Well, it is Christmas Eve here at Casa Bulgroz, and I am officially giving up on getting The Adjusters #47 out in December. For the first time in four years, I am missing a monthly installment. Which sucks, and makes me feel miserable. Installment #47 will come out as the January installment. I'm incredibly sorry about that. Not only because I feel I've let you all down, but mostly because I've let myself down.
But in the spirit of the Holidays, I shall try to forgive myself, and forge ahead with happy thoughts and a renewed hope that I can get my writing process back on track.
In the meantime, Merry Christmas if you celebrate it, and if not, well, have a Happy Last Wednesday in December!
Here are two stories to keep you entertained during the Holidays.
First, Digital Spy, by Davet1: “Surveillance expert meets horny divorcee.” The guy is a ethically-challenged bastard, and he meets an insatiable nymphomaniac. What could possibly go wrong? Actually nothing—it goes amazingly right. A fun not-so-consentual tale of depraved sex.
Second, Amber: The Making of a Fuck Toy, by Richard Bissell. No official description, but it's not hard to make one up: Amber comes to her teacher Mr. Bradley asking him to fuck her. He says that he only fucks sluts. She says she can become one for him. He says he's not so sure. She proves him wrong. Sexy tale full of sex and happy domination.
Tuesday, December 24, 2013
Monday, December 2, 2013
Update on The Adjusters #47
This should come as no surprise given the delay on The Adjusters #46, but that delay means that #47 is not quite ready yet. I'm hoping to cross the Ts and dot the Is by this weekend, barring unforeseen eventualities.
The difference between writing #46 and #47 is rather astonishing. Both #44 and #46 were really difficult to write, and I kept making major changes at the revision stage for both of them. Comparatively speaking, #43, #45, and the upcoming #47 are straightforward. It's pretty clear that I'm finding it difficult to write Jenn at the stage she's at, and #44 and #46 have been entirely from Jenn's perspective, with a lot going on, most of it internal. And I find it tough to get it right. In contrast, #43, #45, and #47 are straight-up plot development, with a clear direction. Action versus character, I guess.
I suspect there's a lesson there that I could study, but I'm too zonked to think about it tonight.
I'll leave you with a pair of long stories that I've just discovered, The Chronicles of Rita, and Delia's Story. I have no clue if they're any good, but they seem to be well written, and the setup is certainly intriguing. They take place in a world were slavery is legal again, and they feel very... Gorean in nature, if you allow me the expression. But as I said, I don't know if that's true. Still, pointer tossed your way, for your smutty edification.
The difference between writing #46 and #47 is rather astonishing. Both #44 and #46 were really difficult to write, and I kept making major changes at the revision stage for both of them. Comparatively speaking, #43, #45, and the upcoming #47 are straightforward. It's pretty clear that I'm finding it difficult to write Jenn at the stage she's at, and #44 and #46 have been entirely from Jenn's perspective, with a lot going on, most of it internal. And I find it tough to get it right. In contrast, #43, #45, and #47 are straight-up plot development, with a clear direction. Action versus character, I guess.
I suspect there's a lesson there that I could study, but I'm too zonked to think about it tonight.
I'll leave you with a pair of long stories that I've just discovered, The Chronicles of Rita, and Delia's Story. I have no clue if they're any good, but they seem to be well written, and the setup is certainly intriguing. They take place in a world were slavery is legal again, and they feel very... Gorean in nature, if you allow me the expression. But as I said, I don't know if that's true. Still, pointer tossed your way, for your smutty edification.
Sunday, November 24, 2013
New Story: The Adjusters #46
(Believe it or not, but it's here. Let's not discuss the elephant in the room...)
Here is November's installment of The Adjusters, “Awake”, wherein Jenn finds herself awake but not crazed for the first time in a long time.
As usual, comments welcome.
I'll also remind you that we have a Speculation Thread available for general discussion. (A thread which I read but do not comment on.)
The Adjusters #46 - Awake
“How are we doing today, sweetie?”
I startle at the odd lilt in Doctor Agnieska’s voice. Of course, any startling is in my head. My body remains motionless, subdued by the drugs.
Doctor Agnieska is almost always cheerful when she comes in for her twice-a-week visits, but today her voice is strained. Like she is hiding something, a reticence, and underneath that reticence, a fear. You get good at picking things up from voices when you can’t see, can’t move, can’t talk. Doctor Agnieska is scared. I don’t know why she’s scared, and while that ignorance should translate into a fear of my own, the bliss that envelops me ensures that all I feel is an intellectual, almost academic, apprehension.
My name is Jennifer Hansen, and I spend my days with my body knocked out but my mind free to wander. Doctor Agnieska is the one doctor who comes in and checks up on me regularly.
Continue reading...
Next month: “Jennifer's Plan”.
Here is November's installment of The Adjusters, “Awake”, wherein Jenn finds herself awake but not crazed for the first time in a long time.
As usual, comments welcome.
I'll also remind you that we have a Speculation Thread available for general discussion. (A thread which I read but do not comment on.)
The Adjusters #46 - Awake
“How are we doing today, sweetie?”
I startle at the odd lilt in Doctor Agnieska’s voice. Of course, any startling is in my head. My body remains motionless, subdued by the drugs.
Doctor Agnieska is almost always cheerful when she comes in for her twice-a-week visits, but today her voice is strained. Like she is hiding something, a reticence, and underneath that reticence, a fear. You get good at picking things up from voices when you can’t see, can’t move, can’t talk. Doctor Agnieska is scared. I don’t know why she’s scared, and while that ignorance should translate into a fear of my own, the bliss that envelops me ensures that all I feel is an intellectual, almost academic, apprehension.
My name is Jennifer Hansen, and I spend my days with my body knocked out but my mind free to wander. Doctor Agnieska is the one doctor who comes in and checks up on me regularly.
Continue reading...
Next month: “Jennifer's Plan”.
Sunday, November 3, 2013
Update on The Adjusters #46
Grrr. Sorry for the delay, folks. I wanted The Adjusters #46 posted this weekend, but I realized while revising that one of the scenes doesn't work so well, and I'm rewriting it. So it might be a couple of days still. Your patience, which I swear I'm not taking for granted, is very much appreciated.
Here are a variety of longish stories to tie you over.
First, a blackmail story with a nontrivial tone-in-cheek tone (I know, weird), The Weather Girl, by Fortunata: “Huge breasted woman abused by TV executive.” Actually a good read, with some very good moments, despite the somewhat eye-rolling description.
Second, pure sexy fun, The Video Store, by Edharian: “Employees find ways to pass the time at the video store.” No angst, no darkness (at least until now), just people enjoying the boinking.
Third, fun with an edge, Fantasising about Emma – Donor, by ArrowThroughTheHeart: “Her boyfriend's infertile. I'm not.” Basically a cheating story, from the point of view of the guy in love with a girl that happens to be dating someone else. The setup is hot, and the sex is hotter.
See you in a few days!
Here are a variety of longish stories to tie you over.
First, a blackmail story with a nontrivial tone-in-cheek tone (I know, weird), The Weather Girl, by Fortunata: “Huge breasted woman abused by TV executive.” Actually a good read, with some very good moments, despite the somewhat eye-rolling description.
Second, pure sexy fun, The Video Store, by Edharian: “Employees find ways to pass the time at the video store.” No angst, no darkness (at least until now), just people enjoying the boinking.
Third, fun with an edge, Fantasising about Emma – Donor, by ArrowThroughTheHeart: “Her boyfriend's infertile. I'm not.” Basically a cheating story, from the point of view of the guy in love with a girl that happens to be dating someone else. The setup is hot, and the sex is hotter.
See you in a few days!
Thursday, October 24, 2013
A Fun Sexy Story
Writing Journal: Still writing, don't worry. Just a bit more slowly than I would really really want. More details in the coming days. I'll get to your comments over the weekend, promised. Lots of interesting stuff there to respond to.
This is just a quick note to reassure everyone: I'm still here. Looking back: wow—no posts in September and October so far. Sorry about that. It's not even that things have been particularly busy since the crazy weeks at the beginning of September. I've just been... I don't know... blah, I guess. I've cocooned. Spent some time refreshing the internal emotional reserves. You know, that sort of stuff.
Anyway, here's a fun happy story about people having sex to tide you over. It's SpotInTheSand who writes Brad's Road Trip: “Brad gets ready for his trip by making a new friend.” Long story, hot sex, plenty of beautiful perverted girls.
This is just a quick note to reassure everyone: I'm still here. Looking back: wow—no posts in September and October so far. Sorry about that. It's not even that things have been particularly busy since the crazy weeks at the beginning of September. I've just been... I don't know... blah, I guess. I've cocooned. Spent some time refreshing the internal emotional reserves. You know, that sort of stuff.
Anyway, here's a fun happy story about people having sex to tide you over. It's SpotInTheSand who writes Brad's Road Trip: “Brad gets ready for his trip by making a new friend.” Long story, hot sex, plenty of beautiful perverted girls.
Saturday, October 5, 2013
New Story: The Adjusters #45
(Sorry this is late. I wish I had a good reason, but really, it's just bad time management skills.)
Here is October's installment of The Adjusters, “Sanderson's Plan”, wherein Sanderson responds to Jenn's plea for help, and an ally is recruited.
As usual, comments welcome.
I'll also remind you that we have a Speculation Thread available for general discussion. (A thread which I read but do not comment on.)
The Adjusters #45 - Sanderson's Plan
Please help Jennie. Those three words haunted Richard Sanderson like nothing else ever had in his life. They haunted him on the days following the night organized by Gutierrez. He had two days off, the first of which he spent recovering from that night’s events, nursing a headache that had to be a consequence of whatever drug cocktail they had given him. He spent that day in the semi-darkness of his apartment, his roommate thankfully gone for the day.
The following day he indulged in remembering the events of that night, and the arousal he had experienced. Because there was no way he could deny that it had been an incredible experience, something that even in his wildest fantasies he could not even begin to imagine. And the sex… Allison blowing him expertly… Jennie throwing herself at him… Jennie and the waif Lillian, or Mouse as everyone else called her, pleasuring each other… Those images mixed with images of Felicity, spread before him, calling him to her.
For the hundredth time since that night, he pulled out the photograph from his wallet, a small photograph that had never left him since he took it, years earlier. It showed Felicity, his ex-girlfriend, posing on a bed, her delightful body sheathed in a tight black silk slip with a deep cleavage and exposing her legs, those legs he loved so much, legs wrapped in dark stockings. She was posing with her arms above her head, her hands holding her hair up, a come-hither look on her face. She had allowed him to take the picture, a one-time thing, before fucking him nearly blind.
Continue reading...
Next month: “Awake”.
Here is October's installment of The Adjusters, “Sanderson's Plan”, wherein Sanderson responds to Jenn's plea for help, and an ally is recruited.
As usual, comments welcome.
I'll also remind you that we have a Speculation Thread available for general discussion. (A thread which I read but do not comment on.)
The Adjusters #45 - Sanderson's Plan
Please help Jennie. Those three words haunted Richard Sanderson like nothing else ever had in his life. They haunted him on the days following the night organized by Gutierrez. He had two days off, the first of which he spent recovering from that night’s events, nursing a headache that had to be a consequence of whatever drug cocktail they had given him. He spent that day in the semi-darkness of his apartment, his roommate thankfully gone for the day.
The following day he indulged in remembering the events of that night, and the arousal he had experienced. Because there was no way he could deny that it had been an incredible experience, something that even in his wildest fantasies he could not even begin to imagine. And the sex… Allison blowing him expertly… Jennie throwing herself at him… Jennie and the waif Lillian, or Mouse as everyone else called her, pleasuring each other… Those images mixed with images of Felicity, spread before him, calling him to her.
For the hundredth time since that night, he pulled out the photograph from his wallet, a small photograph that had never left him since he took it, years earlier. It showed Felicity, his ex-girlfriend, posing on a bed, her delightful body sheathed in a tight black silk slip with a deep cleavage and exposing her legs, those legs he loved so much, legs wrapped in dark stockings. She was posing with her arms above her head, her hands holding her hair up, a come-hither look on her face. She had allowed him to take the picture, a one-time thing, before fucking him nearly blind.
Continue reading...
Next month: “Awake”.
Friday, September 13, 2013
New Story: The Adjusters #44
(I'll sacrifice a few chickens this weekend to make sure that I'm not going to get another couple of weeks like the last few ones anytime soon. Holy crap that was painful. I'm not going to go into the details, but you know how one little crisis precipitates another and so on in a domino effect that you see coming but you can't do anything about? The weirdest thing is that now, it's like I'm on Star Trek Voyager, and someone has pressed the Reset button between episodes. Everything is pretty much back to normal, with nothing really to show for what happened except being supremely backed up on everything. Picture me shaking my head in dismay. Chickens, I tell you. Bloody sacrifice.)
Finally, here is September's installment of The Adjusters, “Awash”, wherein we get Jenn's perspective on Gutierrez's entrepreneurial venture.
As usual, comments welcome.
I'll also remind you that we have a Speculation Thread available for general discussion. (A thread which I read but do not comment on.)
The Adjusters #44 - Awash
When I come to, the world explodes into focus, and my cunt screams at me to find a cock to stretch it out and fill it up and pound it into sweet oblivion.
My name is Jennifer Hansen, and I’m hungry—I’m hungry for sex, hungry for cock, hungry for cum. That defines my world right now, this craving to be taken, invaded, possessed, in the most primal way imaginable. I’m awash with waves after waves of desire and lust. I want to moan and shout to someone to come and fuck me, but there’s something in my mouth keeping me from talking. I want to reach down and rub my hungry cunt raw and fuck myself with the first stiff thing I can get my hands on, but my hands are tied up above my head. I’m a needy cunt with no available release.
Continue reading...
Next month: “Sanderson's Plan”.
Finally, here is September's installment of The Adjusters, “Awash”, wherein we get Jenn's perspective on Gutierrez's entrepreneurial venture.
As usual, comments welcome.
I'll also remind you that we have a Speculation Thread available for general discussion. (A thread which I read but do not comment on.)
The Adjusters #44 - Awash
When I come to, the world explodes into focus, and my cunt screams at me to find a cock to stretch it out and fill it up and pound it into sweet oblivion.
My name is Jennifer Hansen, and I’m hungry—I’m hungry for sex, hungry for cock, hungry for cum. That defines my world right now, this craving to be taken, invaded, possessed, in the most primal way imaginable. I’m awash with waves after waves of desire and lust. I want to moan and shout to someone to come and fuck me, but there’s something in my mouth keeping me from talking. I want to reach down and rub my hungry cunt raw and fuck myself with the first stiff thing I can get my hands on, but my hands are tied up above my head. I’m a needy cunt with no available release.
Continue reading...
Next month: “Sanderson's Plan”.
Tuesday, September 3, 2013
Another Update on The Adjusters #44
Folks: I'm going to beg for your indulgence and your further patience. This week is turning out to be insane with crises that need to be handled right away. So I may not be able to get The Adjusters #44 out until this weekend. I hate that as much as you do.
Here's a story to pass the time. By Scottishmeat, consider Anal At Last: “Finding himself single again, he meets a girl.” A nice meaty fun story, with nary a moment of darkness, but lots of hot sex between kinky people. And the title does suggests what the protagonist's main kink is.
