Writing Journal: Nothing much to report. Writing at a decent if somewhat glacial pace. I'm Finishing up revisions to The Adjusters #37, including a sex scene that I need to rewrite based on what I'm writing in #38. All of which is procrastination for #39, which I have no real idea how to tackle.
Well, it's not smut, but I was reminded yesterday of an amazing webcomic that I ran across last year and with which I should really keep up better. It's False Positive, and features short stories of the “surreal, fantastic, and macabre.” There are some really fun tales in there, if you like the genre, and the art is simply gorgeous.
Last week I pointed you to some smutty fanfic, so here's another one, in a slightly different vein. It's Rizzoli & Beckett, by Van, a BDSM writer with a strong FemDom focus: “ Two cops from two cities catch the same case... & things head for the Fringe.” Ha! Ha! Fringe, get it? The story is difficult to describe. There's BDSM, and some MC. It's a riff off female characters from different series—Rizzoli from Rizzoli & Isles, Beckett from Castle, Scully from the X-Files, Magnus from Sanctuary, and Dunham from Fringe.
Sunday, January 27, 2013
Sunday, January 20, 2013
Two FanFic Stories
Writing Journal: So here I am, writing The Adjusters #38, and I'm thinking ahead to the last few scenes of the book, and it doesn't feel quite right, and from out of nowhere, BAM, a new scene pops out, one that I hadn't planned for, screaming for a place in the sun, and it feels right, and it takes things in a slightly different—and better—direction than I originally expected for the end of Book III.
Here are a couple of fanfic smut stories that I've enjoyed, if you're into that sort of thing.
First off is a fanfic for Warehouse 13, a light and campy science-fiction/fantasy show—Warehouse 13: Stone Bonner, by Thepleasuremachine: “Pete unwittingly brings back an artifact that wreaks havoc.” This is pretty much the episode that you'd want shot. An artifact that gives mind-control powers to one of our heroes, who proceeds to put it to good use. Especially nice if you follow the show.
Second, a long long tale in the Doctor Who universe, featuring Amy Pond—Doctor Who: Amy, Captured, by Kurokami: “Amy Pond finds herself held captive.” Some mind control (well, really, body control), bondage, domination/submission games, and a really weird set up. Some very good moments. (And there's a sequel too, Doctor Who: Panic Moon—haven't read that one though.)
Here are a couple of fanfic smut stories that I've enjoyed, if you're into that sort of thing.
First off is a fanfic for Warehouse 13, a light and campy science-fiction/fantasy show—Warehouse 13: Stone Bonner, by Thepleasuremachine: “Pete unwittingly brings back an artifact that wreaks havoc.” This is pretty much the episode that you'd want shot. An artifact that gives mind-control powers to one of our heroes, who proceeds to put it to good use. Especially nice if you follow the show.
Second, a long long tale in the Doctor Who universe, featuring Amy Pond—Doctor Who: Amy, Captured, by Kurokami: “Amy Pond finds herself held captive.” Some mind control (well, really, body control), bondage, domination/submission games, and a really weird set up. Some very good moments. (And there's a sequel too, Doctor Who: Panic Moon—haven't read that one though.)
Monday, January 14, 2013
Thoughts on The Adjusters
Writing Journal: I essentially finished drafting The Adjusters #37 this afternoon, and started on #38. That one should be pretty easy, considering I know what all the scenes are, and what I want to say. That's pretty rare. Plus I think I had a flash of what the sex scene will be. Not the one I originally planned, but this one should be more... interesting.
I promised to say a few words about the big picture for my serial. Partly, this was prompted by the discussion we had back around the beginning of Book III, where people were basically telling me—and I apologize for paraphrasing—WTF, dude?. Not an unfair reaction, as the story took a bit of a left turn there.
Warning: shameless over-thinking and navel-gazing follows.
Okay, we have to go back to the beginning. I've always wanted to write a big-ass MC saga. My introduction to the genre was Blackie's The Book, which pretty much blew my impressionable mind when I first read it, hoping it would never end. But to write a saga, you need an idea that will carry you through the long haul, and it took a while for one to simmer in my subconscious. I knew I didn't really want to write about a guy or a girl that gets some MC powers, because while I've read a lot of interesting stories with that premise, I couldn't figure out a way not to have the whole story either grow into hero screws everything in sight, chapter after chapter, which gets boring after a while, or hero starts fighting with others, undoubtedly also MCers, which didn't really inspire me.
