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2500 on Sanctuary

Up to 2500 on Sanctuary of Wood.  It’s coming along nicely, now that I’m getting back into writing mode and made the changes I mentioned a while back.

I did a little writing on SOTM 19 as well.  Nothing major enough to report yet, but that may change if I skip ahead to another scene and write it while I try to figure out the transition ( me and my transitions ) for the beginning of the chapter.  Like I said while finishing the last one, I have a lot of scenes that are already planned out because I pushed them from that chapter to this one.

Had some thoughts on Lowborn as well.  I may make a few tweaks to it that I think will make the last chapter even easier to move than the last few tweaks I mentioned a while ago.  I get a little closer every time I open this one up, and I expect to be able to start posting it soon.  I’m hoping right after the Earth Day contest.

I may post a short story that’s exclusive to the website soon.  We’ll see how it goes.  That could be another way to keep my motivation flowing, and center it on settings that coincide with the larger works I know everyone would like to see posted.

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Brainstorm on Sanctuary

I’d hit another drag point in Sanctuary of the Wood, and had a brainstorm today at work that got me past it.

It’s amazing what a small change of location can do.

I moved the scene from the tree fort to the pond, and it’s moving along nicely.  I was getting too distracted with the tree fort *laugh*

Had some flashes of inspiration on SOTM too.  Things are about to come to a boil, and I’m going to hit something I’ve been anticipating for a long time.  I’ve been wanting to tie a story into the larger narrative of Danica’s world ever since I wrote it, and knew how it was going to happen, but I just wasn’t at the right point in the story to do it.

That time is coming.

Really getting an itch to finish Lowborn as well, but Sanctuary has to have full front burner status until I finish it, because of the limited timetable and the long-standing tradition.

Experimenting with a few more things, but I’m close to having everything ready to get the LST3K pages online.  The big interactive feature – uRiff – won’t debut with the initial rollout, but I’ll have most of the elements I need for it ready to start coding when I feel like it.

Many of those same elements will be useful in the behind-the-scenes collaborative riffer coding that will let me work in semi-real time with other people to riff on stories.

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Figuring things out

Finally getting the hang of one of the elements of the software suite that runs the forum and the website that I haven’t previously delved into.  It’s going to prove extremely useful for the LST3K pages.  What it will allow me to do is to accept uploads of documents even if the person donating a story or auditioning to be a riffer hasn’t signed up for the website.

The former makes a lot more sense than the latter.  Eventually, it will make a lot more sense for riffers to sign up, because I’m going to code utilities that let us work on the riff in concert on the website, rather than sending files back and forth via email.

It’s an important element of making those pages truly useful to me and to users.  Another will be the ability to paste complete stories or riffs into a rich text form as another means of donating/auditioning.

Now that I have the basics of that down, I’m going to work on hooking up the anti-spam database to my various contact forms.  Once I have those working correctly, I’ll be in position to hook up the LST3K pages as well.  Initially, that will just be protecting me from spam, but as I roll out the user interactive features like uRiff, it will be keeping spammers from tossing cans of spam at people reading user submitted riffs as well.

I’m also seriously considering some website exclusive stories ( beyond my unpublished work on “My Work Extras” and the ancient porn stories on “About -> Writing Genesis” if you haven’t noticed there’s stuff not available anywhere else there )

Odds are that these will be interludes — heavy on sex, or stories with no sexual content from Danica’s World.  Likely examples would be:

Telling Geflon’s backstory that fits in with Casting Off Convention, To Catch a Merchant Princess, and the forthcoming Lowborn.

Things like relating how the girls managed to ‘borrow’ Andrea’s toy and learn the command word for it several chapters back in SOTM.  All of that happened off-screen, and only the aftermath is in the published story.

Stories about Andrea before she ended up at Zoraster’s complex.  Because she was a virgin before meeting Danica, it limits the potential for stories I can post on Lit or SOL, but there are plenty of stories I could tell to highlight her life before the story.

I’ve just had a lot of ideas kicking around that aren’t really right for publishing in my traditional venues, but which I believe regular readers of the stories in Danica’s world would very much enjoy.

Feel free to comment here, email, or post on the forum if there’s a story you’d like to see told.  Much of Blackhawk Hall and the whole of Ebon Genesis owes its origin to a reader’s suggestions.  Many times, those are inspirational and really get me moving.  At the same time, that inspiration gets other stories moving as well.

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Have things moving

I’m still concentrating on Sanctuary, but I also have the next chapter of SOTM moving, and I’m doing some work on Lowborn as well.

Work continues on the LST3K section of the website, and as warmer weather ( and a vacation ) creeps up, I’ll be able to do some of the expansions of the About page as well.

I’ve added a section to the forum to submit stories and audition to be a riffer on LST3Ks.  That’s part of the work on the LST3k section, but can be used right now, if you wish.  It can be used for talking about the series, though you’d be better off going with the main “discussion” forum for now.

All of this is leading toward the “My Worlds” section, which will have the most content that people are interested in for behind the scenes info.

If anybody has a website, twitter, facebook, or anything of that nature, links are much appreciated!  I know that linking to an adult site isn’t something most people would do, but if you’re not bothered by that, it’s a nice draw for new eyes on my stories.  The feedback is what I’m all about.

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“About Me” pages up.

Just finished tweaking the string of “About Me” pages, so head on over there if you want to check it out.

About Me

On these pages, you’ll find pics, information and scans from my role-playing game, stories from my past, past creative projects, past interests, and a rather large collection of ancient porn writing ( over 50k words ) from before I really knew what I was doing.

I’ll update these once I have time to dig up more things to scan, and take new pictures.

Now, to see if I can get in a writing mood.  I think I’m going to start Sanctuary over from a different point, and change my main character a little.  Reading back through it after letting it sit for a while, it felt like it was dragging, didn’t get to the wood early in the story like the rest, and I wasn’t completely happy with certain elements of the main character.

Unfortunately, not much more than ideas from the original text I’ll be able to use.

Also have the next chapter of SOTM and the final chapter of Lowborn on the front burners.  I may pick up a story called “Violet Valentine” and try for the Valentine’s contest, but that’s not for sure.  Also have a multi-part story called “Jackin’ Jill” as Les that’s been on the back burner for a while.  I could pick that up at any time.

Hope you like the new pages, and I’m always musing, even when I’m not actually typing words into new stories.  That part of my creative process doesn’t stall out on me, at least :p

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