March 2013 Round-Up

March was a month of two halves really. At the beginning of the month I was doing pretty well, making plans for the future, and doing some much needed admin work (which is still the hardest part of this whole thing). Then I got hit with a couple of weeks of bad insomnia. I semi-permanently have insomnia, but when it gets bad I know it. Towards the end of the month things were getting better and then my netbook died. I managed to get everything done that I needed to get done, thanks to my partner loaning me his laptop until my new netbook arrives (hopefully that will happen Tuesday/Wednesday this week, because Easter made things slow), but changing keyboards is never easy. I have to move my hands around this one a lot more, the keys keep moving, and they need much more force that my one did. I’m grateful I have it, but at the same time it will be nice to have a more comfortable keyboard.

I missed another day of the 365 stories, so I posted two the next days, but hopefully that won’t be happening any more. Every update for the Case of the Counterfeit Enchantments went up, even though I was worried I might miss a couple after my netbook died.

Fiction posted:The Case of the Counterfeit Enchantments: part 8, third continuation; part 8, fourth continuation; part 8, fifth continuation; part 8, sixth continuation; part 8, seventh continuation; part 8, eighth continuation; part 8, ninth continuation; and part 8, tenth continuation.
Side Story: Kaito: Running (with this story I’m experimenting with a donation for continuation model, so donate £1.50 and get 1000 more words of this story).
The Fae World: Claire: Inheriting a Hotel (part 2); The Donor House: Rex: Saving Melody (part 4); The World Walkers: Archer: Travelling to Gaelom (part 2); Aurora’s World: Opal: Talking to Margey (part 2); The World Walkers: AU Taithmarin: Anna: Stepping Onto Another World (part 2); The Donor House: Beatrice: Auctions (part 2); The Fae World: Ava: Finding Out Ava Has Magic (part 2); Aurora’s World: Mackenzie: The Thieves’ Hideout (part 2); The world Walkers: Taithmarin: Luna: The Book Portal (part 2); The Fae World: Kristen: Waking Up (part 3); The Fae World: Idwal: How to Change the Past (part 2); Thear: Trey: Trey’s First Encounter with Bast (part 2); The World Walkers: Athare: Electra: Meeting a Rabbit (part 3); The World Walkers: Labyrinth: Lance: Landing in Labyrinth (part 2); Afterlife: Gabriel: Finding a Friend (part 2); Thear: Bree: Meeting Quinn (part 2); The Deities’ World: Lucifer: Halloween (part 2); The Fae World: Esra: On Earth (part 2); The Deities’ World: Anubis: An Evening with Hades; AU Pagan: Lacey: Planning a Ritual; AU Heliopath’s World: Heliopath: Talking with Rynne and Dylan; Kim’s Earth: Michael: Trying to Sleep; ‘Astral’ World: Christophe: A sStrange Man with a Strange Offer; The Magi: Terrance: Energy Healing (part 2); The Donor House: Rex: Saving Melody (part 5); Aurora’s World: Unknown Kingdom: Xavia: Making a Decision (part 2); AU ‘Astral’ World: Amber’s Choice (2) (part 2); AU The Brotherhood: Dexter: Looking Back; The World Walkers: Athare: Piaras: A Meeting with Mairin (part 2); The World Walkers: Athare/Unknown World: Tanis: Escaping (part 2); The Fae World: Arkal: Freedom (part 2); The World Walkers: Quiar: Lucille: Hot to Moderate (part 2); The Fae World: Sebastian (part 5); The Fae World: Kristen: Waking Up (part 4); The Fae World: Adrian: The Coffee Shop (part 3); and The World Walkers: Taithmarin: Astrid: Arriving in Little Hill (part 4).

Meta-conversation: The World Walkers: A Conversation with Joel.

Other posts: Wiki Update: 1st March 2013; 10th March: Plans, Thoughts, and a General Update; Case of the Counterfeit Enchantments Bonus Story (still a tie); Voter’s Story and Prompter’s Story Polls (please vote); Update: 13th March; Update: 14th March; March 2013 Raffle; Email Subscriptions; Ask Me Questions; March Prompt Session; Giveaway – Character Adoptions and Setting Rentals (all six freebies are still available); Update: 27th March; and The Poetry Fishbowl: by Elizabeth Barrette (guest post).

