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Timeline problem
Author: Shiraz shiraz's blog Blog About: Authors / Stories / Books / Writing I have over 3000 words of Chapter 16 of Tamara's Trials ready to roll, It's been edited, re-edited and re-re-re-edited but I can't use it, yet! The Tammy st ...
shiraz - 2015/01/29 - 1:00pm
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Broadband issues
Author: Shiraz shiraz's blog Blog About: Authors / Stories / Books / Writing I'm having broadband problems again as my fibre went down sometime last night pb (post Bike). I've spent time today, after teaching my over 50s IT class, trying ...
shiraz - 2015/02/15 - 6:42pm
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Been to see the doc
Author: Shiraz shiraz's blog Blog About: Autobiographical I said in an earlier blog that I was depressed. I just didn't know how bad it was until it reached absolute rock bottom. A couple of weeks ago I finally admitted to myself that I needed ...
shiraz - 2015/02/21 - 3:44pm - 2 comments
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Delays to Tammy's Trials
Author: Shiraz shiraz's blog Blog About: Authors / Stories / Books / Writing An apology to those waiting for Tammy's adventures (and there are plenty of them to come) but I'm engaged in a complete rewrite of Chapter 31 and now see that I& ...
shiraz - 2015/02/22 - 4:44pm - 4 comments
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Unforced errors
Author: Shiraz shiraz's blog Blog About: Authors / Stories / Books / Writing I suppose it's inevitable that eventually I would make a boo boo that required an already-published chapter to be edited in such a way as the story changes, or at lea ...
shiraz - 2015/03/02 - 12:29am - 4 comments
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Tammy's tales from here
Author: Shiraz shiraz's blog Blog About: Authors / Stories / Books / Writing Tamara's Trials is heading towards conclusion and the writing emphasis will switch to Book 3 of Unaccounted Gains. I'm afraid that one or two loose threads will ...
shiraz - 2015/04/03 - 10:42pm - 7 comments
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Strange days
Author: Shiraz shiraz's blog Blog About: Autobiographical It's been a case of ups & downs recently, none more so than the past few days. As I've previously said, I've been suffering depression for a few months but it is under tho ...
shiraz - 2015/04/05 - 6:49pm - 2 comments
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I had an idea
Author: Shiraz shiraz's blog Blog About: Authors / Stories / Books / Writing I had an idea earlier today. One of the problems with the way that I'm writing at the moment is that it's one story from two viewpoints in two series!! So, to ke ...
shiraz - 2015/04/19 - 6:51am - 4 comments
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Number of readers
Author: Shiraz shiraz's blog Blog About: Authors / Stories / Books / Writing I noticed a strange behaviour yesterday, the number of 'reads' for one of my stories differed from the total hit for the same story on the 'my stories' ...
shiraz - 2015/05/06 - 8:57pm - 13 comments
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New Tammy series
Author: Shiraz shiraz's blog Blog About: Authors / Stories / Books / Writing It doesn't seem like more than a few weeks since Tamara's Trials finished, and there's even been a couple of diaries to fill the gap, but work has now comme ...
shiraz - 2015/05/06 - 11:41pm - 4 comments
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Six years!
Author: Shiraz shiraz's blog Blog About: Authors / Stories / Books / Writing According to my BCTS account I have been a member here for five years and twelve months, so that must mean six years. Just sayin' Shiraz ...
shiraz - 2015/05/17 - 11:53am - 4 comments
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Story update & bio
Author: Shiraz shiraz's blog Blog About: Authors / Stories / Books / Writing Autobiographical It;s been a few days since I posted a new chapter for either of my ladies. I'm afraid I've hit a block with Gains that needs a rethink but I had ...
shiraz - 2015/05/20 - 10:56pm - 3 comments
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Social media troll alert
Author: Shiraz shiraz's blog Caution: CAUTION Blog About: Internet / Software / Computers / Websites Just seen this (legit) web security warning: ...
shiraz - 2015/05/24 - 9:30am - 2 comments
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Unaccounted Gains
Author: Shiraz shiraz's blog Blog About: Authors / Stories / Books / Writing I'm afraid that the next chapter of Gains is taking much longer to finish than I would like. Work on Testing Times continues whilst the grey cells consider reworking ...
shiraz - 2015/06/22 - 9:54pm - 3 comments
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Rumours, rumours
Author: Shiraz shiraz's blog Blog About: Autobiographical Dear all, I logged into BC today for the first time in six months and I'm sorry I haven't been around- please don't believe any rumours you probably haven't heard. My mus ...
shiraz - 2016/01/15 - 2:48am - 12 comments
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Interference from RL
Author: Shiraz shiraz's blog Blog About: Authors / Stories / Books / Writing I've managed a few thousand words of Tammy's tales since I rejoined BCTS earlier this month, but I did have plenty of free time available. It now looks like I ha ...
shiraz - 2016/01/30 - 12:32am - 9 comments
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UK Petition, TG Women barred from pageant
Author: Shiraz shiraz's blog Blog About: News Item "Last year I applied and was selected to be a finalist for the Miss Galaxy Contest, 4-7 February 2016. I was so proud to think that we finally live in a society that accepts transgendered wome ...
shiraz - 2016/02/09 - 9:39am - 3 comments
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Advance tissue warning
Author: Shiraz shiraz's blog Blog About: Authors / Stories / Books / Writing You'll be seeing Chapter 28 of Testing Times later today but here's an advance warning for Chapter 29 due on Thursday- heavy duty tissue alert! Get a box in! Get ...
shiraz - 2016/02/13 - 6:17pm - 5 comments
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Where is Tammy?
Author: Shiraz shiraz's blog Blog About: Authors / Stories / Books / Writing My apologies for the lack of Testing Times yesterday. Unfortunately I arrived home too late to do the final proof / edit. Hopefully chapter 30 will make an appearance late ...
shiraz - 2016/02/15 - 12:58pm
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Rewrites
Author: Shiraz shiraz's blog Blog About: Authors / Stories / Books / Writing I guess I'm not alone. Most of my own needs tinkering before I'm ready to post it, other than a usual proofing and checking for errors. The tinkering I refer to ...
shiraz - 2016/02/18 - 5:10pm - 5 comments