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I just posted a new story, "Periodic Liaisons - 1: The Honeymoon". It is the first of a series following Julie and Brad in an ever expanding erotic couples adventure.

So, why a serial? When I did Anthem I found that I wanted to post each chapter as quickly as possible, which put me at a pace that was difficult to maintain and I felt a self imposed pressure to get each chapter done. So I decided after completing Anthem that all future stories would be complete before posting.

At that time I made that choice I wasn't planning on writting another Anthem sized story. But that changed when I began planning a story that I estimated to be over 200k words. I hit the 90k word mark and began to get an itch to post something. So I had to either rethink my thoughts on posting incomplete stories or write smaller stories.

So, my stories became smaller and I continued the work on the large story. Everything was working great until I got to "Periodic Liaisons". The story expanded as I began writting it, and with one large story in the works I didn't want to start a second, so I decided to continue with the story but do it as a serial, posting segments as they were completed. So, as the name implies, I will be posting to the this serial, Periodically.

I know it's kind of like cheating, it being a Serial, but it is a complete story, so I think I'm still ok. Although just barely.

I am also going to move Animals into this Series, though the characters are different the stories are similair.

It's about time that I talk about where I am with Anthem Book 2. Anthem was my first story and I really didn't know where to begin other than knowing I wanted to write a story. So I decided that I would create an outline for the story I wanted to write, which turned out to be 70 chapters spanning 10 years. A large and daunting task! But I had a start and an end, and with that I began writing.

I completed Book 1 and began writing Book 2, starting where the last ended. The first chapter was completed and it was sent off to my editor, and I began on the following chapters. After having drafts for the next three chapters I stopped because I encountered a problem that I could not adequately resolve.

The problem was there were story ideas within the outline that were not about Alex, but they were integral to his character either directly or indirectly and were needed for the story to continue, at least that's how I saw it. A second problem was when I stopped to work on the first problem I went back to review what I had written and found that the story had gone too dark.

So I stopped and put it down to resolve the two problems, plus a third which was I was also kind of burned out with Alex. Since I wasn't getting anywhere with my problems I put Anthem away for the moment, and decided that I would use a story idea from the outline, that would become The World I Know (TWIK). For some stupid reason I decided NOT to tie this back to Anthem or to the Character in Anthem that the story was about, which is Stevie. It might have done that because Stevie was a bully and if you knew that going into the story, you might carry the prejudices that can go along with it.

After TWIK was posted I decided that by taking ideas from the Anthem outline I could solve my first problem by writing the side stories before tackling Alex. And with most of Alex's friends, his neighbors the Millers, his Parents, and a couple other characters that have been or will be mentioned in the stories coming up, there are a lot of stories to be written.

So Anthem is not forgotten, but it will be presented in a different way and I plan on creating a yet-to-be-named Universe to place the Alex related stories in.

Another reason that I decided not to continue with Alex as the main character is because I wanted to write something different, and each of the stories I've written have been unique. TWIK is a story with a Twilight Zone feeling. My next story, Animals was my attempt at a Stroke story. Hallelujah came from the movie Crash, different people with different stories coming together due to a single event, as well as the song Hallelujah. And finally, The Door Upon Which I Knock (TDUWIK) was started in anger, and kind of finished in the same way, but for different reasons.

I final thought as I close this blog, the only reward I receive are the responses you send in, which I consider a payment for the time and effort I put forth for the story. So, please send feedback, but if you hate the story, please be gentle;)

I uploaded a new story today. I sat down and wrote the first two sentences when I was pissed off with stuff from work. I had no clear idea of who the characters were or where the story was going. I guess that anger can do that. When I finally decided to figure out where the story was going, I had written the first chapter, I wrote the outline for the story. It took some time but I finally finished it. I hope you enjoy, it's called, The Door Upon Which I Knock.

I posted a new story, a somewhat followup to "The World I Know", which you don't need to read for this story. I hope you enjoy it.

Well, it's been a while, I refuse to look because it would probably piss me off how long it's been. Anyway, this story is not like the other two I wrote, much more sex, so I'm not sure how it will be received, I just hope you like it. Feedback is always appreciated and if you use my old email address I won't get it, so please use the feedback option within SOL and I'm sure I'll get it.