I can't be the only one having to deal with the whole "Please Update Your Account to Enable 3rd Party Hosting" thing on all of my Photobucket images. Basically, they're trying to get money out of us when they're supposed to be a free image hosting site. That's really annoying.Not only is it annoying, though. It's inconvenient. Here I sit, trying to transfer all of my pictures from my flash drive...

I'm trying really hard to get back into the swing of things, as they say, and just the attempt is exhausting. Here's what's going on, just in case anybody cares.My aunt (my uncle's wife) passed away in February. It's not a big deal to me because my empathy levels are skewed at best and we weren't on the greatest terms towards the end. But I love my uncle a lot and he's been distraught. Anyway, she...

I see a lot of stories, here and on other sites and in books, etc., that have pretty much the exact same theme. Almost all of them are smut, but maybe that's just because my mind owns a huge plot of land in the gutter.Every once in a while, I'll get an idea for a story and realize that it's been done a million times. But then I wonder if because it's been done so many times already... is the idea...

I feel like all of the creative energy has been sucked out of me lately. Does anybody ever feel like that? Like, it's not just writer's block. I'm exhausted and thinking about anything just tires me out even more. Every time I open up a chapter to work on, I end up just staring at the screen and giving up. Spending countless hours paging through Tumblr is so much easier than actually being...

I don't know if anybody else is having this problem or not, but PhotoBucket has totally messed up all of my pictures. They're just... not available? It's weird and frustrating.I went to look at one of my stories today and I couldn't see my layout. It was just... not there. The colors were there, but the page and title backgrounds were gone. The banner I worked forever on was invisible. So I went...

Seriously? Let's just get this over with.Again, another stream of conscious type thing... and GO!I don't think I'm alone in thinking that 2016 was basically the worst year ever. We lost so many good people: musicians and actors and activists and just, ugh. Between all of the celebrity deaths, you've got the election (which has got to be some kind of cosmic joke, right?), Aleppo, the pipline... I'm...

I feel like this is just going to turn into a stream of consciousness type of thing...I've been writing a really long time. Before I started writing fan fiction, in 2005/06ish, I'd been writing original stuff. But I guess my fan fics used to be pretty popular on FanWorks, and I was really proud of them at the time. Some of them I'm still proud of.But sometimes... I cringe.Sometimes, I go back and...

I'm taking a cue from the incomparable, the legendary, the lovely Whitney and giving my readers (and anybody else, I guess) the lowdown on what I'll be working on and what I will not.As has always been the case, A Summer Nowhere is still my baby! It's a semi-autobiographical story of a girl trying to figure out what the hell she's doing with her life in a tiny little nowhere town, the summer...

So I've been working on this story Blood Money for a really, really, REALLY long time! And I'm in love with it. It's one of my two babies, along with A Summer Nowhere.But here's the thing...I jumped the gun on the whole vampire thing, I think. I came up with the idea years ago when vampire fiction was so huge and I don't think that my theme for that whole universe works. So I've been considering...

In my sort of short-lived time on Mibba, I genuinely never thought I'd get anyone other than my usual readers to notice my work, especially since I started focusing so much more on Original Fiction. I have complained and whined about feeling discouraged and disheartened, which probably came off as me fishing for attention. But I've gotten some good advice and, probably for the betterment of...

1. What's your OCs favorite color?Green. He loves the color of the trees and pastures and Jobie's eyes.2. Where does your OC work?He works on his parents' horse farm.3. What's your OCs favorite food?Steak.4. Does your OC prefer paper or plastic bags?He doesn't care. Whatever the cashier hands him is fine.5. How old is your OC?17, turning 18.6. Does your OC have any supernatural powers?No.7. Is...

1. What's your OCs favorite color?Black. She tends toward the dark.2. Where does your OC work?She doesn't. She's in high school.3. What's your OCs favorite food?Anything Jobie's mom cooks.4. Does your OC prefer paper or plastic bags?She doesn't have a preference.5. How old is your OC?17.6. Does your OC have any supernatural powers?No. She went through a phase where she wanted to be a witch, but...

1. What's your OCs favorite color?Black. It goes with everything.2. Where does your OC work?She doesn't. She's in high school.3. What's your OCs favorite food?Candy. Especially gummy candy.4. Does your OC prefer paper or plastic bags?Since she doesn't do the grocery shopping, she doesn't have a preference.5. How old is your OC?16, turning 17.6. Does your OC have any supernatural powers?No.7. Is...

I kind of forgot to tell you guys that I changed my username.I had been MoneCloveR forever, since I started writing fan fiction on Quizilla, which was longer ago than I care to mention. Because I'm so old.Anyway, I thought I would update myself to represent not only my own name, but also in this new age of technology, my Instagram and Twitter. I like that you can capitalize the letters you want...

After a really long absence from this site, I kind of left again due to lack of activity/feedback. I thought maybe Writer's Cafe would be a better fit, but I got none there, either. At first, I thought "Oh, maybe the site is just dead. Maybe there's just not a lot of activity." But people are posting contests and updating new material all the time. I took a look around, and none of the...

Okay, so I'm procrastinating when it comes to updating Blood Money because I've gotten virtually NO feedback. It's getting readers, but I can't tell if people like it if they don't tell me. It's super frustrating. So, I found this posted by a Mibba friend and decided to hop on the bandwagon.1. Do you get sick while reading in a car?Yes. I didn't used to, though. When I was a kid, I would read...

1. What's your OCs favorite color?Alex prefers light colors: pastels, light gray, creams, and white. Anything clean and crisp.2. Where does your OC work?Before moving to Chicago and getting married, she was working as an aid at Garden View Adolescent Behavioral Health Center.3. What's your OCs favorite food?Her mother-in-law's pizza. But before getting married, any pizza would do.4. Does your OC...

I found this survey, posted by whoa tommo! and thought it looked like an awesome way not only for me to get to know my characters, but for my readers to get to know them as well. It's for everyone to use, and I just think it's really freakin' cool! I'm a sucker for a survey.1. What is your OC's favorite color?Domenic doesn't exactly spend his time thinking about color, but his wardrobe is mostly...

I'll be really honest: I've been away from Mibba for a really long time, but even when I was here, I feel like I wasn't here that long. Most of my readers followed me over (or I followed them) from FanWorks, which is long since dead. Anyway, I don't really feel at home here yet. It was fun for a while and I adore some of the people here, but like I said, I've been away awhile.I haven't written any...

I posted this challenge/survey thingy the other day and it ended up being taken down due to the copy and paste rule. It never occurred to me that all the copying and pasting would be a red flag, so I'm trying again without just clicking and dragging the whole thing. I have a pretty vast taste in music, so this might end up looking like a "One of these things is not like the other, one of these...