Can You Pat Your Head and Rub Your Tummy?

Lately I have been in a funk with regards to writing. I have three great story ideas but for the life of me I can't seem to really get a move on them. I thought about just posting them chapter by chapter as I write but I think as my readers you have an expectation of getting your chapters every week and what would happen if I had a bad week and nothing got out. I would feel awful.

So I have been going through what I have been doing that could possibly be hindering my writing prose and then it hit me. I have been reading a lot of fanfiction and Twilight blog post. That was the only thing I could think of that was different from what I normally do while writing. Which lead to the question: Why can't I walk and chew gum at the same time?

You would think that with all that goes on in my normal everyday life I would be able to multi-task reading and writing. I mean most people do. They even teach a subjects about it in school; you know reading, writing, arithmatic. Still I think that is my problem. Which is so silly.

I can think of things to write here and I can think of how I want my stories to play out but when I sit in front of the computer nothing. It's really irritating but have no fear. I will not give up. Because I found a prompt; contest. The one that I mentioned about the Friends/Twilight crossover one-shot might be my ticket back. I wrote something that I think might be good and a way to get my mojo going again. Plus there are lots of contest going and if I can find a few that re-spark something inside then all the better.

So you many see a few more one-shots then your use to in the future but I will get back to the story because that is where my heart is at.

Our Party Is Growing

Wow I went away for a weekend and come back to find that we have two more new followers. That is soooo amazing. I knew that we were growing by leaps and bounds.

So welcome to Dfield75 and Akyria. I hope that I keep you entertained and that you find a home here. Now go out and tell everyone else and that way we will just keep going and going and going. I think I love this idea.

Again welcome and I can't wait to read your comments.

Blogger Twilighters Are Rockstars

I was hanging out, doing my new favorite thing, lurking through blogs, when I decided to try something different. One of my only real complaints about blogger is that I haven't been able to find a blogger search. I know that you can search your own blog for content but I would like to be able to search through all the listed blogs on here to see what all there is. Which lead to my something different today.

I thought if I have found this many Twilight Blogs on Blogger than how many must there be on Wordpress. I know it might be wrong to consider looking at another blog site but hey I was curious.

Anyway, I found there search right on the front page and typed in Twilight. There were like 14,000 hits that came back but the funny thing was that as I looked down the list most of them hadn't been updated in like a year. How crazy is that? So I continued on thinking maybe it would get better but now. I went through five pages of results before I called it a day. Sure some had been updated recently but I would say like 85% last post was October or better of 09.

There is no way that we would do such a think over here on Blogger. Why have a blog if you aren't going to update it? That is half the fun. Even if you only have one or two readers or no readers at all you are still expressing yourself and your opinion on something you hold dear.

Maybe all those blogger defected to Blogger and now they are running some of the great sites that we have here now. I don't know. But I do know that as a whole I say we rock and if you have updated in the last few weeks then take a bow because you rock!

Candy Cane Plan

I have been looking at some of the contest and challenges out there this week and so I am blaming this thought on that.

I was watching George Lopez last night and he had this fake Tiger Woods and fake wife renewing their vows. During the comedy ceremony the fake wife said something about holding tight to Tigers "milk duds" which I assumed was her way of saying his balls. Being in a Twilight challenge mindset all I could think of was how fun would it be to work that into a contest or challenge. To write a lemon story using only candy titles for the tasty parts. It could go something like this:

"Edward press Bella up against the wall. She could feel his Jolly Rancher pressing into her. This was further than he had ever let them go and she welcomed it. His hands reached toward her Skittles and she moaned into him. She could feel a tidal wave coming from her Starbust and she knew that Edward felt into to. He leaned down with a Snicker on his lips, 'I think this Kit Kat is ready for me'."

How fun would that be? And I didn't even use some of the really fun candies. Think of the possibilities of candies like Livesavers, Peppermint Patties, M&M's, Almond Joy, Mr. Goodbar, and of course Candy Canes. It might change the way we look at candy.

I don't know who I would forward this to or if they would find it as funny as I do, but I tell you that it got my Laffy Taffy all in a twist with excitement.

New Banners

Okay everyone, I have been hard at work and I finally have a few banners for my stories that I think you will really like. I'm still debating doing a separate page for these but I didn't want you guys to have to wait until I decided to see what I had.

Enjoy and I wil talk to everyone soon. Ps. Look for more banners to come.

Going Single or Staying the Same

Last week I asked if anyone would like a little change to my posting habits. As you all know I normally double post on Wednesday. This is something that started back during Beyond The Past and I have just kept going for the ease of it. However, lately I have been looking through a few stories and noticed that a lot of people don't post more than one chapter a day but multiple chapter at different times of the week. Which of course prompted the question. I've been doing the double posting thing for awhile and thought maybe it was time to try something new if everyone thought it would be better.

Personally I'm not sure that I'm partial to either way. Sure it is easy to come in once a week edit, respond to reviews, and be done. That said there might be something fun to only posting one chapter at a time. There have been a few chapters that I would have liked to be more of a cliffhanger and probably would have been if they weren't posted with another chapter. During those times single posting sounded much better but I thought "I've done the posting this way for so long it would be rude to change".

I'm not sure which I will do but I more than liking won't change the double posting during Kidnapped. If I do decide to do it then it will probably be during my next story; whatever that will be. Guess you are just going to have to wait and see but I will take your opinions into consideration. Which means that I need more than the three responses that I got. Hint, hint.

Welcome, Welcome

I am so happy to welcome our newest follower, Mrs. Vanquish. I can't tell you how excited I was to log in today and see that we had a follower. Talk about doing a happy dance. Arms were flying, legs were jumping, and smiles everywhere. It was a good thing no one else was home or else they would have thought I was having a seizure and I have a feeling this is only the beginning. Soon we will have a ton of followers and my welcome post will be way longer than this.

So again welcome Mrs. Vanquish. I will try to keep you entertained.