Writing Journal: My apologies for the infrequency of these posts. To bring you all up to date, The Adjusters #29 seems to have been well received. Meanwhile, I finished the first draft of The Adjusters #32 last week. Not bad. It will need some work, but I think it sets the tone for Book III. Writing's been painful these last few weeks—I'm only able to push out about 200–300 words a day, which is ridiculous, and I'm not entirely sure why. Maybe it's just because what I've been reading lately has been quite good, which makes me despair of ever writing well: when everything you write feels like crap, it's difficult to feel the love. But still we plow on ahead.
Here are a few random stories that I have bookmarked recently, leaning towards the domination genre.
First off, Ceight's Man and Wife: “A man realizes his wife is submissive and in rushing to take advantage of it finds how dominating he really is.” Sweetly twisted.
Second, a good mind-control story with a rather nasty protagonist, Toymaker, by HandsInTheDark: “The fringe benefits of parapsychology.” Basically the story of a guy who gains mind-control powers following an experiment, and takes advantage of it to satisfy his basest urges. A story with an actual ending, though no real Aristotelian structure. Hot sex, though.
Third, a story that I bookmarked a while back by Bryan Devlin, Cyndi Gets Hers: “A deceitful wife has to pay for the lies she's told.” A revenge story. I'm not entirely sure how I feel about this story. I like it less than I should, based on the theme and the scenario, but beats me if i can pin down what's bugging me about it. Still, the lot of you may enjoy it, so here it is.
Let's end with a dark twisted revenge story, by Darinost, Frank's New Pet: “When Julie left Frank, he was a nobody. But when a chance encounter brings them together years later, he decides to show her how much he's changed.” The title should give a hint, here. Some exquisite touches in there, and while the author lays it on quite thick, it reads well.
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