Plans for April: April is new character month, so this month’s story posts will all be about a new character, and if you have any collections or races you’d like to see characters for let me know (eg. one new character for Aurora’s World or a new Alati Felis character); work on the wiki, focusing on character profiles; post collections to Muse’s Success once I’ve updated the landing pages; create a prompted stories page and continue working on prompted stories (some prompts are easier to work with than others, which is why it can take me more time to write the stories for them, but I do write stories for every prompt I receive during prompt sessions); continue posting the Case of the Counterfeit Enchantments; and do the credit count (although I curently don’t have access to my file I should be able to update without it… I hope).

Aims for April: Make Money. Write more words. Basically just keep doing what I’ve been doing and hope that I get some income, because I need grocery money.

Mirrored from K. A. Jones Writing.

March Round-Up

March was a month of two halves really. At the beginning of the month I was doing pretty well, making plans for the future, and doing some much needed admin work (which is still the hardest part of this whole thing). Then I got hit with a couple of weeks of bad insomnia. I semi-permanently have insomnia, but when it gets bad I know it. Towards the end of the month things were getting better and then my netbook died. I managed to get everything done that I needed to get done, thanks to my partner loaning me his laptop until my new netbook arrives (hopefully that will happen Tuesday/Wednesday this week, because Easter made things slow), but changing keyboards is never easy. I have to move my hands around this one a lot more, the keys keep moving, and they need much more force that my one did. I'm grateful I have it, but at the same time it will be nice to have a more comfortable keyboard.

I missed another day of the 365 stories, so I posted two the next days, but hopefully that won't be happening any more. Every update for the Case of the Counterfeit Enchantments went up, even though I was worried I might miss a couple after my netbook died.

Fiction posted:The Case of the Counterfeit Enchantments (all links will take you to my website): part 8, third continuation; part 8, fourth continuation; part 8, fifth continuation; part 8, sixth continuation; part 8, seventh continuation; part 8, eighth continuation; part 8, ninth continuation; and part 8, tenth continuation.
Side Story: Kaito: Running (with this story I'm experimenting with a donation for continuation model, so donate £1.50 and get 1000 more words of this story).
The Fae World: Claire: Inheriting a Hotel (part 2); The Donor House: Rex: Saving Melody (part 4); The World Walkers: Archer: Travelling to Gaelom (part 2); Aurora's World: Opal: Talking to Margey (part 2); The World Walkers: AU Taithmarin: Anna: Stepping Onto Another World (part 2); The Donor House: Beatrice: Auctions (part 2); The Fae World: Ava: Finding Out Ava Has Magic (part 2); Aurora's World: Mackenzie: The Thieves' Hideout (part 2); The world Walkers: Taithmarin: Luna: The Book Portal (part 2); The Fae World: Kristen: Waking Up (part 3); The Fae World: Idwal: How to Change the Past (part 2); Thear: Trey: Trey's First Encounter with Bast (part 2); The World Walkers: Athare: Electra: Meeting a Rabbit (part 3); The World Walkers: Labyrinth: Lance: Landing in Labyrinth (part 2); Afterlife: Gabriel: Finding a Friend (part 2); Thear: Bree: Meeting Quinn (part 2); The Deities' World: Lucifer: Halloween (part 2); The Fae World: Esra: On Earth (part 2); The Deities' World: Anubis: An Evening with Hades; AU Pagan: Lacey: Planning a Ritual; AU Heliopath's World: Heliopath: Talking with Rynne and Dylan; Kim's Earth: Michael: Trying to Sleep; 'Astral' World: Christophe: A sStrange Man with a Strange Offer; The Magi: Terrance: Energy Healing (part 2); The Donor House: Rex: Saving Melody (part 5); Aurora's World: Unknown Kingdom: Xavia: Making a Decision (part 2); AU 'Astral' World: Amber's Choice (2) (part 2); AU The Brotherhood: Dexter: Looking Back; The World Walkers: Athare: Piaras: A Meeting with Mairin (part 2); The World Walkers: Athare/Unknown World: Tanis: Escaping (part 2); The Fae World: Arkal: Freedom (part 2); The World Walkers: Quiar: Lucille: Hot to Moderate (part 2); The Fae World: Sebastian (part 5); The Fae World: Kristen: Waking Up (part 4); The Fae World: Adrian: The Coffee Shop (part 3); and The World Walkers: Taithmarin: Astrid: Arriving in Little Hill (part 4).

