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  1. She's still banned.

    Status: Banned Deviant

    Deviously Deviant

    Female/United States

    Offline for 10w 16h 25m 33s

    Deviant since May 24, 2008, 6:13 PM

    This user is no longer a member of deviantART.

    So they didn't really unban her but if they did, she probably reposted her traced art calling them originals and they moderated her to see if she was posting originals or not and found that she was reposting her same art that was traced and banned her again.

    Beth

  2. My entire family went to Pittsburgh, PA this past weekend from Wednesday night to Monday night. We left our home locked up and all of our other family members knew we were gone. Our home was tended to by our good friend Kimmie, who knew the daily routine of all of the animals and she knew that all of the cats were inside when we left home.

    We got home on Monday. Called GMA and GPA to let them know we're home. Talked with GPA for a few minutes before we asked to talk with GMA. What she said, sent us all into a fury. She told us that Robert, Alex(one of his ex-girlfriend's boys that Uncle Herb(who would call us to get permission to swim in the pool) is tending to during the summr with his job at a local restuarant) and she came over to OUR HOME TO SWIM! Without our permission too! Alex had to go poo. Instead of putting his shoes on and going into the woods or to the high grassy area, he ENTERED OUR HOME AND ACCIDENTALLY LET OUT ONE OF OUR SEVEN CATS! HE DIDN'T EVEN MAKE AN ATTEMPT AT CATCHING THEM NOR DID THEY!

    The cat were outside in 90* heat! My mom was pissed off to say the least. My older brother ranted about how Robert wouldn't have stayed outside in the heat after his swim. He would come inside and raid our fridge for food or flip through his magazines that were in prestige condition and worth $100's of dollars are made worthless by him flipping through them and dog earing the pages, now I can't sell them for what they're worth, they're worthless now.

    But back to this, this is typical of Robert to do. He would call us when we're home to get permission to drop by to go swimming as we would tell him yes, come over and swim but we have no food to offer you, Robert. But when we're not home - he violates our domain by coming over and swimming when we're not home and allowing one of his boys to walk into our home to do his duties when he could have done them outside in the woods or in the grassy area of our fields.

    I wanted to call him up immediately and ask him if he swam in the pool this past weekend and did anything happen while he was there. Just to see what he says(or more like spins it to where he's an innocent party to this whole thing) or would he admit that he was there and that Alex let couple of the cats out. But the folks didn't even call him today when they should have and asked him. And then, inform him that he was revealed to be in our swimming pool without our permission and in our home without our permission that he is now banned from coming over to the house to swim for the rest of the swimming season.

    But Robert would whine about how mean we are but the fact stands that he disrespected us by coming over to the house to use our pool and allowed one of the kids to enter our home to use the bathroom without calling us for permission! He would have learned that the house was off limits to everyone. But he didn't because he would have been told that the house was off limits to everyone and that's not what he wants to hear as he would want to enjoy the AC house and the TIVO system that we have.

    So they probably stayed indoors after they swam and enjoyed watching some shows.

    I am so pissed that I'm going to tell Robert that he better have enjoyed the theft of our pool as that is the last time he'll ever step foot in it again this swimming season as he is now banned till the next swimming season.

    Robert called a few minutes ago and he immediately spins it to where the cat was out before he came to the house! But mom told him that it was Alex who let the cat out because his mom (my GMA) told us that Alex let one of the cats out when he entered the house to go poop. If he had called to get permission from us before he came out he would have known about us trying to keep the cats inside the house! But Robert spins everything in his favor so he doesn't look stupid for not doing the proper thing in this case was to call to get permission to come over to the house to swim as GMA is now putting it on her shoulders that's why they came over when it was in fact Robert's doing as we know how conniving he is. He probably told her that he got permission to go over but he didn't.

    We thought of telling him various diseases that we found in the pool just to make him freak out since Robert is such a freak about how healthy he is. But mom and dad both said no to it. But I would have loved to see his face with we told him that the pool was infected by ebola germ.

    Beth

  3. We have rules up for how to promote your stories and it is listed in the pinned section of the forum which is at the top of the page right below the post topic post.

    Please edit your post asap within three days of this post or least it is deleted as it states in the rules.

    Do a little post about if this the first chapter or a one-shot or the last chapter of your story.

