Solaris
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I got one back in 2006 and I love them. They actually saved my butt a few times when I had to switch from my desktop to my laptop and I was able to move my stories with me instead of fretting about losing it on my harddrive.
I go with Kingston Datatravelers for my keys. They are the best!
Beth
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If anyone is on Facebook and would like to friend me, they can.
Here's my url on Facebook: My page on Facebook.
Hope to see some friends from here on there.
Beth
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One word for this whole series, WOW. You are good!
Wait that's more than one word, but it's true. You are a good writer.
Beth
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Long time lurker, first time poster.
This might seem stupid but I was a little confused. Each thread is for one story. So it's like a place where you can not only promote your stories but post when a new chapter is in? The way it was read it seemed like when you post a new chapter, you post a new thread.
Maybe it's just that it's 2:51 AM and my brain isn't functioning.
Good question and not a dumb one either.
Each thread is for that story, if you have a chapter update, you put it in the same thread linked to that story, that way no one is lost and people can keep track of the story updates easier.
Beth
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I've been sent to Limbo.
The Dante's Inferno Test has sent you to the First Level of Hell - Limbo!
Here is how you matched up against all the levels:
Level | Score
Purgatory | High
Level 1 - Limbo | Very High
Level 2 | Very Low
Level 3 | Moderate
Level 4 | Very Low
Level 5 | Low
Level 6 - The City of Dis | Very Low
Level 7 | Low
Level 8- the Malebolge | Moderate
Level 9 - Cocytus | Very Low
Level descriptions: http://www.4degreez.com/misc/dante-inferno-information.html
Take the test: http://www.4degreez.com/misc/dante-inferno-test.mv
Beth
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I don't mind reading it through a file. But you might have to help me find it. I've checked the link you ghave me and i'm a little stumped. Sorry about that...it's just one of those days.
Sorry, I didn't know you had left me a reply.
I'm not sure about AIM accounts but there probably is a paper clip which is probbaly where the link to download the file, next to it if there is one. I never dealt with AIM accounts before, so I'm not sure.
I think you need to click it but I am not sure.
If you need to read it from a different account, let me know and I'll resend it there.
Beth
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Truthfully, she sounds very realistically. No Sueish behavior that I can see.
Beth
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I sent you an e-mail.
Beth
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Is it acceptable to use my pen name in a promotion thread?
And off topic, I'm new here. Hi all.
Your author name or your pen name is acceptable here.
And welcome to the forum.
Beth
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I finally did it!
I went and sent a query off to six agencies to see if they want to represent my manuscript - For the Love of Abdullah to the publishers or not.
Now, I wait for a reply from one of them about reading more of the manuscript or refusing to read or represent me.
But I'm hopeful that one of them will consider reading it.
Beth
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I had my gall bladder removed on September 2nd, 1999 and I spent three days in bed, before I was up and about with orders for a week no heavy lifting.
But I'm able to eat everything and not have any problems, till they found out that my stomach was partially paralyzed and put me on pills, which I shouldn't have been. I should have been placed on a diet instead to see what would work the best. The eating plan that I am on no carbos with protein meals allowed and vise versa is the way to go.
But I'm losing weight slowly and still able to eat good food.
Beth
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I hit 51# lost as of the last day of 2008.
I am doing so good!
I'm sticking good to the plan and the two funks at Thanksgiving and Christmas didn't do too much damage to my weight, I still ended up losing weight.
Another 43# to go and I'll be at my first goal weight and then my next goal of 125# will be soon attainable.
Beth
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I need a beta to look over a writing project of mine.
You can AIM me at ladyducaine or spencer_creek_studios on YIM. I'm on YIM right now, will be on AIM around 8pm central time.
I'm not sure what's wrong with the essay. I'll be honest with you. I started writing it about an hour ago and I got about two pages of it done. I'm writing like a mad dog as the idea hit me this afternoon and I only decided recently to get it down on paper or computer file before I lose it all.
I'm looking for someone who will help me make it strong.
Thanks,
Beth
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This story has not been edited by anyone.
It is over 230 pages long and 67,702 words long.
I need some serious help in grammar, sentence structure and comma use.
I use Microsoft Word with comments on any edits that I do as that way it is easy to understand what the beta reader had corrected, if you understand what I mean.
And I am hoping to have this story published in real life one day, so I need a beta reader who will stick with me on this story as I will do the corrections and probably even write more to the story and send it back to you.
I will send the story to you by RTF either by AIM ladyducaine or by e-mail spencer_creek_studios@yahoo.com .
And I do not mind any harsh critics of my novel.
Please contact me by either of those contacts.
Thank you,
Beth
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Yup, thank you.
Beth
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Please read the pinned topics on how to promote your story on this forum or in three days the post will be deleted.
Thank you,
Beth, moderator of Promote A Story! forum
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The 2 year old kidnapped child in Florida.
I think she probably died accidentally and her mom fearing people would call her a bad mother hid the child in the backyard. When her mom confronted her about it, Casey told her what happened and they're covering it up by claiming she was kidnapped a month after the girl's death.
And the cadaver dog found the smell of something that was human who was dead in the trunk. The Grandmother threw a shit fit over that! She claimed that the dog found an old peice of pizza, not the smell of decomposing body. The dog is trained to find decomposing bodies, not FOOD, you crazy bitch! And who in their right mind would put a small peice of pizza in the trunk of a car? You would most likely find it in the interior of the car, not the trunk!
How stupid does the Anthony family think the police are? They and the FBI know that they're hiding something important about Caylee but not saying anything about it.