Here's a story to pass the time. By Scottishmeat, consider Anal At Last: “Finding himself single again, he meets a girl.” A nice meaty fun story, with nary a moment of darkness, but lots of hot sex between kinky people. And the title does suggests what the protagonist's main kink is.
Sunday, September 1, 2013
Update on The Adjusters #44
Folks: I thought I would have The Adjusters #44 revised for posting tonight, but because of a bunch of Labor Day activities, I haven't quite finished the revisions; the installment is a solid 15000 words right now, which is a big chunk of prose. So the installment won't be posted tonight, but I've got tomorrow off, so I should be able to finish and post it then. Thanks for your patience.
In the mean time, keep yourself entertained with a nice little kinky story by SpartanWitherby, The Divorcee and the Yard Boy: “30-year-old divorcee seduces her virginal yard guy.” Very hot long story of this divorcee who not only seduces the yard boy, but also gives herself to him and a few of his friends, agreeing to become their sex slave in exchange for them satisfying one of her fantasies. Some pretty hot scenes all in all. Please note that there's some male/male sex in chapter 4, but it's a one-off. (I know it bothers some people...)
In the mean time, keep yourself entertained with a nice little kinky story by SpartanWitherby, The Divorcee and the Yard Boy: “30-year-old divorcee seduces her virginal yard guy.” Very hot long story of this divorcee who not only seduces the yard boy, but also gives herself to him and a few of his friends, agreeing to become their sex slave in exchange for them satisfying one of her fantasies. Some pretty hot scenes all in all. Please note that there's some male/male sex in chapter 4, but it's a one-off. (I know it bothers some people...)
Tuesday, August 27, 2013
Jake's Dream Comes True
Writing Journal: Just finished The Adjusters #45. It was weird. All about the secondary characters. Not entirely sure how I feel about it. But it moves the plot along. I'm having a love/hate relationship with Book IV. Hopefully working on #46 will help out—back to Jenn's perspective.
It's been a busy month of August, split between work and family. But I'm here, and I read all the emails, and I read all the comments, even if I'm slow on the response and even slower on the postings.
Fact is, that's pretty much my problem these days. Since life is so busy, a lot of stuff gets put on the shelf where it grows and grows, and when I get a bit of time to do something about it, I look at the overflowing shelf and don't quite know where to start attacking it. Not an original problem, I know. I just haven't found a satisfactory solution that works for me.
The story this week is a little saga that just finished posting on the EMCSA (although I think I read it over at Storiesonline), and which many of you have probably already seen, but if not, let me present Jake's Dream Comes True, by Billy_Ray77: “After being pummelled by a pair of bullies, Jake’s mental powers manifest themselves.”
Now, the description doesn't really do the story justice, as the author himself points out in a post over at MCForum. And I admit that the first time I tried reading the story, back when it was only two or three chapters long, it didn't grab me. But there's an actual story there, one that goes way beyond the somewhat succinct description above that misleadingly suggests a Guy Gets Powers And Fucks Everything That Moves story line, a story about how Jake deals with his powers, and how they affect the people that he loves. It's a nice and sweet story, with less pathos that I would have expected—sadly, in my hands, that story would have had a few of the nice girls in there somewhat used and abused and I can tell you exactly where that use and abuse would have occurred!—but still plenty of twists and turns. It reminds me a lot of a couple of classic mind-control stories of years past, one of which I can remember the details of but not the title. I'm going to have to find it and link to it one day.
It's been a busy month of August, split between work and family. But I'm here, and I read all the emails, and I read all the comments, even if I'm slow on the response and even slower on the postings.
Fact is, that's pretty much my problem these days. Since life is so busy, a lot of stuff gets put on the shelf where it grows and grows, and when I get a bit of time to do something about it, I look at the overflowing shelf and don't quite know where to start attacking it. Not an original problem, I know. I just haven't found a satisfactory solution that works for me.
The story this week is a little saga that just finished posting on the EMCSA (although I think I read it over at Storiesonline), and which many of you have probably already seen, but if not, let me present Jake's Dream Comes True, by Billy_Ray77: “After being pummelled by a pair of bullies, Jake’s mental powers manifest themselves.”
Now, the description doesn't really do the story justice, as the author himself points out in a post over at MCForum. And I admit that the first time I tried reading the story, back when it was only two or three chapters long, it didn't grab me. But there's an actual story there, one that goes way beyond the somewhat succinct description above that misleadingly suggests a Guy Gets Powers And Fucks Everything That Moves story line, a story about how Jake deals with his powers, and how they affect the people that he loves. It's a nice and sweet story, with less pathos that I would have expected—sadly, in my hands, that story would have had a few of the nice girls in there somewhat used and abused and I can tell you exactly where that use and abuse would have occurred!—but still plenty of twists and turns. It reminds me a lot of a couple of classic mind-control stories of years past, one of which I can remember the details of but not the title. I'm going to have to find it and link to it one day.
Tuesday, August 6, 2013
Primevil Vignettes Series, Book 2
Writing Journal: The Adjusters #43 seems to have been well received, which I'm happy about. Next month's #44 is the final setting up of dominos for Book IV, after which I kick them and we see where things land. While the pace of #41–44 was a bit on the slow side, the rest of Book IV should be more snappy. I started on #45 this week, which looks like it will be an easy one to write (as opposed to #43–44, which were painful, with #44 still in pretty rough shape).
Quick question for the folks out there: if you bookmark stories, what do you use for bookmarking? I've been using Delicious because I started with it and inertia is pretty strong with me for stuff like that, but it's not ideal when you've accumulated a lot of bookmarks. Maybe I just haven't found the right way to tag things—I hate tagging—but I'm happy to take recommendations. I would like my bookmarks to live online, though, since I want to access them from different machines. (Although presumably I could store them in a dropbox-synchronized folder.)
The story for today is Book 2 of Velvetglove's Primevil Vignettes series, Rooting for the Underdog: “Multi-part, multi-character, non-consensual saga set in an imaginary country ruled by a dictatorship.” I've talked about Book 1 before, which I enjoyed a lot, and this one is a direct continuation, in exactly the same style—except for the scenes being somewhat shorter. Still a great idea, and I love the cruel little twists here and there. (Note to self: short sex scenes—maybe try that one day. Ah! Who am I kidding?...)
Quick question for the folks out there: if you bookmark stories, what do you use for bookmarking? I've been using Delicious because I started with it and inertia is pretty strong with me for stuff like that, but it's not ideal when you've accumulated a lot of bookmarks. Maybe I just haven't found the right way to tag things—I hate tagging—but I'm happy to take recommendations. I would like my bookmarks to live online, though, since I want to access them from different machines. (Although presumably I could store them in a dropbox-synchronized folder.)
The story for today is Book 2 of Velvetglove's Primevil Vignettes series, Rooting for the Underdog: “Multi-part, multi-character, non-consensual saga set in an imaginary country ruled by a dictatorship.” I've talked about Book 1 before, which I enjoyed a lot, and this one is a direct continuation, in exactly the same style—except for the scenes being somewhat shorter. Still a great idea, and I love the cruel little twists here and there. (Note to self: short sex scenes—maybe try that one day. Ah! Who am I kidding?...)
Friday, August 2, 2013
New Story: The Adjusters #43
Here is August's installment of The Adjusters, “Sanderson's Initiation”, wherein Sanderson learns about an entrepreneurial venture of Gutierrez.
As usual, comments welcome.
I'll also remind you that we have a Speculation Thread available for general discussion. (A thread which I read but do not comment on.)
The Adjusters #43 - Sanderson's Initiation
Sanderson worked three Saturdays and two Sundays every month. Not that it bothered him that much—he was still getting his bearings in the city, and did not have much of a social life. Like many people upon graduating and moving to a new area of the country where they knew no one, he was having difficulties creating a social circle. Making new friends from scratch was painful, especially without the socially-oriented college culture he had relied on for the previous half-decade. Everyone he knew worked at the Institute, and he did not feel close enough to his colleagues to hang out with them outside of work beyond the odd outing for drinks after work on Fridays. He had not asked Beatrice out either; their schedules did not match, and except for meeting up for lunch in the Institute’s cafeteria twice a month when their shifts overlapped in just the right way, he hardly saw her.
Not that he had much time to ponder his social and love life. He was kept busy, with most his time split between learning the rhythm of both the Institute and Blue Ward and getting to know the patients.
For the Blue Ward patients were unlike any he had ever encountered throughout his studies; they required individual attention to a degree that rivaled the schizophrenics with whom he had trained. He had never run across patients quite like them in case studies or the literature either. The nurses on the ward had confirmed what Doctor Dante had told him—and what his own cursory medical literature exploration had underlined—that these cases in Blue Ward were unique.
Continue reading...
Next month: “Awash”.
As usual, comments welcome.
I'll also remind you that we have a Speculation Thread available for general discussion. (A thread which I read but do not comment on.)
The Adjusters #43 - Sanderson's Initiation
Sanderson worked three Saturdays and two Sundays every month. Not that it bothered him that much—he was still getting his bearings in the city, and did not have much of a social life. Like many people upon graduating and moving to a new area of the country where they knew no one, he was having difficulties creating a social circle. Making new friends from scratch was painful, especially without the socially-oriented college culture he had relied on for the previous half-decade. Everyone he knew worked at the Institute, and he did not feel close enough to his colleagues to hang out with them outside of work beyond the odd outing for drinks after work on Fridays. He had not asked Beatrice out either; their schedules did not match, and except for meeting up for lunch in the Institute’s cafeteria twice a month when their shifts overlapped in just the right way, he hardly saw her.
Not that he had much time to ponder his social and love life. He was kept busy, with most his time split between learning the rhythm of both the Institute and Blue Ward and getting to know the patients.
For the Blue Ward patients were unlike any he had ever encountered throughout his studies; they required individual attention to a degree that rivaled the schizophrenics with whom he had trained. He had never run across patients quite like them in case studies or the literature either. The nurses on the ward had confirmed what Doctor Dante had told him—and what his own cursory medical literature exploration had underlined—that these cases in Blue Ward were unique.
Continue reading...
Next month: “Awash”.
Friday, July 26, 2013
An Early Meandering Post
Writing Journal: I was in the middle of writing the second sex scene of The Adjusters #44 this week, when it suddenly hit me: the sex scenes in that installment were boring! Not a pleasant realization to have. But at least, I think I know why they were, and what I need to do to fix them. All it takes is to plunge a bit deeper into the inner state of our dear Jenn.
I've been feeling completely and utterly off these last few weeks. Part of it is just real life being busy, part of it is the weird weather, part of it is a mild case of the summertime blues. It's one of those phases were everything just seems like a bit of a slog, like walking in the snow in the wintertime, where just moving forward takes all your energy, and you don't have any left over to actually enjoy the walk.
Whine, whine, whine. Don't mind me.
The other thing that's been bringing me down is I've started to put out some stories for sale on Amazon and Smashwords and the likes, as I've been threatening to do for a while now. As expected, I'm writing under a different pseudonym, which I'm not quite ready to give out here just yet. One of the reasons is that the stories are more character-based than what I write under my B3 persona here—closer in spirit to the last Christmas Special, which wasn't about mind control and wasn't dark. At least, that's the plan for now. I expect that will change once I start finding my voice and producing some longer stuff. In the meantime, it's just tough to start from scratch with a new identity. There's probably wider lesson here about something deeper and more meaningful, too.
What else? I need to fiddle with the layout of this blog. The white on red is starting to bug me—it gets hard to read after a while, and I'm surprised none of you has been on my case about it. (I mean, I'm glad, but surprised.) I've been meaning to correct that for a while, but I keep putting it off. If I'm good, I'll take a stab this weekend. If everything goes fubar, you'll know why...
Stories. Lets talk about stories. That'll take us out of the jam.
First off, if you enjoyed DocCIS's last chapter of Lapdancing Girlfriend, the author has some after-the-fact comments about it.
Second off, I don't have a specific story per se, but rather an author, Urban_legend555, over on Literotica, who seems to specialize in shortish blackmail stories. Nothing particularly realistic or psychologically tenable, and most of the stories are on the same theme, but they have different enough premises that it doesn't really sound like you're reading the same story over and over again, and they're fun. Have a look if that's your thing. I particularly enjoyed The Sarah Solution, Intimate Vacation Pictures, Betrayal of Privacy, An Aberration of Trust, and Afternoon in the Sun. And if you like your smut with a World War II flavor and with the obvious bad guys and victims, check out Cooperating with the Enemy.
I've been feeling completely and utterly off these last few weeks. Part of it is just real life being busy, part of it is the weird weather, part of it is a mild case of the summertime blues. It's one of those phases were everything just seems like a bit of a slog, like walking in the snow in the wintertime, where just moving forward takes all your energy, and you don't have any left over to actually enjoy the walk.
Whine, whine, whine. Don't mind me.
The other thing that's been bringing me down is I've started to put out some stories for sale on Amazon and Smashwords and the likes, as I've been threatening to do for a while now. As expected, I'm writing under a different pseudonym, which I'm not quite ready to give out here just yet. One of the reasons is that the stories are more character-based than what I write under my B3 persona here—closer in spirit to the last Christmas Special, which wasn't about mind control and wasn't dark. At least, that's the plan for now. I expect that will change once I start finding my voice and producing some longer stuff. In the meantime, it's just tough to start from scratch with a new identity. There's probably wider lesson here about something deeper and more meaningful, too.
What else? I need to fiddle with the layout of this blog. The white on red is starting to bug me—it gets hard to read after a while, and I'm surprised none of you has been on my case about it. (I mean, I'm glad, but surprised.) I've been meaning to correct that for a while, but I keep putting it off. If I'm good, I'll take a stab this weekend. If everything goes fubar, you'll know why...
Stories. Lets talk about stories. That'll take us out of the jam.
First off, if you enjoyed DocCIS's last chapter of Lapdancing Girlfriend, the author has some after-the-fact comments about it.
Second off, I don't have a specific story per se, but rather an author, Urban_legend555, over on Literotica, who seems to specialize in shortish blackmail stories. Nothing particularly realistic or psychologically tenable, and most of the stories are on the same theme, but they have different enough premises that it doesn't really sound like you're reading the same story over and over again, and they're fun. Have a look if that's your thing. I particularly enjoyed The Sarah Solution, Intimate Vacation Pictures, Betrayal of Privacy, An Aberration of Trust, and Afternoon in the Sun. And if you like your smut with a World War II flavor and with the obvious bad guys and victims, check out Cooperating with the Enemy.
Sunday, July 7, 2013
A Couple of Fifth Chapters
Writing Journal: Nothing to report. Just adding my daily bits to The Adjusters #44. Biggest decision is whether to have Jenn in a little black dress or in lingerie.
Drive-by blog post. Just saying hi, wanting to thank you all for the comments you dropped over the last few days—you folks are great, I want you to know that.
Meanwhile, a couple of stories I'm following have dropped new chapters this past week.
First, Kirk has a new chapter (the fifth) of Marlene's Story, which I talked about before. Still good, and taking an interesting direction that will probably get even darker.
