First off, thanks to everyone who’s voted on Barren Harvest so far.\u00a0 It’s doing well at Lit, although a couple of stories that just posted yesterday are likely to push it out of the winner’s circle in the end.\u00a0 Always a possibility, as I know there are some low bomb-votes in there, but unlikely with the scores and vote totals the stories above me have.<\/p>\n
Not many comments, but oh well.\u00a0 You can’t have everything!<\/p>\n
Don’t know whether it was the posting day or the synopsis, but it pretty much flatlined at SOL.\u00a0 Very few views, and even fewer votes.\u00a0 Again, oh well!\u00a0 SOL has really dropped off in readership across the board since\u00a0Laz marginalized certain types of stories ( I’m sure regular visitors there know what I’m talking about )\u00a0 I really hope that most of it is a censorship protest ( as the comments claimed ) and not that there were that many readers there into that type of story.\u00a0 The latter would be a bit creepy.<\/p>\n
To each their own and all, but *shiver*\u00a0 Sorry.\u00a0 Everybody has their squicks.<\/p>\n
I’m working on an impression read\/world building\/Americanization of a story for someone, and that’s naturally kept me from my own writing a bit.\u00a0 I really feel that taking these time-outs to help other authors is well worth it, even though it slows down production.\u00a0 I\u00a0establish connections for\u00a0when I need my own first readers, and often pick up the people I help as new readers.<\/p>\n
I’m going to dash off one — maybe two — Halloween stories in my third name, finish that impression read, and then get back to SOTM and Lowborn.\u00a0 Winter Holiday isn’t that far away, but I’m not going to worry about it for the time being.\u00a0 The only contest that I truly worry about is Earth Day, because I don’t want to break such a long tradition of posting an annual outing in the Wood universe.\u00a0 If I miss the other contests, I miss them.<\/p>\n
I’m actually considering not writing for the Winter one ( except maybe in my third name ) and instead doing some reviewing.\u00a0 I did this one year, and there’s entirely too little of that going on at Lit in recent years.\u00a0 Too many forum trolls and cynical people destroying the atmosphere.\u00a0 Trying to see if I can do something about that.<\/p>\n
I’m also likely to begin work on a How-To document concerning category placement for stories involving my main area of expertise — other worlds, magic, paranormal, etc.\u00a0 There are rather frequent questions about this, and it would be easier to be able to link to something fully fleshed out and edited than to keep typing pretty much the same thing all the time on the forum *laugh*\u00a0 This would post as LesLumens.<\/p>\n
I also have the original first two missing chapters from the A Royal Sacrifice chain in my possession.\u00a0 I’ve long wanted to write replacement chapters for those that are missing now that one of the authors has left Lit.\u00a0 With pretty much all the other authors from the chain absent, that pretty much leaves me =P\u00a0 Having the originals means that I can ensure I don’t miss any important plot points or character development, keeping the story seamless.<\/p>\n
Naturally, if the original author ever returns and wants to put hers back up, I’ll take mine down in a heartbeat.\u00a0 It will probably take a while, but I’d really like to see this story complete on the site again.\u00a0 Because\u00a0my chapters\u00a0posted as Dark, that’s what the replacement chapters will post as.\u00a0 If I’d been thinking about it, I would have posted those, Laresa, and my LST3K stories as Les, in order to keep my Dark name reserved for just stories in Danica’s world.\u00a0 Too late to go back now, though.<\/p>\n
Anyway, that’s the update.\u00a0 I’m seeing a lot of new votes and favorites, so welcome to anyone who may be dropping by for the first time!\u00a0 I have a lot of plans for the website to provide background information for my worlds and characters, so pop by every once in a while!\u00a0 The blog updates on a fairly regular basis, and there are already some useful resources with the newsletter, forum, and listing of my work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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