Fatbastard: Blog

I started writing for SOL without being very clear what I was trying to do and what I hoped to get out of it. My first story "First Time Again" started out as a 'stroke' fantasy, but as it 'just growed' and got totally out of control, it came to reflect my interests in reality (surprise surprise!).

The 'Uncle Frank' stories started out only semiautobiographically (big word for a young fellah). The universe is accurately portrayed, but the themes that have emerged and are emerging reflect my own learnings and struggles to a disconcerting degree.

I started what seems to have become a series of stories recounting the way my father's brother mentored and guided me through my teenage years and young manhood last year. I didn't know how far I wanted to take it, but started with Uncle Frank, Andrea, sex, and me, and followed with the story of Bronwyn.
Now I am posting Uncle Frank, Robyn, sex, and me, and starting to write the next one. It is now clear that 'setting the scene' to make the action easily understandable for each story is a burden I (and probably any one following the series) can do without, so new readers would almost certainly enjoy the current story more if they started with Andrea (as I did), went on to Bronwyn, and then Robyn.

Fourteen chapters, each between three and four thousand words. It has taken a while. After my experience with previous stories, and having not enjoyed the pressure I put on myself to write to keep up with a posting schedule, I resolved to finish this story before starting to post.
That didn't work too well either. It seems that feedback, votes, and comments are an important motivator to keep me witing.
I'm going to try posting this story weekly and start writing another immediately, in the hope that feedback will boost my motivation for progressing that one.
I intend to post each Tuesday (New Zealand time) Please vote and comment.

Another Uncle Frank 'Coming of Age' story from 1960 NZ. The story of my 'second date' and first girlfriend is finished and ready for uploading. Posts Tuesday and Saturday (NZ time).

I have been working on a new "Uncle Frank' story telling the tale of my second 'date' and first 'girlfriend'.
I hope to finish in the weekend and set up a posting schedule.