Hey guys!!!!  I tried to do this campfire last night but I wasn't able too....So my question is.....Does anyone know what happened to AddyBrownEyes?????  She was writing an amazing story called Carzoni D' Amore and I really miss it....I am sad that I won't be able to find out how the story will end....I would add some pretty but I am tech illiterate...LOL!!!!

approved by GAW!!!!

buffy will go up tomorrow

sorry, dudes

long day

tomorrow, we'll do a double header: the season finale for season 1 and the premiere for season 2

use this post to discuss why rainy days and mondays always get me down

and tell us how you're handling going back to school, the economy, the upcoming holidays, living paycheck to paycheck, living in between updates, etc.

basically, tell me the ways in which you cope and just say ehh, eff it all.

Monday’s suck so let’s make it fun ;D

Make a Vocaroo for anyone or for everyone! It can be a song, a random message, an excerpt from your favorite Fic, or maybe just a little tease from your next update! Just have fun with it! Be a nerd! Be a flirt! Use bold letters and blinding colors! Remember if your Vocaroo is for someone specific to mention in it your comment – and keep things NICE! No flames are allowed here!  Make your Vocaroo :)

We realize that not everyone has a mic and/or camera (in case you choose to make a video) so here’s the link to a text generator site. Type what you want and choose the voice you want to say it – so much more fun than you realize :)  Get "Texty"

Love,

Ssarrahh1, NondiRochelle, Mcrsucito, and Mary Weather

*Mine’s in the comments!

**Approved by grown.ass.woman ^^

The fabulous m81170 and I are hosting a contest!  Ch-ch-check it out, yo!

The Cherry Exchange:  Because It's Not Always About The Lemons

Here's the gist:

As the title suggests, this is a writing contest about cherries… not the delicious, fruity kind, but rather the metaphorical, pervy kind.

In a search to find stories where Edward and Bella are each other’s one and only, jennifer.lyn215, myself, and a bunch of Twitter gals conspired to have these stories written for us (because we’re unabashedly wicked).

Despite how debauched that might sound, this contest is not entirely about the physical. In this challenge we want you to think about the sweetness of the cherry before the excitement of the lemon. So many food metaphors…

We have a great panel of judges!  For more information regarding the contest, please click on the above link.    We are also looking for volunteers with lots of time on their hands to help us out.  Hit one of us up here on the forest or on the "contact us" link on the website...

I've got some fanfic woes and they are pretty much... bringing me down. You see, for three days in a row now I've checked my inbox to find mean, hateful pm's waiting there for me. I've become terrified of clicking on my own story because of this. I didn't know there could be such mean people out there.

The source of all this hatred? I wanted to do something different and out of the ordinary than what a lot of people see in stories. I thought I'd do a real, honest fic that deals with the content of adultry. Well, that got me a lot of nasty pm's. If that wasn't enough, I tacked on a large age gap between my main characters, who happens to be Bella. She's... a normal house wife and mother who ends up getting involved with a seventeen year old Edward. And let me tell you, people don't like this.

No one has looked outside the box and tried to understand where I'm going with this. You see, yes, there are big age gaps and adultry in my fic, but that isn't what the story is focused around. It's about a woman in her early thirties who's finally coming to grips with her sexuality. She's unhappy with the way her... private life in the bedroom is, and goes on a sort of... exploration.

I figured this was a nice venture in writing because of cannon bella always pursuing Edward in the stories. And that wasn't entirely frowned upon, was it? I mean, how many fics do you read out there where Edward is the older man pursuing a much younger, innocent Bella? Is it really so bad?

So this is sort of a pick me up campire and a rec one all in one.

I'd like to see some recs of a strong, sexually in charge Bella's. One who aren't afraid to kick ass and take names. And maybe... just give me something to smile about so I can stop feeling like I'm going to just delete this s*** and get it out of my life already.