    Title:

    Author:

    Rating: (optional)

    Summary:

    Feedback:

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    Thank you,

    Beth

    moderator of Promote A Story forum

  4. He's probably trying, or else he wouldn't be getting so angry.

    The thing is that he would have two pounds of cheese and an hour later, he would eat an entire loaf of bread. He would eat for eight hours without getting full. That is how he is. He eats and eats. He says he's on a diet but is he really? We do not believe he is. He's just saying that to get people off his back about him getting onto a diet.

    And if you confront or even talk to him about his behaviors(he loves making sexist jokes or comments about any sexy woman that he sees about her getting his dick in her mouth and giving him a blowjob) or even his weight, he will blow up at you. Robert is a spin-doctor. He'll spin anything that goes against him around to make it out to which HE is the victim of their hate, instead of taking the blame himself.

    That is why we're a bit hesitant in telling him that his so called diet isn't helping him at all but hurting him and in a way hurting his daughter as she doesn't want to bury her father at her age and he's denying his future grandchildren of his presence. We know he would just try to make us look like we're the villians when we only have his best interest at heart. But he will not see it that way, he'll see it as us trying to hurt him.

    Beth

  5. The books that I am reading at this time are as follows:

    The career novelist by Donald Maass

    The First Five Pages by Noah Lukeman

    The Author's Toolkit by Mary Embree

    The 38 most common fiction writing mistakes by Jack M. Bickham

    Manuscript submission by Scott Edelstein

    The ABC's of writing fiction by Ann Copeland

    The Art & Craft of Novel Writing by Oakley Hall

    How to write romances by Phyllis Taylor Pianka

    Characters & Viewpoint by Orson Scott Card

    Yes, all of them are about writing novels, after all, I am a writer at heart.

    Beth

  6. Back when I was co-owner of the site, one of the jobs that I had beyond slapping the moderators to make sure that they were doing their jobs(even though they were not doing anything of the kind, just ignoring my pleas before they turned into demands and the next step after that was demotion of them all when I got ousted as co-owner) and let me help Apollo run the site, was deleting people who didn't have disclaimers in their stories and not using the story codes properly.

    I was deleting several fics maybe up in the hundreds of hundreds because they lacked the story codes or the disclaimer and we informed everyone about that disclaimers were now mandatory not optional anymore.

    I would rather see a story with story codes and disclaimers on then one that doesn't.

    Beth

  7. This is going to be a long post dealing with my uncle Robert who is most likely over 400 pounds and GAINING, not LOSING! My Uncle Robert is about 56 years old and for the past 2 years he has been gaining weight. He would put blame on others for whatever is wrong with him in his life and his weight gain - he blamed his last employer Parts Unlimited for making him eat so much and gain weight. They didn't tell him to stop off at every hamburger joint around and eat. They told him to sell motorcycle parts to dealers and motorcyle repair shops.

    Well, back in 1993 when we visited him in Illoinis, he weighed around 230 pounds, not that heavy set just a little overweight. He looked good back then. He was working out each day and having good meals. I don't know when that changed and he started to gain weight but he did. Every year it looked like he gained about forty pounds. Till he spoke about reaching 300 like it was something to be proud of. Not sure of the year anymore probably was in 1995 or 1996.

    Back in 2004, I noticed his fingers on his hand looked thinner and I said, Looks like you are doing a good job on losing weight, Bob-O, your fingers look thinner then they did before. He smiled and said he had lost forty pounds.

    We were thrilled that he was seemingly losing weight. We figured that he was on a good diet and a good excerise program. We all expected him to start bragging about his weight loss and start showing a thinner body by that time. But he never did start the brag.

    But by then, we learned that both Dick, his father and my grandfather and himself were now prediabetics. Neither went on diets or started excerising. Grandpa is losing weight by not eating much food. Robert is eating more and gaining weight instead of losing it. And he has a meter which he tests his levels each day. That information came to us by the way of my thinner Uncle's girlfriend, that Robert is diabetic.

    He never publically announced that he is diabetic or not but I never did see his meter or him testing his levels, well, basically no one sees me doing mine as I do it where no one is watching or that I excuse myself to go to the bathroom to test my levels. I am not diabetic itself but on the low side of the diabetics, not sure of the name anymore but I think it is Hypogla something, dealing with low blood sugar levels. Thanks to my friend Susan who noticed by how I was acting online when we chatted, as I would not answer her back when we chatted as I just felt sleepy even when I shouldn't, she knew that something was wrong and she told me to go get a blood test for diabetes as I told her some of my signs that I had during my trip to Atlanta, Georgia, while we were walking around 3pm, I got dazed and confused and I was trying to keep up with the group but I kept lagging behind till my 'Aunt' Susan and her sister noticed how far back I was, they walked back and stayed with me while the others waited for us to catch up with them, that was when Susan suggested getting something to eat or drink. She was by my side all the way to a restaurant and a bar where we all got something to drink. I was so confused and dazed that I didn't know what to order. Susan, she ordered me some orange juice. After I had about three glasses of OJ, I felt better and she said something about getting tested but we never did till my friend Susan suggested that I really needed to. I'm now able to keep my own levels in a good range and I know how to treat myself when I get confused and a bit dazed during the afternoon hours, by drinking two or three 8 ounce glasses of OJ or more till I feel better.