Second, DocCIS has a new chapter (also the fifth) of Lapdancing Girlfriend, which I also talked about before. That's one woozy of a chapter—seemingly more than 150000 words, longer than Book I of The Adjusters. (And people say that I overwrite!) Despite its length, the chapter very much follows in the threads of the previous ones, so if you liked them, you should like this one. Not a lot of development, though, which is okay because the sex is hot, but I feel the story should kick a bit faster given that we are really focusing on a single character. Still, hot read.
Drive-by blog post. Just saying hi, wanting to thank you all for the comments you dropped over the last few days—you folks are great, I want you to know that.
Meanwhile, a couple of stories I'm following have dropped new chapters this past week.
First, Kirk has a new chapter (the fifth) of Marlene's Story, which I talked about before. Still good, and taking an interesting direction that will probably get even darker.
Second, DocCIS has a new chapter (also the fifth) of Lapdancing Girlfriend, which I also talked about before. That's one woozy of a chapter—seemingly more than 150000 words, longer than Book I of The Adjusters. (And people say that I overwrite!) Despite its length, the chapter very much follows in the threads of the previous ones, so if you liked them, you should like this one. Not a lot of development, though, which is okay because the sex is hot, but I feel the story should kick a bit faster given that we are really focusing on a single character. Still, hot read.
Thursday, July 4, 2013
Stories at the Opposite Ends
Writing Journal: Started out on The Adjusters #44, temporarily titled Awash. That one should be straightforward to write. Now, if I can get it and #45 done this month, then I'll be in a good spot for the rest of the summer. I also finally nailed a plot hole in Book IV this afternoon that had been bugging me for a while, so I'm happy. It looks like Book IV will take us to #50, if I can resist my urge to overcomplicate things.
Happy Independence Day if you're in the US. If not, well, happy fourth day of the month of July anyway, as arbitrary as that may sound.
Over at the EMCSA, Thrall has been posting a new story called Sleepwalkers: “The battle for an empire grows desperate after a leading Resistance figure is brainwashed.” A very interesting story. As I wrote elsewhere, this is a sci-fi story with erotic mind-control elements, as opposed to an erotic mind-control story with sci-fi elements. I'm really keen on seeing where this goes. It's induction heavy, and the sex is not quite the kind I usually go for (it's very subdued), but the mind-fucking is pretty hot. Read it if you're into dystopias. Also: Thrall has some posts about the background on her stories and behind-the-scenes discussions, the kind of stuff I love reading about.
At the complete opposite end of the spectrum, I ran across the stories of Mark Singer over at Literotica, which are fun light romps without a lot of drama to them, but that are basically sex, sex, sex—in some case, blow jobs, blow jobs, blow jobs. Case in point, Jennifer: “High school guy gets a shot at his dream girl.” That dream girl, Jennifer is young, beautiful, loves to tease, and has a pretty intense addiction to sucking cock. What's not to like?
Happy Independence Day if you're in the US. If not, well, happy fourth day of the month of July anyway, as arbitrary as that may sound.
Over at the EMCSA, Thrall has been posting a new story called Sleepwalkers: “The battle for an empire grows desperate after a leading Resistance figure is brainwashed.” A very interesting story. As I wrote elsewhere, this is a sci-fi story with erotic mind-control elements, as opposed to an erotic mind-control story with sci-fi elements. I'm really keen on seeing where this goes. It's induction heavy, and the sex is not quite the kind I usually go for (it's very subdued), but the mind-fucking is pretty hot. Read it if you're into dystopias. Also: Thrall has some posts about the background on her stories and behind-the-scenes discussions, the kind of stuff I love reading about.
At the complete opposite end of the spectrum, I ran across the stories of Mark Singer over at Literotica, which are fun light romps without a lot of drama to them, but that are basically sex, sex, sex—in some case, blow jobs, blow jobs, blow jobs. Case in point, Jennifer: “High school guy gets a shot at his dream girl.” That dream girl, Jennifer is young, beautiful, loves to tease, and has a pretty intense addiction to sucking cock. What's not to like?
Tuesday, July 2, 2013
New Story: The Adjusters #42
Here is July's installment of The Adjusters, “Aware”, wherein we get a glimpse of Jenn's side of the story.
As usual, comments welcome.
I'll also remind you that we have a Speculation Thread available for general discussion. (A thread which I read but do not comment on.)
The Adjusters #42 - Aware
Bliss. I think that nails it. Bliss. If there was a thesaurus handy, and I had the ability to actually use it, perhaps I might be able to find another word that better fit what I’m feeling—but since there isn’t and I don’t, I’ll make do with that one. Bliss.
My name is Jennifer Hansen, and right now, all I’m feeling is bliss. I’m swimming in bliss, floating in what David Lynch would probably call that vast ocean of consciousness that my friend from film school back in college who was simply crazy about the guy kept going on and on about. I’m submerged in bliss, always two seconds away from drowning in the stuff.
I’m not complaining, mind you. I’m not complaining at all. The fact is, it’s probably the only thing that’s keeping me sane right now.
I’ve been here for a while now. I’m not sure exactly where here is. I’m not sure exactly how long I’ve been here either, because I’m drugged up much of the time. I’m as high as a kite that’s been blown skyward by gale-storm winds. I’m not even hyperbolical about it. I’m fucking floating in the air. As well as swimming in bliss. I’m so happy I don’t care about mixing my metaphors.
Continue reading...
Next month: “Sanderson's Initiation”.
As usual, comments welcome.
I'll also remind you that we have a Speculation Thread available for general discussion. (A thread which I read but do not comment on.)
The Adjusters #42 - Aware
Bliss. I think that nails it. Bliss. If there was a thesaurus handy, and I had the ability to actually use it, perhaps I might be able to find another word that better fit what I’m feeling—but since there isn’t and I don’t, I’ll make do with that one. Bliss.
My name is Jennifer Hansen, and right now, all I’m feeling is bliss. I’m swimming in bliss, floating in what David Lynch would probably call that vast ocean of consciousness that my friend from film school back in college who was simply crazy about the guy kept going on and on about. I’m submerged in bliss, always two seconds away from drowning in the stuff.
I’m not complaining, mind you. I’m not complaining at all. The fact is, it’s probably the only thing that’s keeping me sane right now.
I’ve been here for a while now. I’m not sure exactly where here is. I’m not sure exactly how long I’ve been here either, because I’m drugged up much of the time. I’m as high as a kite that’s been blown skyward by gale-storm winds. I’m not even hyperbolical about it. I’m fucking floating in the air. As well as swimming in bliss. I’m so happy I don’t care about mixing my metaphors.
Continue reading...
Next month: “Sanderson's Initiation”.
Sunday, June 30, 2013
A Couple of Good Long Stories
Writing Journal: Merrily revising The Adjusters #42 for posting tomorrow night. It's not easy: that installment is completely different from all the previous ones. Earlier this week, I also finished a first pass at #43. And looking at 41–44, I'm noticing that the pacing is slow. Too slow? I don't know. But I suspect (better: hope) that it will pick up some, otherwise, it's going to be one hell of a long book, and that's not going to be good for anybody. (I'd love for Book IV to be about the same length as Book III.)
June's been busy. Too busy. I owe some of you folks email responses—don't worry, they're coming. I have not forgotten nor dismissed. I'm also experiencing my usual late Spring downswing in morale. Put it all together, my smut reading has taken a hit, and so I have less to report than usual.
Still, a couple of very good stories have made their way across my screen—many of them via Djian Understories.
The best find was a story by Velvetglove, Primevil Vignettes (Book One)—Blessed are the Meek: “Multi-part, multi-character, non-consensual saga set in an imaginary country ruled by a dictatorship (the first of seven Books)” Nice setup, very well written, and some clever hot ideas and awesome sex. One of those stories that I wish I had written. I really hope the author goes through their plan to write seven books in that universe. Highly recommended.
I don't think I've ever mentioned this one, but on the previous iteration of Understories I ran across this story by Wilcox010, Summer's Blackmail: “Sexy teacher stumbles her way into trouble.” Another teacher-blackmailed-by-a-student story, that uses a nice little twist at the beginning that unfortunately is not quite followed through the whole way (which I think would have led to something even better) but the story is still good, and may press your buttons if you're into, well, teachers being blackmailed into sex. (Here's a link to the story on Literotica, which may be a bit faster.)
Finally, a couple of new chapters to Kirk's Marlene’s Story have been added since the last time I talked about it. The story still holds up, and it's still a hot read.
June's been busy. Too busy. I owe some of you folks email responses—don't worry, they're coming. I have not forgotten nor dismissed. I'm also experiencing my usual late Spring downswing in morale. Put it all together, my smut reading has taken a hit, and so I have less to report than usual.
Still, a couple of very good stories have made their way across my screen—many of them via Djian Understories.
The best find was a story by Velvetglove, Primevil Vignettes (Book One)—Blessed are the Meek: “Multi-part, multi-character, non-consensual saga set in an imaginary country ruled by a dictatorship (the first of seven Books)” Nice setup, very well written, and some clever hot ideas and awesome sex. One of those stories that I wish I had written. I really hope the author goes through their plan to write seven books in that universe. Highly recommended.
I don't think I've ever mentioned this one, but on the previous iteration of Understories I ran across this story by Wilcox010, Summer's Blackmail: “Sexy teacher stumbles her way into trouble.” Another teacher-blackmailed-by-a-student story, that uses a nice little twist at the beginning that unfortunately is not quite followed through the whole way (which I think would have led to something even better) but the story is still good, and may press your buttons if you're into, well, teachers being blackmailed into sex. (Here's a link to the story on Literotica, which may be a bit faster.)
Finally, a couple of new chapters to Kirk's Marlene’s Story have been added since the last time I talked about it. The story still holds up, and it's still a hot read.
Wednesday, June 5, 2013
New Story: The Adjusters #41
Here is June's installment of The Adjusters, “The Craven-Wilford Institute”, wherein we reconnect with Jennifer Hansen.
As usual, comments welcome.
I'll also remind you that we have a Speculation Thread available for general discussion. (A thread which I read but do not comment on.)
BOOK IV — RUNNING TO STAND STILL
The Adjusters #41 - The Craven-Wilford Institute
Richard Sanderson donned his uniform, trying to relax. His first day of his first job out of college—some anxiety was not only understandable, but expected. He had a few nursing internships under his belt, of course, like everyone else, but internships were different. One was mentored, supervised.
But this was the real thing. He was alone, left to his own devices. Sink or swim. So this is what independence feels like, he thought.
He looked at himself in the mirror in the employees’ lounge, which was lined up with lockers on one side, and a couch, a few tables, and a small bookshelf on the others. A large window against one wall let light in and offered a view of a pleasantly wooden area—filled swampland, he had been told. He practiced making relaxed friendly faces even as he checked to make sure his shirt was buttoned correctly. Focusing on details had always been his trick to control anxiety at exams and public functions throughout his life. And this is what it felt like—an exam, doubled with a quasi-public function.
He looked again at his blonde hair, unable to quite get used to how short it was, the shortest he had ever worn it. It looked good, he agreed with the hairdresser he had seen just the day before, who had suggested the new length as a way to mark his starting the new phase of his life. His shoulder-length locks had fallen ominously around him while she worked, like a rain washing away the past. He wondered again, as he had for the past day, how Felicity would have reacted at seeing his hair. She had loved his long curls.
Continue reading...
Next month: “Aware”.
As usual, comments welcome.
I'll also remind you that we have a Speculation Thread available for general discussion. (A thread which I read but do not comment on.)
BOOK IV — RUNNING TO STAND STILL
The Adjusters #41 - The Craven-Wilford Institute
Richard Sanderson donned his uniform, trying to relax. His first day of his first job out of college—some anxiety was not only understandable, but expected. He had a few nursing internships under his belt, of course, like everyone else, but internships were different. One was mentored, supervised.
But this was the real thing. He was alone, left to his own devices. Sink or swim. So this is what independence feels like, he thought.
He looked at himself in the mirror in the employees’ lounge, which was lined up with lockers on one side, and a couch, a few tables, and a small bookshelf on the others. A large window against one wall let light in and offered a view of a pleasantly wooden area—filled swampland, he had been told. He practiced making relaxed friendly faces even as he checked to make sure his shirt was buttoned correctly. Focusing on details had always been his trick to control anxiety at exams and public functions throughout his life. And this is what it felt like—an exam, doubled with a quasi-public function.
He looked again at his blonde hair, unable to quite get used to how short it was, the shortest he had ever worn it. It looked good, he agreed with the hairdresser he had seen just the day before, who had suggested the new length as a way to mark his starting the new phase of his life. His shoulder-length locks had fallen ominously around him while she worked, like a rain washing away the past. He wondered again, as he had for the past day, how Felicity would have reacted at seeing his hair. She had loved his long curls.
Continue reading...
Next month: “Aware”.
Thursday, May 30, 2013
Update on The Adjusters #41
Hi folks. Bad news. I've got to head out for the weekend, so I won't be able to make the Saturday night posting of The Adjusters #41. I should be back for Tuesday, so the posting is tentatively scheduled for later that night.
Thanks for your patience.
In the meantime, here's the long tale of a wife that discovers her exhibitionist tendencies, and the trouble it brings her marriage: Modeling Contract, by Bonnietaylor.
Thanks for your patience.
In the meantime, here's the long tale of a wife that discovers her exhibitionist tendencies, and the trouble it brings her marriage: Modeling Contract, by Bonnietaylor.
Monday, May 27, 2013
Weekend Random Links (Superhero Edition)
Writing Journal: I've been stuck on The Adjusters #43 until this morning. I'm still somewhat stuck, but I think I see a way out. I'm having a lot of difficulty with the pacing. I don't want Book IV to be a sprawling 20 installments saga like Book II, but I also want to make sure I give it the room it needs to breathe. In comparison, Book III was pretty straightforward to set up and execute.
Some late weekend random links, with a superhero theme—again, not that I'm particularly reading comics anymore, at least not superhero comics, short of keeping up with the world via Scans_Daily, but part of me still has affection for those crazy everything-remains-the-same-yet-changes-but-without-changing universes. (And yeah, I still have an idea for a DC-based smut story, but it's pretty low on the priority list.)
This is old, but Charlie Jane Anders talks about the history of superhero porn. (And I guess that while we're at it, we can look at modern superhero porn...)
It's not porn, but Alter Egos is a pretty good indie superhero comedy flick, and it has this one scene that really messes with my head.
Let's start slowly with the classics. Here's a stupefyingly innuendo-filled song by the Birds of Prey from Batman: The Brave and the Bold. (Warning: the song tends to stick in your head.)
You may or may not have heard about the latest Spiderman arc in the regular universe, the one about Superior Spiderman, but these scans where the new Superior Spider-man makes a move on MJ, my favorite redhead, are delightfully creepy.
A bit less mainstream, but still within the universe, there's Jessica Jones. Here's the last arc of the Alias series, where we meet the Purple Man, a villain with mind-control powers that does pretty much exactly what we would expect a villain to do...
I wanted to leave you with some good superhero smut, but I seem to have difficulty finding some that I have not already posted. Still, we have two about Supergirl (just don't ask me which incarnation): Supergirl Becomes Superslut, by LisaAnn, and Supergirl Fallen, by Citizen Bane. Both stories are about Supergirl taken down a notch, as you might expect given the titles. They're not great stories, but they're better than the crud that usually passes for superhero smut.
