Finding a Misplaced Muse

I'm so happy to FINALLY have chapter 16 of "Wind in Her Sails"  written, betad, and posted on Fan Fic.   It seems to have taken me forever to find the motivation to get back to writing.  I have no idea why unless unbeknownst to me I have experienced a Muse kidnapping.  Maybe someone (more likely some supernatural being) popped into my home and caught my poor Muse by surprise.   I'm not sure exactly how one would kidnap a Muse since I don't know how powerful they really are.   I don't know if the kidnapper would need a gunny sack or would they need only to bring a simple mason jar.  I want to believe that my Muse is all powerful and therefore immune to any simple kidnapper; even a supernatural one.  If that's the case then where did mine go for that period of time when writing even a simple plot seemed to escape me.  I have no idea.  Maybe this hasn't been a case of foul play but a case of a naughty little Muse who went adventuring.   In any case I'm glad to have her back and  hard at work.  I just hope she gives me a little warning before her next adventure.    Hey now that’s an idea for a story “The Misadventures of a Muse”.  *winking*  See I told ya she was back!   

Fan Fiction Temporary Profile

In their great wisdom Fan Fic has decided to disable all the links on the profile pages so I am creating this page to share all those links. I'm so sorry about all this! Please email support@fanfiction.com to complain. Below is an exact copy WITH links of my fan fic profile.

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Hi everyone I’m Char and live in the southwest (US). I work in the counseling field, but have an equally creative side. I discovered FF after I had finished all of the Twilight Saga books and was going through withdrawals. I had heard about True Blood and watched a bit, I liked the story line and LOVED the characters. When I discovered they were based on a book series, I had to read the first one. Well as they say the rest is history, and I fell in love with these wonderful characters. I love the relationship between Eric and Sookie, and being a hopeless romantic, I’ve devoured the SVM stories here. My only issue is that the writers don’t write fast enough! LOL

A few months ago I decided to take the plunge into writing, and even though I have a English degree, I haven’t written creatively for YEARS! So please be kind and patient. I would love to write more stories using characters from SVM and True Blood. I’ve also discovered some great writing with the Night Huntress series so who knows maybe I’ll go adventuring with Cat and Bones too. We'll just have to wait and see where the it leads.

I want to give all of you who take the time to review a big big hug. It is wonderful to see appreciation for all the work that goes into these stories. I take what you say very seriously and it matters a lot to me. So on that note, get yourself a big glass of sweet tea, sit back, and join me in a few adventures.

BLOG
I have taken another plunge and started a blog, Musings by Char I'll be talking about writing, books, photography, FF, to name just a few. Please come and check it out!

TWITTER --Find me under musingsbychar



FACEBOOK--Find me under musingsbychar

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WIND IN HER SAILS

As I mentioned in my profile, I'm a really creative person and one of the ways I express that is through creating graphics. I have been doing this for over 5 years now, even teaching PSP classes and I have my own Yahoo group where I share my designs for Incredimail and tags. So I decided I had better create myself a banner. It's below please check it out. Once again thanks for all the support and reviews. I love ya guys!

Sookie's Ring


Banner-Wind in Her Sails


Here is a "home" I choose for Eric. I can't see him in a suburban one. I had to pick something unique and spectacular. After all our viking is NOTHING if not unique!
Eric's Home

Sunrise
Here is a link to the Youtube video by Simply Red. My plans are to make my own video to go with the story.

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1-18-11
Sorry all for not writing much. I feel like I'm letting you all down. I started finishing the last chapter for Letters from the Heart. But I only finished half the chapter when my Mom passed away last week. I don't know when I'm going to feel up to writing again and I feel like I'm letting you all down, but I know I have to get in the right frame of mind. So please don't give up on the stories or me. I promise I will finish them. I have to know what happens too...; )
Thanks
Char

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3-7-11
Back at it...
Ok I'm back writing. I finished the last chapter for Letters and depending on feedback I might do an epilogue or finish it out with this chapter. I will start working on my other story right after I get the last chapter up for Letters. Thanks for all your support and kind words. You guys are the best. *Big hugs*

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7-24-11
Well I have finally finished up a new chapter for Wind in Her Sails. I've been pulled every way it seems but after just putting my nose to the grind stone I'm about ready to send it to the Beta. So don't give up yet.
Char

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8-19-11
And I'm BACK! Chapter 15 is up! Thanks for all the support you guys are the bestest!
Char

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11-7-11
Wow where does the time go! I've been working on Wind in her sails and hope to have something up soon. I've just been crazy busy at work and I'm helping Eric (twitter-@Eric_ofArea5) with a new holiday contest. Check it out here I would LOVE one of my readers to win... of course it's all anonymous but that would be really great.
Check the contest out here at fan fic or on True Blood on Twitter's blog

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12-18-11
The Holiday Contest is over and the winners announced. It's been a LOT of work but enjoyable and what can I say I get to work with Eric *grinning* I'm sure you all agree. You can find the contest results and winning stories here. I'm hoping to get back to work on Wind in Her Sails. My characters are really talking and they aren't very happy with me. Hope you all have a wonderful Christmas and New Year and I look forward to talking to more of you. Remember come find me on Twitter I'm there a lot!