Meta-conversation: The World Walkers: A Conversation with Joel.

Other posts: Wiki Update: 1st March 2013; 10th March: Plans, Thoughts, and a General Update; Case of the Counterfeit Enchantments Bonus Story (still a tie); Voter's Story and Prompter's Story Polls (please vote); Update: 13th March; Update: 14th March; March 2013 Raffle; Email Subscriptions; Ask Me Questions; March Prompt Session; Giveaway - Character Adoptions and Setting Rentals (all six freebies are still available); Update: 27th March; and The Poetry Fishbowl: by Elizabeth Barrette (guest post).

Plans for April: April is new character month, so this month's story posts will all be about a new character, and if you have any collections or races you'd like to see characters for let me know (eg. one new character for Aurora's World or a new Alati Felis character); work on the wiki, focusing on character profiles; post collections to Muse's Success once I've updated the landing pages; create a prompted stories page and continue working on prompted stories (some prompts are easier to work with than others, which is why it can take me more time to write the stories for them, but I do write stories for every prompt I receive during prompt sessions); continue posting the Case of the Counterfeit Enchantments; and do the credit count (although I curently don't have access to my file I should be able to update without it... I hope).

Aims for April: Make Money. Write more words. Basically just keep doing what I've been doing and hope that I get some income, because I need grocery money.

The World Walkers: Quiar: The Case of the Counterfeit Enchantments (part 8, eleventh continuation)

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Part 8, tenth continuation

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Mirrored from K. A. Jones Writing.

The Fae World: Arkal: Enid: An Early Morning Surprise

For the first time since the war Enid thought she could feel the presence of another Dragon. Yawning she sat up and glanced at the clock. It was early, so maybe it had just been another dream, because she’d had more of them than she could remember. No one believed that the Dragons had ever existed, but she knew differently. She hadn’t changed since the day she lost her entire family, her necklace buried under piles of clothing so she wouldn’t be tempted to, in part due to the guilt she still felt for not being there when they were attacked. There was nothing she could do by the time she heard about what was happening, even though she wished there was every time she felt the loss of another one of her people.

Breathing deeply Enid wiped the tears off her cheeks. She forced herself to focus on what had woken her up instead of the past, because there was nothing she could do to change it. In her head there was another flicker, that reminded her of the moment that a born Dragon woke. Two Dragons still lived, even though she’d felt them all end nearly a thousand years before, and she did her best to work out what had changed. Why could she feel Dragons? What could have happened to them to make her feel like they’d all died? What would happen now that they were back? Shaking her head she tried not to let the sudden fear she felt affect her ability to think.

If Enid’s father was alive she was just going to have to deal with it, but with her necklace off he wouldn’t be able to find her unless she wanted him to. Did she want him to find her? Would the last thousand years have changed him in any way? Was he even still alive? She sighed. Too many questions and not enough answers. What she needed to do first was find out the answers to her most important question before she made any decisions, but she didn’t know how to do that without putting her necklace on. A shiver, of cold and fear, hit her as she slipped out of bed and made her way over to the drawer.

Enid opened it, staring down at the jumper on the top of the pile within it, and tried to work out what she was going to do. Another flicker meant there was a third Dragon. Three Dragons were alive. If she was going to get in contact she needed to do it before… Before what? Did she really believe that something had happened to them that was like death but wasn’t? Biting her lip she thought for a long moment about what magic could do and considering the fact they’d been created by the fae she couldn’t really disbelieve the theory without proof one way or another. She took a few moments to push all her worries to the back of her mind before she shoved her hand under all the clothes and touched the cold necklace that was on the bottom of the drawer.

Mirrored from K. A. Jones Writing.