March Round-Up

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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.