I've finished the 50000

words. No, the storyline has a ways to go, but I made promises when I started this to go to the 50000 words and then get back and finish my other storylines. So those of you who liked Red Ribbons, I just submitted a new chapter today.

Thank you to all my fans who've been so helpful and supportive and have understood my desire to join this contest.

Danielle

It's the Thirteenth Day of Nano

And I'm only a little over 1500 words away from meeting my goal. One more good sex scene and it will be at 50000. But the story won't be done.

I've been getting death threats, okay well not really threats, but emails from some of my fans wondering why I haven't been writing on the other three storylines I have started. I'm so sorry guys, I thought I'd made it clear in enough places about this contest and the fact that I wanted to join in again this year. But since I am almost done, I will be getting back to the other stories soon. Especially since Beastly Intentions is up for an award this year if I can get it finished. So expect more soon. I appreciate your understanding.

All's quiet on the home front. No more teenage angst to report. I certainly hope it stays that way. She did find a spot on her back that is bothering her and she wants me to call a doctor. Now I just have to find one that takes her insurance. Not an easy thing to do around here.

Happy Reading.

Tenth Day of Nano

And my true love gave to me... Oops, sorry, couldn't resist.

Actually, I'm 36,000 words into the story, the plot is finished in my head, the role of the characters are set. So why am I writing here instead of the story?

Cuz I don't wanna, Mom. I got a temperature, can't I stay home from writing today?

I know, pretty pathetic. I'm tired and grumpy and don't feel like writing today so I just might take a vacation from it all.

On a very sad note, a friend from the website I write for had a premature baby two days ago. Gabrielle Paula weighed one pound, seven ounces upon birth, done by c-section to try to save both mommy and baby. She fought and struggled for two days to live but, sadly, lost the fight this morning.

Gabrielle had over 135 candles lit for her in 13 countries, she was probably the most thought of and prayed for baby on earth the past two days. Though she had little time to enjoy this life, she was well loved and will be remembered.

Feedback Comment

I get so much feedback on my stories that sometimes it's hard to keep up with the amount of email I get. I read every single one and try to respond if I can. Most of it is so wonderful, full of praise, which of course, us readers just die for, and asking questions.

But every once in a while, about once a week, I'd estimate, I get an email that isn't so lovely. Now this isn't a bad thing. If someone questions my stories than that makes me go back and look at what I've written to see if perhaps I did screw it up.

The one that I got this morning, though, bothered me more than most. It seems the reader, who wished to remain anonymous which is his choice, wasn't happy with some of my choice of words and the fact that I make my women weak. I've never thought of my characters as weak. I've tried to make them strong and creative, witty and able to stand up for themselves.

That didn't bother me as much as what else he said. He said I lacked respect for my readers because I have stories out there that are kind of hanging in limbo.

I have tried to let everyone know, in my stories and on my bio page and here in the blog that I will be working on the Nano, but that I will return to the stories that I have out now as soon as Captive Angel is finished. It's past the half way point.

I'm sorry if any of you feel the same way as this anonymous reader. I apologize for not finishing those stories before starting the Nano, but this contest is important to me.

On a side note, the next chapter of Beastly Intentions will be out Nov. 9. Thanks all for reading me.

To my newest fan

Mr. Anonyman who said, and I quote...

"Thank you for the mention on your blog. But do go on and tell the real story about how your loyal fans started this whole mess. Why no mention of the troll bashing, what did the anonymous comment made have to do with his penis size. Just tell the truth! Anonyman "

First of all sir, I didn't make any comments to the person who left the nasty comment in the beginning. I looked at the structure and content of his comment and realized that English must be his second language and left it at that. Comments that are so poorly written and unintelligible matter little to me.

Now, if he'd gone and commented that my prose lacked imagination and that my narrative was weak, or that my premise was badly done and my characters lacked substance, I might have been tempted to give him some credit.

Secondly, I said nothing about anyone's penis size, that was one of my fans who felt the need to stand up for me. As authors we take enough bashings from the public and this certain fan, who is also an author and a darned good one, had had enough that day. Forgive me if I feel more loyalty to a woman who is smart, steadfast and loyal than I do to an anonymous critic who hated my work because the writing was funny. I feel in no way as if I need to apologize for her or any of my fans who enjoy my work and stand up for me. If they wish to, than that is their own perogative.

You, on the other hand, came into the situation, belittled these people, and even said you were rating it down because you hadn't read it and wouldn't read it. How is that fair or even sporting? Then, when I write you a nice email back, I get my words twisted around and another comment left. I would prefer to do this in private, you refuse and keep it public.

My question, why read my blog if you won't read my work? Why pick on me and my writing when you haven't even sampled it? I hope, sir, that you won't take this the wrong way. But I pray that you won't contact me again. Negative people leave a bad taste in my mouth. Have a nice day.

Time for a Rant

Authors love feedback. We're vain creatures. When we write something, we want rave reviews, we want people to be impressed, we want the back slaps and the ego strokes.

What we don't want is someone nasty coming along and using our stories as a means of making himself feel better. What do I mean by this? On one of my new chapters of Beastly Intentions, a commenter felt it necessary to degrade the people who left comments on my work, he didn't read the story. So, his vote sent my ratings down.