Several years ago, the basic idea for a story came to me. Really, it came in the form of two scenes: an initial scene, and a final scene. The initial scene basically became Daniel's “dream” of Jenn and Biff in Book II. The final scene, well, it's not written yet, obviously. Then it was a simple matter of figuring out what happened to lead to the final scene—that also took a while. But eventually, I had the basic skeleton of the narrative thread, by answering the question: “Who did actually help Biff Cusker gets his grubby hands on Jennifer Hansen?” and following the answer to that question (“Doctor Cargyle”—“But who the hell is he?”) to its logical conclusion.
And in the process, I discovered a whole Universe in which the larger story takes place. The story I'm now slowly writing. It's big, it's complex, and it keeps being refined every time I pull a thread and start asking, “why is this?” (The Specials, whose existence we discovered in Book III, came out of exactly such a question asked of another plot point elsewhere in the story.)
And by big, I do mean big. If you like SAT-style analogies, Books I & II are to the whole story what #11 is to Book II. (Not in literal size, I hope.) Maybe that's too big. Who knows. I have the story in my head, and I know where it's going, and where it ends. So I'm not worried. Hey, I could have brought Book II to its “natural end” with Daniel finding Jenn and that would have been it for the story. I think my idea is more interesting, but time will tell. (Perhaps I should write an alternative ending to Book II for those that wanted the story to end there.)
So now I have this long tale to tell, how do I tell it? I think a long involved straight-up narrative would have ended up either being boring, or impossible to follow. Or maybe not. But I'm not sure I have it in me to write a single long sustained story like that. So I decided to break up the story into different arcs, each its own contained story with a beginning, middle, and end, with a narrative thread unifying all those stories into the big story I'm telling. It's no accident that I keep saying that the original model for The Adjusters was as a sort of comic book series, but in prose, following characters through different arcs that are part of the same story.
Doing things that way lets me experiment with different styles for each book, which not only keeps the story fresh in my mind, but also lets me try different things that I might not try otherwise. For instance, Book I was just a straight up narrative. Book II had a big cast and I experimented with multiple points of view. (Especially from midway on, when I discovered that yes, multiple points of view were needed, and helped the story. I wish I had done that sooner.) Book III plays with the past and the present, tracking the Special in the past all the way to the present, while our “heroes” are in the present. (It's not working as well as I would have liked it to work, but better than I feared.) Book IV will probably be a bit different in style as well. Book V might be five or six independent but related short stories looking at a few characters in our Universe—some we know, some we don't yet. I'm not being cagey on purpose: while the overall story line is pretty clear in my head, its breakdown into books, chapters, and scenes very much gets pounded in drafts.
Really, if you scratch all the self-aggrandizing rhetoric, I just view it all as a large-scale writing exercise. One that lets me write smut, of course, which is the immediate goal, and the reason I started writing the serial in the first place, but also one that lets me play around with a large world in which I get to tell various connected stories that make up a larger story while experiment with different stylistic perspectives and explore some rather twisted aspects of my own psyche, since all writing is just self-psychoanalysis.
I hope this makes some sort of sense. The TL;DR summary of this post probably is as follows. If you're reading The Adjusters, rest assured: there is a beginning, middle, and end to the story. But we're going to get there through a series of arcs each with its own beginning, middle, and end.
Hey, I did warn you that there would be over-thinking in this post...
To compensate, I'll leave you with some lighter fare MC smut I ran across over the weekend. It's a story by Kenn Ghannon, Ring of Command: “Andrew Malley is scuba-diving with his father off the coast of Jamaica when he finds a ring half-embedded in the sandy floor. Without thought, he slips the ring on his finger -- and his life will never be the same.” Your typical guy finds a magic artifact and controls folks around him, but it's well written, doesn't go too far too fast, and has interesting characters. A warning: the characters are teenagers, and there's incest involved. I'm looking forward to see where the story is going.
I promised to say a few words about the big picture for my serial. Partly, this was prompted by the discussion we had back around the beginning of Book III, where people were basically telling me—and I apologize for paraphrasing—WTF, dude?. Not an unfair reaction, as the story took a bit of a left turn there.
Warning: shameless over-thinking and navel-gazing follows.
Okay, we have to go back to the beginning. I've always wanted to write a big-ass MC saga. My introduction to the genre was Blackie's The Book, which pretty much blew my impressionable mind when I first read it, hoping it would never end. But to write a saga, you need an idea that will carry you through the long haul, and it took a while for one to simmer in my subconscious. I knew I didn't really want to write about a guy or a girl that gets some MC powers, because while I've read a lot of interesting stories with that premise, I couldn't figure out a way not to have the whole story either grow into hero screws everything in sight, chapter after chapter, which gets boring after a while, or hero starts fighting with others, undoubtedly also MCers, which didn't really inspire me.
