LughIldanach: Blog

People with emergency medicine experience will tell you that on the great drama ER, people healed much faster than in real life. At the same time, they were accurate on medical details that helped me suspend disbelief. Indeed, they were using some of the latest techniques only a couple of months after publication in a journal.

In "Wounded Warriors of the Sexual Revolution", I'm also adjusting time for dramatic reasons. No, I don't expect an ankle fracture to heal in a couple of weeks. This is even more true when rehabilitating a previously near-comatose neurological patient. I am, however, accurate that singing and music are recent innovations in speech therapy, and, in fact, weren't around in the rough time frame of the story.

Do I need to have a disclaimer/clarification other than in the Prologue? Should I have a note in the chapter where the quick cures appear?

In Chapter 7, which I just submitted, the Foundation is collecting superb minds and bodies, although with some health issues to fix. Returning health to most people makes them quite horny.

Since the voting on "Swordswomen, Sex, and the City" made more sense when I disabled it until the story was posted in full, I thought about disabling voting on this, and then reestablishing it at the end. That, I thought, would be more confusing. I do find unexplained 1's on a story that gets 10's also to be confusing.

This story slightly precedes "Swordswomen". I'm inclined to go to more, shorter stories in the series. I tend to write chapters of around 3000 words. Swordswomen had 3 chapters and a brief intro. This will have around 10.

Many are squicked by "snuff". I have no interest in killing for sexual gratification.

But am I squicked by tobacco inserted into a nose? Generally, yes. But then I remembered that snuff users sneeze, and I have experienced unique vaginal contractions when my lover is sneezing.

New code?

Candace, the narrator, started arguing with me about how this story would end, and I eventually agreed with her. Had I not done so, she would have borrowed a sword and done bad things to me. You'll meet her again in new stories.

Definitely creampie code. Semen and sperm have significance to the plot.

I hope readers have read Frank Herbert's masterpiece, Dune. It's not essential, but I was able to draw on some of his ideas.

Again, thanks to Wylde Flowers for the original inspiration. Flaws come from me.

It's amusing to find that the story that has the most truth, at least in the beginning, is the hardest to continue. The beginning, including the nicely arranged dildos, was indeed mostly the honeymoon of my second marriage. Some later events are true, and those that are "do overs" do reflect actual desires of one or both of us.

OTOH, the Le Marquis series has an internal consistency that my marriage lacked.