Fanfiction.net Site Problems

There has been a problem all day with fanfiction.net.  While the site itself is accessible, and people can still read the stories, nobody has been able to log in.
I know that the trouble isn't with my account, or my computer, because I've seen complaints, posted today, on a message board.
I hope the problem, whatever it is, will be resolved soon.  In the meantime, I'm jotting down scenes and ideas offline on Notepad.

The Fanfic I'm Most Proud Of Having Written

I've written many works of fan fiction, although not as many as some others have done, and not as many as I'd like to have written.   Of all the stories I've written, and published on fanfiction.net, there is one I'm especially proud of.
I'm not saying that it is the best I've ever written; it may even

be a bit overly sentimental in spots. 

But this story means a lot to me, because in it, I right what I

have long considered to be a terrible wrong; I change what I

always considered to be an unnecessary event in L. M. Montgomery's Rilla of Ingleside.

It Didn't Seem Special

When I was a little girl, writing, believe it or not, did not feel special to me. I wrote so many stories, so many verses (I called  them

poems then; I won't now. On the other hand, since they were

written by a child, perhaps they can still be considered poems.)

I was always trying to find words which meant almost the same thing, but had different.... sometimes ever-so-slightly different... shades of meaning.

And yet, writing did not feel special to me, no more than breathing and eating felt special.

It felt necessary.

Books Read In the Week of August 23-29

Books read for the first time are marked with  a #

Books are grouped in their sections by author,
and not necessarily in the order read.

Sunday book(s) 

"The Happiness of Heaven"

by Fr. J. Boudreau, S.J.

"In This House of Brede"

by Rumer Godden

[fiction]

one of my favorite novels; I loved this even

before my conversion.

Weekday Books

"Muggie Maggie"

by Beverly Cleary

[children's fiction]

(openlibrary.org loan)

"The King, The Mice, and The Cheese"

by Nancy and Eric Gurney

[picture book]

(openlibrary.org loan)

"A Tree Grows In Brooklyn"

by Betty Smith

[fiction]

(the first modern, as opposed to classic, adult book I ever read;

I was twelve at the time.)

{carried over from last week}

"To Teach, To Love"

by Jesse Stuart

(openlibrary.org loan)

{carrying over into next week}

A Book for Weekdays AND Sundays

"The Imitation of Christ"

by Thomas A Kempis

[Kindle book]

This Week's Fan Fiction

One Careless Moment

AU Another World fic.

New chapter finally posted.

Revealed Ralationships
New chapter added to this
AU Another World fic.

The Poem
New chapters added to this
AU prequel to The Waltons.

Truncated But Fitting Title

When I DVR "The Best of The Journey Home" for later viewing, it shows up on my recorded list as "The Best of Journey."

Well, it recently came to me that this is actually very fitting.

After all, Holy Mother Church welcomes all converts and reverts with Open Arms, and tells all her children, Don't Stop Believin'.

A Minor Tragedy

Make that a MAJOR CATASTROPHE.  My electric coffee-maker, which I've had for more than five years, and which Mom and I both used when we lived in Brooklyn, has conked out, died,
given up the ghost, expired.  In other words, it has stopped working.
This means that until I get a new one... same kind.... I'll have to go coffeeless.
Maybe some new readers (I like to think that I keep getting new readers; doesn't every blogger?) will want to suggest that I get an old-fashioned, non-electric percolator.  Well, I can't use that kind.  I need a coffee-maker that brews the coffee directly into the cup.