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.
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Friday, July 26, 2013
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.
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.
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