Some late weekend random links, with a superhero theme—again, not that I'm particularly reading comics anymore, at least not superhero comics, short of keeping up with the world via Scans_Daily, but part of me still has affection for those crazy everything-remains-the-same-yet-changes-but-without-changing universes. (And yeah, I still have an idea for a DC-based smut story, but it's pretty low on the priority list.)
This is old, but Charlie Jane Anders talks about the history of superhero porn. (And I guess that while we're at it, we can look at modern superhero porn...)
It's not porn, but Alter Egos is a pretty good indie superhero comedy flick, and it has this one scene that really messes with my head.
Let's start slowly with the classics. Here's a stupefyingly innuendo-filled song by the Birds of Prey from Batman: The Brave and the Bold. (Warning: the song tends to stick in your head.)
You may or may not have heard about the latest Spiderman arc in the regular universe, the one about Superior Spiderman, but these scans where the new Superior Spider-man makes a move on MJ, my favorite redhead, are delightfully creepy.
A bit less mainstream, but still within the universe, there's Jessica Jones. Here's the last arc of the Alias series, where we meet the Purple Man, a villain with mind-control powers that does pretty much exactly what we would expect a villain to do...
I wanted to leave you with some good superhero smut, but I seem to have difficulty finding some that I have not already posted. Still, we have two about Supergirl (just don't ask me which incarnation): Supergirl Becomes Superslut, by LisaAnn, and Supergirl Fallen, by Citizen Bane. Both stories are about Supergirl taken down a notch, as you might expect given the titles. They're not great stories, but they're better than the crud that usually passes for superhero smut.
Monday, May 20, 2013
Thoughts on the Charlie Stories
Writing Journal: I'm done drafting the first two installments of Book IV of The Adjusters, except for the sex scene at the end of #41, and it's showing me some things that seem to work and some that don't. And I've got about 3/4th of the story line for Book IV nailed down. I'm just not sure how it ends—well, I do know how it ends as far as setting up Book V and within the larger story line, but not so much the arc-specific threads.
So it's been almost three weeks now since I've posted the second half the last Charlie story—Charlie and the Convent of Oblivion—and a consensus seems to be emerging from the comments I've received so far. Basically, those that came to the story from the perspective of The Adjusters were a bit disappointed (possibly too strong a word) and felt that the story distracted from the main story line and that it might have been better to just get on with Jenn's adventures directly; while those that came to the story independently of the serial liked it better (when they got past the god-awful first section).
That's very good to know. Usually, I don't question too much how stories are received. Some work, some don't. I'm okay with stories not working when I've tried to do something different, and sometimes they don't work not because of anything I've done, but just because somehow, the story didn't quite come into the world at the right time or in the right place. I don't really lose sleep over it.
The Charlie stories are a bit different, though, because I would like to know whether I should continue with the idea. See, my original thought—before actually trying it out on the world—was for those stories to be a way to tease the reader, giving them a glimpse of what was coming down the pipe, but without actually revealing enough to spoil the story. But it's not quite working out as planned: the last story was a bit too long to serve as a teaser (it was freakin' 30000 words longs... Yes. I count them) and all in all it might just be too distracting to be effective. And I'm not basing this solely on readers' comments, but also on my own sensibilities looking back on it. Don't get me wrong: I like those stories. I'm just now sure they work as I intended them to work within the larger picture. So I don't know. Right now, I'm leaning towards not having further Charlie stories within the serial. (Thankfully, they're not actually required by the plot after the second one—I know, because I create the plot!)
On a different topic: last weekend, as you may have noticed, I've reposted the first book of The Adjusters in the new HTML format that I'm trying out for posting stories. Mostly, it's to get the UTF-8 encoding for quotes, em-dashes, and accents, and to get italics. No one's reported any problems, so I'm continuing to convert the rest of my stories as well the rest of The Adjusters.
Stories for this week? Nothing particularly caught my eye, but I did notice that Bluedragon seems to have a new entry in his An Ordinary Sex Life series: An Ordinary College Sex Life 3. I haven't started reading it yet, because it's a bit like getting into a new volume of A Song of Ice and Fire, namely you have to remember a boatload of backstory. But I feel I should let everyone know, since it is a pretty good series.
So it's been almost three weeks now since I've posted the second half the last Charlie story—Charlie and the Convent of Oblivion—and a consensus seems to be emerging from the comments I've received so far. Basically, those that came to the story from the perspective of The Adjusters were a bit disappointed (possibly too strong a word) and felt that the story distracted from the main story line and that it might have been better to just get on with Jenn's adventures directly; while those that came to the story independently of the serial liked it better (when they got past the god-awful first section).
That's very good to know. Usually, I don't question too much how stories are received. Some work, some don't. I'm okay with stories not working when I've tried to do something different, and sometimes they don't work not because of anything I've done, but just because somehow, the story didn't quite come into the world at the right time or in the right place. I don't really lose sleep over it.
The Charlie stories are a bit different, though, because I would like to know whether I should continue with the idea. See, my original thought—before actually trying it out on the world—was for those stories to be a way to tease the reader, giving them a glimpse of what was coming down the pipe, but without actually revealing enough to spoil the story. But it's not quite working out as planned: the last story was a bit too long to serve as a teaser (it was freakin' 30000 words longs... Yes. I count them) and all in all it might just be too distracting to be effective. And I'm not basing this solely on readers' comments, but also on my own sensibilities looking back on it. Don't get me wrong: I like those stories. I'm just now sure they work as I intended them to work within the larger picture. So I don't know. Right now, I'm leaning towards not having further Charlie stories within the serial. (Thankfully, they're not actually required by the plot after the second one—I know, because I create the plot!)
On a different topic: last weekend, as you may have noticed, I've reposted the first book of The Adjusters in the new HTML format that I'm trying out for posting stories. Mostly, it's to get the UTF-8 encoding for quotes, em-dashes, and accents, and to get italics. No one's reported any problems, so I'm continuing to convert the rest of my stories as well the rest of The Adjusters.
Stories for this week? Nothing particularly caught my eye, but I did notice that Bluedragon seems to have a new entry in his An Ordinary Sex Life series: An Ordinary College Sex Life 3. I haven't started reading it yet, because it's a bit like getting into a new volume of A Song of Ice and Fire, namely you have to remember a boatload of backstory. But I feel I should let everyone know, since it is a pretty good series.
Sunday, May 12, 2013
HTML Format for Stories
Writing Journal: Jauntily hacking on The Adjusters #41. Going well—it's a pretty straightforward chapter, as far as those things are concerned. Some things are still rough, but I'll figure them out when revising. And there's one character that I wasn't expecting that showed up and said: “Hey, can I have a part?” And the answer might just be yes, yes indeed.
Okay, so I spent part of the weekend hacking on getting an HTML version of The Adjusters on ASSTR.
And I do mean hacking. I ended up writing a perl script to take the HTML output of Scrivener (which is what I generally use to write my stories) and clean it up and massage it to that it matches the CSS I wanted to use. All in all, it went better than expected.
Why do I want HTML? Mainly, because I want true UTF8 encoding, so I can get accents (fiancée) and nice quotes (“...”) and true em-dashes (—). And because I rely a lot on italics for internal dialogue.
Right now, I've only converted the installments from the first book, such as the first installment, Daniel and Jennifer. Check it out, let me know what you think.
In the coming week, I'll finish converting the rest of the tale, and upcoming installments will be posted that way as well, coinciding with the start of Book IV.
A couple of questions for you all, if you care about this in any way:
(1) does anyone actually need the .txt versions? They are suboptimal because of the lack of italics, and it might be a pain to keep in sync, but I'm willing to keep producing them if there's demand.
(2) does anyone care about reading the stories on mobile? Right now, the layout I favor may not look great on mobile (though I haven't tried except on my phone, which is frighteningly dinky). If you do, let me know how things look.
Feel free to post in the comments, or contact me privately.
And as far as stories are concerned, here's another one by Kirk, Marlene's Story: “Marlene Catalano reunites with her brother, who used to dominate her when they were younger.” Sweet, sweet domination. And hopefully, more parts to come.
Okay, so I spent part of the weekend hacking on getting an HTML version of The Adjusters on ASSTR.
And I do mean hacking. I ended up writing a perl script to take the HTML output of Scrivener (which is what I generally use to write my stories) and clean it up and massage it to that it matches the CSS I wanted to use. All in all, it went better than expected.
Why do I want HTML? Mainly, because I want true UTF8 encoding, so I can get accents (fiancée) and nice quotes (“...”) and true em-dashes (—). And because I rely a lot on italics for internal dialogue.
Right now, I've only converted the installments from the first book, such as the first installment, Daniel and Jennifer. Check it out, let me know what you think.
In the coming week, I'll finish converting the rest of the tale, and upcoming installments will be posted that way as well, coinciding with the start of Book IV.
A couple of questions for you all, if you care about this in any way:
(1) does anyone actually need the .txt versions? They are suboptimal because of the lack of italics, and it might be a pain to keep in sync, but I'm willing to keep producing them if there's demand.
(2) does anyone care about reading the stories on mobile? Right now, the layout I favor may not look great on mobile (though I haven't tried except on my phone, which is frighteningly dinky). If you do, let me know how things look.
Feel free to post in the comments, or contact me privately.
And as far as stories are concerned, here's another one by Kirk, Marlene's Story: “Marlene Catalano reunites with her brother, who used to dominate her when they were younger.” Sweet, sweet domination. And hopefully, more parts to come.
Friday, May 10, 2013
Honeymoon Gone Awry
Writing Journal: I'm writing The Adjusters #41 and #42 more or less in parallel. I'm trying my hardest, within the bounds of the time that I have, to knock them out as fast as I can so that I can move on to #43 and #44 and give me some welcome buffer room. We'll see how well I can get that to work. The biggest writing decision right now, the one over which I'm going back and forth and probably won't nail until I've started on #43, is whether to have Book IV exclusively from Jenn's perspective, or allow some back and forth with another character.
I still haven't finished digesting the comments I'm receiving for Charlie and the Convent of Oblivion, so I'll wait a bit to comment myself. Probably this weekend.
In the meantime, here's a long story that I'm in the middle of reading. It's Honeymoon Gone Awry, by Kirk: “This is the story of Julie and Doug, two young newlyweds who are very much in love. Our story begins on their wedding day as they drive to their honeymoon suite in Lake George. A flat tire changes the course of their lives in a dramatic way.” This one has humiliation aplenty, a reluctant wife that slowly, ever so slowly, gets turned, and a poor husband who has to suffer as well, for several different reasons. A really great read.
Edit: oops. Forgot the post title.
I still haven't finished digesting the comments I'm receiving for Charlie and the Convent of Oblivion, so I'll wait a bit to comment myself. Probably this weekend.
In the meantime, here's a long story that I'm in the middle of reading. It's Honeymoon Gone Awry, by Kirk: “This is the story of Julie and Doug, two young newlyweds who are very much in love. Our story begins on their wedding day as they drive to their honeymoon suite in Lake George. A flat tire changes the course of their lives in a dramatic way.” This one has humiliation aplenty, a reluctant wife that slowly, ever so slowly, gets turned, and a poor husband who has to suffer as well, for several different reasons. A really great read.
Edit: oops. Forgot the post title.
Friday, May 3, 2013
New Story: The Adjusters #40
(Sorry for the delay folks. My internet decided to go on the fritz this week. It seems to be limping along now, so I'll take advantage of it to post.)
Here is May's installment of The Adjusters, “Charlie and the Convent of Oblivion (II)”, wherein we conclude the story that Jennifer Hansen wrote about her time since the infamous DIK-Bash.
As usual, comments welcome.
I'll also remind you that we have a Speculation Thread available for general discussion. (A thread which I read but do not comment on.)
The Adjusters #40 - Charlie and Convent of Oblivion (II)
Story by J. Dumas. First appeared in Flights of Erotic Fantasy
Magazine, Vol. 13, Nos. 7-8.
(4)
Help me. Those words, mouthed by a briefly clear-eyed Charlie,
distressed Sarah of Charnia, keeping her company throughout the day
and invading her dreams at night. That the plea came after Sarah had
experienced an almost mystical experience at the hands and tongue of
the beautiful dark-haired young woman cemented the poignancy that
suffused Charlie's supplication. For Sarah carried the memory of her
time with Charlie like a treasured gem in her heart, unwilling to face
the meaning of her actions and associated emotions, but relishing the
pleasure she had experienced.
Sarah did not entirely succeed in camouflaging her troubled mind, but
Gertrude, who kept a sharp eye on the other novices, mistook Sarah's
agitation for the emotional charge of the young woman's first lesbian
encounter.
Gertrude, always on the lookout for new novices to bring under her
wings and guide and control--for they provided a small but
non-negligible foothold of power within the Covenant--was more than
willing to use Charlie as the temptation with which to ensnare
Sarah. And if temptation did not suffice, Gertrude determined,
blackmail would be an equally effective mean of persuasion.
During the day, whenever Gertrude was busy, Sarah would sneak a peek
at Charlie, who remained locked in her draught-induced sleep, and
would remember how those fingers and those lips and those breasts felt
on her body, the memories never failing to send delicious tingles to
her pussy.
Continue reading...
Next month: “The Craven-Wilford Institute”.
Here is May's installment of The Adjusters, “Charlie and the Convent of Oblivion (II)”, wherein we conclude the story that Jennifer Hansen wrote about her time since the infamous DIK-Bash.
As usual, comments welcome.
I'll also remind you that we have a Speculation Thread available for general discussion. (A thread which I read but do not comment on.)
The Adjusters #40 - Charlie and Convent of Oblivion (II)
Story by J. Dumas. First appeared in Flights of Erotic Fantasy
Magazine, Vol. 13, Nos. 7-8.
(4)
Help me. Those words, mouthed by a briefly clear-eyed Charlie,
distressed Sarah of Charnia, keeping her company throughout the day
and invading her dreams at night. That the plea came after Sarah had
experienced an almost mystical experience at the hands and tongue of
the beautiful dark-haired young woman cemented the poignancy that
suffused Charlie's supplication. For Sarah carried the memory of her
time with Charlie like a treasured gem in her heart, unwilling to face
the meaning of her actions and associated emotions, but relishing the
pleasure she had experienced.
Sarah did not entirely succeed in camouflaging her troubled mind, but
Gertrude, who kept a sharp eye on the other novices, mistook Sarah's
agitation for the emotional charge of the young woman's first lesbian
encounter.
Gertrude, always on the lookout for new novices to bring under her
wings and guide and control--for they provided a small but
non-negligible foothold of power within the Covenant--was more than
willing to use Charlie as the temptation with which to ensnare
Sarah. And if temptation did not suffice, Gertrude determined,
blackmail would be an equally effective mean of persuasion.
During the day, whenever Gertrude was busy, Sarah would sneak a peek
at Charlie, who remained locked in her draught-induced sleep, and
would remember how those fingers and those lips and those breasts felt
on her body, the memories never failing to send delicious tingles to
her pussy.
Continue reading...
Next month: “The Craven-Wilford Institute”.
Wednesday, April 24, 2013
Two Wife/Girlfriend-Watching Stories
Writing Journal: Not much to report. Bit of a creative block this week—writing more difficult than usual. So plowing ahead slowly with The Adjusters #42, and finishing a scene for #40. Bit by bit.
