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Tomorrow in "The Rat and the Dragon," if you were thinking Roan was going to get Cylthan back... you would be correct.
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“What do you want?” she growled without looking at him, hoping he wouldn’t hear how choked up she was. “Got a dungeon fetish?”
“No, actually. I’d be much more turned on if you were purring in my warm bed.”
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There's a lot of hot and cold between them. Roan's got his own demons behind those eyes that she'll learn about later. The reason most of this chapter is her point of view is because next chapter, he will talk about what he was thinking which leads into her learning about him. Almost everyone has a sad story that led them to be Seekers.
This is by far the biggest chapter of the story so far. Whether it's the biggest for the whole story, I'm not sure yet, but it's over 4k words. I don't think you'll be too upset.
You know who was upset, though? An old friend who recently reached out because she heard I was writing this particular story again. She was loving it... until chapter 11. In the previous, Cylthan was flirty and that's what started all that. Well, as the author, I know he would have tackled her and taken what he wanted back then, too. She's just more true to form now since she's a virgin who never even considered sex or rape until Roan was sitting on top of her and told her he would get hard if she kept struggling. It never even occurred to her until that moment. Thanks to Roan, it'll be a lot of what she thinks about from now on, though. There goes that purity... Hmmm, I wonder if that might cause problems later? Enjoy!
I finished the next chapter of "The Dragon Tamers," and it turned out to be nearly 4k words. While that's a totally acceptable chapter length, I'm already on to editing my werewolves. I don't know about you readers, but I'd rather have enough material to keep going and not have you guys waiting for a month when I miss a release, soooo... I'm splitting the chapter. When editing for publishing, I will put the two back together, but for consistent posting reasons, I give you guys the build up to the big info bit. And, just Jasper being Jasper. Poor guy is only a human among elves, and he's going to keep being reminded again and again, they are not the same species. Can he keep his insecurities at bay as that fact becomes more obvious with each passing day?
I'm totally down for a chapter name on this one. "On the Way" is so boring but it was all I could come up with. There will be two parts to it. I hope you all enjoy part one!
Hello, and welcome to all the new readers! I'm so glad you are all joining me on this grand adventure through the worlds that clutter up my mind. Don't entirely know where we're going, but we'll all have fun getting there together!
One of the questions I've been asked a few times- and it came up again recently- is how long I think it will be to finish my two current stories. Uh, well, there's no nice well to put this. When I wrote "In the Enemy's Territory" (available on Woofajuana), that's an approximately 150k word novel and I put my everything into that story. Morning, noon and night, any chance I had, that was what I was writing. There were a couple of side projects that never finished, but nothing that took up more than a day or two of my writing time. I was fully and solely focused on that novel and from when I sat down and started the concept on my brand new tablet to when I posted the last chapter here on SOL was about 3 years--though when I started actually posting what I had written, that really made me buckle down and I finished more in that last year than the first 2 of keeping it to myself. I'm still not fully "done." I'm going to finish this next chapter of "The Dragon Tamers" and then I'm gonna use that time to catch up on editing the werewolves and hope they don't scare off my other elves again. It didn't work before, but I have enough written down this time that I should be able to fill in the gaps with Roan and Cylthan should the dog breath prove too stifling. (Meanwhile, Roscrow in the middle of it "Why are the barking rugs humping on the furniture again? And why does this white one with purple hair keep attaching to me?" Ha, yeah, I don't remember what being bored is like. I just release Vohlana among the elves and watch the chaos ensue.)
So, here I be, writing approximately a chapter a week between two stories. I don't know exactly how long either one is going to be, but I'll bet, knowing me, they'll both end up around 150k words, too. So strap in folks, it'll be a few years. T.T
I'm sorry for that. I'm a very slow writer. I've got kids, pets, partner, health issues, and a big in-law family. Some writers sit down and just make 2,000 words appear in a flash. I envy those writers SO much. I have so many stories in my head. I want to get them all out now. But, if I get 200 words out in a day, I'm so proud of myself. I try to write every day, even if it's not directly to my stories. On occasion, those little tidbits make it into my stories and save me a lot of time describing a scenery or something. But, alas, I am slow. I spend so much time thinking about the scene playing in my head and how to describe it that by the time I think "Oh, I should be writing this down!" it fades from my mind like a desert cloud and I am left so frustrated. My thoughts are too fast for my fingers and I lose the words. And just to compound the problem... I edit. I write a sentence and then spend so much time editing the sentence, I could have written a paragraph if I just wouldn't.
I've been learning a lot of new techniques to help, and that was a big reason I started with a story that was kind of an outlier of my other tales. I figured the furries would appreciate ITET and maybe a few others, but for the most part, it was merely experimentation to put the new techniques to practice (and to my surprise, it has exploded with the general audience on other sites). With DT and R&D, I now have the techniques that worked in place as best as I can. I have outlines and summaries and I've planned most things out ahead of time rather than waiting for inspiration along the way. There's still plenty of space for discovery (like this chapter of DT), but that gives me a dirt road to pave over and that saves a lot of time. I don't have much buffer. I tend to get lazy with too much of a buffer. Knowing that people are waiting helps keep me motivated. But, it is a slow process. I'm grateful for those with the patience to stick with me through it. I haven't unlocked warp drive, yet, but at least I've made it past invention of the wheel so things should move along a little more quickly than they used to.
I hope you all enjoy this journey with me! You'll be stuck with me awhile....
Tomorrow on "The Rat and the Dragon," Cylthan is in trouble. Entirely at Roan's mercy, she will learn the meaning of fear... and we will learn that Roan is a dick because the Council is led by devils.
After this chapter, it will be a rocky uphill for these two, but it will go uphill from now on. They will have moments of weakness and selfishness and fits of rage, but they'll figure it out, and hopefully before Maleic finds out where she is... oh, uhhhh, oops...
There may be some discrepancies in the timeline from earlier, but I'll deal with it later. Also remember that it takes news forever to move around in this world when you live next door to bumfuck and nowhere. It'll all work out.
If you didn't see it last time- or you were waiting- definitely check out the song "The Devil You Know" by Blues Seraceno. It's the vibe for this chapter. I had that and "No Enemies" by Sebastian Ingrosso and Steve Angello on loop almost the whole chapter.
Hope you guys enjoy it!
At first, this chapter of "Dragon Tamers" was gonna be boring. I wrote everything up until Roscrow takes his nap (guy's been awake for five days and that's a lot even for elves), then I had a blank section, then Roscrow and S're have a nice, quiet conversation. I thought it would be easy to fill in...
And then Jasper said "yeah, that's nice and all, but booze! " This is why he became a main character. And, well, Roscrow’s just disappointed they didn't wait for him.
So, the whole chapter needed reorganizing and all the writing required for that. I think you guys will like it a lot more than how it was going to be. Rather than putting them in a bubble, this change brings life to something that was going to be very flat. It also shows Roscrow relax and bring out his sarcastic humor now that he's not in an enemy nation.
So, sorry about this, but no Dragon Tamer this weekend. I think you folks will like it better, anyway. Just a little patience, let this chapter finish baking.
I think I'm going to be setting S're and Roscrow aside for a bit after this. I need to catch up on editing for my werewolf story. I've been ignoring it and ignoring it, and it's time to let the dogs out. I'm definitely still working on "Rat and Dragon." It's my number one story and Roan has got a lot to say right now. Trying to deny him is impossible, at the moment. Staying focused on anything else is a challenge.
So, I will see you guys next week with Roan and Cylthan!
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