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Welcome to the Monday Request Campfire!

Okay, I don't usually do this but I need a favor....

I just wrote my first Twilight one-shot for the Enchantment Challenge and I need a beta for it. It's about 18 pages and a ExB...sad romance I guess you could say.

Any takers, please?
 

This is a topic I’ve been generally interested in for awhile and I’ve searched the internet looking for information and there just isn’t a lot out there, so I’m taking a page out of Dr. Kinsey’s book and who better to poll than folks who are enamored with a fictional story of love between a vampire and a human?

SO.....I want to know all about your first love experiences, I’m talking about that all consuming irrational love. I wanna know about the person you lived and died for..

When did it happen? How old were you?  How old were they?  Was it requited?  Unrequited? How long did the relationship last?  Did it end badly?  Amicably? More importantly, how do you feel about the person/situation now?  Do you still think about them?  Do you still have contact with them? (personal, telephone, social networking)  If so, how do they feel about you?  Have you been able to achieve the same feelings of intensity in your other relationships?  Do you think you could ever be with that person again? Do you think first love fades or does it always hold a special place in your heart/memories?  Why?  Do you think it’s the actual person in your heart, or the nostalgia of the situation?

Anything else you want to share with me on this topic? Advice for those of us who may not be able to let go of our first love?

Come in and discuss!!!! 

(also rec good fic, books, movies, etc having to do with 1rst love)

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Do you write fan fiction?

Post excerpts from your upcoming chapters here!

Don't forget to include a link!

JANDCO!!!!!!!<3 <3 <3

Words cannot express how much your daily updates for Imperfectly Perfect  have brightened up my days!!!!

What a freakin' treat, srsly.   Thank You!

I know we're trying to go off of the "public declaration of love" posts lately, but I just couldn't help myself, SORRY!!

Happy Monday, campers.  I just wanted to share a funny email I got over the weekend that you, fellow office campers might appreciate.  It will be on the first post as it is image heavy.

To make this interactive - share something funny - an email, joke, pictures etc.  We can all use a good laugh to pass the day away.

Hello to the forest! I'm a new camper here! *looks around and sigh with delight* I love this forest!

I apologize if the following subject has already been discussed!

I wanted to know if:Has anyone here sent a fan letter to a celebrity? Were you lucky enough to get a reply?

The thing is, I'm thinking about sending a letter to Robert Pattinson, but somehow, I'm afraid it will bother him. XD  I don't really know why I feel this way, but every time I sit down and try to think about what I could write, I hesitate and give up . What to do? Does anybody here feel the same way?

And The Highest-Paid Authors Are…
Filed under: Harry Potter > Twilight
 

Surprise, surprise!

Twilight's Stephenie Meyer and Harry Potter's J.K. Rowling made it on the Forbes' top 10 list of highest-paid authors, including Stephen King, Danielle Steel, and Nicholas Sparks.

Even though publishers and book sellers are seeing a decline in hard cover sells, e-books show a promising increase in the world of authors as well as highly popular franchises like Twilight and Harry Potter.

The top ten money-maker$ are:

1. James Patterson ($70M)
2. Stephenie Meyer ($40M)
3. Stephen King ($34M)
4. Danielle Steel ($32M)
5. Ken Follett ($20M)
6. Dean Koontz ($18M)
7. Janet Evanovich ($16M)
8. John Grisham ($15M)
9. Nicholas Sparks ($14M)
10. J. K. Rowling ($10M)

taken from Perez.....

So, campers, what do you think? Any surprises? That's a lot of moolah- but in my eyes, totally worth it considering how much joy she's brought to me, whether by her books alone or ROB or leading me to fanfiction or ROB or the creation of sites like ADF and all the cool peeps that come along with it. Oh yeah, and her ringing endorsement of ROB! Um, and also all the kids and non-readers that she got reading and hooked on her books :-)  That's good, too.

eta: this is the list for this year (from last june to this june), not all time.

Dearest Campers,

I receive PMs from you lovely people on a regular basis. Oftentimes, these are questions about how the site functions, and questions like that are probably somewhat urgent -- I mean, you probably want a quick answer so you can use the feature immediately.

I just need to let you all know: Don't ask me.

I'm not saying I don't know the answer. I probably do. It's just that I'm not very available these days.

You see, I'm helping my family out with some stuff, which has called me away from home, out of my comfort zone, and off my usual schedule. I'm lucky if I'm on my computer enough non-contiguous minutes a day to string together an hour. And sleep is kind of the same way right now.

So please. I don't want to disappoint anyone by being a no-reply, but I can't help it. There are lots of other Rangers to PM.

I love you all. Thank you for keeping the forest warm in my absense.

xo

j

Interactive part: Who do you go to for help when you need it?

I remember when I was in college I used to call the overnight DJ at the local radio station a lot & talk all night long. He's still a dear friend.

Sebastien Robichaud, author of “The University of Edward Masen,” has agreed to do an author Q and A about the story and writing fanfiction. If you would like to submit a question for consideration, please post it here or PM me. I’m putting the questions together and then will forward them to Mr. Robichaud.

