Category Archives: Darkniciad

The difficulty of F/F

I usually make sure that my girl on girl scenes involve characters with different hair color for a reason *laugh*  The scene in SOTM that I’m writing at the moment breaks that rule, and it requires a lot more care and attention to keep the pronouns straight while reducing the number of times I use their proper names.

The chapter is up to around 9600 words, and I’m fairly certain that this one will break the 10k, possibly 11k mark.

Also got started on the next chapter of Lowborn, though I’m more or less still in the opening, tying it to the end of the prevous chapter.

I have a feeling that I might just transport Guy from the A Royal Sacrifice chain into my world soon.  He’s shaping up in my head as a character in the eventual Saggitariad history tale — with a few changes.  Never fear, he’s still going to be a rogue and a notorious womanizer *laugh*

A wee bit of a break to relax from the difficulty of that redhead on redhead scene, and I’ll dive back into it.  Mmmm… Wish I was actually diving back into it… But, I digress!

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Whew…

That third pen name story is the one that finally got ahold of me, so I just finished it a few minutes ago.  Otherwise, I’ve been run a little ragged until now.  I’m off work for the next three days, so I’m hoping to make some writing progress on SOTM and Lowborn.

I’ll probably finish Ch. 17 of SOTM first, and then knuckle down on Lowborn.  I’d like to have it coming out to fill the gap between the Summer and Halloween contests at Lit, to try to get my name back out there with some regularity.

It seems like the traffic has really dropped at SOL.  I got on the download leader board with around 1600 views on a recent story, and the totals I’m seeing scrolling through the new stories list aren’t very impressive either.  Wonder if it has something to do with a protest over the new pedo rules?  It would be kind of creepy to think that a majority of the traffic there was devoted to that.

Sorry, but that just weirds me out.

Anyhow, I’m on a little rest break.  If the young one will go [i]back[/i] to bed ( he went in and laid down earlier, then got up about ten minutes later ) I’ll probably tackle that sex scene in SOTM.  If not, I may pick up where I left off on Lowborn until he crashes.

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Three things running

I’m alternately working on SOTM 17, Lowborn 07, and a story in my third pen name. Need to bounce around a bit, because I can’t seem to keep my focus. At least this way, I’m turning out some wordcount and keeping up momentum. I’m not looking back over what I’ve written and deciding that it wasn’t up to snuff, either. When I come back to one of the three after working on the other for a while, I’m happy with where I’m picking up.

I don’t know why it works for me, but it does. Frustrating for those waiting on SOTM — I know. The mistake of posting chapters of an unfinished story won’t happen again. My muse is just too unpredictable to leave people hanging like I have.  That’s why Lowborn won’t come out until the final word is penned and edited.

Don’t forget to vote on my contest stories if you haven’t yet.  The new LST3K is really struggling.  Votes and feedback are always a boost that gets me excited about writing.  Give my muse a shot in the arm to get her moving 😀

Back to work.

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LST3K and Kindred in the queue

I put Kindred of the Wood and LST3K: U Beach! in the queue this afternoon.  I’m hoping that they’ll go up with the midnight crop tonight at Lit.

I’ve worked on SOTM a bit more, but circumstances just haven’t been conductive to writing the sex scene, which is where I’m at right now.  I’m gearing up to write the next chapter of Lowborn as well.  I think that I may visit Sagittariad after I finish Mindblind’s tale.  He’s only had bit parts in Danica and SOTM so far, so I certainly need to flesh him out before starting the epic of freeing Egoria.  The sequel to Blackhawk is also steadily nagging at me.  It’s about time for Ari to have a chance to wrap everyone around her finger again *grin*

I’ll post up again if the new stories come out tonight.  I’ll post Kindred on SOL in a day or two — probably monday at the earliest.  I may even wait until toward next weekend.  I’ve certainly learned one thing about SOL — posting at midnight there is a view killer.  The overnight readership just isn’t anything like Lit’s, and you get dropped down on the new stories list too quickly by stories posting the next day.  I’ll be putting all SOL stories in the queue at least one hour after midnight from now on to aim for a morning posting.

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SOTM 17 up to 8800 words

Finally finished the transition scenes and build up to the hanky panky in this chapter.  This will end up being a long chapter, because the sex scene isn’t going to be one to rush through.

Also got back the impression read of Kindred.  To my relief, it wasn’t drowning in red ink like Secret was *laugh*  I’ll make a few tweaks over the next couple of days, send them off for a look-see, and probably be ready to put it in the queue late next week.

Getting back to SOTM in a few minutes.

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