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[quote][i]Originally posted by Katblu42[/i] Wow. Scary! So glad you were able to get such thorough help so fast, and that you are now on the mend.[/quote] Same, I hope you never have to go through that again. Be well.

[quote][i]Originally posted by stardust[/i] Welcome back Katherine Also, why does my fics never get validated? What am I doing wrong?[/quote] I wondered about that myself--I saw that a few users were having some issues with Gatchfanfic.com. One thing I did notice was that there's a word limit, 16,000 words I think it was, so if your piece is longer than that, it won't post.

Hi, everyone--after a long, looong hiatus of sorts (long story), I've been able to get back into the fandom again and some semblance of writing stuff. One of the things I've been working on is finishing some old Bradbury's Jar Challenges, one of which I'd started so long ago, I'd forgotten all about it. How long ago? It's "Loaded", from Week No. 145, I think. I've got it posted at Gatchfanfic.com, here: [URL]https://www.gatchfanfic.com/viewstory.php?sid=1543&chapter=3[/URL] I also put into Gatchfanfic.com another short Bradbury's Jar item, named "Rain". You can find it under "Dispatches from the Respite". What else...I also completely overhauled the universe introduction--it needed it. Now it's a tighter read, less rambling, more facts and features, and Steve McQueen. You can find it here: [URL=https://www.gatchfanfic.com/viewstory.php?sid=83]The Disturbediverse Primer[/URL] I'm working on more. I have at least three unfinished pieces that I had to stop working on all these years because real life had just been kicking me in the ass, non-stop...until recently, anyway. I have some breathing room now. Lastly, I've been doing a bit of cleanup with four of the major pieces I've done over the years: [I]Affirmation, Monsters, Invader[/I] and [I]Defiance.[/I] In them, I've cleaned up a lot of latent punctuation and terminology errors, and amended the technology references to provide a bit of a "tech-upgrade" as it were (they were written predominately between 1995-2002, after all), and added very minor snips of dialogue and scenery to improve on their flow. No walls were knocked down or furniture moved here: it's more like the floors have been scrubbed, the kitchen appliances have been upgraded, some new pictures have been hung on the walls. I did it because, well--I felt it was needed as I re-read them to get my head back into the Disturbediverse, there was a lot of terminology that wasn't up to par and they honestly needed the tech uplift. I did not overwrite the originals, they're still where they are at Gatchfanfic.com and there they'll stay. Think of the updated ones as a "remastering" of the older versions, or as a friend of mine said I should call them--the Director's Cut. You can find them as a standalone fic, here: [URL]https://www.gatchfanfic.com/viewstory.php?sid=1620[/URL] As always, comments, critiques, razzes and jeers are always welcome. It was a couple of those that prodded me to get back to work (thank you, James. :) ) I have a lot of catching up to do. All the same, it feels good to be back. *edited to fix the tags.