Currently starting chapter nine. How long each chapter takes me is hard to say because I don't do drafts and outlines and such, but rather, subscribe to the Hemingway "sit at the typewriter and bleed" school of writing.
I try to get at least one chapter written every week. Since 6 will drop Saturday, right now I'm about two weeks ahead of schedule, and that's because of how I post them to the various sites, so I thought I'd show how to find them here.
The first place I post a new chapter is the Garden of MC's Vineyard subforum. When you post a story or chapter there, they encourage starting a second post immediately after for comments. Since only two or three people ever comment on them, I use those posts as a sort of "commentary track," where I talk about the chapter, what went into it, etc. I freely admit that I'm basically wanking off onto the monitor when I do these, however, at the same time, I've gotten some good ideas from having a place to talk about the stories, so those posts are going to continue.
Next comes the submission to Simon at the EMCSA. He updates on Saturdays, so the second place it shows up is there. This is where the words "become real" to me. (I can't edit without re-writing the whole damn thing and submitting it again because I recognize that Simon's too busy for me to go "I used 'a' instead of 'an' there, can you change that?") After it posts there is when I upload to Stories Online. I do the plain text so I can catch and correct any errors that made it through onto the EMCSA version.
Since this place is pretty good about posting my updates, the next stop is Literotica. They take a couple days to post a new chapter, and again, I go over it to see what I missed here. (I've said before that I write these things in a week, then I spend the rest of my life editing them.)
The last stop is my tumblr page. tmaskedwriter is my main blog, but it's sort of become a catch-all for liking/reposting other stuff. tmaskedwritersworks is the page that's exclusively my own work, so it gets reposted to that page as well. The "FINAL Final Version" can be read there. Usually any changes at that stage will be something like the song quote I chose at the beginning no longer sitting right with me. (For example, in "Night Brings The Hunter," the Rush quote I used to start an early chapter no longer felt like it fit with the Warren Zevon tribute the story became, so I found a passage from one of his songs that I thought fit. I kept the Doors quote because I thought it still worked.)
Also, since it's been a while since I mentioned this, and don't know if I said it in this blog, there's a sort-of code to my titles that says who the story will be about.
"Amongst Equals" stories are about Troy & Julie's love story, so they'll be the focus.
"Day" means it'll be Troy & Julie along with their group of friends playing major roles.
"Night" indicates a tale of Contessa Helena de San Finzione.
"Pink Zone," when I can get to writing another of those, will be part of the upcoming "Tales From The Pink Zone" world and have nothing to do with Troy & Julie's universe.
Susan gets title billing. (She's got a great agent. Her role in the current story took a bit of negotiation.)