Two stories of the wife/girlfriend-watching variety this week.
Spying on My Girlfriend Being Seduced By Her Father's Friend, by Starman2345: “He watches a middle-aged man seduce his girlfriend.” Pretty much as the exceedingly detailed title says. The sex is hot, and the father's friend is just obnoxious enough.
Risking Judy, by Chris Seagate: “Boss pursues his employee's young wife.” An interesting tale. Sex aplenty, and a protagonist you want to smack upside the head, but hey, that's all part of the fun, ain't it?
Two stories of the wife/girlfriend-watching variety this week.
Spying on My Girlfriend Being Seduced By Her Father's Friend, by Starman2345: “He watches a middle-aged man seduce his girlfriend.” Pretty much as the exceedingly detailed title says. The sex is hot, and the father's friend is just obnoxious enough.
Risking Judy, by Chris Seagate: “Boss pursues his employee's young wife.” An interesting tale. Sex aplenty, and a protagonist you want to smack upside the head, but hey, that's all part of the fun, ain't it?
Sunday, April 21, 2013
Back with some Random Stories
Writing Journal: Comments have been trickling in for Charlie and the Convent of Oblivion, and the reception has been a bit tepid. I'm not complaining—not everything I try works, and I wouldn't expect it to. Plus some of it is definitely my fault. I should have made it clearer it's a sequel, for one. For another, upon re-rereading, part (1) does read rather rough. If I were to rewrite it now, I'd figure out a way to start with (2) directly. Ah well. As far as it connects to the Adjusters universe, though, it does seem to suggest that this may be the last Charlie adventure. (I had two other such tales sketched out.) It somehow doesn't fit as well as I hoped it would.
I've neglected this blog for the past few weeks. Life got crazy there with a big deadline last week, and I'm the sort of person that when a deadline approaches and the project is not in good shape, I stop being able to multitask and have to put all my attention on the project or I feel like everything will spin out of control and come crashing down in a fiery spectacular display. But things didn't spin out of control, and life is slowly getting back to normal.
A few stories did manage to catch my attention this week.
Tanked, by The Technician: “A professor finds a very interesting way to defend his research against defunding.” Found this on alt.sex.stories.moderated. (Yeah, I know. Yeah, it still exists. Yeah, once in a while, there's something good there.) Straight up MC story.
Side Bet Bluff, by Statsultan: “Will thought she was bluffing, and it led to a wild week.” Pretty well done, and I like the characters. Good domination/submission interaction, not overdone, but still hot.
Confessions of a Teen Slut, by Gloryholeprincess: “One night of lustful sex with my mom's ex boyfriend.” This one is overdone, but also hot. Not so deep at the character level, but hey, that's not why we read these sometimes.
Life Sentence, by MVPrimetime: “A girl rescued from slavery tells her tale.” That one hit my buttons, at least the day I came across it. It starts very rough, and goes in a weird direction, but it's a pretty good tale. I love the fact that it starts by forcing you to use your imagination, and then filling in the blanks.
I've neglected this blog for the past few weeks. Life got crazy there with a big deadline last week, and I'm the sort of person that when a deadline approaches and the project is not in good shape, I stop being able to multitask and have to put all my attention on the project or I feel like everything will spin out of control and come crashing down in a fiery spectacular display. But things didn't spin out of control, and life is slowly getting back to normal.
A few stories did manage to catch my attention this week.
Tanked, by The Technician: “A professor finds a very interesting way to defend his research against defunding.” Found this on alt.sex.stories.moderated. (Yeah, I know. Yeah, it still exists. Yeah, once in a while, there's something good there.) Straight up MC story.
Side Bet Bluff, by Statsultan: “Will thought she was bluffing, and it led to a wild week.” Pretty well done, and I like the characters. Good domination/submission interaction, not overdone, but still hot.
Confessions of a Teen Slut, by Gloryholeprincess: “One night of lustful sex with my mom's ex boyfriend.” This one is overdone, but also hot. Not so deep at the character level, but hey, that's not why we read these sometimes.
Life Sentence, by MVPrimetime: “A girl rescued from slavery tells her tale.” That one hit my buttons, at least the day I came across it. It starts very rough, and goes in a weird direction, but it's a pretty good tale. I love the fact that it starts by forcing you to use your imagination, and then filling in the blanks.
Monday, April 8, 2013
(Belated) Weekend Random Links
Writing Journal: Midway through writing The Adjusters #42. And it's a weird experience. It really wants to be written first-person present-tense. So that's how I'm going with it. It'll need a lot of work on the backend, seeing as it's all over the place right now. One reason for that is that I'm still fleshing out the details of Book IV. I mean, I know where the story starts and where the story ends and where it fits in the larger context, but the details and especially the characters that appear in it remain to be figured out. I've got a large file into which I brainstorm about Book IV, and I think I'll take a snapshot of it so that when Book IV is all posted I can show you the file if you're curious and want to peruse it.
Some random links to keep you all distracted.
Sexy lingerie from the 80s from Silver Rose and from Victoria's Secret. I'm happy to report we survived the 80s.
Two scanlation fumetti from The Groovy Age of Horror: Storie Blu 117 - Violenze Mostruose (Monstrous Violence) and La Schiava 3 - L'Artiglio del Padrone (The Master's Claw)
Fascinating read if you're into porn and statistics: A study of 10,000 porn stars and their careers.
Whether you're into pony girls or not, have a look at this photo set. It's exceedingly pretty.
There is a story here. I just know there is. And we even have the title: Stuffed and Mounted.
A very sexy clip: Agent Provocateur Fall/Win 2012 with Mónica Cruz (Penelope Cruz's sister).
Less sexy (oddly enough) but funnier, we have some ads for a porn channel.
I'll leave you with a rather sweet mind-control story, Gifted Grifter, by DrSqueaky: “Origin of the man who seduces by reading minds.” A nice variation on the guy-gets-mind-control-powers trope, partly because he can only read minds, not affect them. The subplot with Julie is particularly nice, and hot to boot.
Some random links to keep you all distracted.
Sexy lingerie from the 80s from Silver Rose and from Victoria's Secret. I'm happy to report we survived the 80s.
Two scanlation fumetti from The Groovy Age of Horror: Storie Blu 117 - Violenze Mostruose (Monstrous Violence) and La Schiava 3 - L'Artiglio del Padrone (The Master's Claw)
Fascinating read if you're into porn and statistics: A study of 10,000 porn stars and their careers.
Whether you're into pony girls or not, have a look at this photo set. It's exceedingly pretty.
There is a story here. I just know there is. And we even have the title: Stuffed and Mounted.
A very sexy clip: Agent Provocateur Fall/Win 2012 with Mónica Cruz (Penelope Cruz's sister).
Less sexy (oddly enough) but funnier, we have some ads for a porn channel.
I'll leave you with a rather sweet mind-control story, Gifted Grifter, by DrSqueaky: “Origin of the man who seduces by reading minds.” A nice variation on the guy-gets-mind-control-powers trope, partly because he can only read minds, not affect them. The subplot with Julie is particularly nice, and hot to boot.
Wednesday, April 3, 2013
New Story: The Adjusters #39
Here is April's installment of The Adjusters, “Charlie and the Convent of Oblivion (I)”, wherein we get a glimpse at what Jennifer Hansen wrote about her time since the infamous DIK-Bash.
As usual, comments welcome.
I'll also remind you that we have a Speculation Thread available for general discussion. (A thread which I read but do not comment on.)
The Adjusters #39 - Charlie and Convent of Oblivion (I)
Story by J. Dumas. First appeared in Flights of Erotic Fantasy
Magazine, Vol. 13, Nos. 7-8.
(1)
It was year four hundred and seventeen of the Renascence Era,
forty-one years since the Great Darkness War, one year past the end of
the reign of King Altobar the First, the Hero of the War, Bringer of
Peace. It was the first year of the reign of Queen Helena, daughter of
King Altobar the First, a reign that was destined to be unlike that of
her wise and just father. For Queen Helena ruled through fear and
repression, levying crushing taxes and imposing exhausting yield
requirements on peasants.
Rumors most vile floated throughout the kingdom about the Queen;
rumors that she was but a puppet in the hands of the real master of
the land, her cruel and ambitious Prime Chancellor; rumors that she
shared her bed with the Chancellor and allowed him the most perverse
liberties with her young body; rumors that the Court of Queen Helena
was one of vanishing morals and depraved indulgences.
The Royal Guard of late King Altobar the First, the elite knight troop
in charge of protecting the late king's person, was held to be
traitorous, accused of having orchestrated his assassination in a
cowardly fashion during a Blood Sacrifice Ceremony. The Royal Guard
was outlawed, and its knights were hunted throughout the kingdom, by
orders of Queen Helena herself. They were to be executed when found.
Continue reading...
Next month: “Charlie and the Convent of Oblivion (II)”.
As usual, comments welcome.
I'll also remind you that we have a Speculation Thread available for general discussion. (A thread which I read but do not comment on.)
The Adjusters #39 - Charlie and Convent of Oblivion (I)
Story by J. Dumas. First appeared in Flights of Erotic Fantasy
Magazine, Vol. 13, Nos. 7-8.
(1)
It was year four hundred and seventeen of the Renascence Era,
forty-one years since the Great Darkness War, one year past the end of
the reign of King Altobar the First, the Hero of the War, Bringer of
Peace. It was the first year of the reign of Queen Helena, daughter of
King Altobar the First, a reign that was destined to be unlike that of
her wise and just father. For Queen Helena ruled through fear and
repression, levying crushing taxes and imposing exhausting yield
requirements on peasants.
Rumors most vile floated throughout the kingdom about the Queen;
rumors that she was but a puppet in the hands of the real master of
the land, her cruel and ambitious Prime Chancellor; rumors that she
shared her bed with the Chancellor and allowed him the most perverse
liberties with her young body; rumors that the Court of Queen Helena
was one of vanishing morals and depraved indulgences.
The Royal Guard of late King Altobar the First, the elite knight troop
in charge of protecting the late king's person, was held to be
traitorous, accused of having orchestrated his assassination in a
cowardly fashion during a Blood Sacrifice Ceremony. The Royal Guard
was outlawed, and its knights were hunted throughout the kingdom, by
orders of Queen Helena herself. They were to be executed when found.
Continue reading...
Next month: “Charlie and the Convent of Oblivion (II)”.
Monday, April 1, 2013
Update on The Adjusters #39
Happy belated Easter everyone, if you celebrate it. (Happy Chocolate Bunny day, otherwise.)
The Adjusters #39 will come out tomorrow. I thought I would have enough time to revise the nearly 10000 words of the first part over the weekend, but family obligations got in the way. Thanks for your patience.
In the meantime, keep yourself distracted with the following two stories.
The Librarian, by Duffymor: “A voyeur's dream come true.” Some nice set scenes in this one. The end is a bit harsh, so be warned.
Adventures of Sarah, by Teachgirl1980: “Young teacher gets sub assignment.” Another teacher story. Starts out nonconsensual, but then shifts to something actually sweet.
The Adjusters #39 will come out tomorrow. I thought I would have enough time to revise the nearly 10000 words of the first part over the weekend, but family obligations got in the way. Thanks for your patience.
In the meantime, keep yourself distracted with the following two stories.
The Librarian, by Duffymor: “A voyeur's dream come true.” Some nice set scenes in this one. The end is a bit harsh, so be warned.
Adventures of Sarah, by Teachgirl1980: “Young teacher gets sub assignment.” Another teacher story. Starts out nonconsensual, but then shifts to something actually sweet.
Sunday, March 24, 2013
Djian Understories
Writing Journal: Finished The Adjusters #39, and started on #42. Turns out that #39 ended up way too long (I don't have actual numbers just yet because about half the story is written longhand in a notebook, but I estimate it must hit the 20000 words mark), and probably needs to be split in two, so #39 and #40 will be about Charlie, Jenn's fictional character. Then #41 is the prologue of Book IV, for which I have a few scenes already, but before writing the prologue I want to get started on Book IV proper, which brings us to #42. So there. I'm not claiming it makes sense at this point, but it might once you read it.
You folks may or may not have noticed, but Djian Understories has a new look. I find the current site a bit confusing to navigate, but that's probably just because I've not internalized the new layout yet, or the updating philosophy.
Still, a couple of oldish stories are being republished on it that are worth reading. They all have something going for them, and with a strong blackmailing theme running through them, either explicit or implicit.
Cheerleader's Torment, by James Dawson: “Kate finally was accepted by cheerleader squad, but only after she passed the test, which no girl wanted to talk about.”
Fulfilling the Prerequisite, by Abob1: “A college girl must submit to her TA.”
Aubree's First Apartment, by Doc Sexaday: “Aubree was young and on her own. She had her first apartment and a promising college education ahead of her. The bad news for Aubree was Winston. He had dirt on Aubree and blackmail was in order.”
You folks may or may not have noticed, but Djian Understories has a new look. I find the current site a bit confusing to navigate, but that's probably just because I've not internalized the new layout yet, or the updating philosophy.
Still, a couple of oldish stories are being republished on it that are worth reading. They all have something going for them, and with a strong blackmailing theme running through them, either explicit or implicit.
Cheerleader's Torment, by James Dawson: “Kate finally was accepted by cheerleader squad, but only after she passed the test, which no girl wanted to talk about.”
Fulfilling the Prerequisite, by Abob1: “A college girl must submit to her TA.”
Aubree's First Apartment, by Doc Sexaday: “Aubree was young and on her own. She had her first apartment and a promising college education ahead of her. The bad news for Aubree was Winston. He had dirt on Aubree and blackmail was in order.”
Wednesday, March 13, 2013
A Blackmail-ish Story
Writing Journal: Almost done with The Adjusters #39. Something was missing, and I ripped a page out of the screenwriter playbook and added a small timebomb to the plot. And I think it worked. Although now I worry that it comes in too late, in part 5 of 5. I'll see if I can find a way to pull it up earlier.
I ran across a delicious ongoing story over the weekend that I feel I should point you all to.
It's by DocCIS, and called Lapdancing Girlfriend: “Stripper fiancee gets a new boss.” The pithy Literotica description doesn't do the story justice. It is about a stripper that gets a new boss when her club gets bought out, but let's say that the new boss is a bastard who figures out a way to get her to do pretty much what he wants. It's not quite blackmail, but it might as well be. There are some very hot sex scenes in there, and some lovingly described stripper routines. Also, and this is something that took me by surprise, I found it difficult to read at various points, because it's pretty psychologically tense. I love it.
The author has a blog on which they describe the various parts of the story, if you're into longer descriptions.
I ran across a delicious ongoing story over the weekend that I feel I should point you all to.
It's by DocCIS, and called Lapdancing Girlfriend: “Stripper fiancee gets a new boss.” The pithy Literotica description doesn't do the story justice. It is about a stripper that gets a new boss when her club gets bought out, but let's say that the new boss is a bastard who figures out a way to get her to do pretty much what he wants. It's not quite blackmail, but it might as well be. There are some very hot sex scenes in there, and some lovingly described stripper routines. Also, and this is something that took me by surprise, I found it difficult to read at various points, because it's pretty psychologically tense. I love it.
The author has a blog on which they describe the various parts of the story, if you're into longer descriptions.
