HI EVERYONE!

Sorry for not posting anything for, literally, years and for not even reading any stories for the past year and a half. I've had some personal things happen. . . Some of which I will and some I will not talk about, but will refer to.

For starters, I'm no longer attending Community College. I'm finally a Student at my local University to major in Education AND I've got a job at my local library. The new job is mostly why I haven't been on; too busy reading all the books I could ever hope to read! I'm also really heavily into Theatre now; I've always been such a Drama Queen and now. . . I'm a Drama Queen (haha). I'm also now in a three-year stable relationship with my wonderful, loving, boyfriend Alex!

That's all of the super duper happy events that have happened to me in the most recent years. Now for the sad parts (boo). For years now, I've been having on-and-off periods, sometimes with months in between. At one point, Alex and I thought we were going to have a little one because there was a HUUUUGE time gap. We were very disappointed when I did get it. Last year, I expressed this concern to my OB/GYN. My body is healthy other than being anemic, having diverticulosis, and the missing periods. With a heavy heart, I'm forced to deal with not being able to carry to term/conceive a baby of my own. That's okay, though. There are many foster kids and kids want to be adopted and be given a loving home.

Despite that being an impactful event, I'm not down by it at all :D If anything, I've come to terms with it and even though I was sadden by that, I know that other people have it much worse and there can be a proper solution to my problem one day. I remember when there was a time when I was soooo negative and would see it as the world ending; now I don't.

The reason for that is that I'm no longer the person I was when I was in High School or even the person I was last year when I got that news. I'm a happier person, more optimistic, and thirst for much more out of life because life IS too short and the little things do matter.

And for that reason as well: I'M GIVING AWAY MY UNFINISHED AND VYING STORIES IN A CONTEST!

Why? I'm no longer the same person and therefore, the stories will change dramatically.

I believe that every story deserves a beginning, middle, and end. I have ignored that belief when life hit for me and my stories paid the price. I HAD great ideas of what to write, when to write it, and how to even end the stories. Now? I just can't get the ideas to work anymore. So, I'm doing my stories the best thing I can do for them: I WILL SURRENDER MY STORIES TO THE MULTIPLE WINNERS OF THIS CONTEST.

THAT'S RIGHT. I WILL GIVE UP THE STORIES, BUT ON ONE CONDITION: I CHOOSE WHICH STORY EACH WINNER GETS AND NOT ALL OF MY STORIES (since many of them are of personal stories that happened in my life) WILL BE GIVEN UP IN THE CONTEST.

How this will work: If you wish to enter the contests, you must abide by all of the rules that are found at the bottom of this message.

First, you must have a account; it is okay if you made an account just for this contest. If you are writing for the contest, then you are required to create a New Story with the title written in this format: "VAFAN1 Contest: [Insert name of Story without Brackets]." That way, I know it is for my contest. If you put that it is for the contest in the summary, I won't count it.

Second, you won't create new Titles for every story you write for this contest. Just keep it all under the same story and it will be stylized as a series of One-Shots. Make sure for every chapter you write: "Prompt #"

Third, the contest will start May 30th and will end June 30th. So, you will have 16 prompts. The people with the most prompts on June 30th are the winners and will be given their choice of my stories.

RULES:

1. Must have a account wt and must abide by ALL Terms and Conditions within Fanfiction.

2. Author must be open to writing by inspiration and impulsiveness; to keep things interesting.

3. For the terms of understanding: Minimal Syntax errors.

4. A writing prompt will be given EVERY TWO (2) DAYS and must be completed by the time the next prompt is given. IF NOT: Prompt will not be counted.

5. Rating doesn't matter: Just make sure you follow rating and language rules.

6. KEEP AN OPEN MIND!

Happy Writing All!

VAFAN1