How long is it since I last posted here, or anywhere? So long I don't want to look...
But I've been writing again recently, having found some headspace and have just sent chapter 5 of Becoming Anne off to be published on Nifty and Literotica, so keep an eye out there for it. Hopefully, other chapters will follow soon.
Please give me your feedback on anything I've written, and hopefully I'll be giving you more over the coming months...
Showing posts with label literotica. Show all posts
Showing posts with label literotica. Show all posts
Wednesday, 9 April 2014
Sunday, 14 April 2013
For the end of the weekend or the beginning of the week
Something new to read: Becoming Anne Chapter 4 is now up on Literotica. Hope you enjoy it if you've enjoyed the other parts, and thanks to everyone who's read and commented on it so far - seems to have been a flurry of votes on my work over the weekend, and it's always appreciated. Chapter 5 should be submitted early in the week, and I'll keep you up to date with any release news as the chapters appear.
Happy reading!
Happy reading!
Tuesday, 5 February 2013
Short story cravings
40,878 is the total on the work-in-progress after yesterday, though now I'm back at the point where I'm itching to have a day where I get a chunk done on that and then work on a short story for a while. I've got another one that I started last year which needs finishing (and the start re-writing) but the immediate feedback they give is good for my ego, and my development as a writer.
Which is a way of saying that if you haven't read and reviewed one of my stories - Screwing The Pitch, When There's An R In The Month or Emma's Favourite Place - on Literotica yet, please give them a look and a vote!
Not much else to report today, though hopefully this afternoon will be a good one for writing. Just about to take the work-in-progress into the next action scene, and then there's a flashback after that which should be fun to write.
Which is a way of saying that if you haven't read and reviewed one of my stories - Screwing The Pitch, When There's An R In The Month or Emma's Favourite Place - on Literotica yet, please give them a look and a vote!
Not much else to report today, though hopefully this afternoon will be a good one for writing. Just about to take the work-in-progress into the next action scene, and then there's a flashback after that which should be fun to write.
Friday, 1 February 2013
January in review
Yesterday was another good writing day, with well over 1000 words written, another chpater finished and another one properly started (not just a line or two to avoid blank page syndrome). As it's now February, let's look back at the figures for last month.
Total on the work in progress so far is 36,198 words, with another 1500 words written of Screwing The Pitch to finish it off, making a total of 37,698 for the month, which is a decent average of over 1200 words a day. It's been good to get back to writing and slough off the feeling of a block hanging over me, and as the month's gone on, the writing's definitely become easier. I've got a good story going, with two interesting characters at the heart of it, though it will need substantial rewriting after I've finished this first draft.
It was also good to get another short story up on Literotica which currently has 10 votes and an average of 3.9, just to have something to point at and say 'look, I finished that!'
Need to keep a running total as I go, but I'm also going to reset to zero for February so I keep the average up over 1000 words a day, rather than eating into the buffer I've built up in January on the jutification that I'm above average overall. So the target in four weeks time when I next do a review post will be at least 65,698 words in total.
I think I've written a post like this every day so far as well, and they've been good motivation to keep me going, even if no one is reading them! They're effectively my morning pages, a chance to sort out my head while I wake up and arrange a few thoughts before getting on with the writing. I guess another target is to keep that up, and if I start missing them, try and nag me to get back in the saddle and writing them...
Total on the work in progress so far is 36,198 words, with another 1500 words written of Screwing The Pitch to finish it off, making a total of 37,698 for the month, which is a decent average of over 1200 words a day. It's been good to get back to writing and slough off the feeling of a block hanging over me, and as the month's gone on, the writing's definitely become easier. I've got a good story going, with two interesting characters at the heart of it, though it will need substantial rewriting after I've finished this first draft.
It was also good to get another short story up on Literotica which currently has 10 votes and an average of 3.9, just to have something to point at and say 'look, I finished that!'
Need to keep a running total as I go, but I'm also going to reset to zero for February so I keep the average up over 1000 words a day, rather than eating into the buffer I've built up in January on the jutification that I'm above average overall. So the target in four weeks time when I next do a review post will be at least 65,698 words in total.
