Category Archives: Darkniciad

Passed the 4500 mark

Passed the 4500 word mark on Lowborn last night.  Before the young one decides to wake up this morning ( he was in a wild mood yesterday, which is why I didn’t get far ) I’m going to see how far I can get.  I would really like to finish this chapter today.

Still mulling around two ideas for the summer contest at Lit.  One is a potential Magic of the Wood, and the other is a taboo tale similar to Stocking Stuffer from Christmas.

Can’t remember whether I mentioned it here ( I know I posted something on Facebook ) but I also had a brainstorm on a Halloween story I abandoned last year.  I scribbled notes at work, which I transferred to the abandoned file when I got home.  Tale inspired by one of my old NPC back stories called “Suzanne” mixed with a few lines from Aerosmith’s “Flesh”, with which it shares a title.

I never know where my muse is going to go when she decides to pay me a visit.  That would be a rare contest story as Dark, if it comes together this year.

EDIT ( a little later )  Over 5300, and only the chapter transition scene to write.  Think I’ll make it today.  If I do, I’m going to knuckle down on the next draft of “Beauty” during any quiet time I have.

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Bit of rewrite

Had a flash of inspiration today at work, so I ended up rewriting the scene I was working on in Lowborn last night.  It required a little backspacing, but only to the tune of about 200 words by the time I’d tweaked the passages that otherwise worked with the new idea.

Things are settling here in the household, so as usual, I’m going to try to move forward while I have some quiet time.  Hoping to find plenty of that this weekend to finish this chapter and start the next.

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Impression read on Beauty back

Got the impression read on Beauty of the Wood back, so hashing out the various points of that has been the focus for this evening.  I have a good base to work from for doing my second draft now, and I’ll be working on that alongside of Lowborn.

I’ll write the second draft, give it a full edit and cold read, then send that off to M.L. again for thoughts on the changes.  By that point, the tweaks are usually minor, and will be hashed out in quick notes, rather than new drafts.  Once the final tweaks are complete, it will go off to Roust for final technical editing and his thoughts as well.  Once the draft has passed his inspection, I’ll queue it up at SOL and submit the updated draft to Literotica.

Trying to come down a little from the work on Beauty to get more written on Lowborn tonight.

EDIT: ( a little later )  Got a bit more done on Lowborn.  Edging toward the 4500 mark.  If I can get out of work at a decent hour tomorrow, I might just finish this chapter before hitting the second draft of Beauty.

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Long day, slow day

Had a long day at work, so it was a slow day writing when I got home.

Didn’t really get much done today except for deciding that there isn’t going to be a full-on sex scene in this chapter of Lowborn.  The characters often take their own directions on me, and they just didn’t think it was the time or place *laugh*

While I was thinking about it, I did put together the new chapter image for Ch. 08 ( the actual cover will be used for the final chapter )  Even though I won’t be using them on the Lit forum any more, they’ll still be used on my “latest updates” page.  I like having individual images for multi-chapter stories.  They’ll then be collected on the “Extras” page of “My Work” as well.

Still expecting to finish this chapter and start the last one in the next couple of days, and with things quieting down, I might see if I can get a bit done tonight as well.

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Little more before the noise

Managed another 500 words to hit 4k today before the environment hereabouts turned to one no longer conductive with creativity :p

I need to finish this scene, another one ( naughty bits *laugh* ) and the closer for the chapter.  Hoping to have this now-penultimate chapter done within the next couple of days.

After that, it’s all a matter of having the time and proper conditions to write, because the ending has been fully fleshed out for a long time now.  I just needed to get over that speedbump with the one character’s development, and now I can roll.

Hope to have more good news tomorrow.  With things quieting a little around here, I might even try to squeak out a little more progress before I crash for the night.

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