Charlie for now: Blog

Pixel the Cat, Editor Extraordinaire, has been very generous with his time and talent, helping me make Colin and Colleen more readable, if you should choose to give it a look see.

Also, thank you to the Hate Bomber that selected the missing ONE rating vote we were waiting for on Fancy Francie. That fills the hate quota. Without you, the spot would have gone unused. Thanks again.

Thank you all, almost, for your support!

I have Fancy Francie posted and it will be coming pretty quickly. Allow me a couple/few days in between chapters. I see the trolls have come out to remind me that fairy tales have trolls, too. A bomber hit before the bits were dry.

Sure wish you guys (bomber trolls) would remember you mother telling you, "if you can't say something nice, keep your effing trap shut!" Oh, that was my mother. Sorry.

Anyway, I loved writing it and hope you enjoy. Thanks again for reading and allowing me to vent.

Ciao, per ora, amici !!

I posted Advantage, Michelle, a bit ago. Just a short romp through the fields of love and fantasy. A few readers, or one mean person with four accounts, more likely, decided to show their displeasure with it, but what the heck. It's just a story, right? It's obvious the kind of people that give a story a 1 or a 2, when 7s to 10s prevail. Just sayin'.

I have it on good authority that I might should try to write a more normal story, one with a girl and a boy, both born that way. Well, lucky me, as I'm working on a couple stories like that, and have been for a while.

More coming Friday, as yet another Charlie finds love and fun in the wide wonderful world. Or, should I say, "love finds him". You meanies out there get the left side top row of your keyboard ready now. It might just be one of those weird stories you don't like. Better yet, look at the tags or the description and don't bother opening it. We'd both feel better about you.

Thanks again to Pixel the Cat for his help deciphering my scratches into somewhat readable form. Remaining errors are absolutely my own.

As always, thanks to all for reading and listening and allowing me space to write and to vent.

Charlie, for now.

A new version of The Tip was posted, after being edited by one of the more well known editors here. He is known by and editing for many very popular authors on SOL. He's amazing. I had no idea. Well, I guess I did, but still.

In any case, thank you, for your input and help. He only went through it once, and I don't want use his name without his permission, so I'll wait on that. This being a holiday (Happy Independence Day, y'all) I doubt that will happen today, but if he see's this he'll understand. I'll be out with family all day, so I'll catch up with him later.

I was wrong when I thought I could do this myself, and now that I have help, adult supervision, if you will, I hope to provide a more readable story each time. We'll see. An editor can only do so much. You can't build a castle out of sticks and twigs.

Again, Happy Independence Day to all. Stay safe, drive careful, don't lose any fingers to the notorious Black Cat, and watch for crazies.

My very own personal shit storm. Did not mean for that to happen! I am truly sorry if I have upset anyone. OK, I am truly sorry I upset someone.

I have received confirmations and denials. Both of my fears have been both substantiated and pishawed.

Racism is alive and well in America and I am a lousy author. It's not racism, and the story is readable.

No, I'm not reaching out for compliments. The scores on my first outing here at SOL gave me enough warm fuzzies to last all year. It took a couple of degenerate transphobes to knock it down into realistic territory, actually.

From this recent and unfortunate rant, however, I received alot of criticism. The good kind. As in critiques of my work. I appreciate those, by the way. I also got critiques of my rant. Deserved!

My country received a lot of criticism. The bad kind. As in we're a largely racist population. That sucks. I thought we were getting beyond that.

Voters received some criticism, too. Especially the ones that didn't vote for her. The vitriol was rampant.

I, can tell you, though, that I am not a racist. Some of my best characters are of color. You just haven't met them yet. Becci and Angela will knock your socks off, if your not wearing sandals over them. So will Melissa, (different stories) although I must admit I've been working with them for many months and they are of mixed heritage. Jenny was a flash write over two days last week and is not, obviously.

Please, no need to respond. I had my ten seconds of rant, and am not fishing for compliments or trying to start a fight. Thank you to those that responded, either way, although a few of you made my weekend a little brighter. God knows we needed it. Weather been suckin'.

Ya'll have a good day. Sorry for the dust up.

Charlie, for now