Author's Note:
Firstly, I am sorry that this is not another chapter. But my muse has refused to work and has threatened to go on permanent vacation if I do not get this off her chest. We all really do not want that, so again I am sorry that this is not another chapter, but once this is up she will get her butt back to work.
Now, we LOVE getting reviews from you all! Especially the constructive criticism that you all send. We love knowing what we have done wrong and how we can improve our hobby, because this is what it is to us, a hobby. One such review is like this:
"good 1st chapter, love the story idea and I hope you keep going with it. Most Sookie get's turned story only make it too about chapter 5 before they never get updated again. I am hoping yours is not one of them. like I said the story idea is good, the way Godric went about have to change her very believable.
the only thing I would say you need to work on is not writing in summer so much and trying to write in scene more.
I hope you update your story soon it was a lot of fun to read."
As you can see this review spoke to us about writing in summery and scene, we had no idea what this was so we stopped and looked it up. Once we realized what it was we have been trying very hard to change this. We went back after we knew what it meant and re-read our chapters and had to agree, especially the first chapter is more of a summery. But to us that was how we kind of wanted that chapter. My muse really likes telling me her stories, and she don't think it right that I keep them to myself, so she wants me to share them with you all.
Now the kind of reviews that my muse says will make her stop working and start thinking of a permanent vacation is like this:
"Please, please tell me you haven't started re-writing this piece, because it's in desperate need of a beta reader. Don't get me wrong, the premise is great, but the grammar, the spelling and the punctuation all need a huge overhaul. Seriously, if you don't want someone to look at it, at least read the middle section of a dictionary to learn the proper use of the English language."
Now I am just going to say right here, this is very rude and uncalled for. And when my muse heard this, you should have seen her. She was standing there holding her fingers up to her mouth trying to make fangs and hissing like a cat since she hasn't mastered growling like a vampire. In the words of Sookie Stackhouse, didn't your momma teach you any manners? If not buy a book on them and read it! Now I am going to admit that my spelling and grammar are not in any way perfect, I have tried to get a beta for my story but have found no takers. I had one once for this original story but I lost her email address and can't remember her name. Some of the words in my story are misspelled on purpose, and let me explain that.
Sookie Stackhouse as we all know is a true backwoods southern lady, and anyone that has been in the deep south of the United States knows that we have our own version of the English language, and if you have watched the show you also hear it when she speaks. It is a lot harder to write this then to hear it on TV. I am no different I tend to write the same way I speak, hence I seem to have no problem capturing Sookie's voice. I do however tend to struggle with others that are not native of southern United States.
Now I want to tell you a little bit about my process of before I put a new chapter up. I wait two full weeks after I have completed a chapter before I put it up. The reason being is when I am writing I may not catch something that makes no sense on paper but did in my head. So I wait a couple of days and go back and re-read it so I can fix any mistakes in spelling, grammar, word usage. Then I do it all over again for the next week and 5 days.
No one is perfect I will not catch all of my mistakes, and for that I apologize, but hey I am only human. I don't do this for a living, I do this for fun and when I have spare time. I do not use the proper English language in my career. You may be asking what I do for a living where I don't, that's easy I run a small farm. If my chickens saw a period or other punctuation on paper they would think that they were bugs that didn't move. My goats would think, "What is punctuation?" all the while eating the paper.
Like I said before I love all reviews I get, my muse looks forward to me reading them to her. Constructive criticism we look forward to so that we can improve our hobby. But straight out rudeness is uncalled for, and if it continues my muse has told me that I will either stop posting to fanfiction or that she will go on permanent vacation. I told her not to worry that there is always one spoilt apple in every bushel, and that we get far more great reviews then rude ones.
Now I think I have gotten everything out that my muse wanted to say, so I am going to end here so she can get her butt back in gear and give me the next chapter. Again thank you for all the follows, likes and reviews, my muse and I love them so much. She glows so bright you would think she was the sun when she hears them, and she puts her head down and starts plunking on that old typewriter that she uses to get me the next chapter.