Now? FanFiction.net has put interstitial ad on their page, like the one you get once a day when you come to lj. The difference? THERE IS NO WAY TO X IT OUT. You have to 1. Listen to the video and 2. Do one of the quizzes listed. The page states that ff.net will get $1.40 for every quiz. If you don’t do this, you can’t get to the ff.net pages. They are LOCKED. I guess this is one of…
Someone has left a couple of anonymous reviews on The White Winds, as well as on my friend TimeGuardian’s latest story, excoriating me for putting my movie-verse story in the TV-verse section using the World filter. I think I know who it is: someone who has very recently returned to the fandom after several years away, and who thinks the movie sucks. She’s also someone who I went head to head with at a fandom RP. Because she’s been out of the…
It took 5 years, 8 months and 11 days. Final tally was 80 chapters and 352,759 words. BUT IT IS DONE! The White Winds is FINALLY OUT OF MY HAIR! Yes, there will eventually be a sequel dealing with Fermat’s mother. Seeds have been planted in White Winds to that end. But I have other WIPs that need my attention, including two unfinished NaNo fanfic novels and two unfinished NaNo original fics. So, lots more writing to do, starting with Resolutions Redux chapter 10.! Happy, Happy New Year!!
Welcome to As the Muse Moves! This originally was a site on Windows Live Spaces, and was about not only my writing, but also my family. Many posts were cross-posted to my live journal, and if you go back in the archives, you’ll find I talk about my boring life an awful lot. The pages listed here are from my other Windows Live writing blog, which had the same name as this blog does now. It was full of advice…
Since Windows Live Spaces is going belly-up this year, I’m working on consolidating my personal/fiction writing blogs here at WordPress. It might take some time to reload everything as I’m not directly importing everything. Hang in there with me and I’ll get this up and running as soon as I can.
NaNoWriMo starts in less than six weeks, and until now I’ve been wracking my brains as to what to write this year. The other day, when I was talking to Hubby about books, writing, and maybe NaNo (I can’t exactly remember what), it came to me that some of my favorite writers write in the first person (d’uh!). Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, PG Wodehouse, Rex Stout – they all write in first person, using one person to tell the tale. Dr. Watson, Bertie…
My skinny, sweet, tortoiseshell cat, Tika, was hit and killed by a car today. She was 8 years old. It was an accident; she ran out in the street at the wrong moment. The driver was nice enough to stop and find out who the owner was, and even wrapped her body up in a towel and put her in a big shoe box for me. My next-door neighbor, who was the one to break the news to me, cleaned up…
The Girl got her beginner’s permit today. She needed it by tomorrow for Driver’s Ed, so when she got home from school, we boogied on up to the Dept. of Motor Vehicles so she could take the "Knowledge Test". I’d already printed out the necessary forms and had filled in (with typing where possible) the information. Before we left, we double-checked all the identification she had to bring with her: Social Security card, birth certificate, and proof of residency (in…
One of the earliest places I archived my stories (besides fanfiction.net) was a little spot called fanfics.org. Compared to other sites, it seemed like a little hole-in-the-wall spot, not frequented by the big names, and seemingly abandoned by its owner, a guy from England named Philip. He used to chat with me on IM from time to time, and every time he did, he told me he was drunk… not exactly something to inspire confidence. Then, in 2005, he decided to…
School’s back in session as of Tuesday. Boy #1 enters high school and the Girl begins her senior year. The Girl passed both her AP exams. I have a new laptop. We had a lovely week in Michigan with Hubby’s family. All of it, from all corners of the globe. And I’ve changed my permissions on this space due to a two-week long email imbroglio with an old acquaintance. I won’t describe it in detail, suffice it to…