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He he. Long live your big mouth Mark. I have the same problem... problem?

It depends whether the characters came back and spoke to me again. I would never write a sequel just for the sake of it. I only write what comes to me. In fact I have written two sequels to one particular story but I won't be posting them because they are 'straight'. I know that I have had a request to write a sequel to one of my anthology stories but I don't know if that will every happen. It depends.

I have made my opinion on the subject abundantly clear and will suffice it to say at this point that I don't HATE the books but after the first book I didn't even read the rest out of curiousity and after seeing the trailer for the first film I won't be seeing either of them... and I CERTAINLY won't be buying the vibrator.

As someone who has spent a good chunk of her life re enacting an Iron Age celt... I have to hate Romans on principle

There is no such thing as thinking too much I can understand what you're saying. I have never had that from writing but I have sometimes experienced it from reading. Some things are hard and they stir up the waters. However, I am the person who pokes at a hole in my tooth until I have to get out the clove oil and serious painkillers... and then poke it again just for the hell of it. The more difficult something is to read... or write... the more I HAVE to do it. I can understand why you find it hard to poke the sore point though and if it's that hard maybe you shouldn't do it for a while. Although writing can be therapeutic when it hurts that much perhaps it's more like psychotic From a purely selfish point of view though... the harder it is to write the more punch it packs and the more real the emotions are when they are captured on paper... or the screen. There was always something about this story that hit right in the gut... which is probably why I like it so much I got over my own pain in talking about the abuse in my past a long time ago... although abuse of various kinds seems to be an ongoing theme in my writing... so perhaps I am not over it as much as I thought I was. There is a part of me that doesn't want to be because it provides a core that gives me my passion to write. I don't think I would be happy writing 'ordinary' stories. Perhaps it is like that for you, or perhaps you have wandered into territory you would be better of wandering back out of. Writing shouldn't be an ordeal. Aren't we supposed to do it for fun... although if you are as twisted as I am pain IS fun

Woo Hoo HAPPY BIRTHDAY

I suppose it comes as no surprise to anyone that I love this story. Writing about bad things has never been a problem for me. In fact writing about bad things is sometimes easier than writing sunshine and flowers. I suppose it's because when I write the bad things they leave me and it's kind of therapeutic. I have experienced abuse in my life and lived through stronger and smarter so I have no problem writing it or reading it. I absolutely love this story and hope there is more of it soon. Apart from this story GFD is my favourite and there is fair amount of angst and pain in that too. Call me twisted if you like... I do like it after all

My interpretation of what you are asking is ... what if the writer ran out of steam rather than what if no one was reading the story. I can empathise with this because it happens to me all the time. Sometimes I get an idea that carries me through to 100k plus words but sometimes the idea plays itself out in much less. So do I press on and hope for inspiration or do I put them on the back burner until something comes to me or I get interested again. This is the reason why I now (generally0 don't start posting a story until it's finished. It happens to me all the time and I have about 15 stories in my unfinished forder. Some of them are only 10 - 20k but most of them are around 60k. I never force myself to write. If I do it doesn't work. If I lose the muse I leave the story. As far as your ideas go.. I would say write them in outline and see if anything runs. If not put them in a folder and read them now and again to see if anything flows then.

I like the look of this story already. I wonder what's in the box. Why would someone keep something and then write do not open EVER... I mean if there was every a bigger incentive to open it I don't know what it could be. Hmmm.... a severed hand? A pair of balls from someone who spurned her? Her lover's head? The possibilities are limitless

Awww.... how cute is that

Seems to me like you are doing fine Loving the story so far.

Yay little racoon dude HAPPY BIRTHDAY

Forcing it aint gonna help hun. If you're brain and body is telling you to relax then do it and to hell with everyone else. If you don't they'll find another way to stop you

UGh... what have I missed... well welcome to everyone. (I'm not as polite and thorough as David) But I am sincere.

HEY YOU HAPPY BIRTHDAY

You can flirt with me if you like Chase

You make me laugh. Everyone is entitled to their opinion and sometimes you get a gut reaction and have to write it and then you think about it and reflect on it and feel stupid and then someone points out how stupid you've been so you get angry at being caught being stupid and you react even more stupidly I do it all the time. If you put stuff out there then you are exposing yourself to the whole of the readership and it is their right to respond to it in any way they want. You may want constructive criticism but not everyone who doesn't like your story can specify why and they have as much right to say so as those who just say they love it without being able to say why. You just have to rise about it. You can't please all the people all the time As far as reviews are concerned I have noticed the same thing. Some of my stories have over 10,000 reads on 50 reviews. Of course some of this is explained by the fact that some people come back more than once and so inflate the numbers but the fact is that a lot of people like to read and then don't know what to say. Don't worry hun you've always got at least one reader who will review.

Me too although without the singing lessons

I prefer the touchpad although I like the little wireless mouse I got with the laptop. However I am usually using the laptop on my lap so it's easier without the mouse

And me and *jumps up and down and claps hands delightedly* Oh heck *groans* now I'm going to have to kiss a frog or something... will a tiger do

First of all I have to agree with what has been said before about the quality of your writing. GFD was one of the first stories I ever read here and I ate up every syllable, although I now like some of your other stories better. As for my own stories. It comes as a shock to me whenever someone likes what I write. I have been passionate about writing forever but until I found this place I wrote entirely for myself not thinking that anyone else would ever read them. I still have a whole file full of novels that I don't think anyone will ever read because they are straight romances.... well not straight in any sense of the word other than the heterosexual ones... and I can't see me posting them anywhere else. Because I wrote solely for myself I wrote the characters, situations and storylines that appeal to me and for that reason I do like what I write... hell I am in love with some of my characters... a lot of them actually and I re read my stories often and get caught up again in what I was feeling when I wrote them... so in that way I suppose I am a fan. However I am deeply self conscious about the fact that other people are reading them and sometimes I get overwhelmed and find it difficult to cope when people like them too much. I put my heart and soul into everything I write so every story exposes a deep part of me to the ethers and those who read it and I have confidence issues which carry over to the stories and the way I perceive them and the comments made on them. I am not saying I fall apart when people criticise them, quite the reverse it is what I expect and it's the praise I find hard to deal with sometimes. Having said that the praise and support I have received here has done wonders for my self respect and self consciousness generally. So to sum up... I like to read my stories but what I am really a fan of is the people who read them

YAY DUDE HAPPY BIRTHDAY

You really kept us guessing didn't you... right to the end. Call me evil but I was somewhat disappointed that we don't get to see the transplant in all its gory details... but that's me I loved the story and I loved the ending. Lots of loose ends tied up nicely.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DUDE

Hehe. I have been dangerously neglecting my facebook... and I'm still alive and sane.. barely