I think I've written a post like this every day so far as well, and they've been good motivation to keep me going, even if no one is reading them! They're effectively my morning pages, a chance to sort out my head while I wake up and arrange a few thoughts before getting on with the writing. I guess another target is to keep that up, and if I start missing them, try and nag me to get back in the saddle and writing them...
Tuesday, 29 January 2013
New story ready to be read
My latest short story is now up at Literotica. It's called Screwing The Pitch, and I hope you enjoy it. It was an attempt to do something a bit different, and I'm not sure whether or not it's succeeded, so I've put it out there to get some comments.
The genesis of it was seeing someone looking for London-based stories for an anthology. I began it, and then ran into my slump period last year and didn't get it finished. I rediscovered it last week and decided that as the start was interesting enough and I could still remember the character and the story, it was worth a bash at finishing it. The idea was to try something that was being told by a character in their voice, and for that character to be someone I probably wouldn't like if I ever met him. Could he still tell an interesting and exciting tale?
That's for you to judge, so follow the link, take a look, vote and leave comments to let me know. Or if it's the other way around and you've just come here from Literotica, then welcome! Feel free to read my posts and follow my links, there may be something there of interest!
(Regulars might like to know that a good writing session yesterday got the work-in-progress to 32,178 words total so far, by the way)
The genesis of it was seeing someone looking for London-based stories for an anthology. I began it, and then ran into my slump period last year and didn't get it finished. I rediscovered it last week and decided that as the start was interesting enough and I could still remember the character and the story, it was worth a bash at finishing it. The idea was to try something that was being told by a character in their voice, and for that character to be someone I probably wouldn't like if I ever met him. Could he still tell an interesting and exciting tale?
That's for you to judge, so follow the link, take a look, vote and leave comments to let me know. Or if it's the other way around and you've just come here from Literotica, then welcome! Feel free to read my posts and follow my links, there may be something there of interest!
(Regulars might like to know that a good writing session yesterday got the work-in-progress to 32,178 words total so far, by the way)
Sunday, 27 January 2013
Another forgotten post
Yet again, I was thinking about things to write about here as I went to sleep, but now I can't remember any of them, so you'll just have to make do with me talking about what comes into my head in the hope it recreates some of them.
Managed about 1200 words yesterday to take the total for the work-in-progress over 30,000 (30,425 to be exact). Still really enjoying the story and the characters, and feeling that there's lots more to be told about them after this story. Indeed, that's making me that I might actually be writing two different books in parallel at the moment, which will make the editing of them interesting. However, that's not something to worry about until this version of the story is finished, then I get to work on bashing into a more reasonable and less meandering state or states. One thing I have decided is that I need to completely rewrite their initial meeting - their first encounter in this draft is a little too quick and convenient for the bond they form later, and so I need to stretch it so they have more contact with each other before the incident that kicks the story off properly.
That all makes sense to me, I promise, even if it's really vague to anyone else.
Blimey, that's just reminded me of one of my going-to-sleep thoughts on how to describe this story: "Bridget Jones falls in love with a lesbian vampire", though that makes it sound somewhat different to the way it is, and there's no one writing a diary with 'pints of blood drunk' as a daily category. Not that there'd be anything wrong with a story like that, it's just not this one!
Still, I shall continue to use the LVH - Lesbian Vampire Highlander - tag for it here, as there are elements of that in it too. Though without the decapitations or the Prize at the end and Freddie Mercury's not around any more to camp up the soundtrack to eleven.
In other news, still waiting for Literotica to process the latest story, so no link as yet. Have also submitted Almost Chance to a couple of review sites, and it's sitting in the queue there. Am somewhat nervous about what they'll say, but you've got to get out there and take the blows as well as the praise, whichever comes along. If you're reading this and fancy doing a review, then please get in touch!