    Well, with Robert's weight gain and him poking his fingers, we're sure that he does have diabetes and it is most likely Type 2 and he's not doing anything serious to lose weight. What is worse is that he's gaining weight like nobody's business. We tried to help him lose weight by giving him a book to read that is the diet plan we're on and we're successfully losing over 78 pounds already, that is the combined weight of both myself and my dad. And we do not have the cravings for sugar like we probably would on other diet plans. And when I was in Winnipeg about a month ago, I did have sugar but as soon as I got back here, I was not even concerned about not having any sugar. It was like oh I'll have a treat during my time in Winnipeg but as soon as I came home, it was easy not to even think about sugar even though we have it in the house, it is something that I don't even think about.

    Robert just doesn't want to give up his food because he would eat a pound of cheese and then an hour later eat a loaf of bread. Whatever good he did before was ruined by that loaf of bread. He is constantly eating if not that - he's sleeping or crapping or working. I know how to eat when I'm out and he would eat everything in sight of his eyes. His diet I fear is not a diet but a delusion of one so he could say he was on a diet and not really be on one.

    I fear one day I may lose Robert due of his lack of caring about his weight gain to complications of diabetes.

    Thanks for allowing me to rant about this. I really do care about my uncle but anytime we even suggest getting on the diet we're on, he throws a shitfit about it and storms out of the room.

    Beth

  8. I post in various places, like AFF, FF.net(not much anymore), Foreverfandom(not much), Harrypotterfanfiction(Not much anymore), DiviantArt (Handle is fanfictionaxis and of course, my own website.

    But I tend to keep my stories closer to home then post them elsewhere of late.

    Beth

  9. Ask yourself various questions about the part that's holding you up, for example... why must every vampire tell his plans? Some vampires might wish to keep their plans secret, some might lie, tell half truths...or just be late for the meeting with the Count. The repetition of the situation might be boring your Muse. Give your Muse something exciting, so he/she is hopping with excitment... then see how many assorted plot bunnies you get. Good Luck, Cal

    Now that might be possible. I might have him lie at first to see if the others could detect that he is lying about it and have him reveal it after they press him about his lying. Since his House is of the warring faction of all seven Houses it is possible that he is lying about what is spoken about.

    Beth

  10. I expect to get a mention in the book then, if not a cut of the profits. :D lol

    Considering that I'm going to blanket thank the site, if you want a more personal thanks, PM me your real name or just let me know which name you want to go by either your real name or your forum name?

    Oh, I have even a better idea then just thanking you, how would you like to be one of the Princes/Princess or Lords/Ladies of one of the Houses that I have in my story, Melrick? And your forum name will be the name of that Prince/Princess or Lord/Lady?

    Send me a PM, if you like the idea and I'll send you a list of the Houses that I have available for Princes/Princesses or Lords/Ladies and give me a bio of yourself as in height, eye color, hair, personality. I will probably lengthen your hair to shoulder length or longer. Style of dress you prefer as you would be one of the older Lords/Ladies or Princes/Princesses of the Houses. Which century dress would you prefer wearing. I may have my 3D graphic artist garb you in that attire just to show you what you would look like in the outfit.

    Beth

  11. Well, if it's something that must be in a racing stable, I have to agree with melrick on the Dry ice thing. But I was also thinking some sort of acid or even liquid nitrogen could cause the burn marks. Of course, you'd have to specify it was a chemical burn or a burn caused by extreme cold, and think of a way for such a thing to be in the stable in the first place (I can't really think of anything right now). As for a cigarrette, that depends on whether the burn mark is only slightly oval (which might work with a cigar or cigarrette), or if it's really oval-shaped. And, when you say the burn marks are on the horse's rump... do you mean it like the horse sat down on something hot? Is it's tail burnt as well?

