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.”
Sunday, March 24, 2013
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.
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