Now I'm not really all that upset on the ratings part, it's a good story and it will keep a decent score, I have no doubt about that. I'm upset that this commenter, after I sent him a very nice email asking him why he did it, felt the need to come back onto my story page and make fun of me. Childish? Yes. Immature? Yes. A boy feeling the need to feast on his sour grapes? Yes. But completely without merit.

I don't send out nasty emails in response to any comments left. If someone doesn't like my story, well that's their perogative and I have to respect that. If someone downgrades me as a human and as an author, than I have the right to get pissed.

As far as I am concerned, Mr. Anonyman, I couldn't care less on what you think of my work. I don't care if you feel the need to troll me from now on. I don't know you, nor do I care to. But please, if you feel the need to cut at my fans, do it somewhere else and not on my storyboards because I will be deleting your comments from now on.

Now on the home front...Still have teenagers crashing at my house, which makes for lots of noise and very little work done for me. They haven't been too bad, so I guess I'm lucky. No wild parties or orgies late into the night..(dammit all, grumble grumble). That's about all. End of Rant.

Day Four of Nanowrimo

I'm a little over 15,000 words into the 50000. Still going strong. I'd hoped to be further along than this so I'm going to have to sit down and spend some serious time on this story line. It's a little difficult, I've gotten used to doing historicals and fairytales, now trying to write a modern romance with no serial killers is a bit on the weird side.

Beastly Intentions is doing well on Literotica. The second chapter is still above a 4.94 on the ratings and has over 132 votes. I'm excited, I love it when one of my stories stays up like that

On the home front, Mom is doing better, no walker or cane now after her knee replacement surgery. She's so good, she guilted all her kids at once and didn't tell any of us she was having the surgery until it was done. God, she pulled it off with the grace of a Jewish mother. Stephanie and Michael, my own personal teenage angst show, are still together. Steph, I swear that girl doesn't have pms one day a month. That's the day I have it the worst. She's so histerical about what she decides with her boyfriend. Now she's not taking any of his shit, she told me. He's not going to make her feel dumb anymore just because "she's a woman". Lord help me!

I'm having problems with my health and my fybro is acting up big time. My hands, arms, shoulders and chest hurt so badly that I can barely breath. Typing is torture, which means writing sucks. But new pain killers should help and then I'll be back to my old prolific self. Okay, back to writing, take care all.

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The First Day of Nano

Has gone well. I didn't do any writing until late morning because of the pain I was in. But now, I've got close to 7000 words. The new story is called Captive Angel. It is a modern romance about a young doctor who is kidnapped by a very nasty criminal type to heal his other captive. Of course, zany romance ensues along with chases and gun fights and, hopefully, happily ever after. We shall see how it goes. I should be posting it soon on one of my websites.

It's almost time.

For those of you who follow my work, the National Novel Writer's Month starts tonight at Midnight, less than twelve hours from now from where I am at. I'm excited about starting something new though I love the work I have going now.

For those who don't know what it is, an author signs up to write fifty thousand words of a novel in the thirty days of November. There are no prizes involved, all we authors get is the satisfaction of saying we did it. I did it last year, and enjoyed it, actually made my goal with my story Saint's Quest.

I'm not sure what I'll be writing this year, but I know I'll have fun with it. If I have time, I'll continue the three storylines I have going. Maybe that'll be my cure if I have writers block. I'll post the chapters on my story page as I get them done.

Wish me luck!

National Novel Writers Month

Starting on the first of November, the Nanowrimo begins. It's an exciting time for budding novelists to sit down and force themselves to write that first draft. Fifty thousand words can look like a lifetime when you've never done it before.

I did the Nano last year and really enjoyed it. It was a lot of fun to watch my word count climb and to see exactly what I could do with a month's time and a decent plot line. This year I'm not as worried about the amount of words. If I have a plot that sticks, characters I like and ideas that blend then I can write that amount within two weeks time.

I will be holding off on finishing the rest of my stories until I have those fifty thousand words. When that happens, I'll finish off the three stories I've got going and you'll also get to read my nano manuscript as it gets finished.

Wish me luck!

My Pen Name

I am so disappointed. I thought I'd come up with a wonderful pen name to write my novels under and wham....I find out someone else thought it was a wonderful pen name as well. It's disaapointing, but I think I'll get over it.

So, instead, I will be writing under the name of Wendy Stone. I hope you'll look for them when they come out.

Most of you know me as Daniellekitten, the name that I use online to post stories at a few websites. It's a screen name that I've had a very long time, but for publishing I plan to use the name Wendy Leigh.

It's an exciting time for me, with Nano on the way and a chance to be published coming, I'm raring at the bit to write even more than I was before. I've been writing for many years, having to stop when I was working full time. I love that I can write full time now and pray that I'll be able to make money at this since I love doing it so much.

Those of you who have read my blog on one of the other websites know that I have my younger sister living with me. Her name is Stephanie and she's a typical teenager with the typical problems. She loves going to school and telling everyone that I write porn, the rotten kid. She does it for the shock value, I'm guessing. Now where would she get an idea to do that from?

I spend a good eight hours a day writing, I've written six novels this year along with a few stories and some that haven't seen the light of day yet. I plan on continuing with this pace as long as the storylines will work for me.

I hope you will keep watching for my work, either online or in stores when the big day comes. Keep watching this spot.