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3/4 Mark on SOTM 18

Made it to the 3/4 mark ( of average chapter length ) last night.  A lot of the scenes I’d planned to go in this one are actually going to get pushed into the next chapter, after that one scene I was talking about last night ran away with me.

That could be good news, because I have several scenes very much fleshed out and “ready to roll”.  If I can keep on an even keel, the next chapter could move quickly for once.  I’d guess there’s half a chapter worth of scenes all ready to fire.

I’m more or less sitting here trying to decide what order I want the last few scenes of the chapter to fall in.  My original, planned end-point got pushed out of this chapter.  I need to get that locked in so I can do a proper transition from the scene I finished last night.

And so, I’m off to do that 🙂

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SOTM moving along

I went back this morning and did some tweaking and backspacing on Ch. 18, and now I’m moving forward.

Something I was more or less going to move past without much narrative has taken on a life of its own as I moved into new territory.  It provides all sorts of opportunity for touches of humor, and something even more interesting.  It will also be a nice contrast to what’s going to happen later in the chapter, as well.  I’ll be getting back to that as soon as I finish this post.

I’m planning to submit my Winter Contest entry with the intention for it to post on the Thursday following Thanksgiving.  Again, it’s an incest story, to warn you to avoid it if that creeps you out.

Truth to tell, it creeps me out too *laugh*  I only write these as challenges, and usually write them with some other taboo in mind, going back to find/replace and tweak to turn it into the final form.  Trying to write them straight makes my skin crawl *laugh*

There will be more of what’s common to my writing as Les coming, but sometimes, I just feel like writing a one off.  It’s called “Mom’s Stocking Stuffer”

Now, back to Danica and Marlena preparing for a very interesting new illusion, utilizing the gift given to her early in SOTM.

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Well, obviously…

I didn’t make it to that mark I was aiming for :p

The young one went on a tear for a few days, and other things came up.  Looking to get some more writing done tomorrow after getting my heater in the car looked at in the morning.

I also decided to review the stories in Lit’s Winter contest, so that takes up some time each night.  Again, while it puts a delay on my writing, things like this and editing for other authors builds relationships that I’ve found highly valuable.  When I need someone to read something, or give me an honest opinion, I have more to work with when I’ve already provided same.  In the end, that improves what finally comes out on my submissions page.

I had an idea as Les Lumens that jumps into a highly popular sub genre on Lit, which I’m writing for the contest.  Truth to tell, it’s almost as much to stick to someone there as it is for me.  I just can’t help slapping down a braggart sometimes *laugh*  I’m nearly done with it now, and I’ll probably finish it tomorrow, so it won’t be draining any writing time for long.

It’s going to be a mother/son story, so if that creeps you out there will be ample warning.  This one may not even go up at SOL.  It all depends.

I won’t be working a full five days until the beginning of next year.  I have at least one day per week scheduled off from now to after New Years, and I plan on taking a week of vacation on the second week of January.  So I’m going to have a lot more time to catch up on sleep and — hopefully — get writing done while the house is quiet.

I also plan to finally upgrade the website software during one of those long weekends, opening the door to programming everything to add more content.  I’m actually planning on Thanksgiving weekend, when I expect any problems that crop up will cause the least irritation to visitors.

I already posted a mini preview of the next chapter of SOTM on the comments from the previous chapter, and I’ll probably post a longer one on the forum soon.  So, keep your eyes peeled if you want a sneak peek before I finish the chapter.

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SOTM 18 half done

Made it to the halfway point ( of the average chapter length, it can vary ) on SOTM 18 yesterday, and I’m hoping to get to the 3/4 mark today.  As I’ve said before, even when I’m not writing, I’m musing, and that’s steadily congealing upcoming chapters, and the story as whole.

The biggest problem is that I have too large of a cast, and too many threads running in this one.  I’m steadily narrowing it down and moving the end point of this book of the story to get all my ducks in a row.  Unfortunately, I don’t think I’m going to have quite as hard of an ending ( although there will certainly be closure for a lot of threads in the story ) as I’d originally intended.  I’d rather have had this book end more like Danica did, but this ending is going to be more Empire Strikes Back than A New Hope.

No, I’m not that big of a Star Wars fan, but it’s the perfect example *laugh*  The ending of SOTM just looks like it’s going to be more inevitable that a sequel is coming to wrap up the remaining story threads.

Concentrating on SOTM at the moment, but I’d still like to finish that final chapter of Lowborn so I can start posting it.  I might look at it when I finish this chapter of SOTM, before starting ( beyond the scene or two I always write after finishing a chapter ) the next.

Might be back to update again later this evening.

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Quarterly track

Just did the quarterly track of all my statistics at Literotica, and it was very smile-inducing.  Lots more details about this in a post on the forum.  Shouldn’t be hard to find *laugh*

Writing on SOTM Ch. 18 right now.  I haven’t been wasting the time when I wasn’t writing on it.  There’s never a day goes by when I’m not musing the story, even if words aren’t going down.  Every day coalesces a bit more of the story, and one of these days, I’m going to hit a point where everything is so structured in my head that only time to write is really going to get in my way.

Musing Lowborn as well.  I’m shifting a bit from my original idea, because I found a different direction to go for a more solid ending.  I’ll have to rewrite a bit of what I’ve already put down on Ch. 08, but it shouldn’t take too much when I get back to it.

As always, musing over what the next Wood story will be, concentrating on Earth Day.

Many more things in the works in my known names and my third name.  Just a matter of when they come together, get written, and get released.

Planning to bite the bullet soon and do some upgrades on the backend of the site.  That’s really all that’s kept me from moving forward with new content.  I knew this update was coming, and I wanted to wait until I’d put it in place and figured out any changes before I started coding the new parts of the site.

Lots of new registrations on the website, so Welcome!  And that doesn’t even count the mountains of Russian spam accounts I’ve banned/deleted as fast as they sign up *laugh*  Sites like “Stop Forum Spam” are great.  Every time someone signs up, I check the IP and email address.  If it comes up with several hits on those sites, I don’t even wait for them to start spamming.  I just ban them right out of the gate.

I can tell it’s beginning to irritate them, too.  I keep seeing some of the validating accounts viewing the site under a range of IPs.  Little do they know that I’m tracking those, and as soon as I see a sign-up…   BAN HAMMER!

Then, once I’ve found a problem IP range or email domain, I just ban the whole range and delete all the spam accounts associated with them.  Hope I don’t have any actual fans in Russia.  The odds of them being able to get onto the site thanks to those spammers is slim to none thanks to all the IP ranges and email domains I’ve banned.

Time for a little break, then a bit more of SOTM 18, and then off to bed.  Back to writing tomorrow… Probably even a little bit in the morning before I head off to work.

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