I need your help. I have written my first story and I want to post the first chapter but I am nervous as a cat in a roomful of rocking chairs. I hope some of you writers that have done this can offer me a little help. My questions are simplistic I know but I want at least it to be submitted correctly.

This blog entry and the fiction entry shares some similarities. One is this area called Body where I'm writing this and where I assume I use to introduce the story. Is it also where I credit my editor? It is fanfiction for Whateley; is this also where I include disclaimers?

Having just returned from Genetic counseling there were surprises.According to the Doctors there, a karyotype is no longer exclusively used to determine gender. She said there are at least two other factors that determine that. Androgen sensitivity is one and the other is very costly to isolate. For DES folk, she acknowledged that and said that there are many other substances beside that which cause birth defects.

I do believe that sometime in the past 48 hours I encountered a piece as both story and blog, that seemed pretty heavy handedly proselytizing some religion. Of course, I noted that and just skipped it.
I thought today to look at it again in case I was being a bit too judgemental and it seems to be gone. Did I imagine it in the throes of BCTS withdrawls or what?

Joani

As far as we can tell the list of stories that were missing after the maintenance were as follows.

A Notional Treason, a 42,000 word novel in the same setting as Wine Can't be Pressed into Grapes and When Wasps Make Honey, is now available from Smashwords in EPUB format, from Barnes and Noble for the Nook, and from Amazon in Kindle format.

I wrote 'Sweat and Tears' to raise two issues. One of them was an attack on the 'forced fem' trope, which Dorothy has slapped down with her short-short. The other was as a condemnation of the abuse that has gone on for so long in care homes and places for young offenders.

Today, the BBC put this up:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-25834368

Boys lying at the foot of a flight of stairs asking other boys to jump on their legs, hoping that breaking one would get them moved away.

Unfortunately, we lost most of a day in a corrupted back up. This new drive should enable us to serve the site faster for a time, so enjoy.

So yesterday, when we were stuck waiting on the data-center to do their share of things, I finished the initial installation of a NEW feature for TGFiction dot Net.

Some of you may have noticed mention of it in the StoryPortal Fiction Network blogs, but in case you didn't.... You can now upload Microsoft Office Open XML Format (.docx) files and have them auto-converted to HTML.

Thanks for all your hard work over the past day(s) getting the server moved to a new hard drive and back up for everyone to enjoy

Jamie85

I recently posted one of my stories (The Human Cuckoo - Book One) from a trilogy I have published on Kindle, partly as a teaser. The story is complete and standalone.

Since I do not intend to publish the other two stories from the trilogy, I marked it complete and a solo. However, it keeps getting reclassified as a series, which it is not, and I suspect some software is seeing the Book One and automatically assuming there are going to be other books.

Is there any way of preventing this?

I only put the "Caution" sign up for this chapter because it was quite draining for me to write, but I do not know how it will affect others. This project is not going to be the 100 or so pages I had thought for the simple reason, I will die if I keep dwelling on this story. I will post Chapter 2 in a few minutes

It is not as detailed as I thought it would be for the same reason. I apologize for the long delay between Chapters. Chapter 3, the final installment should be posted by the end of next week and that will be the end of this awful business.

Well it's been six weeks since I pulled the ligaments in my ankle and I decided to try to go back to dance class today to see how it would go. My ankle twinged a few times but I was careful to take breaks if I thought I was overdoing it and I was really happy that I had no issues doing a new dance we were learning to the music of Frank Sinatra's "It Had to Be You". The dance called for a lot of fancy footwork and I was able to get through it no problem though that was the second dance we did and I took a break immediately after to make sure I wasn't putting too much strain on it.

Okay, I have taken the advice I have been given about my autobiography, and I think its better now. Now, I need someone to go over it and help me fix whatever mistakes are left. Any takers?

I had spent some time using all keywords and all search tools, but can't find the story.

Tonight in a meeting I was told by a man connected to publishers that he wanted to review all my stories. He told me that he felt that my talent was such that he was interested in anything I have written.