So, I've been writing Twific now (well, writing fiction period since Twific is really the only thing I've ever written outside of coursework in school) for a couple of days short of a year (Yaaaay! /Monty Python dry hurrah).  I just finished another fic in the wee hours of this very morning. And I'm feeling a little contemplative / self-evaluative.  

Many things have changed since I started writing...

- I've read A LOT (ungodly how much really)
-  My tastes have shifted around a little, but surprisingly, not grossly. I still like the characters and the stories I read. I still get sucked in and still flail when I find something truly awesome. 
- Re: my own writing, my grammar is better (it's amazing how much I'd forgotten out of disuse and apathy)
- My stories and storytelling have improved (I think... I hope) - like plot, characterization, narration, etc etc etc
- I write slower now, mostly because I'm a lot pickier and more deliberate in what I put down on paper (Though, I still do very little editing).  
- And I also find myself paying a lot closer attention to what I read and how I analyze it.

What has not changed (and is the primary subject of this campfire)...

So, in a year, I've completed 3 +100k word fics, 1 novella, and 3 O/s's, and I have two long WIPs regularly posting. In other words, it's safe to say that I've posted a lot of chapters. A lot. One might think that posting something should be no biggie / a cake walk / all in a days work / appropriate analogy ad nauseum.

But strangely, that isn't so at all. None of it matters in the least to my delicate stomach and twitchy, clammy hands. Every single time I post something, I experience horrible anxiety, once to the point of actually throwing up. It's just as bad today as it was the very first time I posted something.

What's more, is that now, I'm noticing that I'm starting to feel the same jitters even before I start writing chapters. Yeah. Screwed up, right? Granted, usually once I get the first sentence down, it vanishes and stays away until it's post time. Thankfully, I've never really had a problem coming up with what I want to write. This is just some weird pre-anxiety.

But what the hale is this? I term it performance anxiety, which I strangely NEVER exhibit in my job, for which I present and write lots of technical papers. Why here? Why anxious over this medium? Why doesn't it go away?  

To make me feel better and to make this interactive...

1. Re: the top portion, what's changed for you since you started writing? Is it easier or harder? 

2. Do you get nervous when you post something new? What do you do about it?

So, there's this Kristen video entitled "Kristen Stewart's feet"

AccioBourbon updated Inconceivable....

GO...TO STORYTELLING...READ...NAO!!!!!!

We haven't had one of these in a while.....banner makers, what have you made lately?  I know we have some very talented ladies (and gents?) in the forest, so let's see what you've created!

(um wut?  This really has nothing to do with anything, but I saw it and couldn't stop laughing.)

"Actually, I want more Imperfectly Perfectward," I believe the request went. Paraphrased, but still.

Oh, pardon me. I'm running late with my list this DELICIOUS Monday morning. I am blaming Ranger JennyFly for this. I have been (and still am) caught up in her story From Innocence to Experience here in the Forest and shells, it's all in my head.  Anyway...

The request was for Blunt. Or Jerkward. When I approached Ranger JandCo about this, I informed her it was going to read Jerk- or Bluntward, because one girl's blunt is another girl's jerk.

Which sounds...wrong...but too bad!

So this is a Fic Rec Campfire – the forty-first such on the MASTER FIC LIST –  and I want to invite you, Campers of ADF, to share with us the best out there that showcases Jerk- or Bluntward.  He is up front.  He not an a$$, but he's honest. And honestly doesn't care if you're offended by his honesty. He's not out to mess with your head, but he doesn't particularly worry if he does, either.

He's just...BLUNT.

Have you seen him?  Share the fics around the fire!  My (obvious) rec will be inside. ;-)

Thanks for sharing your favorite Jerk - or Bluntward around the fire!

My thoughts will be in the campfire.

WARNING AGAIN: There will be major spoilers.

*Thanks littlesecret84 for approving!*

Do you write fan fiction?

Post excerpts from your upcoming chapters here!

Don't forget to include a link!

Hey Hey Campers!

I have absolutely nothing to say today other than it's Monday omg.

I had a VERY busy weekend, and honestly, I'm glad it's Monday because it feels like my day off.  I need it...i'm spent.