Managed about 1200 words yesterday to take the total for the work-in-progress over 30,000 (30,425 to be exact). Still really enjoying the story and the characters, and feeling that there's lots more to be told about them after this story. Indeed, that's making me that I might actually be writing two different books in parallel at the moment, which will make the editing of them interesting. However, that's not something to worry about until this version of the story is finished, then I get to work on bashing into a more reasonable and less meandering state or states. One thing I have decided is that I need to completely rewrite their initial meeting - their first encounter in this draft is a little too quick and convenient for the bond they form later, and so I need to stretch it so they have more contact with each other before the incident that kicks the story off properly.
That all makes sense to me, I promise, even if it's really vague to anyone else.
Blimey, that's just reminded me of one of my going-to-sleep thoughts on how to describe this story: "Bridget Jones falls in love with a lesbian vampire", though that makes it sound somewhat different to the way it is, and there's no one writing a diary with 'pints of blood drunk' as a daily category. Not that there'd be anything wrong with a story like that, it's just not this one!
Still, I shall continue to use the LVH - Lesbian Vampire Highlander - tag for it here, as there are elements of that in it too. Though without the decapitations or the Prize at the end and Freddie Mercury's not around any more to camp up the soundtrack to eleven.
In other news, still waiting for Literotica to process the latest story, so no link as yet. Have also submitted Almost Chance to a couple of review sites, and it's sitting in the queue there. Am somewhat nervous about what they'll say, but you've got to get out there and take the blows as well as the praise, whichever comes along. If you're reading this and fancy doing a review, then please get in touch!
Saturday, 26 January 2013
Little bits of catching up
Still waiting to hear from Literotica, but then I did have to submit the story as a .doc file - I do like using italics to help tell the story - so I'll hear when I hear, and share the link then.
Was also thinking more about Julie D'Aubigny yesterday, and think I've found a way to incorporate her into another story I've got on the back burner. It's one I started a while back and did for NaNoWriMo a couple of years ago, but couldn't get it to work. Though now I've thrown her into the mix, it's suddenly taking on a whole new complexion.
As for the work in progress, a solid 1200 or so words yesterday, mostly developing one of the characters and giving a bit of an insight into her life, rather than action scenes, though I got to a point where the next bit of action is just about to (unexpectedly) start. She's the main viewpoint character for the modern sections of it, and it's quite fun to take her life, which is quite a routine single-gay-girl-in-the-big-city story, and thrust it into the middle of something much bigger, stranger and scarier. She'll come through it, though. I'm pretty sure of that.
Total on the work in progress now 29,248.
Right, to work, and hopefully a productive weekend ahead.
Was also thinking more about Julie D'Aubigny yesterday, and think I've found a way to incorporate her into another story I've got on the back burner. It's one I started a while back and did for NaNoWriMo a couple of years ago, but couldn't get it to work. Though now I've thrown her into the mix, it's suddenly taking on a whole new complexion.
As for the work in progress, a solid 1200 or so words yesterday, mostly developing one of the characters and giving a bit of an insight into her life, rather than action scenes, though I got to a point where the next bit of action is just about to (unexpectedly) start. She's the main viewpoint character for the modern sections of it, and it's quite fun to take her life, which is quite a routine single-gay-girl-in-the-big-city story, and thrust it into the middle of something much bigger, stranger and scarier. She'll come through it, though. I'm pretty sure of that.
Total on the work in progress now 29,248.
Right, to work, and hopefully a productive weekend ahead.
Thursday, 24 January 2013
Story completed
I've finished off and edited the story I was talking about this morning, and I've just submitted it to Literotica. Keep an eye out for it there, as I'd be interested to hear comments and feedback on it - I like it, but I'm not sure if it's going to appeal to everyone! It's a short little tale featuring sex, drugs and advertising, but no rock'n'roll. I think it will be the first purely heterosexual story I've published anywhere too.
Link and a bit more on it will follow when it's been processed and approved there. If you like it and fancy publishing it somewhere else, get in touch!
Link and a bit more on it will follow when it's been processed and approved there. If you like it and fancy publishing it somewhere else, get in touch!
