EMCSA Woes

Writing Journal: Busy end of year. But I'm still around, if silent. And still writing, don't worry: hacking on The Adjusters #36 and #37, and since it looks like the end will take longer than I expected—did I mention I tend to overwrite?—in part to set up the next few books appropriately, the epilogue of Book III looks like it is going to be #38. Although, now that I think of it, I don't have a sex scene lined up for #38 yet. Ah well, something to worry about over the Holidays. Oh, and I'm also trying to put a Christmas Special together, too. Tricky tricky.

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Some of you may have noticed that the Erotic Mind-Control Story Archive has been having problems these last few months—sometimes showing the latest updates, sometimes showing the updates of August 4th. Long story short: there are two load-balancing servers serving the pages, and one of them failed to replicate the database past August 4th. So depending which server you hit, you either got something recent, or not.

Things appear to be back to normal now, but it's based on a small data sample. if the issue reappears, know that you can just hit refresh until you land on the right server. Alternatively, you can use Svengali, which you should know about anyways: it's a tagging overlay on top of the EMCSA, which gives you more descriptive tags and a search engine.

What else? There's an interesting thread on the MC Forum (partly prompted by the server problems alluded to above) as to whether the EMCSA is dying. Short answer: doubtful. But the discussion is fascinating. What? You're not a member of MC Forum? Sign up, and check it out. It's a nice community.

To put you in the proper Holiday spirit, here's Amia Miley having herself a Naughty Christmas.

As far as reading materials for the week, I've been in touch with Marlissa, and was reminded that one of that author's stories was an inspiration for The Adjusters. Specifically, The Conditioners: “Keith starts working at a secretive corporation and is given the power to condition women's minds.” An interesting longish story.

The other major inspiration, if you're curious, was Simon bar Sinister's The Treatment: “Ed accidentally learns about a diabolical conspiracy to brainwash nubile women.” Short, but delightfully arousing.

Of course, The Adjusters has evolved way beyond the original idea that was prompted by those two stories. But the seed is still there, buried deep, and you might even recognize it when I come around to the relevant plot points.