    The tail is not burnt as it would have drawn attention to it before the race even ran. The horse sleeps lying down not completely on his side but enough to where you could put a hot item against his rump and burn it if possible to force the horse to stand up.

    The burn mark is found after the horse dies in the middle of a race on the autopsy table.

    Beth

  12. I agree that dry ice is probably the best choice. Although, depending on the stable's set-up and modernity, there might be a place where someone could heat up any metal, like a small forge for shoeing, or whatever. And there are LOTS of chemicals that would leave a burn, but I don't know how many would be in a stable. Undiluted lye would, for example.

    Dry ice is a big possiblity as does undiluted lye would be another possiblity. My trainer in the story does smoke a cigar in the early morning hours and he could have used it on the horse to put it out and also to make the horse get up fast too.

    Thanks gang, it gives me more things to think about now.

    Beth

  13. I plan on chatting with my co-writer who works with me on my other stories about this story and let her preview the story part and see if she sees what is wrong. She might see what I cannot see. B) But I have skipped that part for now, so I can move onto the other part of the story which is now finished, all but for that part of the book.

    As soon as the scene is finished that I am having a hard time of, the whole rewrite of the story will be complete and ready for my editor to start working on it. When that is done, the book will be sent off to an author friend for some reading and she'll help me with finding an agent for the book and hopefully, this book will be published. :D

    Beth

  14. I'm working on my original story The Vampire Hunter. Right now I am at a part that has one of the enemy vampires explaining his plan to the Count and I'm totally stuck. I can move a little but it is forced moving.

    I know something is not right as the story is not flowing so fast like it would with the other blocks. I may have to wait till tonight to talk with my other story writer about the story as I know something is not right with the story itself to have such a block on it.

    I hate this when it happens.

    So how do you handle a story block?

    Beth

  15. HI, Beth. I seem to remember a long time ago about this thread where the second poster reviewed a story from the first poster (any story from the stories the person has) and then the third poster reviews something of the second poster's, and so on. The reviews are posted in the thread, and can also be posted as a regular review for the author's benefit. I don't see a thread like this anymore and I was wondering if they're allowed, and if so, would they go in this subforum or a different one.

    That would be in this forum --> The Review subforum.

    I believe the topic you are looking for is right at the top.

    Beth

  16. I sum a Mary Sue up as this: if Barbie was a literary character, she'd be a Mary Sue.

    Everyone loves her, she has lots of different pets, many different talents, but no plausible backstory on how exactly she got them. So you have to hate her.

    Amen! They never really give us a backstory about how Barbie got all these talents, she is basically your Mary Sue of Dolls! If they did a story about how Barbie went to night school to learn all these talents it would be believable but nope they didn't, thus she is the Mary Sue of Dolls.

    If there is such a thing as a Mary Sue of Dolls.

    Beth

  17. What makes a Mary Sue a Mary Sue is not her perfection, it's the bad writing.

    Good writing makes a character with multiple hobbies and talents multifaceted and intricate; bad writing makes them a Mary Sue.

    That is basically what everyone thinks of a Sue - the writing of the author. If the writing is awful, then most likely the character itself is going to be not that great but the author loves that character and if you tell them so, they will defend their character and keep writing the bad writing not wanting to improve.

    Beth

  18. For my book - The Vampire Hunter, that I am redoing. I really do not know what her reaction should really be.

    Aries nodded as he looked at her. "He will probably want you totally out of the way before he makes any move on the Castle and on Kelsa. So be ware of him, Lady Kora."

    "Please drop the Lady Kora, Aries. I hate that name." Koranad moaned.

    "But isn’t that your title, my lady?" He asked, curiously.

    What should her reaction be? Angry or a sigh of disgust or something else at Aries? Or maybe she could play it back on him by saying something like this: "Curiosity kills the cat, you know." Koranad replied, with a sly smile on her lips.

    Please help me.

    Thanks,

    Beth

  19. I'm not yet in sales, but I have bore witness to the trend with customers coming in with big bills like an hour after the store opens. The employee would rant about that person for several minutes to other customers. It bugged the other customers too that someone paid for a small amount of items with such a large bill.

    I saw it happen to a friend of mine who worked for 711 in California, needless to say, he was pretty upset with that customer as it yanked his till down and he had to struggle in getting small bills for the large one he had from that customer. He was so upset about it, I took the fifty dollars and gave him change for small dollars so he wouldn't be so stressed out about it.

    But that does bug cashiers and other people in the industry.

    Beth

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