Saturday, 5 January 2013
Another day on target
I think I might be getting back into the groove. Managed to hit 1000 words again yesterday, squeezed into a couple of hours in the afternoon when I had some time to write. This is surely tempting fate, but it feels like the writer's block may have slipped away, or maybe it was never there and I just needed to find some interesting characters with an interesting story to tell?
Total at the end of yesterday was 4,346. Weekends are the sort of time I should be able to get on and write more, but they're also a time of many distractions and things getting in the way. So I'm not going to set any targets beyond the 1000 a day, but we'll see where it goes. And that first 1000 is always going to be on LVH, though I've also been having some thoughts about a short story I began last year but didn't finish. It's not going to take too much to finish that off, so if I can get a decent writing session in at some point over the next few days, I might be able to finish that off. Will likely be something for Literotica, just to give people something of mine to read that's new.
As for LVH itself, things are going well and getting interesting. The first (short) blood-drinking scene appeared yesterday, and maybe today I'll finish the introductory section and get into the first flashback section. Let's see where it leads...
Total at the end of yesterday was 4,346. Weekends are the sort of time I should be able to get on and write more, but they're also a time of many distractions and things getting in the way. So I'm not going to set any targets beyond the 1000 a day, but we'll see where it goes. And that first 1000 is always going to be on LVH, though I've also been having some thoughts about a short story I began last year but didn't finish. It's not going to take too much to finish that off, so if I can get a decent writing session in at some point over the next few days, I might be able to finish that off. Will likely be something for Literotica, just to give people something of mine to read that's new.
As for LVH itself, things are going well and getting interesting. The first (short) blood-drinking scene appeared yesterday, and maybe today I'll finish the introductory section and get into the first flashback section. Let's see where it leads...
Friday, 27 July 2012
A new free story: Emma's Favourite Place
Just to let you know I've got a new short story up at Literotica, called Emma's Favourite Place. Hope you like it, and if you do please give it some comments and good votes. You can see all my Literotica submissions here if you're looking.
It was just a quikc piece and a chance to try out an idea I had, so it's not a straightforward 'X meets Y and they have sex' story, but it's always good to do things differently, just to see the reaction it gets.
It was just a quikc piece and a chance to try out an idea I had, so it's not a straightforward 'X meets Y and they have sex' story, but it's always good to do things differently, just to see the reaction it gets.
Monday, 16 July 2012
A new story for free
I've been a bad blogger, haven't I? Nothing here for so long, but to make up for it, I now have a new story that you can read for free. It's called 'When There's An R In The Month' and you can read it on Literotica or at the Nifty Archive.
I hope you enjoy it, and I'd love to hear your comments. It's a simple tale of an encounter between two women - Rose and Shauna - and is just vanilla sex, no kink or anything else involved. I wrote it for the Smut By The Sea anthology, but it wasn't accepted, so thought I should set it free into the world for you all to see, rather than letting it skulk unread on the hard drive.
I hope you enjoy it, and I'd love to hear your comments. It's a simple tale of an encounter between two women - Rose and Shauna - and is just vanilla sex, no kink or anything else involved. I wrote it for the Smut By The Sea anthology, but it wasn't accepted, so thought I should set it free into the world for you all to see, rather than letting it skulk unread on the hard drive.
Friday, 25 May 2012
Almost Chance: Reviews
Some comments from reviews of Almost Chance at Literotica:
You have truly captivated the submissive soul in this piece. So revealing, even in the unstated. Very well done.
This is the most beautiful and extremely erotic story I have ever read and I just wanted to say thank you for sharing it!
BDSM scares me. So why was I so highly turned on by this? 5 stars for the whole series.
This story was perfect. my Mistress suggested it to me and i am so glad that She did. i read it from beginning to end in two hours. From the very first sentence to the last word, i felt like i was Jen. i experienced everything right along with her. Her journey into submission actually *felt* real. Thank you for writing this story...and thank you even more for sharing it.You can find it there and read more or buy a copy at Amazon US, Amazon UK or Smashwords.
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