Several years ago, the basic idea for a story came to me. Really, it came in the form of two scenes: an initial scene, and a final scene. The initial scene basically became Daniel's “dream” of Jenn and Biff in Book II. The final scene, well, it's not written yet, obviously. Then it was a simple matter of figuring out what happened to lead to the final scene—that also took a while. But eventually, I had the basic skeleton of the narrative thread, by answering the question: “Who did actually help Biff Cusker gets his grubby hands on Jennifer Hansen?” and following the answer to that question (“Doctor Cargyle”—“But who the hell is he?”) to its logical conclusion.
And in the process, I discovered a whole Universe in which the larger story takes place. The story I'm now slowly writing. It's big, it's complex, and it keeps being refined every time I pull a thread and start asking, “why is this?” (The Specials, whose existence we discovered in Book III, came out of exactly such a question asked of another plot point elsewhere in the story.)
And by big, I do mean big. If you like SAT-style analogies, Books I & II are to the whole story what #11 is to Book II. (Not in literal size, I hope.) Maybe that's too big. Who knows. I have the story in my head, and I know where it's going, and where it ends. So I'm not worried. Hey, I could have brought Book II to its “natural end” with Daniel finding Jenn and that would have been it for the story. I think my idea is more interesting, but time will tell. (Perhaps I should write an alternative ending to Book II for those that wanted the story to end there.)
So now I have this long tale to tell, how do I tell it? I think a long involved straight-up narrative would have ended up either being boring, or impossible to follow. Or maybe not. But I'm not sure I have it in me to write a single long sustained story like that. So I decided to break up the story into different arcs, each its own contained story with a beginning, middle, and end, with a narrative thread unifying all those stories into the big story I'm telling. It's no accident that I keep saying that the original model for The Adjusters was as a sort of comic book series, but in prose, following characters through different arcs that are part of the same story.
Doing things that way lets me experiment with different styles for each book, which not only keeps the story fresh in my mind, but also lets me try different things that I might not try otherwise. For instance, Book I was just a straight up narrative. Book II had a big cast and I experimented with multiple points of view. (Especially from midway on, when I discovered that yes, multiple points of view were needed, and helped the story. I wish I had done that sooner.) Book III plays with the past and the present, tracking the Special in the past all the way to the present, while our “heroes” are in the present. (It's not working as well as I would have liked it to work, but better than I feared.) Book IV will probably be a bit different in style as well. Book V might be five or six independent but related short stories looking at a few characters in our Universe—some we know, some we don't yet. I'm not being cagey on purpose: while the overall story line is pretty clear in my head, its breakdown into books, chapters, and scenes very much gets pounded in drafts.
Really, if you scratch all the self-aggrandizing rhetoric, I just view it all as a large-scale writing exercise. One that lets me write smut, of course, which is the immediate goal, and the reason I started writing the serial in the first place, but also one that lets me play around with a large world in which I get to tell various connected stories that make up a larger story while experiment with different stylistic perspectives and explore some rather twisted aspects of my own psyche, since all writing is just self-psychoanalysis.
I hope this makes some sort of sense. The TL;DR summary of this post probably is as follows. If you're reading The Adjusters, rest assured: there is a beginning, middle, and end to the story. But we're going to get there through a series of arcs each with its own beginning, middle, and end.
Hey, I did warn you that there would be over-thinking in this post...
To compensate, I'll leave you with some lighter fare MC smut I ran across over the weekend. It's a story by Kenn Ghannon, Ring of Command: “Andrew Malley is scuba-diving with his father off the coast of Jamaica when he finds a ring half-embedded in the sandy floor. Without thought, he slips the ring on his finger -- and his life will never be the same.” Your typical guy finds a magic artifact and controls folks around him, but it's well written, doesn't go too far too fast, and has interesting characters. A warning: the characters are teenagers, and there's incest involved. I'm looking forward to see where the story is going.
Wednesday, January 9, 2013
The Adjusters Book II on the EMCSA
Writing Journal: So I'm almost finished drafting The Adjusters #37 and I have #38 pretty much outlined except for the sex scene, so I'm hopeful that I can have those two last installments for Book III squared away by the middle of the month. (That's important to me because having a couple of installments in the can means that even if writing goes more slowly than expected in any given month it doesn't actually impact the one-installment-a-month policy I have. Makes sense?) That's also good because it gives me more time to figure out how to approach #39 and beyond.
