1:16 a.m.: I just completed Chapter 18 of Danica. I’m getting ready to start the proofread and spell-check now. I’ll continue to update this entry tonight as I finish steps in the road toward submission.
3:19 a.m.: Proofread complete. I’ll be running it through the spell-checker momentarily.
4:18 a.m.: Danica 18 is in the hands of the editors at Lit. Barring any delays from the Nude Day contest, it should go live in somewhere around 5-7 days. One more time, apologies for the wait everyone!
Getting some great, and *very* useful feedback from my posting at Storiesonline. I’ve just submitted suggested edits there, as well as posting those edits here on my webpage. I’ll submit them up to Lit at some point, as well. I’ve learned a *lot* about punctuation with quotations since I originally wrote most of those stories. Changed stories here on the website are the entire Blackhawk Hall series and Arts Ardane. Thakkor will also be getting an update here soon, and an error in the S.O. version getting put in the queue there.
Danica 18 is moving right along. If I don’t have it finished tomorrow, I’ll be surprised. Hang in there everyone! Apologies, as always, for the delay. RL is a pain in the ass sometimes.
I’ve decided that Danica is going to remain exclusive to Literotica. Likewise, there will be several tales that will be exclusive to Storiesonline. One that will absolutely be exclusive to S.O. will be a Danica centered Arts Ardane that takes place immediately after Kampar’s Wand. That story is also going to get a re-write before I post it at S.O. I’m going to pump up Darmok earlier in the story, because he’s the hook of the story, and I don’t use him enough in the middle of the tale. There is also a strong chance that several tales related to history of the characters in Blackhawk Hall will be S.O. exclusive, since that story is likely to be my core tale over there now. There will also be tales that will be exclusive to the website here eventually. So, to see everything I write you’ll just have to keep track here, and read everywhere.
Evil, aren’t I?
There are actually reasons for it all, mostly related to the organization, readership, and submission rules of the two sites.
There’s a good chance I’m going to start writing some real-life stories, and some real-world fantasy too. Odds are, I’ll create an Alt for these at Lit, and I’ll create a new pen-name for them at S.O. to keep them away from my fantasy tales. I might even set up another website just for those, who knows. Never fear, concentration will be on my fantasy work, with the other tales simply used as a means to blow apart logjams in my brain. I need to do something different on occasion to unlock my brain.
So, use this site as the home-base for all my fantasy work. It will point out when anything new is released at either place. Feel free to cross over and vote for me at Lit of you’re from S.O. or vice-versa. S.O. votes for me at Lit could possibly bump me up into a range where I might be eligible for the monthly contests. It would be nice to win a little cash for my writing 😉
Ouch… Home got blasted down into the 30’s on the EH list =( Still a good ranking though, so I shouldn’t complain. My stories are also doing well at storiesonline, and I’m getting some great constructive feedback from there too. There seem to be a lot fewer trolls, and a lot more people willing to vote over in those parts!
Now for the Danica news: Almost done with 18, so not much longer to wait. I took Wednesday off work too, so surely I’ll have it done and submitted before that day is done.
Back to writing!
June news is off to the cache
Sorry to those waiting, but the muse simply hasn’t been upon me. Every time I sat down to write, there were just too many distractions, too many irritations, too little sleep, or something holding me back. Nothing was coming to life, so rather than write something I wouldn’t be happy with and have to revise, I simply took a break. I’m back to writing now, and I took Wednesday off next week as well.
I just posted my first story at Storiesonline, Home by the Sea. I’ll probably post Blackhawk there as well. There is a chance that I may post some stories exclusively there, due to the differing submission rules. The link to my Author page is on the front page, so check it out and drop me a vote if you’d like =)
I also just added a section called Dear Anonymous: that answers some questions and comments posted to my PCs that I can’t answer directly because they’re anonymous. You get a new background and pic of my Baileykins in the process.
Still working on that hook for that Arilee tale, we’ll see where it goes. Edited versions of Home and Ebon should go live at Lit soon. The version of Home that is posted already on SO is the edited version submitted to Lit.
Seven stories in the overall toplist first page, with sixteen total making that list. Every story but one is in the SF/F toplist, with eleven on the first page. Home is still holding steady in the top ten of the EH toplist. Thanks to all the readers, and I hope my position in the rankings brings me even more, because I love the feedback.
Little snarl in the forward progress. Actually got out of work early enough to spend some time with my girl before needing to pick up the youngin’ from daycare. So, I’ve been doing extensive and frequent research for my writing, so to speak 😉
Things are still moving, just not as quickly as I thought they were going to this weekend. For those who didn’t want Blackhawk to end, Arilee makes a cameo in the upcoming chapter of Danica, and there’s almost certainly going to be at least a follow-up one-shot featuring Arilee at some point. I have the core storyline for it, it just needs an additional hook.