Saturday, March 9, 2013
Writing Thoughts
Writing Journal: I'm glad The Adjusters #38 was well received. I was sort of stressed about it. When endings bomb, they really bomb. Meanwhile, I'm hacking away at The Adjusters #39. It's difficult to write in that voice. Plus I'm waffling on the story. Ah well. I often feel that way until things are done. Then, onward to Book IV proper.
Life is slowly returning to normal. A couple of things have been on my mind lately, writing related. Mainly, figuring out what to write this year—beyond The Adjusters, obviously.
There are two paths that I would like to explore. The first is to write a couple of multi-chapter mind-control stories I've had buzzing around in my head for the past couple of years. Yeah, I know, I threaten something like that pretty regularly, and while it may seem like it's just venting—that's part of it, certainly—those ideas I get often just make it back into The Adjusters. Those that don't just keep bouncing in my head, or more accurately, in my notebook. One story though I've already started writing, with maybe five chapters at various stages of mess sprawled about my hard drive; it's a story in the Master PC universe, tentatively called Chesslord. The other story I have in mind is still just percolating, about a group of mind-controlling immortals, tentatively called Lieux Communs. These may never see the light of day. But they're in there, in my head, accumulating fuzz and fibers and dust bunnies from rolling around in my cerebral attic, and growing steadily until they bust out of my head like literary Athenas.
The second path I want to explore is to try my hand at self-publishing some short stories, and possibly longer ones. Those would probably be written under a different pen name, and wouldn't be mind-control stories, nor would they be as dark as those I write with my Bulgroz The Third persona. (To give you some reference, the kind of stories I have in mind would be along the lines of the last Christmas Special—no mind control, no extreme domination, no humiliation, no explicitly nonconsensual stuff. Just plain old fun, though with a few twists because let's be honest, I'm me.) That would give me an outlet that wouldn't antagonize my current readership who I'm assuming enjoys my darker stuff, and let me write some of the stories that do not fit with the rest of my work here. The Leapers story I talked about a few times I suspect would be one such story, since as I'm developing it, it is neither dark nor mind-control focused.
So many ideas, so little time—or more accurately, so little bandwidth to put words to paper.
Your stories for the week. The first two are from Radk. One is Nuclear Response: “Blackmailed wife's actions lead husband to the unthinkable.” I love the fact that the sex in the story is mentioned indirectly, yet is still quite hot if you're into blackmail stories. And the ending is... well... rather dark, even for me. But a good story. A very good story. The other is Levi's Microscopic World: “Controlling her mind and body with microbot technology.” A scientist with too much skill and too little self control decides to seduce a coworker with the best tools he has—his microbots. Hilarity ensues! A strangely sweet story.
The next story is in the blackmailing-the-teacher genre. It's by George VI, Teacher Upskirt Shows: “Blackmailed teacher must expose herself in school.” Always a good times when your teacher is hot and (more or less) willing.
Finally, a cute story of a sort, by JoeDreamer, Addicted to My Ex-Wife: “He can't stay away from his ex-wife." And all sort of fun and hot sex follows from such a simple and devastating premise. (I just noticed that this is the second story from JoeDreamer I featured here. Cool.)
Life is slowly returning to normal. A couple of things have been on my mind lately, writing related. Mainly, figuring out what to write this year—beyond The Adjusters, obviously.
There are two paths that I would like to explore. The first is to write a couple of multi-chapter mind-control stories I've had buzzing around in my head for the past couple of years. Yeah, I know, I threaten something like that pretty regularly, and while it may seem like it's just venting—that's part of it, certainly—those ideas I get often just make it back into The Adjusters. Those that don't just keep bouncing in my head, or more accurately, in my notebook. One story though I've already started writing, with maybe five chapters at various stages of mess sprawled about my hard drive; it's a story in the Master PC universe, tentatively called Chesslord. The other story I have in mind is still just percolating, about a group of mind-controlling immortals, tentatively called Lieux Communs. These may never see the light of day. But they're in there, in my head, accumulating fuzz and fibers and dust bunnies from rolling around in my cerebral attic, and growing steadily until they bust out of my head like literary Athenas.
The second path I want to explore is to try my hand at self-publishing some short stories, and possibly longer ones. Those would probably be written under a different pen name, and wouldn't be mind-control stories, nor would they be as dark as those I write with my Bulgroz The Third persona. (To give you some reference, the kind of stories I have in mind would be along the lines of the last Christmas Special—no mind control, no extreme domination, no humiliation, no explicitly nonconsensual stuff. Just plain old fun, though with a few twists because let's be honest, I'm me.) That would give me an outlet that wouldn't antagonize my current readership who I'm assuming enjoys my darker stuff, and let me write some of the stories that do not fit with the rest of my work here. The Leapers story I talked about a few times I suspect would be one such story, since as I'm developing it, it is neither dark nor mind-control focused.
So many ideas, so little time—or more accurately, so little bandwidth to put words to paper.
Your stories for the week. The first two are from Radk. One is Nuclear Response: “Blackmailed wife's actions lead husband to the unthinkable.” I love the fact that the sex in the story is mentioned indirectly, yet is still quite hot if you're into blackmail stories. And the ending is... well... rather dark, even for me. But a good story. A very good story. The other is Levi's Microscopic World: “Controlling her mind and body with microbot technology.” A scientist with too much skill and too little self control decides to seduce a coworker with the best tools he has—his microbots. Hilarity ensues! A strangely sweet story.
The next story is in the blackmailing-the-teacher genre. It's by George VI, Teacher Upskirt Shows: “Blackmailed teacher must expose herself in school.” Always a good times when your teacher is hot and (more or less) willing.
Finally, a cute story of a sort, by JoeDreamer, Addicted to My Ex-Wife: “He can't stay away from his ex-wife." And all sort of fun and hot sex follows from such a simple and devastating premise. (I just noticed that this is the second story from JoeDreamer I featured here. Cool.)
Thursday, March 7, 2013
New Story: The Adjusters #38
(Well, that was a perfectly good weekend and early week completely wasted. And let me add that given the number of idiots in positions of responsibility, it's a wonder that the world isn't even more fucked up than it actually is. End rant. I'm back. Oh, and ASSTR's submission portals all seem to have gone on the fritz, too, so the story below is posted through Pastebin until things get back to normal. I'll get to comments and waiting emails in the coming days. Thanks for your patience.)
Way too late, here is March's installment of The Adjusters, “A Wedding and Three Debriefings”, wherein Daniel and Shawbank close up the investigation and return home.
As usual, comments welcome.
I'll also remind you that we have a Speculation Thread available for general discussion. (A thread which I read but do not comment on.)
The Adjusters #38 - A Wedding and Three Debriefings
(Charleston, West Virginia. The next day.)
"With this ring, I thee wed," Gregory Hermann said, "and with it, I
bestow upon thee all the treasures of my mind, heart, and hands." He
slid the ring on the finger of his new bride.
Elizabeth Bowden, now known as Annette Elizabeth Hermann, echoed her
husband's statement before sliding a ring on his finger. "With this
ring, I thee wed, and with it, I bestow upon thee all the treasures of
my mind, heart, and hands." She smiled at her husband, a smile full of
promise.
The officiating priest extended his hands over the bride and
groom. "And now, by the power vested in me by the State of West
Virginia, I hereby pronounce you husband and wife. You may now kiss."
Sitting on the last row of the church, Daniel Malcolm gave a little
smile as he watched the ceremony end. His smile was ambivalent. On the
one hand, from what Hermann had told him, and what he remembered from
his brief interview with Elizabeth--or Annette, as she was now
known--those two loved each other, and they had navigated around some
impressive reefs in the past twenty-four hours. On the other hand, it
was a wedding, and weddings had this bad tendency to remind him of
Jenn, and of the bare fact that he had no idea where she was or what
she was going through. Again, it took an effort to push the thought
from his mind. He would deal with it later. Always later.
Continue reading...
Next month: “Charlie and the Convent of Oblivion (I)”.
Way too late, here is March's installment of The Adjusters, “A Wedding and Three Debriefings”, wherein Daniel and Shawbank close up the investigation and return home.
As usual, comments welcome.
I'll also remind you that we have a Speculation Thread available for general discussion. (A thread which I read but do not comment on.)
The Adjusters #38 - A Wedding and Three Debriefings
(Charleston, West Virginia. The next day.)
"With this ring, I thee wed," Gregory Hermann said, "and with it, I
bestow upon thee all the treasures of my mind, heart, and hands." He
slid the ring on the finger of his new bride.
Elizabeth Bowden, now known as Annette Elizabeth Hermann, echoed her
husband's statement before sliding a ring on his finger. "With this
ring, I thee wed, and with it, I bestow upon thee all the treasures of
my mind, heart, and hands." She smiled at her husband, a smile full of
promise.
The officiating priest extended his hands over the bride and
groom. "And now, by the power vested in me by the State of West
Virginia, I hereby pronounce you husband and wife. You may now kiss."
Sitting on the last row of the church, Daniel Malcolm gave a little
smile as he watched the ceremony end. His smile was ambivalent. On the
one hand, from what Hermann had told him, and what he remembered from
his brief interview with Elizabeth--or Annette, as she was now
known--those two loved each other, and they had navigated around some
impressive reefs in the past twenty-four hours. On the other hand, it
was a wedding, and weddings had this bad tendency to remind him of
Jenn, and of the bare fact that he had no idea where she was or what
she was going through. Again, it took an effort to push the thought
from his mind. He would deal with it later. Always later.
Continue reading...
Next month: “Charlie and the Convent of Oblivion (I)”.
Friday, March 1, 2013
The Adjusters #38 Possible Delay
Writing Journal: The Adjusters #39 is kicking my butt.
Bad news, folks. I've been tapped to go out of town in stead of a colleague who's sick. This means that I most likely will not be able to post #38 until I get back, so Tuesday at the earliest.
(The installment needs another three hours or so of editing because it's so long, otherwise I'd just post it now.)
Your patience, as it always is, is appreciated.
To keep you entertained in the meantime, here are a few submission-related things:
First, a story, Virtual Slavery, by Wltedford: “'The Story of O' meets 'Beauty & the Beast' online.” An interesting story, and some very interesting scenes. A bit confusing at first, but stay with it.
Second, a trailer for a Japanese movie, Be My Slave. The title says it all. I can't wait until I can get my grubby hands on it.
Bad news, folks. I've been tapped to go out of town in stead of a colleague who's sick. This means that I most likely will not be able to post #38 until I get back, so Tuesday at the earliest.
(The installment needs another three hours or so of editing because it's so long, otherwise I'd just post it now.)
Your patience, as it always is, is appreciated.
To keep you entertained in the meantime, here are a few submission-related things:
First, a story, Virtual Slavery, by Wltedford: “'The Story of O' meets 'Beauty & the Beast' online.” An interesting story, and some very interesting scenes. A bit confusing at first, but stay with it.
Second, a trailer for a Japanese movie, Be My Slave. The title says it all. I can't wait until I can get my grubby hands on it.
Sunday, February 24, 2013
Weekend Stories
Writing Journal: Midway through The Adjusters #39. It really wants to be longer than a single installment, and I'm loath to break it up. It'll need some serious work to chop it down to size. Thankfully, I overwrite like crazy, so it shouldn't be too difficult. Oh, and I think I got the title for Book IV: Running to Stand Still.
Sadly, I've found little on the EMCSA that has grabbed my attention lately. I'm not entirely sure why. It may just be a mood thing.
I had high hopes for Isn’t It Good, His Morning Wood, by Only A. Passenger: “At the beginning, Mark isn’t sure if he suffers or enjoys certain side-effects of the medical trial he’s taking part in. It doesn’t take long before he’s determined to enjoy them, very much—if he can figure out how to control it all, that is.” But I just can't get into it. The writing's a bit too... I don't know... odd for my taste right now. Don't get me wrong, it's well written. Maybe that's it—it's too well written. Very metaphorical, almost ethereal. Have a look and judge for yourself, as it may just be up your alley.
On the flip side, Rikimaru posted the last chapter of their story In Heat which I talked about before. A nice ending to a nice story.
Over on Literotica, we have a sweet short mind-control story, Compromised, by Ironiclaconic: “Save your marriage or your money back.” I really love the idea underlying this story, and it's a lot sweeter than what I usually point you to. Just to show you that I'm not all angst all the time.
There's also a new wife-sharing story I'm following, The Convention, by Feverman. No official description, but the author says, “The Convention is a hard-core, wife-watching novella that eventually involves corruption, attempted blackmail, betrayal, revenge and heaping helping of forbidden sex of various kinds.” I know, right? Who can resist that? To be fair, knowing the author, I doubt it's going to go that dark, but I've still got my hopes up. (The author also has another story with a similar theme, although with no threat of blackmail or corruption, The Week.)
Sadly, I've found little on the EMCSA that has grabbed my attention lately. I'm not entirely sure why. It may just be a mood thing.
I had high hopes for Isn’t It Good, His Morning Wood, by Only A. Passenger: “At the beginning, Mark isn’t sure if he suffers or enjoys certain side-effects of the medical trial he’s taking part in. It doesn’t take long before he’s determined to enjoy them, very much—if he can figure out how to control it all, that is.” But I just can't get into it. The writing's a bit too... I don't know... odd for my taste right now. Don't get me wrong, it's well written. Maybe that's it—it's too well written. Very metaphorical, almost ethereal. Have a look and judge for yourself, as it may just be up your alley.
On the flip side, Rikimaru posted the last chapter of their story In Heat which I talked about before. A nice ending to a nice story.
Over on Literotica, we have a sweet short mind-control story, Compromised, by Ironiclaconic: “Save your marriage or your money back.” I really love the idea underlying this story, and it's a lot sweeter than what I usually point you to. Just to show you that I'm not all angst all the time.
There's also a new wife-sharing story I'm following, The Convention, by Feverman. No official description, but the author says, “The Convention is a hard-core, wife-watching novella that eventually involves corruption, attempted blackmail, betrayal, revenge and heaping helping of forbidden sex of various kinds.” I know, right? Who can resist that? To be fair, knowing the author, I doubt it's going to go that dark, but I've still got my hopes up. (The author also has another story with a similar theme, although with no threat of blackmail or corruption, The Week.)
Sunday, February 17, 2013
A Smorgasbord of Stories
Writing Journal: Finished the first draft of The Adjusters #38. The last few scenes, which I had well in head, went rather quickly. Writing's amazing when it just flows out of you. When it doesn't, it's torture. Started on #39, which is looking like it's going to be fun, if headache-y.
Slowly coming out of a weeks-long flu, in which even thinking about what to have for dinner turned out to be difficult. (But I still managed to write a bit of smut every day. As I said above, it just flowed... Everything else, not so much.) This goes a long way to explain my scarcity from these parts...
Here's a random bunch of stories that I've read while bed-ridden, in no particular order. Bit of an MC bend to them, but not exclusively. Enjoy.
The Body Scanner, by Wouldnitbnice: “Walter Stiltson creates a next generation airport security Body Scanner that he discovers has a very powerful mind control capability.” This story is ongoing on the EMCSA, and it's interesting structurally, shifting between three overlapping points of view. And also rather hot.