As some of you may have noticed, I've started to put up Book II of The Adjusters on the EMCSA, revising bits of it as I go.
It's a huge temptation to rewrite large swats of it, and I'm resisting the impulse. I am correcting typos and small problems that some of you have noticed, but I'm trying hard to keep my rewrites to a minimum. (Although I messed with #12 yet again.) When I get a moment, I'll propagate those changes to ASSTR as well.
Man, looking at it two years after having written and posted it, bits of the story are very rough... I'm impressed the lot of you stayed with me for the duration!
This weekend, I'm going to talk about the big picture for the series, the post I promised you when I started posting Book III.
Until then, I leave you with two wife-sharing stories on Literotica. Not out of this world, but some good stuff there if you like the genre.
The Wife's Little Game, by Quin, the story of a man who encourages his wife to seduce a neighbor. Well done, and some hot teasing sex, which is my criterion for judging such things.
Webcam Wife, by Thick7in1972, the story of a man who discovers his wife has a webcam show, and who gently drives her to open up to him sexually. I prefer the first half of the story to the second half, but there are some very nice scenes in there.
As some of you may have noticed, I've started to put up Book II of The Adjusters on the EMCSA, revising bits of it as I go.
It's a huge temptation to rewrite large swats of it, and I'm resisting the impulse. I am correcting typos and small problems that some of you have noticed, but I'm trying hard to keep my rewrites to a minimum. (Although I messed with #12 yet again.) When I get a moment, I'll propagate those changes to ASSTR as well.
Man, looking at it two years after having written and posted it, bits of the story are very rough... I'm impressed the lot of you stayed with me for the duration!
This weekend, I'm going to talk about the big picture for the series, the post I promised you when I started posting Book III.
Until then, I leave you with two wife-sharing stories on Literotica. Not out of this world, but some good stuff there if you like the genre.
The Wife's Little Game, by Quin, the story of a man who encourages his wife to seduce a neighbor. Well done, and some hot teasing sex, which is my criterion for judging such things.
Webcam Wife, by Thick7in1972, the story of a man who discovers his wife has a webcam show, and who gently drives her to open up to him sexually. I prefer the first half of the story to the second half, but there are some very nice scenes in there.
Sunday, January 6, 2013
Station Identification: Smutty Footnotes
What's This?
You are visiting Smutty Footnotes, a blog that I maintain since August 2010, the successor to an online journal I started back in 2008. This is my little soapbox, which serves several roles. First, it's where I talk about and publish the smut that I write. Second, it's where I point out interesting smut that I've run across in my eternal quest to find the most arousing fiction out there. Third, it's where I wax lyrical about random smut-related tidbits that I encounter both online and offline. Oh, and in case that was not clear: yes, this is very much a smut-focused blog.
I try to post twice a week, once in the middle of the week (Wednesday) and once on the weekend (Sunday), and I tend to post late at night. Most of my posts have a portion I pompously call my Writing Journal, where I comment opaquely on what I'm writing at the moment. Between you and me, it's therapy more than anything else: it gives me a sense that I'm actually getting stuff done.
And Who Are You Anyways?
Glad you asked. I go by the name Bulgroz The Third here and a few other places. I have been writing smut since the late nineties, but did not inflict it on the world until 2008. To be fair, little of what I wrote before then is digestible. My stories tend to involve mind control and distinctive power dynamics between characters.
Yes, I do have a life, and no, it is not all sex all the time. I wish. No, what you get here and in my writing is a projection of my personality onto the smut plane. Not unexpectedly, it yields a singularly distorted view of yours truly, but one that maintains some of my real-life characteristics. Chew on that.
So What Can We Expect For 2013?
Excellent question. My current running serial The Adjusters continues with monthly episodes, published the first of the month when I'm not running late because of this or that.
I have a few ideas for stories on the back burner, chapter stories longer than my short stories, but not as epic as The Adjusters. My hope is that at least one of them will see the light of day in 2013.
I'll keep on pointing you to interesting smut that I encounter here and there. I'll also delve into the past and presenting classics from the last three decades, classics that I have read and loved, going back to the early days of Usenet and alt.sex.stories. There's a lot of amazing stuff out there that you may not know and may find interesting.
Beyond that, anything specific you folks would like to see on this blog in the coming year?
Friday, January 4, 2013
New Story: The Adjusters #36
It took longer than expected to get back to a normal post-Holidays routine, but everything is good now.
And here is January's installment of The Adjusters, “No Wedding but a Suspect”, wherein our Special decides to seek a remedy against temptation, and Daniel follows a lead that turns into a suspect.
