Got Roust’s seal of approval back on the edit for Beauty of the Wood today. I’ve already sent in the edit to Literotica, and it should be up in somewhere around a week.
I’ll finally get it submitted to SOL on Thursday evening, which should have it posting on Friday morning.
The editing process took up a large chunk of the weekend, but I should be getting back to Lowborn soon. I really want to get this story finished, dagnabbit!
Got a thumbs-up back from Mistress Lynn on the updated draft of Beauty of the Wood, so it’s going into final editing now. If all goes well, it will be going up at SOL late next week. The edit will go in at Lit at the same time, but who knows when it will actually process there.
Creeping along on Lowborn. There are a couple of scenes where I need some serious visualization to get things right, and the boy has been making that difficult *laugh* I’ll find the quiet time soon enough, I’m sure.
Probably halfway through the first of what it turns out will be three Devan stories prior to the first Arts Ardane ( aka “Devan’s Decision” ) The first one is going to be called “Devan: First Touch”, I believe.
These will be website exclusive stories, heavy on sex and light on substance. There’s not going to be any greater plot in most of these “Shorts” as I’m calling them other than getting to the naughty bits. You may very well get a look at some character evolution, though. Devan is going to be far more innocent in these stories than we’ve seen her in posted stories, for example.
Back to writing — probably on either Lowborn or the new Devan short. Not in the right mood to edit on Beauty right now. I’ll do that tomorrow when I’m fresh.
Had someone in the Russian Federation try to brute-force into the website today. As it turns out, the attack was a complete waste. One of the anti-spam measures installed on the website prevented them from seeing anything except an access denied message on the hundred or so attempts to generate my password and hack into the site.
Even if they had generated my password, it still wouldn’t have gone through, because they were blocked prior to the code that would have let them in even processed.
Doubt that the coders of the anti-spam scripts had it in mind, but here’s a big thumbs up to them anyway 🙂
Long days at work and a twinge in my back today ( cured with a muscle relaxer and a few hours sleep ) have kept me from getting much done.
I’m still writing a bit here and there on Lowborn, though. Should be able to knock out a good chunk of it on the weekend, at the least, if I don’t get more done before now and then. I’m in the climax now, and that’s been “written” in my head for a very long time, so there aren’t any roadblocks ahead.
I’d love to finish it this weekend, so I can get the editing process going next week. That could potentially put the first chapter out in a couple of weeks.
Crossing my fingers.
Still waiting on M.L. to get through the read of the second draft, so that’s up to her schedule. I’ll jump on it as soon as she gets it back to me, though.
I’ve written a little more on Lowborn, and I’ll get some more done tonight. Wrapping up a couple of other little things right now, so I’ll probably charge forward on it as the week rolls on. Either tomorrow or a little later, depending upon when M.L. gets back to me on Beauty.
That essay I mentioned a couple of days ago got rejected at Lit *laugh* So, I added it to the Unpublished ( Lost ) work page. You can reach that from “My Work Extras” if you want to read it.
Speaking of my unpublished work, I tweaked the style sheets on those and my ancient stories ( found in the “Genesis” section of “About” ) to increase the font size, which I hope makes them easier reading. I meant to do this long ago, but only remembered when I added the new story today.
You can probably look for the inactive “Misc” link on the main page to vanish sometime in the ( sort of ) near future. What’s going to replace it will be a link that says “Shorts”. When that happens, it will be an active link.
What that link will lead to will be some short stories exclusive to my website. Odds are that they’ll be little mostly-sex tales about the characters from my stories. The one that’s been knocking around in my head today is a Devan story taking place before the first Arts Ardane.
These aren’t going to give any real big insights into the characters, or have any major plotlines. They’re going to be short adventures ( again, mostly sexual ) Odds are that I might write little continuations of some stories that people want to read more bumping and grinding from, but I don’t think have enough substance to submit to Lit or Storiesonline. What comes to mind there is a “the next day” for Stocking Stuffer.
I’m planning to add commenting ability to these stories, and the comments will be listed after the story, in much the same fashion as at Literotica. Unlike Literotica, the comments won’t appear immediately, but will instead move into a moderation queue. I’ll likely approve them in less than 24 hours, but I’m not going to give certain trolls that like to follow me around the opportunity to post something dumb and unconstructive like “it sux0rz!” on my website *laugh*
Constructive criticism will post, as it does on my Lit comments. I only delete the most worthless of comments, as you may have noticed — and even most of the worthless ones stand. I believe in letting the story speak for itself, for the most part.
There’s a chance that I might add this same functionality to Unpublished Work and Ancient Stories, but that’s a thought for another day.
Back to writing, I have another unfinished series that’s been stewing on the back burner for quite a while that I’m likely to pick up soon, as the roadblock in my head that had stalled it is eroding in random muse thoughts. That will be probably 4-5 chapters in addition to the 9 for Lowborn that shouldn’t be too far away.
One of these days, there’s going to be a flurry of regular weekly posting from me, dagnabbit! *laugh* I have a lot of partial stories sitting around, just waiting for the right spark to get them finished.
Anyway, back to wrapping up those odds and ends so I can get some writing done on Lowborn tonight.
