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How do you feel about stories with the yellow In Progress tag on SOL?
I'm not a fan. I want to know what I'm in for before I commit to read, and if it's going to putter along for dozens of chapters over the course of years then I'm not interested. And what if the work is abandoned? So that's the way I publish; finish the story, final edit, then out she goes.
Note I'm not talking about serials or episodic stories that can stand (mostly) alone.
Not everyone is like me though. Some people like it drip fed. What about you?
Reason I ask, I'm having trouble with my muse's attention span and now have four stories in draft. Some may never be completed if I lose interest. I'm disinclined to publish incomplete work without a commitment on size and timeline.
Some of you read my profile and asked what type of novel I might write in the future. I have always answered that I don't know, I would just wait for a novel-worthy idea to come along. Well on Thursday, I had not one, but two! So now they're outlined in my Story Ideas folder (which currently has more stories than my SOL catalog!) waiting for me to get up the courage to flesh either of them out to 80K words.
Quick poll, would you read a non-erotic story from an author whose erotica you enjoyed? What if it was from a genre that you didn't normally read?
Update on my last blog about my Sherlock Holmes story being rejected on another site because it was fan-fiction:
One of you anonymously suggested I post on fanfiction.com. It was a good suggestion so I did it, but I got only one reader response. Sigh. I marked it as Mature Adult, and they get filtered by default from all views. I can't even work out how to save search prefs there, so the only people who find my story are the ones who update their filter whenever they log in. Oh well.
Me=crabby. Just had my Sherlock Holmes story rejected from another site because it is Fan Fiction, even though the Sherlock Holmes and Watson characters passed into public domain before I was born.
But I love you guys at SOL. You're the best.
Last night I published Sherlock Holmes and the case of the Virgin Bride. I wake up this morning and I have been blessed by the erotica Gods! I have been bestowed Premium Services on SOL, I got a lovely review on the new story from Jon Lewiston, and an inbox full of love from all the speedy readers who gobbled up Holmes' and Watson's little Victorian romp (don't worry, it's hetro) while I slept.
Thanks everyone at SOL for making my Saturday.
A great day of writing today! I typed a couple of thousand words and have nearly completed my Sherlock Holmes story. Needed a break to watch the mighty Aussie Diamonds wallop England in the netball, otherwise you would be reading about Holmes and Watson and The Case of the Virgin Bride instead of this blog. Suck it up, readers; at least I got my netty fix.
I almost forgot what its like to get a good afternoon of privacy to write erotica. I've written so much lately in 1hr snatches, I forgot how damned horny a long, sexy session of daydreaming can be.
I just hope it bleeds through in the story.
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