Second Chance just went live at Storiesonline.
Go give it a read and a vote! If you haven’t already, SOL readers can always go vote for it in the contest at Lit, too. No pressure, though!
Category Archives: Les Lumens
Closer to the shorts
Finished the main image for the “Shorts” page tonight. Now, I just have to build the page around the darn thing ( and set up the conditionals that filter images )
Once I have the layout the way I want it, I’ll add the as yet unedited first of the early Devan trilogy to the database for testing purposes. I need to go through and modify my backend utilities, “Latest Updates” and the “My Work” page to deal with the new shorts database for easy management.
Once it will populate the menu on the shorts page and display the actual story, I’ll test to make sure it also displays on the “My Work” page. If you happen to be around while that’s happening, the new Devan story may appear briefly before I turn the public bit back off.
Unfortunately, I’ll have to wing it for the “My Updates” page. Other than cloning it, there’s no real easy way to test that except going live *laugh*
The environment around here just wasn’t conductive to writing tonight. It’s like that sometimes. It depends upon the young one’s mood. I’m not in a naughty part of SOTM or Lowborn, so that’s not an issue. It’s just loud and distracting tonight. Couldn’t visualize, and I’m too tired to do it now that he’s winding down.
Damn near forgot to post Second Chance at SOL :p Realized it when I was checking the updates page, figuring out how I was going to display the “shorts” link. I think I’ll probably wait to post it for Friday at this point.
We’ll see if the young one will continue to cooperate and if I can close my eyes to visualize without nodding off later.
Couple of things
First, thanks to everyone who read, voted, commented, favorited, and emailed on Second Chance. It’s going to come close to 1500 votes, and most likely will pass 100k views.
Now, I know I said that the ending of Lowborn was already written, but it turns out I was wrong *laugh* Once I actually started putting it on paper, something didn’t feel quite right. I went back and read through the whole story again, and there was something off.
So, I’m doing a little musing to try to fix a point or two, either by switching up the initiation of the ending, or by tweaking a couple of things in earlier chapters.
Meanwhile, I’ve actually put down the first little bit of SOTM 19 on paper, where it’s all been in museland previously. What’s been holding me back on that one for the most part is deciding what should be the opening scene, and I believe I have it.
Not much wordage yet, but it’s a concrete step toward getting it out.
I’m also working on that multi-part story as Les. I’m guessing it will be five chapters, and I’m over the halfway mark on chapter 3.
Musing the second of that website-only Devan trilogy as well. Likewise, I’m doing some of the basic framework for the “Shorts” page that will house them.
Been doing a lot of beta reading lately, and that’s what’s kept me away from my own pen as much as anything. As I’ve said before, it’s important to me to do that when another author asks, because it develops a pool of people I can ask to do the same for me. It’s proved a very valuable resource in the past.
Just what’s in my head at the moment. Hope to be able to come back with wordage updates on Lowborn, SOTM, or Jackin’ Jill ( that new Les story ) soon.
Second Chance Live at Lit!
My entry in the Summer Lovin’ Contest at Literotica is up!
Stand warned that is a taboo story, if that creeps you out. If not, go give it a read and a vote!
Lots of new stuff close on the horizon, including two multi-chapter stories.
Second Chance off for editing
Just sent that taboo tale off for editing, so it should be ready for the contest in time to post it Thursday to appear Friday morning.
Got a bit more done on Lowborn, and tweaked some of what I’d already written. Building up to the culmination, so I want the pacing to be perfect when it hits the final action.
I did the database work for the new “Shorts” section, so now I need to get down to business coding the pages. I’m hoping to have that done in a couple of weeks, but you never know. At the rate I’m writing across several stories, I don’t want to break that momentum for very long on something else.
A little wind down after the edit, and I’ll see which of the open files is singing to me to write on tonight.