I do not know what happens next. He has access to BCTS to read my stories.

Gwen

Well I'm a bit more organised this week so theres not just a new chapter here

While at the hospital yesterday, I listened to a program that came from either History Channel or the Military Channel about WWII, saying that the war was actually plotted by the very rich as a way to shift economic power to America. I am very deaf and require the use of powerful state of the art hearing aids that have the ability to focus on one single sound source. In spite of that capability, I could have misheard some of what was said.

An Oculus Rift art exhibit shows wearers what it's like to swap bodies

I need someone to go over my autobiography, someone to tell me if anything is missing a reader might want to know, the whole thing.

Any takers?

It's been a while since I posted any new stories here, but my latest, Shadow of a Doubt, is up. I've entered a few local short story contests and even won one, but they were straight SF stories, no TG involved, so I haven't been posting them here. I've also been working on a TG superhero story that's been giving me tons of trouble, so I finally stopped to do a quick mystery. My goal here was to keep the story short and give all the clues needed to solve it. I'll wait a full week before posting part 2 to see if I got enough in there while still keeping it difficult.

While filling out a application for a new Doctor the area that say sex read F=female M=male and a third box that said transgender that my friends was a woo-hoo moment . A small step in the right direction , very happy to share this :-) HUGS

So after about 3 weeks without internet im back. I nolonger live in maryland, I have moved to virginia beach which is why I didnt have any internet.i worked on "The hand we're dealt" a little bit, I have about 900ish words written for chapter 3. I love my new house its small but spacious on the in side. Im scared abo6t having a new school, jessica has only gone to one school. Now im in a new place new ppl, my whole base of support and ppl who know me for me is gone, and thats something I have to get back. Well thats all for now ill check back in l8r ttyl

Have you ever had to write lines as a punishment? Well, I have, its not fun, which is sort of the point - to try and hammer into your head that the thing you did was wrong.

I just posted the first part of my newest endeavor. I've title it Barrett, Howard, and the Thousand Choices. That title might change if I can come up with a better one; however, it will be kept in the format of all the Cynthia Chronicles stories. This story follows very quickly after Adam and the Three Wishes which was received quite well here. I based the title on the decisions the two main characters are led to make. Some may eventually see a bit of a similarity to some recent stories Elrod has posted.

Hello again all! For those who remember me, I used to post all kinds of stuff here. Sorry I've been gone so long. Kind of got burned out for a while and then got addicted to a game...where I met my fiance! ^_^ So got kind of distracted there... ;)

Anyway, all is very well indeed with me and my fiance has been prodding me for months to write again. She's a fan of Kittyhawk. ^^ So, I'm finally getting back into writing. No promises on when or how much, but, I do have 2 chapters ready to go now. First will be a chapter of Chrysalis because it links up with Kittyhawk. ^^

from: National Public Radio

I had a great day shopping.

OK, I've healed up enough the doc wants to do it again and fix it. He apparently wants to charge me more, I am very angry with him at the moment, and also at myself. I did not ask enough questions.

I am an egotistical person. I know that. You know that. People who never met me assume that. So, what does an egotistical person do? The put their name in google and search for themselves. And, that's what I did. In my defense, I was looking for reviews of Unreachable. Last week I sold 500 copies (which is a lot for a week) and I was curious if blogs had anything nice (or nasty) to say about me.

Then I come across this link:

http://greedybugbookreviews.com/joshs-books-of-the-year-2013/

I feel like a shameless drama queen tonight and really need a lot of sympathy and hugs. I know I am supposed to be this solid rock "Mom" type, but I'm having a weak moment that is about 9.0 on the Richter scale.

I'm sick, really sick, and don't feel good at all from that damnable flue. This stuff is bloody awful. Strangely, all the actual symptoms have moved on but I am just worn out, tired, discouraged, weepy, and whiny. I have been sleeping more than 12 hours a day and nothing has been getting done. All the dishes are dirty and the other room looks like a pig stye.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/daves4/commas-are-the-most-important...