Heels in Bed, by Russeltrust: “Nick comes home to surprise from his wife.” A short story without much of a plot, really, but the dialogue just gets to me.
Me and Mrs. Jones, by Stormbringer. No official description, but it's the story of an eighteen year boy learning about sex, Stormbringer-style. If you know the author, you know more or less what to expect. If you don't know the author, then you definitely should read it.
Twist, by Wwwalla: “Tommy discovers he is able to profoundly change the women around him.” A long story about a guy that learns that he can twist minds, and the tragicomical outcomes that follow. Incest in this one.
Making Scents, by Boratus: “Donald uses pheromones to make himself irresistible.” I thought I had given a pointer to this one already, but it doesn't look like it. Yet another story in the guy-discovers-a-scent-that-drives-women-crazy genre. Nice, long, involved, and with good character development. And of course, hot unbridled sex!
Slowly coming out of a weeks-long flu, in which even thinking about what to have for dinner turned out to be difficult. (But I still managed to write a bit of smut every day. As I said above, it just flowed... Everything else, not so much.) This goes a long way to explain my scarcity from these parts...
Here's a random bunch of stories that I've read while bed-ridden, in no particular order. Bit of an MC bend to them, but not exclusively. Enjoy.
The Body Scanner, by Wouldnitbnice: “Walter Stiltson creates a next generation airport security Body Scanner that he discovers has a very powerful mind control capability.” This story is ongoing on the EMCSA, and it's interesting structurally, shifting between three overlapping points of view. And also rather hot.
Heels in Bed, by Russeltrust: “Nick comes home to surprise from his wife.” A short story without much of a plot, really, but the dialogue just gets to me.
Me and Mrs. Jones, by Stormbringer. No official description, but it's the story of an eighteen year boy learning about sex, Stormbringer-style. If you know the author, you know more or less what to expect. If you don't know the author, then you definitely should read it.
Twist, by Wwwalla: “Tommy discovers he is able to profoundly change the women around him.” A long story about a guy that learns that he can twist minds, and the tragicomical outcomes that follow. Incest in this one.
Making Scents, by Boratus: “Donald uses pheromones to make himself irresistible.” I thought I had given a pointer to this one already, but it doesn't look like it. Yet another story in the guy-discovers-a-scent-that-drives-women-crazy genre. Nice, long, involved, and with good character development. And of course, hot unbridled sex!
Sunday, February 3, 2013
Two Long Fantasy Mind-Control Stories
Writing Journal: Hacking The Adjusters #38. I think I may have gone a bit overboard with the sex scene. It's almost an installment unto itself. Ah well. Now moving on to the first of the three announced debriefings.
Sick this week—a pretty bad flu going around my crowd. So restricted reading.
Although I was reminded of the existence of this nice little piece of fantasy smut, Legend of Mystania, by Thantos69: “Kevin discovers that he has magical powers and command of the fairies.” A good bona fide story line, fairly well-rounded characters, and hot sex under a variety of guises, it's all good.
There's a sequel by the same author, too, Mystania: Crimson Tempest: “Sequel to Legend of Mystania. Kevin ends up facing one of Earth’s most infamous enemies with the help of some old friends and new. Can he protect both worlds and his newborn niece from the oncoming darkness?” Haven't read that one yet. But if the first one is any indication, this one should be a good read too. Let me know.
Oh, and while you do that, you might just notice that the EMCSA has a new look: new color scheme, and a new tighter font. While I'll miss the green background that I will forever associate with MC smut, I like the new set up. (Note that there was also a host move coinciding with the new look. If your DNS server has not yet updated itself—not under your control—you might still get the old site until the new hosting information propagates over to your neck of the woods. Just be patient.)
The new EMCSA look reminded me that I wanted to change this blog's look at some point. Maybe sometimes in February. You know, in my copious free time.
Sick this week—a pretty bad flu going around my crowd. So restricted reading.
Although I was reminded of the existence of this nice little piece of fantasy smut, Legend of Mystania, by Thantos69: “Kevin discovers that he has magical powers and command of the fairies.” A good bona fide story line, fairly well-rounded characters, and hot sex under a variety of guises, it's all good.
There's a sequel by the same author, too, Mystania: Crimson Tempest: “Sequel to Legend of Mystania. Kevin ends up facing one of Earth’s most infamous enemies with the help of some old friends and new. Can he protect both worlds and his newborn niece from the oncoming darkness?” Haven't read that one yet. But if the first one is any indication, this one should be a good read too. Let me know.
Oh, and while you do that, you might just notice that the EMCSA has a new look: new color scheme, and a new tighter font. While I'll miss the green background that I will forever associate with MC smut, I like the new set up. (Note that there was also a host move coinciding with the new look. If your DNS server has not yet updated itself—not under your control—you might still get the old site until the new hosting information propagates over to your neck of the woods. Just be patient.)
The new EMCSA look reminded me that I wanted to change this blog's look at some point. Maybe sometimes in February. You know, in my copious free time.
Friday, February 1, 2013
New Story: The Adjusters #37
Here is February's installment of The Adjusters, “A Wedding and a Confrontation”, wherein Daniel and Shawbank and our Special cross paths.
As usual, comments welcome.
I'll also remind you that we have a Speculation Thread available for general discussion. (A thread which I read but do not comment on.)
The Adjusters #37 - A Wedding and a Confrontation
(Charleston, West Virginia. Now.)
Elizabeth Bowden followed her friend Shelley Caskill into the
abandoned church, ducking in through a recessed side door that was
left unbarricaded. Elizabeth wanted to ask how Shelley knew that the
door was unlocked, but Shelley would have answered to simply trust
her, her answer to every question Elizabeth had asked since they
arrived. And Elizabeth did trust her friend, so she followed.
Once they were inside the church, Elizabeth forgot about asking
questions, and looked up in wonder. It had been more then ten years
she had not come here, but she remembered most of the details, the
high arches, the columns, the attempts at merging a modern decor with
antiquated aesthetics. The pews were still there, empty, gray with
dust, looking forlorn and sad the way empty churches sometimes did, as
if they received their life from the souls of the visiting
congregants.
In her mind, she had half expected Our Saviour's Lutheran Church to be
falling to pieces, the way abandoned buildings did. But of course, it
had been only a decade. She did not know exactly why the parish had
decided to change location and build a new church three blocks
away. The old church was still there, however, still sturdy, still
filled with the memories of her youth. She could imagine turning
around and seeing her mother behind her, silently urging her to keep
walking until they got to her favorite pew, the third one on the far
right when facing the altar. Unbidden, she felt a tear form behind her
eyelids, and she fought it back. What was Shelley up to? Why did she
bring her here?
Continue reading...
Next month: “A Wedding and Three Debriefings”.
As usual, comments welcome.
I'll also remind you that we have a Speculation Thread available for general discussion. (A thread which I read but do not comment on.)
The Adjusters #37 - A Wedding and a Confrontation
(Charleston, West Virginia. Now.)
Elizabeth Bowden followed her friend Shelley Caskill into the
abandoned church, ducking in through a recessed side door that was
left unbarricaded. Elizabeth wanted to ask how Shelley knew that the
door was unlocked, but Shelley would have answered to simply trust
her, her answer to every question Elizabeth had asked since they
arrived. And Elizabeth did trust her friend, so she followed.
Once they were inside the church, Elizabeth forgot about asking
questions, and looked up in wonder. It had been more then ten years
she had not come here, but she remembered most of the details, the
high arches, the columns, the attempts at merging a modern decor with
antiquated aesthetics. The pews were still there, empty, gray with
dust, looking forlorn and sad the way empty churches sometimes did, as
if they received their life from the souls of the visiting
congregants.
In her mind, she had half expected Our Saviour's Lutheran Church to be
falling to pieces, the way abandoned buildings did. But of course, it
had been only a decade. She did not know exactly why the parish had
decided to change location and build a new church three blocks
away. The old church was still there, however, still sturdy, still
filled with the memories of her youth. She could imagine turning
around and seeing her mother behind her, silently urging her to keep
walking until they got to her favorite pew, the third one on the far
right when facing the altar. Unbidden, she felt a tear form behind her
eyelids, and she fought it back. What was Shelley up to? Why did she
bring her here?
Continue reading...
Next month: “A Wedding and Three Debriefings”.
Sunday, January 27, 2013
A Webcomic and a BDSM FanFic Story
Writing Journal: Nothing much to report. Writing at a decent if somewhat glacial pace. I'm Finishing up revisions to The Adjusters #37, including a sex scene that I need to rewrite based on what I'm writing in #38. All of which is procrastination for #39, which I have no real idea how to tackle.
Well, it's not smut, but I was reminded yesterday of an amazing webcomic that I ran across last year and with which I should really keep up better. It's False Positive, and features short stories of the “surreal, fantastic, and macabre.” There are some really fun tales in there, if you like the genre, and the art is simply gorgeous.
Last week I pointed you to some smutty fanfic, so here's another one, in a slightly different vein. It's Rizzoli & Beckett, by Van, a BDSM writer with a strong FemDom focus: “ Two cops from two cities catch the same case... & things head for the Fringe.” Ha! Ha! Fringe, get it? The story is difficult to describe. There's BDSM, and some MC. It's a riff off female characters from different series—Rizzoli from Rizzoli & Isles, Beckett from Castle, Scully from the X-Files, Magnus from Sanctuary, and Dunham from Fringe.
Well, it's not smut, but I was reminded yesterday of an amazing webcomic that I ran across last year and with which I should really keep up better. It's False Positive, and features short stories of the “surreal, fantastic, and macabre.” There are some really fun tales in there, if you like the genre, and the art is simply gorgeous.
Last week I pointed you to some smutty fanfic, so here's another one, in a slightly different vein. It's Rizzoli & Beckett, by Van, a BDSM writer with a strong FemDom focus: “ Two cops from two cities catch the same case... & things head for the Fringe.” Ha! Ha! Fringe, get it? The story is difficult to describe. There's BDSM, and some MC. It's a riff off female characters from different series—Rizzoli from Rizzoli & Isles, Beckett from Castle, Scully from the X-Files, Magnus from Sanctuary, and Dunham from Fringe.
Sunday, January 20, 2013
Two FanFic Stories
Writing Journal: So here I am, writing The Adjusters #38, and I'm thinking ahead to the last few scenes of the book, and it doesn't feel quite right, and from out of nowhere, BAM, a new scene pops out, one that I hadn't planned for, screaming for a place in the sun, and it feels right, and it takes things in a slightly different—and better—direction than I originally expected for the end of Book III.
Here are a couple of fanfic smut stories that I've enjoyed, if you're into that sort of thing.
First off is a fanfic for Warehouse 13, a light and campy science-fiction/fantasy show—Warehouse 13: Stone Bonner, by Thepleasuremachine: “Pete unwittingly brings back an artifact that wreaks havoc.” This is pretty much the episode that you'd want shot. An artifact that gives mind-control powers to one of our heroes, who proceeds to put it to good use. Especially nice if you follow the show.
Second, a long long tale in the Doctor Who universe, featuring Amy Pond—Doctor Who: Amy, Captured, by Kurokami: “Amy Pond finds herself held captive.” Some mind control (well, really, body control), bondage, domination/submission games, and a really weird set up. Some very good moments. (And there's a sequel too, Doctor Who: Panic Moon—haven't read that one though.)
Here are a couple of fanfic smut stories that I've enjoyed, if you're into that sort of thing.
First off is a fanfic for Warehouse 13, a light and campy science-fiction/fantasy show—Warehouse 13: Stone Bonner, by Thepleasuremachine: “Pete unwittingly brings back an artifact that wreaks havoc.” This is pretty much the episode that you'd want shot. An artifact that gives mind-control powers to one of our heroes, who proceeds to put it to good use. Especially nice if you follow the show.
Second, a long long tale in the Doctor Who universe, featuring Amy Pond—Doctor Who: Amy, Captured, by Kurokami: “Amy Pond finds herself held captive.” Some mind control (well, really, body control), bondage, domination/submission games, and a really weird set up. Some very good moments. (And there's a sequel too, Doctor Who: Panic Moon—haven't read that one though.)
Monday, January 14, 2013
Thoughts on The Adjusters
Writing Journal: I essentially finished drafting The Adjusters #37 this afternoon, and started on #38. That one should be pretty easy, considering I know what all the scenes are, and what I want to say. That's pretty rare. Plus I think I had a flash of what the sex scene will be. Not the one I originally planned, but this one should be more... interesting.
I promised to say a few words about the big picture for my serial. Partly, this was prompted by the discussion we had back around the beginning of Book III, where people were basically telling me—and I apologize for paraphrasing—WTF, dude?. Not an unfair reaction, as the story took a bit of a left turn there.
Warning: shameless over-thinking and navel-gazing follows.
Okay, we have to go back to the beginning. I've always wanted to write a big-ass MC saga. My introduction to the genre was Blackie's The Book, which pretty much blew my impressionable mind when I first read it, hoping it would never end. But to write a saga, you need an idea that will carry you through the long haul, and it took a while for one to simmer in my subconscious. I knew I didn't really want to write about a guy or a girl that gets some MC powers, because while I've read a lot of interesting stories with that premise, I couldn't figure out a way not to have the whole story either grow into hero screws everything in sight, chapter after chapter, which gets boring after a while, or hero starts fighting with others, undoubtedly also MCers, which didn't really inspire me.
Several years ago, the basic idea for a story came to me. Really, it came in the form of two scenes: an initial scene, and a final scene. The initial scene basically became Daniel's “dream” of Jenn and Biff in Book II. The final scene, well, it's not written yet, obviously. Then it was a simple matter of figuring out what happened to lead to the final scene—that also took a while. But eventually, I had the basic skeleton of the narrative thread, by answering the question: “Who did actually help Biff Cusker gets his grubby hands on Jennifer Hansen?” and following the answer to that question (“Doctor Cargyle”—“But who the hell is he?”) to its logical conclusion.
And in the process, I discovered a whole Universe in which the larger story takes place. The story I'm now slowly writing. It's big, it's complex, and it keeps being refined every time I pull a thread and start asking, “why is this?” (The Specials, whose existence we discovered in Book III, came out of exactly such a question asked of another plot point elsewhere in the story.)
And by big, I do mean big. If you like SAT-style analogies, Books I & II are to the whole story what #11 is to Book II. (Not in literal size, I hope.) Maybe that's too big. Who knows. I have the story in my head, and I know where it's going, and where it ends. So I'm not worried. Hey, I could have brought Book II to its “natural end” with Daniel finding Jenn and that would have been it for the story. I think my idea is more interesting, but time will tell. (Perhaps I should write an alternative ending to Book II for those that wanted the story to end there.)
So now I have this long tale to tell, how do I tell it? I think a long involved straight-up narrative would have ended up either being boring, or impossible to follow. Or maybe not. But I'm not sure I have it in me to write a single long sustained story like that. So I decided to break up the story into different arcs, each its own contained story with a beginning, middle, and end, with a narrative thread unifying all those stories into the big story I'm telling. It's no accident that I keep saying that the original model for The Adjusters was as a sort of comic book series, but in prose, following characters through different arcs that are part of the same story.