HOW WAS YOUR WEEKEND?!?

this video has been entertaining me for the last few minutes...

MOTHERS I NEED YOUR HELP

Would you be so nice as to just take 2 minutes to fill out a questionnaire for my final project at College?
It concerns kids around the ages of 4-7 yrs old and I need to get some feedback about healthy eating. There aren't many q's.

I know i've done one before on here, but this one is slightly different, shorter and less complicated.

THANK YOOOOOOU

(The q's will be in the comments)

approved by miss capricorn75 (:

I like that fics update so I'm not tempted to read as much as possible in one sitting. So for many that have or will be completed soon, I'm looking at the word count and shaking my head no because it just seems like too much for one story.

So when is a fic too long? Is there a reasonable limit? I just saw one that hit a million word and I'm speechless. What could possibly be necessary to tell in ONE story at that many words? I'm staring at it wondering why it's not chopped up into like 10 stories. I understand that some don't like sequels and I can't blame them but what's wrong with stopping and having a "to be continued" in parts instead of all in one fic? Why all in one and not in parts?

A story can be 75 chapters but moderate in word count. If 75 chapters and 500,000 words, there's something wrong there. That needs to be a trilogy or something.

Most books are around what 75,000-100,000 words right? I'm hesitant to read anything that goes over 250,000 because I'm thinking the author just doesn't know when to quit. A two part story - 125,000 and 125,000 would be great but fics just keep going and going and making me wish I had a dollar for every word.
 

I think about this a lot.

Which Cullen are you most like?

I'm sort of a mix between Bella and Emmett. I'm quiet and I don't share a lot about my life if you don't know me. Once you become my friend, I'll joke around with you and make fun of you and pretend to be offended when you make fun of me and laugh and tell you about my adventures. Idk why, but I've always pegged Emmett as a drinker. That's me, too, hah.

Share your thoughts with me. :)

Hello beauties,

Hope everyone is doing great this fine evening (Or day/morning pending where you are).  Got a question for you guys because I have something that is plaguing me for some odd reason.

I have a story on FF.net that I've started.  I intend to complete it and would very much like to rewrite it as I've learned a lot about writing since I've started.  I mostly want to rewrite the story because

A-I would like the practice of writing better.  

B-its very broken english and goes from past to present tense.  yes I'm one of those losers.  

C-I feel like its my baby.  So to see how I've miss treated it has let me down just a bit.

However I've kind of signed up for one too many writing challenges and most likely won't get back to my original story until the beginning of next year.  I feel like I'm getting the 'too many ideas syndrome' and wonder if its better to pull my first fic until I've corrected it or just leave it as is for months without an update?

Thanks GAW for approving me!  

I really don't know why but this is how I'm feeling about all the situation.

Check out parts 1 and 2 and other on GoJuliaSoCoolia's Youtube Channel!

I know Emibella has been super busy and we haven't have a weekly rec/pimp campfire lately. I thought I'd go ahead and start one now, but with certain criteria.

Let's make this one strictly for those hidden gems, secret treasure, little-known fics that don't get 50, 100, 200 reviews per chapter. We're all familiar with the flavors of the week. We see the names tossed around in various campfires, on Twitter, and in author's notes. However, with over 160,000 Twi-fics on FF.net alone, it's hard for the average story to get picked up and noticed. So in this campfire, give us your recs for those under-the-radar fics. Let's so with stories that have at least 4 chapters if they are a WIP (completed fics can be less than 4 chaps, that's fine), have updated in the last 4 weeks or so, and average LESS THAN 25 reviews per chapter.

Please give us the title, summary, and link if you would be so kind :-)

My last request is that if you choose to read any of these recommended fics, PLEASE show the author some love and respect and leave them a review- or even better, reviewS- as you go along.

I know FFAF is over but when I got this through e-mail I was blown away. I thought some other campers might enjoy, (or need a smoke afterward). It's just...well, see for yourself.

I'm guessing they're...eh pretty close training partners...

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