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1-29-12
Well the contest work is over and I'm back writing I am hoping to have a chapter up in the next week or so. I'm targeting my finishing the story up no later than this spring. thanks for hanging in with me!

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1-30-12
As everyone probably knows by now the links on the profiles have been taken down. Fan Fic says temporarily but who knows what this means to them. Sooo I will be posting all my links on my blog. The address is -- musingsbychar(dot)blogspot(dot)com Remove the parenthesis and replace them with a period as a normal web addresses. Hopefully this will be short term.

Autumn 2011~ Autumn Fire

Autumn 2011~ Autumn Fire, a photo by Musings By Char on Flickr.

Autumn 2011

Autumn 2011, a photo by Musings By Char on Flickr.

Autumn 2011

Autumn 2011, a photo by Musings By Char on Flickr.

A shot I took Halloween weekend

An "Irish" Obsession

I have a new obsession,  and it has an Irish flair.  I'm not sure who started me down this path, and if it was you please remind me so I can give you a big hug and thank you profusely!  So do I have your curiosity piqued?  I'm talking about the Fever series by Karen Marie Moning.  It is a series that I can NOT stop recommending.

The first book, Dark Fever, readers are introduced to Mac, the young, southern, heroine.   I loved this strong willed, brave, and quirky young woman from the beginning - my affinity for her just grew throughout the series.  We follow her quest for truth and justice encountering the world of the Fae in which she unknowingly plays an important pivotal  role.  I loved the interaction with two sexy but very different males, V'lane  and Barrons.  I felt myself wondering right along with her who to trust,  who to believe. Should she believe the Blonde, Adonis, like V'lane, who is a Prince of the Fae or should she believe the dark, smoldering exotic, but sexy as all get out Barrons who simmers with a animistic presence.   KM Moning keeps us guessing until the final book Shadow Fever.  If you are like me you will read these as fast as you can,  unable to put them down because you just NEED to know what happens to Mac and those she has grown to love.  


If you like paranormal fiction I can guarantee you will enjoy this series and will come to love the characters as much as I have.   


Below is an excerpt from the first book, Dark Fever:  

Prologue

My philosophy is pretty simple—any day nobody’s trying to kill me is a good day in
my book.

I haven’t had many good days lately.

Not since the walls between Man and Faery came down.

But then, there’s not a sidhe-seer alive who’s had a good day since then.

Before The Compact was struck between Man and Fae (around 4000 B.C. for those of you who aren’t up on your Fae history), the Unseelie Hunters hunted us down like animals and killed us. But The Compact forbade the Fae to spill human blood, so for the next six thousand years, give or take a few centuries, those with True Vision—people like me

who can’t be fooled by Fae glamour or magic—were taken captive and imprisoned in Faery until they died. Real big difference there: dying or being stuck in Faery until you die. Unlike some people I know, I’m not fascinated by them. Dealing with the Fae is like dealing with any addiction—you give in, they’ll own you; you resist, they never will.

Now that the walls are down, the Hunters are back to killing us again. Stamping us out like we’re the plague on this planet.

Aoibheal, the Seelie Queen of the Light, is no longer in charge. In fact, nobody seems to know where she is anymore, and some people are beginning to wonder if she is anymore. The Seelie and Unseelie have been smearing their bloody war all over our world since her disappearance, and although some might say I’m being broody and pessimistic, I think the Unseelie are gaining the distinct upper hand over their fairer brethren.

Which is a really, really bad thing.

Not that I like the Seelie any better. I don’t. The only good Fae is a dead Fae in my book. It’s just that the Seelie aren’t quite as lethal as the Unseelie. They don’t kill us on sight. They have a use for us.

Sex.

Though they barely credit us with sentience, they have a taste for us in bed.

When they’re done with a woman, she’s a mess. It gets in her blood. Unprotected Fae-sex awakens a frenzy of sexual hunger inside a woman for something she should never have had to begin with, and will never be able to forget. It takes a long time for her to recover—but at least she’s alive.

Which means a chance to fight another day. To help try to find a way to return our world to what it once was.

To send those Fae bastards back to whatever hell they came from.

But I’m getting ahead of myself, ahead of the story.

It began as most things begin. Not on a dark and stormy night. Not foreshadowed by ominous here-comes-the-villain music, dire warnings at the bottom of a teacup, or dread portents in the sky. It began small and innocuously, as most catastrophes do. A butterfly flaps its wings somewhere and the wind changes, and a warm front hits a cold front off the coast of western Africa and before you know it you’ve got a hurricane closing in. By the time anyone figured out the storm was coming, it was too late to do anything but batten down the hatches and exercise damage control.

My name is MacKayla. Mac for short. I’m a sidhe-seer, a fact I accepted only recently and very reluctantly.

There were more of us out there than anyone knew. And it’s a damn good thing, too.

We’re damage control.

--Dark Fever by K.M,Moning 

Rollin' through Summer

Wow, can you believe July is almost over, before you know it we will be thinking of ghouls, goblins, and pumpkins oh my! 

Where does the time go?   But before it's all a distant sweaty blur make sure to take a little time  to enjoy the remaining summer months. Before you know it we will all be wishing for the hot humid days of  July.   I know when I was up to my knees in snow this last winter that's all I could think about.  

Now looking back on it I can only dream of a foot of snow.   Ahh those were the days, pass me an icicle will ya?  

Happy Summer