AJ Martin: Blog

Well, I just posted the rewrite of Episode 3 and it proves once again, no matter how hard I try to post an error free story, it ain't gonna happen.

I've found a few things needing correction during a read of what was posted and hope it doesn't upset anyone. I'll be double checking the text and will fix those errors shortly.

I'll be working on editing and adjusting Episode 4 and will have that set in a few days.

AJ.

I'm not sure when I first joined SOL but it has been a long time. For many years I just read the tales of others, enjoying their efforts. It was nearly five years ago when I decided to try my hand at it, you know, posting stories.
Never having done that before, the process seemed a little daunting. Over the years I've written a few stories solely for my own enjoyment but not published them anywhere. My favorites were fairly long and I'd guess they'd match up with ones which were way over 500 pages long.
But I didn't have anything I felt I could enter on SOL. That's when Judy came to mind and I flavored her story with her Itsy Bitsy Bikini. That's how this episode, number 1, came about in November of 2009.
I guess you could say, I originally wrote about Judy as a lark just to see how to post a story. I just started typing and Steve and Judy were revealed to me. Then came the challenge, post it to SOL. I laugh now because it took me five tries to upload it before it took and became my first posting here on SOL.
Ultimately, this real short story about Steve and Judy was joined with three additional ones, expanding the original theme and the addition of another few characters.
I will admit I haven't looked over the series of these four stories in a long time. Recently a reader suggested I should edit them and get myself a 'Spell Checker'. I had to laugh to myself about that one as when I wrote the stories, it was three computers ago and I used 'Word Perfect', sans a spelling program.
Anyway, I just finished going over the four stories and have posted the redone Episode 1 here on SOL. The text is changed a little but most of what remains is the original writing and theme.
Although Judy and her Itsy Bitsy Bikini, Episode 1, was written in the first person. The other three stories were written in the third person. So, I've changed it to match the others.
I hope you'll enjoy the enhancement and changes I've made to Episode 1 and look for the other 3 parts as I release them over the next few days.
AJ.

I know it's been a while since I posted to this story-line but I promise to continue this rapidly up to it's conclusion.

My thanks to those who have written to me asking for more about Claire and I do apologize for the wait.

Sometimes I myself have to wait for the characters to reveal their story to me. I'm confident they will make the following chapters interesting and (hopefully) as enjoyable to you as I'm sure they will be to me.

Well, I had a small dispute with one of my readers about my use of 'Mam' after he'd read Mandy - The Complete Story - Part 2.

I even mentioned it in my last Blog entry. 'Mam' IS in the dictionary and I used it because that's what I check with when I'm questioning a word myself. My spelling and typing sucks. It does take an interesting amount of effort to get what I type readable. Anyway, one of my readers said 'Mam' was in no way acceptable.

OK. I understand that we here in the US mangle the 'Queen's English', So, to make my story hopefully more palatable, I've acquiesced and I've re-posted the story with that change.

AJ.

Yeah, I mean YOU!!! You're the one I'm talking about. You're the one who gave me the ONE or the TWO when you scored me the other day. Man, that pissed me off. You're the one I'm talking to ... No one else.

You know what pissed me off MORE! More than the low score ... You didn't have the guts to send me a FEEDBACK telling me WHY you did that.

I can't understand why you'd do that. WHY?!? And why didn't you have the guts to tell me why you did that!

Yeah, I'm from the US. I get it that we use English in a different way than you might if you're from Australia, New Zealand, South Africa or even ENGLAND! But do YOU get it.

You know what? I had someone tell me I was using the word 'Mam' in a story recently. They said 'Mam' wasn't a word. I'm sure I got a low score for that one. Maybe not. But the important thing is that person sent me FEEDBACK about it. (BTW: it's in the dictionary.)

What did YOU, you Cretin, do. You gave me a ONE or a TWO. Better yet, what did I do that warranted that score? Put a comma where you thought it was wrong. Maybe you caught a word or two I used incorrectly. Sure, I'm not perfect. I make typographical errors. I've even used it's and its incorrectly. But to get a ONE or a TWO for that?

So, Yeah. I'm talking to that select really few individuals out there who not only have given me and perhaps loads other Authors a REAL LOW SCORE to hurt them.

Yeah, I know because of the system here, you did it because you could. I don't forgive you because you didn't own up to what you were doing and at least tell me or the Author why you did it.

You know what, POX on YOU!!! May your dangling parts wither and fall off!!!

Next time, send a feedback!

And, if YOU'RE wrong about your assumption and YOU were wrong, belly up to the bar and CHANGE that pitiful score you gave.

AJ.