Monday, October 23, 2023

Post Vacation Update

During the break, I was both able to accomplish more, and less than I had anticipated.

I was able to keep up my writing while I was out, and finished the 'Repopulated' novel. However, I wasn't really able to get any editing done, and a large part of this I blame on Covid, which hit me like a ton of bricks as soon as I arrived at my destination.

On some days, even writing seemed like too much of a bother, which was really rather annoying to me. Blegh.

I'm still dealing with a lot of the aftereffects of that nastiness, so it's hard to promise anything in particular (the symptom list from that virus is truly horrifying). It didn't help that it triggered a couple of migraines, either, making it more difficult to get back on my feet.

Well, putting all that aside, I have been fairly productive recently.

Within the last few days, I've written an erotic horror story titled 'Shadow Play,' which I'm planning on releasing online before Halloween. That should be prepped and ready to go for MCStories and Literotica this weekend.

Since I just finished writing that, I need to figure out what I'm going to start working on tomorrow. I was originally spitballing some tie-ins to 'Repopulated,' but I'm having some serious misgivings on how I want to handle that novel in general.

That book has somewhat sensitive material in it, since it's more or less all about dickgirls, which in general has more of a niche audience than the other stuff I've released. That being the case, I'm debating whether it's a good fit for Amazon at all.

Once I've finished an editing pass, I might just consider releasing it entirely for free (not sure when editing will be done on that one!)

If I decide to do that, there isn't really much of an incentive to write any spin-offs in the same universe, as the whole point of doing that would be to drum up interest in the main universe.

Well, that hasn't been decided yet. Nothing's been decided yet! It's all a mystery to me!

The next few weeks are liable to be a rather wacky ride from beginning to end, but in general I think the end result is that I'll be posting more short stories for free. Stay tuned for more news here!

Monday, October 9, 2023

Before Vacation Update

I was seriously hoping that I would be finished with Repopulated by now, but it's sitting at 65K and by all accounts it will soon be novel length. I am working on the epilogue, and have a good idea on how to end it. Unfortunately, that 'good' idea is going to stretch the length somewhat (but since it'll make the ending more satisfying, it feels worth it to me!)

I'm of two minds about this, because although I personally enjoy futa girls, I suspect the audience for this kind of smut won't be as large as for the other works I've posted the last four months. I'm definitely not going to get out of this story what I put into it!

Oh well. At least I will have done the plot justice, and that's all that matters (I'll continue to convince myself that this is indeed the case).

That being said, if I'm lucky, I'm hoping that I'll be able to get the novel complete before I go on vacation next week. If not, I'm not certain whether I'll be able to get it edited before I get back. I will have to be mindful of my locations as I doubt the other passengers on the plane would be down with me reading lewd smut while travelling. Ah, well.

At any rate, the next story I have planned I've tentatively titled 'Symbiote Sublimation,' which will be a side story that takes place during this novel. The goal is to release that one for free online at the same time I get the novel published on Amazon.

With everything happening between now and then, I don't think my next release will occur until the end of the month at the soonest. It's far likelier that I'll be pushing out these new stories at the beginning of November.

See you all then!