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 #36 - No Wedding but a Suspect
(Charleston, West Virginia. Three weeks ago.)
He enters the lobby of the building after making sure that the coast
is clear. He pulls his UPS cap down over his eyes and the uniform
collar up around his neck. He is on his home turf, and he cannot take
the chance to be recognized. Not yet--not until his Ministry has grown
large enough with Worshippers that he has nothing to fear from those
cockroaches that dare keep him from fulfilling his true Potential.
He tightens his grip on the package underneath his arm, and notices
that he is clenching one of his fists; he wills it open, forcing
himself to relax. Thinking about the roaches always makes him mad,
always has, those roaches that think nothing of stepping over the
little guy, that have no hesitation using the little guy, abusing him,
milking him dry, sucking the marrow from his bones, the soul from his
heart. Roaches, the lot them, feasting upon the remains of good people
that do not know any better. But not Him. His eyes have been
opened--he is a God now, a God who sees all and knows all and
understands all, and what he understands now is that he has the Power,
to make a difference, to punish the roaches.
If he was clenching his fist in anger before, he is now grinning in
near madness. Almost, because he has never felt so sane--so full of
life, vigor, clarity. So much to do now. Projects, Dreams, Visions
have been assaulting him at night as soon as he closes his
eyes. Beyond his Worshippers, beyond his Ministry--Vision of a New
World, where the Righteous are rewarded and the Roaches are punished,
squashed, trampled underfoot. His Ministry is based on rewarding
husbands that share their wives' purity and lend their womb for His
use, but there is nothing to stop him from punishing the roaches by
taking away their loved ones--their wives, theirs sisters, their
daughters.
Continue reading...
Next month: “A Wedding and a Confrontation”.
And here is January's installment of The Adjusters, “No Wedding but a Suspect”, wherein our Special decides to seek a remedy against temptation, and Daniel follows a lead that turns into a suspect.
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 #36 - No Wedding but a Suspect
(Charleston, West Virginia. Three weeks ago.)
He enters the lobby of the building after making sure that the coast
is clear. He pulls his UPS cap down over his eyes and the uniform
collar up around his neck. He is on his home turf, and he cannot take
the chance to be recognized. Not yet--not until his Ministry has grown
large enough with Worshippers that he has nothing to fear from those
cockroaches that dare keep him from fulfilling his true Potential.
He tightens his grip on the package underneath his arm, and notices
that he is clenching one of his fists; he wills it open, forcing
himself to relax. Thinking about the roaches always makes him mad,
always has, those roaches that think nothing of stepping over the
little guy, that have no hesitation using the little guy, abusing him,
milking him dry, sucking the marrow from his bones, the soul from his
heart. Roaches, the lot them, feasting upon the remains of good people
that do not know any better. But not Him. His eyes have been
opened--he is a God now, a God who sees all and knows all and
understands all, and what he understands now is that he has the Power,
to make a difference, to punish the roaches.
If he was clenching his fist in anger before, he is now grinning in
near madness. Almost, because he has never felt so sane--so full of
life, vigor, clarity. So much to do now. Projects, Dreams, Visions
have been assaulting him at night as soon as he closes his
eyes. Beyond his Worshippers, beyond his Ministry--Vision of a New
World, where the Righteous are rewarded and the Roaches are punished,
squashed, trampled underfoot. His Ministry is based on rewarding
husbands that share their wives' purity and lend their womb for His
use, but there is nothing to stop him from punishing the roaches by
taking away their loved ones--their wives, theirs sisters, their
daughters.
Continue reading...
Next month: “A Wedding and a Confrontation”.
Tuesday, January 1, 2013
Happy New Year!
Happy New Year, folks!
May your 2013 be better than 2012.
I'm on the road, so I will not be able to get to The Adjusters #36 until at least tomorrow night, assuming all travels go well.
At which point I'll also be able to get back to those of you who got in touch with me over the Holidays.
In the meantime, here's an old story by J. Boswell that I've always particularly liked, The Hots for a Hooker: “A poignant account of a man's infatuation with a classy call girl.” A very nice story. In three parts: Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3.
May your 2013 be better than 2012.
I'm on the road, so I will not be able to get to The Adjusters #36 until at least tomorrow night, assuming all travels go well.
At which point I'll also be able to get back to those of you who got in touch with me over the Holidays.
In the meantime, here's an old story by J. Boswell that I've always particularly liked, The Hots for a Hooker: “A poignant account of a man's infatuation with a classy call girl.” A very nice story. In three parts: Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3.
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