Just send a second draft of Casting to the editor, and made a few adjustments to the first chapter as well, based upon his suggestions.  It seems I have another common annoying quirk I hadn’t detected yet, constantly having everyone “begin” or “start” to do something.  When I got back the first draft with that notation, I could almost hear Dark Helmet from Spaceballs saying, “Why are you preparing?  You’re always preparing!  Just go!”

It’s in his hands for review now, and should be back before too long.  The third chapter is over half done, and probably will be finished by the end of the day.  Of course, my track record for those predictions isn’t exactly perfect *laugh*

The naughty bits of this one are going to be quite detailed, taking up the largest part of the third chapter.  I’m writing the scene from a more female-centric perspective, leading up to the overt sexual contact with a lot more touching, kissing, etc.  Considering it goes 2/3 into the story with barely a bit of heat, I don’t think the pumped up sex scene will hurt anything, and in fact is almost necessary in my vision.  There’s a lot I want to convey in that scene too, so it all works out.  I’m planning to put an informational in there telling everyone to “skip ahead to track three if you’re just looking for sex” when I post it, so that the stroke seekers will be able to find what they’re after without wading through all that ridiculous scene setting, character establishing stuff 😉

The new version of Kampar is up at Lit, so I need to get the first couple of chapters of Blackhawk reposted to Lit now.

Converted both Arts tales, Prelude, and Thakkor over to webpages here instead of linked .txt files.  I’ll convert all the Blackhawks soon as well.  Preparation for Casting, which will be presented here in a webpage format, the new norm for my short stories.

Back to work!