dog bark at you while you shower, follow you when you go to get dressed, want to sleep with you, walk beside you, and drive you out of your mind. In small doses she is fine but 24/7 she is driving me insane.
     
    Second, I know now why it takes forever to go through things. Some boxes as you go through them you stop to look at every item. I have finally hit the point where I set up a garbage can beside me and unless something really catches my eye I'm tossing it. Clothing if I don't want and it can be used is going into bags for good will. I am determined to be moved in and the boxes done by tomorrow. Wish me luck.
     
    Third, stopping to check on my friends i have a few comments to make.
     
    A) A picture will never define you. You can not hide behind a fake one or wish the real ones weren't you. Some people see only the image. Those who know you see the soul of the friend they love and respect. That goes whether you are 18 or 80, fat or thin, cute or Quasimodo. We all have things about ourselves we wish were different. The problem becomes when those things are allowed to define the whole person. It is bad enough when others label you, don't do it to yourself.
     
    Problems come up. Sometimes people want to help and aren't sure how. Those who reach out aren't out to make you feel worse or because they want to drive you to distraction. Some just need you to say," I really don't know which end is up or what I need help with first." That opens the door for them to give you what they feel might be good for you. Sometimes a person can only offer a card or prayer. They care but in your pain don't cut them out. They will do what they can if you let them.
     
    C) Sorry I am not a writing god, grammar Nazi, or infallible. I am simply me. if you want help and I can do it for you, I will. If you think I get my writing done in a vacuum you really need to look at my editors and beta readers. i give them as much credit for helping to make my work enjoyable as I take for creating it. They help with correcting errors, pointing out what needs to be expanded and fixed, and help to make the story the best it can be. Any errors still there are mine.
     
    D) Just a reminder - not everyone is thick skinned like I am. I'll pass along a saying that was a favorite of my mothers. "Remember, if you don't have anything nice to say, sometimes the best thing to say is nothing at all."
  25. comicfan
    Seems these things have a life of their own. I never know what is going to come pouring out in them so I don't even try to stop it any more.
     
    First up, I managed to post Devil's Wager. This was my fun little twist on the idea of Good/Evil and what happens when they run into each other. I play with the big guns here and as usual I put my own spin on it. I would say it was a quick read but it was 12 pages exactly. My stories lately might be short but I try to fit enough into them all.
     
    Secondly, I have completed my rewrite of the story of Sleeping Beauty. That will go up tomorrow because, well, I need to have it gone over by Frosty. I love working with her and she and I rarely run on the same schedule. It is what happens when you live nine and half hours apart according to the clock. My five pm is her two thirty am. So I pass things along and when we can we messenger each other to play catch up.
     
    Third up, I got a post card today from Bleu and Jian. It was from their trip to the Philippines. The card was beautiful and I proudly add it to my collection.
     
    Fourth in line, came the news that Frosty got her package today. She won't actually be able to pick it up till tomorrow but I know one of two packages has arrived at her home. Thank goodness. Now I just have to worry about one and the post card that was mailed to her.
     
    Fifth and the opposite. Mark announced he got the post card I mailed out the same time as his package. However his package isn't there yet. lol. Got to love the post office.
     
    As I sit here writing out this blog I can't help but be hungry. I finally made up the zucchini bread. I found my mother's recipe and the whole house smells of the spices used in the creation of this bread. I just hope it turns out as good as hers was.
     
    Anyway that is enough of me going on and on in this blog. I open tomorrow at work again so I suppose I should get some sleep. I am nearly done now with Chapter 24 of Charlie. Only six more and his story is fully told. I am looking forward to that so I can begin something new.
     
    Sweet dreams all
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