VeryWellAged: Blog

I have submitted this and it will be posted sometime soon. I added a note to the front that will hopefully explain that you need some background either via the Jake stories or in the Philippines before you read the story.

I fixed some long standing typos and reworked a little bit of dialog that just wasn't exactly right.

Once this is up, if there are other type's please, please email me. I have looked at this stuff for so long I am just not catching them all.

When The Whale is posted next week, that will complete the stories I currently have in the pipe. The question arises as to whether I write more about Jake's Girls, Return to Thread #2 for a look at the Triple Jacks, find out how the children Of Thread #1 are doing, or leave Jake and leave the Philippines entirely.

I think the answer needs to come from you. While Jake himself is probably not going to appear in stories any more, there are connections in each Thread that can be picked up.

I don't think I will return to the Philippines outside of the Jake Threads. I posted one story that didn't require the threads as a background "The Food Court" and therefore was read as a stand-alone. The feed back I have gotten is that if I had redone it to be part of the Jake Universe, there would have been fewer downloads but happier readers. It got poorer reviews and that was also a piece of the fallout.

As soon as the good folks on this website get to it, and they are fast, you will have the final thread to read.

I have sent a short story, The Whale, which is dependent on thread #2, out for editing and review. I should have that posted in the next few days.

And then? I am not sure. There is plenty more than can be written, but I don't know if it should be written.

Jake is done. His typos, tense mismatches, cumbersome sentences are currently under scrutiny. It will be posted within the next seven days.

Now that the threads are complete, at least for me, there is the story from one of Jake's Girls that needs to be told. And then... maybe the story of Peter... We will see about that.

Those waiting are going to have to wait a bit longer. While this thread will be shorter than the other two threads... I think... every once in a while Jake fools me and we go in a direction I had not expected... which is what just happened to me. Jake has his own way in the world. I am just trying to chronicle it. :-)

I also have the outlines for two short stories belonging to the Second Thread. The stories' working titles are "The Whale" and "An unlikely Peter." The Wives, and double and triple Jakes are talking to me about that second one at the moment as it affects them.

The first of the two short stories belongs to the first of the Jake's Girls stories. I can see more of those in the future. If I don't bore you all to death!

It is clear to me that there are those who like the thematic material I handle, but it is a small group compared to the huge following other writers have. To those of you who like my stuff and have written to encourage me, I thank you very much.

One correspondent suggested I post the stories as chapters to get more readership, but some of my chapters have no sex, some are only sex... they are not even as the chapters are not formulaic. The story exists as a whole and never leaves my desk in pieces, not ever. I place chapter endings where they make sense to me, but not in a place that makes sense for serialized posting. So while I appreciated the suggestion on boosting readership, I took a pass on the suggestion.