As my muse moves

The Thunderbirds movie section at ff.net is gone!

January 19, 2011 Tikatu Comments 0 Comment

I nearly had a cow this morning when I noticed that I was given a link to the TV section from my movies section bookmark. At first, I thought they’d just deleted everything in the movie section, but it turns out they moved all the movie-verse stories – including the crossovers – into the TV-verse section. (I hope they also marked them as being Movie-verse, using the World filter. Otherwise, some strictly TV-verse fans are not going to be happy.)…

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I knew this would happen.

January 9, 2011 Tikatu Comments 0 Comment

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…

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The World filter – someone doesn’t like it

January 2, 2011 Tikatu Comments 0 Comment

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…

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IT IS DONE!

January 1, 2011 Tikatu Comments 0 Comment

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!

December 20, 2010 Tikatu Comments 0 Comment

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…

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Moving as The Muse Moves and Tikatu’s Corner

November 4, 2010 Tikatu Comments 0 Comment

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.

NaNo Stirrings

September 20, 2008 Tikatu Comments 0 Comment

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…

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The hole in my heart.

September 8, 2008 Tikatu Comments 0 Comment

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…

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A quiet little milestone

August 28, 2008 Tikatu Comments 0 Comment

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…

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Will miracles never cease?

August 23, 2008 Tikatu Comments 0 Comment

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…

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