Think I’ve finally gotten all the tweaks made to Harvest. I’m back to where I was when I read through it, with just the final scene of heat and the ending to write.
After two years of struggling, it feels good to almost have this one ready.
I’m going to knuckle down on it, and try to get it finished, because I’d like to get at least one of my other Halloween ideas down, if possible.
As I nearly finished my first draft of Harvest, I went back through and read it from start to finish. The ending was feeling a little weak to me, and I ended up going with a hybrid of my original idea ( which I felt was a bit too dark for general readership in the Halloween contest, and what had kept me from finishing it ) and my new, lighter finale to the story.
I’m working on that transition now. Other than a few odds and ends, I’m more or less replacing one scene with another earlier in the story, and then writing the new ending ( which is only modified a little )
Mulling over that Wood tale and the one I’ve dubbed “Flesh” as well. As always, a little getting done on Lowborn and SOTM here and there as well. It’s sort of a good thing I didn’t crack down on Lowborn, because as slowly as things are getting released at Lit now, it would have defeated my design of rapidly releasing those chapters at a rate of around two a week.
Hoping things improve after the Halloween contest.
Back to Harvest.
I’m close enough to done with the first draft of Harvest now to add it to my signature at Lit, announcing it there. Here’s the mini cover image I’m using there, if you’re interested.
NSFW! http://www.darkniciad.com/covers/minis/barren_thum.png
I posted a preview passage on the forum yesterday, if you missed it.
I’m also writing on Lowborn and a story in my third name. On a bit of a roll today. Let’s hope I can keep it going.
I’ve finished tweaking a couple of things in the beginning of Harvest ( as I’ll be calling Barren Harvest for short ) that were good as part of the Arts Ardane series, but not necessarily good for wider consumption as a Halloween story. In the end, the regular readers of Danica tales will read what I had in there anyway, and some of it might have turned away readers not familiar with the previous and later stories in her life.
I’m near the end now, and anticipate finishing it this weekend. Just need to get another sex scene in there ( three in this story… Danica’s enjoying herself ) and the ending.
Been musing on the Halloween Wood story as well. The odds are that I’ll start that this weekend.
In the meantime, I’m writing a bit here and there on Lowborn, and getting past yet another sticky transition in SOTM. One of the things I think that my readers enjoy is my smooth transitions between scenes. The problem is, they don’t always come easy *laugh*
I may even skip over this transition for the time being and start writing the next scene. Sometimes, that jolts me forward. If nothing else, it gets more of the story written rather than typing and backspacing trying to get the scene switch to work the way I want it.
Just opened back up a story I started two years ago at about this time, with plans to put it in the Halloween contest. Didn’t finish it then, and put it away. Tried again last year, and once again, something was just off about it.
Think I may have the right angle at last.
This is the next story in the Arts Ardane series, featuring Danica, and is set around the Harvest Festival. It’s called Barren Harvest, and I think I might just finish it this time.
I’m working on cleaning up what I’ve already written, and preparing to move forward. It’s 90% done, and was just waiting for me to find the right angle for the ending these last two years. There’s a fair chance I may have it complete and ready to go before the weekend is over.
I’m also finally writing on the final chapter of Lowborn. My muse time has served me well, and it’s flowing. If I can get these two off my plate, I’ll have two less stories hanging over my head, nagging at me. That opens up more muse time for SOTM.
It, of course, nags at me as well. Once I finish it, I think I might just get into a more productive rhythm. Having the story hanging over my head makes me feel guilty whenever I write anything else, but I simply cannot bear down on one story like that. I have to have multiple things going in order to strike my various states of mind when I sit down to write.
I have another erotic horror idea for Halloween ( also set in Danica’s world ) that I may write as well. It’s an adaptation of an old NPC backstory, much like Harvest of Blood from several years ago. Working title ( very likely ) is simply “Flesh.”
Also preparing to start a Halloween outing for the Wood series, and may have some ideas in my third name.
If things cooperate, there could be a lot of new reading in the near future.
