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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

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

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

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

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

Thanks it helped a bit but I made her reply a bit cold towards him since they didn't like each other very much. Beth

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

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

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. Beth

I spent too many hours on rewriting this story to delete it needlessly. I know something isn't right and I'm not sure how to break free from it. I am rereading the chapter to see if I can get the story going again. But that is hard. Beth

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

That would be in this forum --> The Review subforum. I believe the topic you are looking for is right at the top. Beth

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

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

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

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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Sorry about not seeing this post, Squall. But send me an e-mail at spencer_creek_studios@yahoo.com and I'll send you my diet forms. They are easy to work with and yet after a while you are so used to the diet you will not need to be reminded what you can and cannot eat. And if you need a recipe to do, I have one that is really easy to make and is very delious too. Beth

Usually people type in capital letters the word COMPLETE at the front of the summary, so people know that this story is completed by the author. Beth

I love that! That leaves stuff for the fanfiction writer in us all to flesh out that scene! I actually have that happen in my original story that I am writing for publication: The Vampire Hunter. Beth

In this story, I have a character that I threw in jail for not talking about how he knew about something. The thing is I want to drag this scene out for a few days. How can I do that without making it seem like I am? Do I make the character refuse to say anything or just try to confuse them by talking about something else? Beth

They can also help the main canon characters grow into themselves too and also as leaders. That is one of the reasons why I write OC in my stories. Beth

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This is one of the books that is on my writing shelf. The 38 Most Common Fiction Writing Mistakes, by Jack M. Bickham. What are your books on writing that is on your shelf? Beth

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