Writing Journal: Forging ahead. Nothing particularly interesting to report. I know exactly what I need to be writing for the next week—it's just a matter of putting words to the images in my head. Nothing particularly sexy about it.
I finished watching season 2 of Nikita this weekend [1], the last six episodes in a couple of marathon session. Damn, that was intense. And just in time, too, because season 3 is just starting.
Our story for this weekend—a long mind-control story, by LustInTranslation, Telepath King: “Tom becomes a Telepath and realizes his potential.” Where realizing his potential really means build a harem and take over the world. Well, not really, but yes. It's an interesting story if you like the genre, hits many of the usual tropes while still being fresh, and manages to keep the sex hot. There are a lot of characters, which is always a problem with harem-style stories, but the author manages them well, and there are a few shifts of scenery that introduce us to new characters in a more isolated context, which helps a lot.
This problem with having a slew of characters is one reason that I haven't written this dark story that's been playing in the back of my head [2] about a powerful mind controller that is a little bit warped—I haven't figured out a nice way to avoid having the story converge into a "powerful mind controller builds large harem and gets it on with everyone over and over again.”
[1] It's one of my more guilty pleasures.
[2] I've got a lot of stories in the back of my head. Most of them are complete crap. Those that survive the long filtering process either end up merged into The Adjusters—down the line—or more rarely become other stories.
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