I’m not sure yet where the interview will appear, but I will post that information as soon as I know it.

Thank you!

ATTENTION CAMPERS:

Yes, this is a community based around TWILIGHT but a LOT of our campers (and rangers) are excited about this coming out tomorrow:

And here is the thing, I DO NOT WANT TO BE SPOILED!

WHAT THIS MEANS IS, KEEP YOUR THOUGHTS TO YOURSELF FOR A WHILE! If you are reading this, don't tweet about what happens and, for the love of all that is precious, don't start any campfires telling what happens.

I WILL sit you down and tell you how DISAPPOINTED I AM IN YOUR BEHAVIOR, but I can't promise you that the other rangers wouldn't do worse. 

SPOILING IS SERIOUS BUSINESS, CAMPERS.

Now, to make this interactive, lets talk about PREDICTIONS. What do you think is going to happen in this book? Major character deaths? Or is she going to cop out a la Stephenie Meyer and do some sort of ultimate HEA? 

TALK ABOUT IT ALL YOU WANT, BUT I DON'T WANT ANY SENTENCES STARTING WITH "I HEARD THAT...." OR "SOMEONE READ IT AND SAID...." 

SPECULATE, BUT DON'T SPOIL.

Also, I wasn't around for a few days so none of the regular campfires went up. For those of you asking. We will do them this week. The schedule may just be a little different to compensate.

Can anyone give me a link for Rob's Deatils magazine photoshoot? I watched it a few month back and now can't find it!! I think it was the official videofrom the magazine?? But I could be wrong.

XX M

I have been SO AMAZED at the amount of work y'all have put into the compilation of our Best Recs of ADF fan fiction lists!  Wow!

I am still getting requests, so I plan on asking you to continue to contribute as you can to the lists until the Future Lists List has been entirely crossed out.  A reminder, the MASTER FIC LIST is where you can find links to all of our lists and the recommendations for more than twenty different categories of fan fiction.  I am also keeping a list on page four in my cabin. 

Today, we're starting a series of Secondary Pairings, for lack of a better title.  I'd like for you to find and recommend the best in fanfiction FEATURING Emmett and Rosalie.  Where this dynamic duo is the main romantic couple in the story, the pair whom the action revolves around -- not just a sidelight.   They have their public and I know that for many in the Forest, Em/Ro is hugely popular!  AH, AU, Canon or Non-canon.  Bring the best stories out there!

Remember the Rules of the Campfire:  Keep your recs simple -- just the title, author and summary.  No discussions.  This is, you know, a LIST. :)

What have you got?  Share it with the Forest! 

My rec will be in the campfire, as always.

Thank you so much for taking the time to help!

Trying an experiment.

Would you mind hitting your ff account - and giving a total of the following

(this can be for faves or alerts, whichever your pref)

total number of 

ah

au/canon (basically vamp)

and then total number of 

m rated

all other rated

I'll tally and loop back around - curious as to distribution.

In the meantime - did you find anything that surprises you in your list?

im sooo tired of smut - im tired of authors ( i use that term loosely) trying to get people to read there stories with promise of lemons and the plot getting lost in it and most of all, if i read another freakin ; oh edward dont tease me, i will flip my lid!  Also - sometimes?  pull an itzmegan and keep something to the imagination! 

gah 

ps why dont we have chapter updates anymore here? 

pss other then this im really happy with the weather and the forest in general 

So I'm working on my story and writing out some fairly intense scenes and trying to get in the heads of the characters.  Do you ever have problems getting in your characters' heads? I normally don't have trouble, but I think I'm being ADD right now and having a hard time focusing on how their own situations would make them react.  Anyway, I was just curious what you all do to get in your characters' heads. :)  I almost feel like an actor having to become this other person, which is really kind of cool.  I've always loved reading and have no trouble getting into the characters, but writing is a new thing for me so it's all like the first time you see snow.  New and fresh and exciting! 

Anyway, this song is stuck in my head now.  I know it has nothing to do with my question but I love it all the same. ;)  What can I say, I'm a child of the 90's - or I should say a teenager of the 90's. 

I read a story awhile ago and can't remember the name of it or the author. Any help would be really appreciated. It's a B/E story. They're in college and one night out after a bar B&E leave the others and go to a tattoo shop and get each others first initals on their ribs. But don't remember it until they wake up the next morning in the hotel room with the others. I know Edward dates Victoria for a bit and Bella meets Alex I thnk. Jealousy ensures and that's about all I can remember. So if you can help let me know please.

Today one of my favorite authors up and disappeared.  HappyInLove, the author of Cien Anos de Soledad and There Fell a Stillness, just pulled all of her stories.  

I'm really sad because I loved her writing.  If anyone knows her, I hope she is okay, and i'll miss her beautiful words. 

Anyone know what happened to There Fell a Stillness? I opened all the bookmarked fics to see which ones updated and it said story not found. It had to have been deleted like within the past couple hours because it was there this morning...