When the truth finally comes out, I doubt that family would be living in that neighborhood anymore.
So what is you opinion on the case? Do you think it was a real kidnapping or them covering her accidental death up?
Beth
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That is GROSS!
If I was the judge in this case and they had the bottle which he did that in and it was still full. I would make him eat the salad dressing and then give him the add punishment that he got.
That would make him remember not to pull stupid stunts like that again.
Beth
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I think for the most part those Litmus tests are wrong, if everyone followed canon, there would be similar stories being written by everyone and it would be very boring to read.
I don't take them nor do I trust them.
Beth
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I love purple, but I also like pink, hot pink and blue too.
Beth
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As in how the site is after she left. Has it stayed in line to her dream of a site where adults can post their R and NC-18 stories at or has it gone down or gone better than when it first went up?
I would tell her that the site has improved greatly since she handed it over and yes, we did go through two owners and that there is over a million hits a month or more. She would be very impressed to say the least.
So what would you tell her?
Beth
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This link will tell you all you need to know about McCain's surprise pick - and it's VERY bad news.
Highlights: Palin explicitly promoted "teach the controversy" by calling for the misnamed "creation science" to be taught in public schools (as now well documented in Kitzmiller vs. Dover School District, it's known that "creation science" is nothing more and nothing less than a method of putting young-earth creationism in public schools)... ...It also appears that Sarah Palin is a member of a misnamed group called Feminists for Life. FFL in fact engages in "cultural appropriation" of women's suffrage icons to promote a very woman-unfriendly agenda that--despite attempts to sound "not like those crazies in Operation Rescue"--would not only criminalise abortion but the IUD and hormonal birth control methods, and potentially everything outside the rhythm method (the term "abortifacient birth control" is a codephrase in the dominionist "pro-life" community for hormonal birth control--partly due to a unique urban legend claiming "the pill" and other hormonal birth control causes abortion and partly because of a unique definition of pregnancy beginning at conception rather than at implantation (the latter is what most mainstream OB/GYNs use) and thus making anything preventing implantation potentially "abortifacient").
FFL promotes such fun bogosities as "post-abortion syndrome" (the idea that having an abortion will inevitably lead to PTSD and insanity), and promotes mandatory waiting periods and misinformation guidelines that can be insurmountable for poor or rural women--even those forced to make the most heartbreaking choice because of a nonviable pregnancy. In fact, one of their biggest causes isn't feminist at all--they actively promote the idea that the best choice for women is to stay home as fulltime mothers, and it can be well argued that the only traditionally feminist viewpoint they really support is women's suffrage!
One of the big things FFL promotes is deceptive "pregnancy counseling centers"--where pregnant teens are forced to essentially listen to an altar call on how "abortionists want to murder their children" whilst a pee-stick test clears--and if she tests "yes", she gets a hard-sell to keep the child or to check herself into a dominionist-run "halfway house for teenage moms" where she will ultimately be forced to sign her kid over. (Yes, there is an entire private adoption industry in the dominionist community--mostly focusing on adopting out the infants of poor teenage mothers who have been forced to give their kids up and who have been either scared into it or checked into such facilities by their parents.)...
In short: This is nothing less than a stealth Dominionist ploy to sneak one of their own into a dangerous position of major power (and need I remind you of McCain's age/health history in regards to this potential implication??). PLEASE pass this link around to as many people as you can. The threats Palin poses, especially to women's rights, are very real and frightening.
Vote for Obama as he swore he would protect a woman's right to birth control and abortion, not these two so called mavericks.
Beth
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Wow, you are right there is a person named Darrien. So it is a real name.
Beth
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You creating new strange names and places.
I had people complain about how I changed modern day names to be something different. Yeah, so what? Parents do that with naming their children, so it is my right to do as the same as the author of the story! I have the right to create new versions of names or a name that is totally different of that name.
I had someone say I don't like your story because the names you gave to the characters is not real and they should be real names.
That came from a fantasy story and I informed everyone before I even put the story up that one of the names that is done in this story is from a name that I liked that was being used for another story a fanfiction story, so I took the name. Needless to say, I got a complaint about the name not being real but fantasy!
Even though I have a few names in my current Vampire Hunter story that I am working on, their names are totally different, but I got complaints that it isn't real.
Lets take for an example the characters in my second VH story.
Rorie, Kristina, Reenie, Sondra, Grayson, Darrien, Koranad, Atana and Adler.
Tell me can you tell which name or names are not real or more like sound very realistic?
You probably say only one or two names are not real.
Well, there is only five names that are real. Can you tell which ones are real and which ones ain't? Okay, you probably wrote the names down.
Here are the five names that are very much real Rorie, Kristina, Sondra, Grayson and Adler.
And here are the four names that are not real at all, Darrien, Atana, Koranad and Reenie. They are made up names. One is an altered version of Darren.
And yet, I bet if they were to name their own characters, they would make the names be as different as possible since there could be many Tom Dick and Harrys' out there.
That is the joy of being a writer, we can create names that are totally special to the story itself.
The characters usually make the Author write down the name that *they* picked out for themselves. Before JRR Tolkien ever wrote LOTR, was there ever anyone called Gandalf, Galadriel, Elrond, Aragorn, Frodo, Faramir, Boromir, Gimli or Arwen before his stories were created or published, I don't think there were. But there are now!
If he was told to change the names to the present day set of names, the whole story would not sound as good as they do. I'm glad that he stuck to his guns as I will stick to mine about the names that I picked for my characters.
Beth
Who has data keys?
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I have truthfully four of them. One still in the package just waiting to be used. Two of them are in use at times.
Beth