Mulling Over Possible Futures

Writing Journal: It's been a while I haven't updated you all about the state of the writing. I'm about to finish The Adjusters #50, which is pretty straightforward except for a bit of a plot point that I need to figure out because it's key to something in Book V (as far as I can tell). And then on to #51, which is still fuzzier in my head than I would really like.

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In the past few months, I've been getting story ideas that for the first time in a long time, I haven't been tempted to push into The Adjusters's storyline. Which is great because it shows that at some subconscious level, I have a much better sense of where I want the story to go before it winds down to its conclusions.

But that does beg the question: what to do with the extra ideas that are bouncing around in my head? I mentioned some of them before, and at some point I will want to let them out. And I've been meaning to try my hand at self-publishing, like every other smut author out there, so maybe that's one outlet for those extra stories—a good forcing function. I don't know yet. I'm still mulling it over. Would you folks want to know about those if I ever end up publishing them?

Don't worry, though, because whatever happens, The Adjusters will remain free, and will continue coming out in monthly installments. At least, until it's done.

Your reading recommendation for this post is a sweet little mind-control story from ElSol, Your Guardian Angel : “A teenage boy. A lamp. A genie.” Exactly what you expect, yet different. Nice story, great sex, clever development.

Another (Sort of) Mind-Control Story

Writing Journal: Between spending my writing time between plowing on with The Adjusters #35 and revisiting the Elizabeth Bowden scene in #34. I think I've figured out why I'm having trouble writing this Book—I've been having a weird last few months emotionally, and judging on the stories that are catching my eye, what turns me on right now is a bit orthogonal to the current The Adjusters storyline. And I guess in the future I can talk a bit about writing and arousal and their relationship. (It's not obvious.)

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Another longish somewhat mind-control story for you, this time on Storiesonline.

It's by ElSol, who has a lot of interesting mind-control stories going. The new one is The Power: “Sometimes, a person finds a key to Magic. Very rarely, someone is the key to Magic. Five high school girls discover a secret about Michael. Nothing will ever be the same!” A Bit difficult to summarize, but basically it's about witches who make a deal with our Michael: power in exchange for sex—well, sort of. Better in fact. Read and see. Don't worry if it doesn't seem to make sense at first. It's an in media res story, and everything of relevance gets explained within the first two chapters. A nice story. And the sex is pretty good, too.

(If you like the story, you may want to check out ElSol's The Six Pills of Domination: “A failed high school experiment gives a sixteen year old boy seven keys to the women around him.”)