Kindred of the Wood and U Beach! LIVE
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Here's the cover (NSFW!) to Kindred of the Wood Cover Image
LST3K and Kindred in the queue
I put Kindred of the Wood and LST3K: U Beach! in the queue this afternoon. I'm hoping that they'll go up with the midnight crop tonight at Lit.
I've worked on SOTM a bit more, but circumstances just haven't been conductive to writing the sex scene, which is where I'm at right now. I'm gearing up to write the next chapter of Lowborn as well. I think that I may visit Sagittariad after I finish Mindblind's tale. He's only had bit parts in Danica and SOTM so far, so I certainly need to flesh him out before starting the epic of freeing Egoria. The sequel to Blackhawk is also steadily nagging at me. It's about time for Ari to have a chance to wrap everyone around her finger again *grin*
I'll post up again if the new stories come out tonight. I'll post Kindred on SOL in a day or two -- probably monday at the earliest. I may even wait until toward next weekend. I've certainly learned one thing about SOL -- posting at midnight there is a view killer. The overnight readership just isn't anything like Lit's, and you get dropped down on the new stories list too quickly by stories posting the next day. I'll be putting all SOL stories in the queue at least one hour after midnight from now on to aim for a morning posting.
SOTM 17 up to 8800 words
Finally finished the transition scenes and build up to the hanky panky in this chapter. This will end up being a long chapter, because the sex scene isn't going to be one to rush through.
Also got back the impression read of Kindred. To my relief, it wasn't drowning in red ink like Secret was *laugh* I'll make a few tweaks over the next couple of days, send them off for a look-see, and probably be ready to put it in the queue late next week.
Getting back to SOTM in a few minutes.
A little better
Sort of getting over the fizzling of Queen. The newest comment and the email that came with it had a lot to do with that =) Sometimes, it's the little things that matter the most.
Anyway, I'm alternately writing quips for the LST3K and getting up to the sex scene in SOTM 17. It's more or less a matter of what the young one is doing at the time whether I'm writing on one or the other.
With a little luck, I'll have some forward progress to report by the end of the day.
Workin’ on the LST3K
I've been working on trying to get enough solid quips into that awful beach story to get it together into an LST3K. The less than lackluster response to Queen kind of put me off writing anything serious for the moment -- let alone anything in my fantasy world. I'll get over it, but I just need a break with the way that one is bombing. I really do love it, and to have it fizzle that way is disheartening.
Anyway, feel free to leave comments with things related to summer that I can use in my quips. I'm trying to make as many of them summer related as I can, so that they're just as much on theme as the crappy story I'm making fun of. This is a good distraction 
Oh -- and I'm seriously considering purchasing an Invision board license. That was the forum software I coded in before, and I think it might be an easier springboard to work from to get the website back into an actual information source, rather than just a front page and a blog. The code for the other forum software I'm using right now is just too different from what I'm used to, and learning it is proving more daunting than I had anticipated.
I just don't have the drive to conquer new languages/software quirks that I used to.
That didn’t take long
Yeah, the votes and views on both new stories pretty much came to a dead halt about 10 last night. Well, somebody took the time out of their evening to 1-bomb Queen 4 times, but otherwise... *rolleyes*
So, I put them in the queue at SOL a few minutes ago. If you're from SOL and feel like tossing me a bone, follow the links a couple of posts back and drop a vote on the contest stories at Lit. Even though I'm not eligible to win this round because I won on Earth Day, it's still nice to have a solid vote total in contests to survive the sweeps with the 25 votes to qualify.
Queen of the Isle really needs the help. It's sitting with 15, and those last 4 will get swept away for sure. They're way too obvious as pattern voting, and the system will surely chew them up. That leaves me 14 votes to make up to get to qualifying range.
And I like that story so much *sigh* Let's see if it was just bad placement in the new list, or the crappy limits at Lit for synopsis that hurt it. If it tanks at SOL, then I know it's just not nearly as sweet and fun as I think it is, I guess.
A smidgen more
Having another "blah" night. I wrote a quick transition scene plus the beginning of another for SOTM 17, but I just can't seem to get over the hump of a little bit of narrative to get to the upcoming sex scene. I may try jumping ahead to that in a little bit and see if that works, coming back to fill in the gap later.
Otherwise, I added a couple of quips to that potential LST3K. The boy is just too wound up tonight for me to get in the flow. I'll put my brain on SOTM muse mode tomorrow and see if I can't get psyched up.
Still waiting on the edits for the two stories I have finished. Once those are back, I'll put them in the queue once activity on the two that are already out trickles down.
Don't forget about Queen of the Isle and Ride No More. If you haven't read them, please do Queen is especially struggling for some reason that I can't fathom. If the voting doesn't pick up on that one, it's not even going to qualify for the contest that I can't win *laugh*
I'll probably post Queen and Ride to SOL once the feedback begins to trickle down from the two stories that are in editing right now. I want to make sure to give the contest stories at least some exclusive time on Lit for the contest. Then the other two will go up there when the feedback trickles down from the first two.
Trying to spread the good vibes from reader feedback out for as long as I can 
EDIT A LITTLE LATER: The young one went to bed not long after I hit submit on this. I almost finished that narrative, so within a few lines, I'll be up to the steamy part of the chapter. That and the closer is going to round this one out. Maybe I'll be able to get this chapter in the can within a day or two. Up to 7900 words.
Queen and Ride LIVE!
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Covers are linked in my previous blog post.
New stories at midnight
Two new stories going live at midnight for the Summer Lovin' Contest.
You can check out the cover for Queen of the Isle (NSFW!) as Darkniciad and Ride No More as Les Lumens here.
I'll add them to the temporary covers page in a minute or two, and post again with the links to the two stories after midnight when they go live.
And we’re at 7100
Up to 7100 words on SOTM 17, which should be right around 3/4 of the chapter. It depends upon how long the sex scene that's coming up ends up running.
Also finished the new ending for Lowborn Ch. 06.
Kind of a toss-up where I'll go when I get back from the weekly trip to the store. I have a little "interlude" plus a sex scene coming up in SOTM. I can get Lowborn 07 started. I have yet another third pen name story pretty much congealed. I also have an awful beach story that I might LST3K for the Summer contest.
Just have to see what strikes me, I guess. Probably drop a line later tonight to say what it was.