Doing things that way lets me experiment with different styles for each book, which not only keeps the story fresh in my mind, but also lets me try different things that I might not try otherwise. For instance, Book I was just a straight up narrative. Book II had a big cast and I experimented with multiple points of view. (Especially from midway on, when I discovered that yes, multiple points of view were needed, and helped the story. I wish I had done that sooner.) Book III plays with the past and the present, tracking the Special in the past all the way to the present, while our “heroes” are in the present. (It's not working as well as I would have liked it to work, but better than I feared.) Book IV will probably be a bit different in style as well. Book V might be five or six independent but related short stories looking at a few characters in our Universe—some we know, some we don't yet. I'm not being cagey on purpose: while the overall story line is pretty clear in my head, its breakdown into books, chapters, and scenes very much gets pounded in drafts.
Really, if you scratch all the self-aggrandizing rhetoric, I just view it all as a large-scale writing exercise. One that lets me write smut, of course, which is the immediate goal, and the reason I started writing the serial in the first place, but also one that lets me play around with a large world in which I get to tell various connected stories that make up a larger story while experiment with different stylistic perspectives and explore some rather twisted aspects of my own psyche, since all writing is just self-psychoanalysis.
I hope this makes some sort of sense. The TL;DR summary of this post probably is as follows. If you're reading The Adjusters, rest assured: there is a beginning, middle, and end to the story. But we're going to get there through a series of arcs each with its own beginning, middle, and end.
Hey, I did warn you that there would be over-thinking in this post...
To compensate, I'll leave you with some lighter fare MC smut I ran across over the weekend. It's a story by Kenn Ghannon, Ring of Command: “Andrew Malley is scuba-diving with his father off the coast of Jamaica when he finds a ring half-embedded in the sandy floor. Without thought, he slips the ring on his finger -- and his life will never be the same.” Your typical guy finds a magic artifact and controls folks around him, but it's well written, doesn't go too far too fast, and has interesting characters. A warning: the characters are teenagers, and there's incest involved. I'm looking forward to see where the story is going.
I promised to say a few words about the big picture for my serial. Partly, this was prompted by the discussion we had back around the beginning of Book III, where people were basically telling me—and I apologize for paraphrasing—WTF, dude?. Not an unfair reaction, as the story took a bit of a left turn there.
Warning: shameless over-thinking and navel-gazing follows.
Okay, we have to go back to the beginning. I've always wanted to write a big-ass MC saga. My introduction to the genre was Blackie's The Book, which pretty much blew my impressionable mind when I first read it, hoping it would never end. But to write a saga, you need an idea that will carry you through the long haul, and it took a while for one to simmer in my subconscious. I knew I didn't really want to write about a guy or a girl that gets some MC powers, because while I've read a lot of interesting stories with that premise, I couldn't figure out a way not to have the whole story either grow into hero screws everything in sight, chapter after chapter, which gets boring after a while, or hero starts fighting with others, undoubtedly also MCers, which didn't really inspire me.
Several years ago, the basic idea for a story came to me. Really, it came in the form of two scenes: an initial scene, and a final scene. The initial scene basically became Daniel's “dream” of Jenn and Biff in Book II. The final scene, well, it's not written yet, obviously. Then it was a simple matter of figuring out what happened to lead to the final scene—that also took a while. But eventually, I had the basic skeleton of the narrative thread, by answering the question: “Who did actually help Biff Cusker gets his grubby hands on Jennifer Hansen?” and following the answer to that question (“Doctor Cargyle”—“But who the hell is he?”) to its logical conclusion.
And in the process, I discovered a whole Universe in which the larger story takes place. The story I'm now slowly writing. It's big, it's complex, and it keeps being refined every time I pull a thread and start asking, “why is this?” (The Specials, whose existence we discovered in Book III, came out of exactly such a question asked of another plot point elsewhere in the story.)
And by big, I do mean big. If you like SAT-style analogies, Books I & II are to the whole story what #11 is to Book II. (Not in literal size, I hope.) Maybe that's too big. Who knows. I have the story in my head, and I know where it's going, and where it ends. So I'm not worried. Hey, I could have brought Book II to its “natural end” with Daniel finding Jenn and that would have been it for the story. I think my idea is more interesting, but time will tell. (Perhaps I should write an alternative ending to Book II for those that wanted the story to end there.)
So now I have this long tale to tell, how do I tell it? I think a long involved straight-up narrative would have ended up either being boring, or impossible to follow. Or maybe not. But I'm not sure I have it in me to write a single long sustained story like that. So I decided to break up the story into different arcs, each its own contained story with a beginning, middle, and end, with a narrative thread unifying all those stories into the big story I'm telling. It's no accident that I keep saying that the original model for The Adjusters was as a sort of comic book series, but in prose, following characters through different arcs that are part of the same story.
Doing things that way lets me experiment with different styles for each book, which not only keeps the story fresh in my mind, but also lets me try different things that I might not try otherwise. For instance, Book I was just a straight up narrative. Book II had a big cast and I experimented with multiple points of view. (Especially from midway on, when I discovered that yes, multiple points of view were needed, and helped the story. I wish I had done that sooner.) Book III plays with the past and the present, tracking the Special in the past all the way to the present, while our “heroes” are in the present. (It's not working as well as I would have liked it to work, but better than I feared.) Book IV will probably be a bit different in style as well. Book V might be five or six independent but related short stories looking at a few characters in our Universe—some we know, some we don't yet. I'm not being cagey on purpose: while the overall story line is pretty clear in my head, its breakdown into books, chapters, and scenes very much gets pounded in drafts.
Really, if you scratch all the self-aggrandizing rhetoric, I just view it all as a large-scale writing exercise. One that lets me write smut, of course, which is the immediate goal, and the reason I started writing the serial in the first place, but also one that lets me play around with a large world in which I get to tell various connected stories that make up a larger story while experiment with different stylistic perspectives and explore some rather twisted aspects of my own psyche, since all writing is just self-psychoanalysis.
I hope this makes some sort of sense. The TL;DR summary of this post probably is as follows. If you're reading The Adjusters, rest assured: there is a beginning, middle, and end to the story. But we're going to get there through a series of arcs each with its own beginning, middle, and end.
Hey, I did warn you that there would be over-thinking in this post...
To compensate, I'll leave you with some lighter fare MC smut I ran across over the weekend. It's a story by Kenn Ghannon, Ring of Command: “Andrew Malley is scuba-diving with his father off the coast of Jamaica when he finds a ring half-embedded in the sandy floor. Without thought, he slips the ring on his finger -- and his life will never be the same.” Your typical guy finds a magic artifact and controls folks around him, but it's well written, doesn't go too far too fast, and has interesting characters. A warning: the characters are teenagers, and there's incest involved. I'm looking forward to see where the story is going.
Wednesday, January 9, 2013
The Adjusters Book II on the EMCSA
Writing Journal: So I'm almost finished drafting The Adjusters #37 and I have #38 pretty much outlined except for the sex scene, so I'm hopeful that I can have those two last installments for Book III squared away by the middle of the month. (That's important to me because having a couple of installments in the can means that even if writing goes more slowly than expected in any given month it doesn't actually impact the one-installment-a-month policy I have. Makes sense?) That's also good because it gives me more time to figure out how to approach #39 and beyond.
As some of you may have noticed, I've started to put up Book II of The Adjusters on the EMCSA, revising bits of it as I go.
It's a huge temptation to rewrite large swats of it, and I'm resisting the impulse. I am correcting typos and small problems that some of you have noticed, but I'm trying hard to keep my rewrites to a minimum. (Although I messed with #12 yet again.) When I get a moment, I'll propagate those changes to ASSTR as well.
Man, looking at it two years after having written and posted it, bits of the story are very rough... I'm impressed the lot of you stayed with me for the duration!
This weekend, I'm going to talk about the big picture for the series, the post I promised you when I started posting Book III.
Until then, I leave you with two wife-sharing stories on Literotica. Not out of this world, but some good stuff there if you like the genre.
The Wife's Little Game, by Quin, the story of a man who encourages his wife to seduce a neighbor. Well done, and some hot teasing sex, which is my criterion for judging such things.
Webcam Wife, by Thick7in1972, the story of a man who discovers his wife has a webcam show, and who gently drives her to open up to him sexually. I prefer the first half of the story to the second half, but there are some very nice scenes in there.
As some of you may have noticed, I've started to put up Book II of The Adjusters on the EMCSA, revising bits of it as I go.
It's a huge temptation to rewrite large swats of it, and I'm resisting the impulse. I am correcting typos and small problems that some of you have noticed, but I'm trying hard to keep my rewrites to a minimum. (Although I messed with #12 yet again.) When I get a moment, I'll propagate those changes to ASSTR as well.
Man, looking at it two years after having written and posted it, bits of the story are very rough... I'm impressed the lot of you stayed with me for the duration!
This weekend, I'm going to talk about the big picture for the series, the post I promised you when I started posting Book III.
Until then, I leave you with two wife-sharing stories on Literotica. Not out of this world, but some good stuff there if you like the genre.
The Wife's Little Game, by Quin, the story of a man who encourages his wife to seduce a neighbor. Well done, and some hot teasing sex, which is my criterion for judging such things.
Webcam Wife, by Thick7in1972, the story of a man who discovers his wife has a webcam show, and who gently drives her to open up to him sexually. I prefer the first half of the story to the second half, but there are some very nice scenes in there.
Sunday, January 6, 2013
Station Identification: Smutty Footnotes
What's This?
You are visiting Smutty Footnotes, a blog that I maintain since August 2010, the successor to an online journal I started back in 2008. This is my little soapbox, which serves several roles. First, it's where I talk about and publish the smut that I write. Second, it's where I point out interesting smut that I've run across in my eternal quest to find the most arousing fiction out there. Third, it's where I wax lyrical about random smut-related tidbits that I encounter both online and offline. Oh, and in case that was not clear: yes, this is very much a smut-focused blog.
I try to post twice a week, once in the middle of the week (Wednesday) and once on the weekend (Sunday), and I tend to post late at night. Most of my posts have a portion I pompously call my Writing Journal, where I comment opaquely on what I'm writing at the moment. Between you and me, it's therapy more than anything else: it gives me a sense that I'm actually getting stuff done.
And Who Are You Anyways?
Glad you asked. I go by the name Bulgroz The Third here and a few other places. I have been writing smut since the late nineties, but did not inflict it on the world until 2008. To be fair, little of what I wrote before then is digestible. My stories tend to involve mind control and distinctive power dynamics between characters.
Yes, I do have a life, and no, it is not all sex all the time. I wish. No, what you get here and in my writing is a projection of my personality onto the smut plane. Not unexpectedly, it yields a singularly distorted view of yours truly, but one that maintains some of my real-life characteristics. Chew on that.
So What Can We Expect For 2013?
Excellent question. My current running serial The Adjusters continues with monthly episodes, published the first of the month when I'm not running late because of this or that.
I have a few ideas for stories on the back burner, chapter stories longer than my short stories, but not as epic as The Adjusters. My hope is that at least one of them will see the light of day in 2013.
I'll keep on pointing you to interesting smut that I encounter here and there. I'll also delve into the past and presenting classics from the last three decades, classics that I have read and loved, going back to the early days of Usenet and alt.sex.stories. There's a lot of amazing stuff out there that you may not know and may find interesting.
Beyond that, anything specific you folks would like to see on this blog in the coming year?
Friday, January 4, 2013
New Story: The Adjusters #36
It took longer than expected to get back to a normal post-Holidays routine, but everything is good now.
And here is January's installment of The Adjusters, “No Wedding but a Suspect”, wherein our Special decides to seek a remedy against temptation, and Daniel follows a lead that turns into a suspect.
As usual, comments welcome.
I'll also remind you that we have a Speculation Thread available for general discussion. (A thread which I read but do not comment on.)
The Adjusters #36 - No Wedding but a Suspect
(Charleston, West Virginia. Three weeks ago.)
He enters the lobby of the building after making sure that the coast
is clear. He pulls his UPS cap down over his eyes and the uniform
collar up around his neck. He is on his home turf, and he cannot take
the chance to be recognized. Not yet--not until his Ministry has grown
large enough with Worshippers that he has nothing to fear from those
cockroaches that dare keep him from fulfilling his true Potential.
He tightens his grip on the package underneath his arm, and notices
that he is clenching one of his fists; he wills it open, forcing
himself to relax. Thinking about the roaches always makes him mad,
always has, those roaches that think nothing of stepping over the
little guy, that have no hesitation using the little guy, abusing him,
milking him dry, sucking the marrow from his bones, the soul from his
heart. Roaches, the lot them, feasting upon the remains of good people
that do not know any better. But not Him. His eyes have been
opened--he is a God now, a God who sees all and knows all and
understands all, and what he understands now is that he has the Power,
to make a difference, to punish the roaches.
If he was clenching his fist in anger before, he is now grinning in
near madness. Almost, because he has never felt so sane--so full of
life, vigor, clarity. So much to do now. Projects, Dreams, Visions
have been assaulting him at night as soon as he closes his
eyes. Beyond his Worshippers, beyond his Ministry--Vision of a New
World, where the Righteous are rewarded and the Roaches are punished,
squashed, trampled underfoot. His Ministry is based on rewarding
husbands that share their wives' purity and lend their womb for His
use, but there is nothing to stop him from punishing the roaches by
taking away their loved ones--their wives, theirs sisters, their
daughters.
Continue reading...
Next month: “A Wedding and a Confrontation”.
And here is January's installment of The Adjusters, “No Wedding but a Suspect”, wherein our Special decides to seek a remedy against temptation, and Daniel follows a lead that turns into a suspect.
As usual, comments welcome.
I'll also remind you that we have a Speculation Thread available for general discussion. (A thread which I read but do not comment on.)
The Adjusters #36 - No Wedding but a Suspect
(Charleston, West Virginia. Three weeks ago.)
He enters the lobby of the building after making sure that the coast
is clear. He pulls his UPS cap down over his eyes and the uniform
collar up around his neck. He is on his home turf, and he cannot take
the chance to be recognized. Not yet--not until his Ministry has grown
large enough with Worshippers that he has nothing to fear from those
cockroaches that dare keep him from fulfilling his true Potential.
He tightens his grip on the package underneath his arm, and notices
that he is clenching one of his fists; he wills it open, forcing
himself to relax. Thinking about the roaches always makes him mad,
always has, those roaches that think nothing of stepping over the
little guy, that have no hesitation using the little guy, abusing him,
milking him dry, sucking the marrow from his bones, the soul from his
heart. Roaches, the lot them, feasting upon the remains of good people
that do not know any better. But not Him. His eyes have been
opened--he is a God now, a God who sees all and knows all and
understands all, and what he understands now is that he has the Power,
to make a difference, to punish the roaches.
If he was clenching his fist in anger before, he is now grinning in
near madness. Almost, because he has never felt so sane--so full of
life, vigor, clarity. So much to do now. Projects, Dreams, Visions
have been assaulting him at night as soon as he closes his
eyes. Beyond his Worshippers, beyond his Ministry--Vision of a New
World, where the Righteous are rewarded and the Roaches are punished,
squashed, trampled underfoot. His Ministry is based on rewarding
husbands that share their wives' purity and lend their womb for His
use, but there is nothing to stop him from punishing the roaches by
taking away their loved ones--their wives, theirs sisters, their
daughters.
Continue reading...
Next month: “A Wedding and a Confrontation”.
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