Commas are just not what they, used to be.

Enjoy

Julia

Interesting article in the most recent issue of Macleans magazine, here is a link:

We're a almost halfway through the month and more than a third of our goal. Thanks, everyone.

I Just got a new job that is to start on the 27th of this month. While was on my to a backup interview just in case something changed in the status of a job then my car died on the way. I am trying to get it towed to a repair place and have it fixed which looks like it was an alternator issue.

I am hoping my sister can help get it towed for me and pay for the repairs until I get a paycheck then buy a another car because this one is in reposession status.

My new job pays well over 60,000 a year but I need the car to last until I get the first check then get another car.

I wrote John Forster as a closeted gay man, lashing out at others before joining the army, only admitting to himself and the world what he was after being caught at it. Here is the reality.

So, before I tackle another major novel I am writing a smaller piece (which will soon get away from me and be a mid sized novel). But, is there any interest in this community to see a mtf/ftm romance. I am currently working on one, but mostly it's so Felix doesn't feel left out of my writing (which he doesn't read anyway, so that goes to show how good of an author I am, I can't get my own BF to read my work).

Well, I have some good news about my foot. My doctor had sent my information to a foot clinic, and I went there today, and the doctor there assured me that the growth isn't cancer, that its just scar tissue, and gave me a steroid shot to help start the healing process. I will need at least a couple more of these shots, one every two weeks, and hopefully, that will be the end of that.

I'm super glad.

Sarah Beth Syzygym
Hi!
This is my inaugural blog here. The purpose is mostly to establish my Id as an "author."

It's been about a month and my book, "Heroes of Justice" available on Amazon Kindle has reached my estimate in sales. About 25 have been sold. Of course I hoped for more, but that was my realistic expectation.

I'm trying to get my next Kindle project, 'Once the Hero' cleaned up to be posted now, but if you have purchased a copy of HOJ please leave a review! Each one helps seperate my work from all the others in that popular genre.

Are Sapphire Place and Storysite dead?

Thanks so much to all my readers out there. The first chapter of my Trios story just hit 100 kudos. It's my second story chapter to break a hundred with chapter one of Music Magic being the first.

Hi all,

An eagle-eyed reader spotted an awkwardness in the previously published distance chart for the Bray/Palar valley.

I have just posted the next segment of Havens Salvation. I am hoping that this is an original story not based on any others work. It is hard to know for sure beings I have read so many stories both here and in other circles but a extensive check of my memory I can not find any thing like this elsewhere.
I am trying to bring the characters alive for my audience giving the people you read about warm flesh and blood reactions to there environment and to each other. You my audience will be the final judge of that.

Make of this what you will...

'Cyclists are more intelligent, charitable and cool than the average person' says study.

Well, Erin's little challenge has sparked my muse back to life. We'll just have to see what comes of it ...

My wife of 47 years is currently fighting a re-occurance of malignant melanoma, which has metastasized to her brain. In order to combat it the Drs are going to try Brain Surgery. Thru all the discussion etc. they frequently referred to the procedure as SRS surgery. When we got home, wanting to know more about it, she Google d SRS, and was very amused to find that the only references to that she could find were to Sexual Reassignment Surgery, which she does not think she is a candidate for. She finally found it on a medical reference web site as Stereotaxic Radio-graphic Surgery.

I know the reaction to Op Rescue: In Plain Sight has been very significant (judging by comments and kudos). That makes me wonder if the audience as a whole considers this better than, on par with, or less than Op Rescue: New Co-Ed. The main reason I ask is that while New Co-Ed has a lot of hits, it has few kudos. That makes me wonder if it was as good as my latest effort, or worse. Or is it an artifact of posting a link to a PDF file (as opposed to a 450+ page story in the form!) so the kudo button wasn't accessible? Was it because New Co-Ed was too long for most people's tastes?