It's A New Dawn, It's A New Day, It's A New Life For Me, And I'm Feeling...

I know what love is. It's in the next room, sweating over a sink of dishes other people have eaten on, just so I can sit here and type. I know what family is. It's people who knew me on dA and moved  or re-established contacts here just to stay in touch with me.

I know what friendship is. It's people who know me only by the name of a child's bunny rabbit, and care enough to make me welcome and encouraged and wanted. It's all of you. Amazing. I had almost 150 messages last night, and each and every one of them boiled down to "Welcome here, we want you to be part of the fun stuff we're doing." What a message to receive. 150 times.

Let me introduce myself to all of you who so warmly welcomed me to your community of friends. I'm Teddy Radiator, I'm from the South, and I'm a writer. I started out as an original erotic fiction writer. Then one day, a good friend and fellow perv told me to read  a fanfic. It was called "For The Potions Master's Amusement". I can see you smiling, you. Yeah, I know. It changed my life, and opened it to the possibilities of writing about characters I loved in a whole new light. You can't get much more "whole new life" than FTPMA,. now can't ya?

I stumbled onto dA(boo) and found an artist named Sempraseverus. I was captivated. She issued a challenge. She drew a beautiful picture and said, "Okay, here's your challenge. Write something about this." The result was Spellbreaker, which can be found here: http://www.sycophanthex.com/ashwinder/viewstory.php?sid=23944

Then came another, inspired by one of the songwriter friends of mine named Jay Wright (I was at a meeting of songwriter's with him when dA chloroformed my account) and it became As Morning Falls. If you'd like to read it, it's here: http://www.sycophanthex.com/ashwinder/viewstory.php?sid=23997

I have others, but I don't want to sound like some sort of gushing swot (I hear you laughing, Sempra angel), but suffice to say that I have a Muse I love. Like Mimi, my Muse comes to me and whispers in my ear. Usually about 5:30 in the morning, he slips into bed behind me, between me and a very tolerant Hubs and has his wicked way with me. And when he does, I write.

I also have an original work of fiction called Her Minder, but I don't have it on any other forum at the moment. If you can suggest a good place for it, I'll post it. It's something I'm very proud of, and I'd welcome your opinions on it.

Thanks for letting me blather. I promise I won't be so verbose in future. Well, not as. Maybe.

And thanks for allowing someone  named after a child's bunny to become part of your community.

Just One More And I'll Shut Up

I'd like to participate in the timestamp meme, nabbed from lady_rhian:

Give me one of my stories and a timestamp -  sometime in the future after the end of the story, or sometime in the past before the story started, and I'll write you at least a hundred words of what happened then, whether it's five minutes before the story started or ten years in the future. Please be specific if you can. What characters, a question you have, etc.

I'm intrigued by this challenge because I had a lot of reviewers actually ask me questions about the end of As Morning Falls and Black-Eyed Angel, so this gives me a legit reason to drabble a little bit.

Mimi has been encouraging me to brush up on my drabble skills, and this might be just the impetus I've been looking for.

Here are the fics:

As Morning Falls

Spellbreaker

The Black-Eyed Angel