ghostwritten: Blog

Hello readers,

Due to poor reception to the previous chapter of Jane Finds Herself, I have decided to pull this week's chapter to rework and restructure it. While this week's was meant to be the final chapter, it was more of an epilogue to the story more than anything. Realizing it would likely just annoy and frustrate more readers than it would help (I'd planned it more as a fun check in/catch-up with the characters), it made more sense to delay it and change things. I may post something else during the day Saturday; something I wrote a while ago that I never did anything with, but I haven't decided yet. Who knows...

Anyway, sorry for the inconvenience. I hope to have Chapter 51 (Epilogue) out next weekend, if I think it'll be a worthy send-off.
-ghostwritten

Hello readers,

It's been a minute, hasn't it? I thought I'd pop in to give a little update on the state of things. So let's go!

Jane Finds Herself - My stalwart, not so little story, nears it's conclusion and it is insane to think how long I've been writing this thing. I hope you've enjoyed the twist in chapter 47 and that the explanation made sense in the most recent chapter. I've been sitting on that reveal for almost year now, uncertain if I'd actually use it, but it was fun to finally pay it off. Anyway, I recently finished writing Chapter 50 and there should be one last one after that to wrap everything up. I'll likely do a full breakdown and dissection on this story in the future, and would love to get all your thoughts on it before then. Feel free to keep writing comments and sending me messages; I do read ALL of them, though I stopped responding to most comments (more because I don't know if people see the responses, not because I don't read them).

His Sister's Keeper - As mentioned in the end note, that story is currently on a break as I post the new Science Club Episode. Responses to the initial five chapters has been pretty mixed, with scores dropping each and every week. I kind of expected that, since it is something very outside my normal writing style and story tropes. I get it if it isn't for you, that's why it was put on my secondary account ghostwritten after dark, and not the main one. It will have new chapters posted in July, with the next drop of chapters 6-10 over 5 weeks. Beyond that, I think there will be more but it will depend on readership. There is sort of a loose 5-chapters equal one week in universe plan, so there should be 30 chapters if it continues on to it's conclusion... but I don't really know if it will get that far. While this exact story might not incorporate people's direct feedback, as there is a narrative in place, I will use it to help craft future stories on this secondary account. This story always was always meant as a testbed for what does and doesn't work for this darker narrative style of story, which I am not so versed in. Please keep all suggestions and advice coming!

Science Club - EP.5 Collateral Damaged - The students of Madison High are back with a problem. The worst case scenario has happened, and Heat somehow got out to an unsuspecting student. That's the set-up for this installment of the Science Club series. Readership is low, but expected, as this endeavor was sort of flawed to begin with but it has taught me a lot about juggling multiple characters and storylines, which may come in handy in the future. This one will run for the month of June until the Episode's conclusion, after that, there should be one last Episode to go and the series will be concluded. At that point, all long-running series and stories will be done and who knows what I'll come up with in the future.

That's about it for now. I'm trying to figure out what comes next after Jane Finds Herself concludes, I might possibly revisit a past story or maybe do something new. I'm leaning more into finishing a past blemish; something that has bothered me for over a year now, but we'll see. I'm ok with the account taking a little break with lower readership stories for a little while while I refocus toward new adventures (and IRL summer stuff, of course).

If you made it this far, thanks for reading. As always, feel free to reach out and leave me your thoughts. Happy reading!
-ghostwritten

Hello readers,

It's been a pretty interesting week this week, so I thought I'd talk about it.

Jane Finds Herself continues on with chapter 43. We are getting so close to the end now and it feels strange. It's been such a long journey, ironically a year to the day as of the posting of this blog, for a story that originally didn't do well. I've written a few chapters ahead, so it weird to know I'm only four chapters from the end of this ride. It feels strange to get to the end of certain plotlines and tie them up rather than add potential branches. I really hope at the end of this I wrote something people enjoyed and had some fun with; that's always been my goal.

All that does lead me to start thinking about the next story. What exactly should replace Jane on Saturdays? I wouldn't mind writing a few smaller stories, stuff in the five to ten chapter range. But what would you all like to read? Do you want more 'much sex' content or would you prefer something on the lower end? I've got a few ideas for both. I might play with the new poll feature some time this week to get some feedback, but feel free to let me know your thoughts if you wish.

His Sister's Keeper - I've got to be honest, I had no idea how this story would perform. It's a story with fairly unpopular tags, on a secondary account that hasn't seen a new posting in over a year. So far, I'm completely blown away by the response. The views have been fantastic, and even the user score is much higher than I thought it would be, especially for a chapter one. By the way, thank you to everyone who dropped a rating on it so far. I'll be tracking views for the next few chapters before making a decision, but it does look like there could be a strong chance of this continuing beyond the initial 10 chapters. As usual, feel free to give your feedback. Also make sure you've read the TAGS. This is a darker story; quite different than anything else I've written. I don't want anyone caught off-guard when things happen.

That's about it for this weekend, mostly a check in and a thank you the strong start for His Sister's Keeper. If you have any thoughts or suggestions, feel free to send me a message. Thank you for reading.
-ghostwritten

Hello readers,

Back for another blog this weekend with some updates.

Jane Finds Herself as usual carries on. Not too much to say about it this week. I hope everyone is still enjoying it. As the next few weeks go by, I’m going to start asking questions here about what I should work on next and how you’d like stories to be posted. A big thank you to Laz, for adding the polling feature, which will really help gather information and data from all of you in a much easier way for those that don’t like DMing.

Science Club Episode 4: Steaming Vengeance has finished and views were a lot lower than I’d hoped. Scoring was also not exactly what I was hoping for based off the response from Episode 3. I’d love some feedback on why it didn’t work as well as the previous chapters. I know the long delay between 3 and 4 likely killed readership, so that’s very much on me, but what marks did I miss for you.

Now as I noted, I’m not stopping with this series. It will go on with Chapter 5: Collateral Damaged and Chapter 6: TBD which will be the finale. There won’t be as big of delay for the next episode, and I can confirm it’ll return June 3rd, 2026, for its 5-chapter run.

So, what’s happening on Wednesdays, I can hear you ask. Am I leaving you in a lurch, stuck reading the much better works from the many great authors here on SOL? Nope. No need to realize I suck and can barely tie two words together if my life depended on it (my poor, poor editor).

I am happy (or saddened – depending on your point of view) to finally announce a new story for my thought dead secondary account ‘ghostwritten after dark’. That’s right, I’m FINALLY posting something over there for the people who’ve kept asking for new, darker content. I promised a while ago that I would do it and I’m ready to make good on it.

His Sister’s Keeper… is a tale of love, blackmail, and manipulation set during a summer vacation in a small lakeside community. Joey and Gwen Tanner, two close and loving siblings, whose lives are about to be turned upside down by one simple lapse in judgement. They’ll do things they never imagined and endure humiliations and degradations to mold them both into something different.

This will be a minimum ten-chapter story (5 weeks on, 5 weeks off for Science Club, and then another 5 weeks on, and depending on reader response/feedback, it could continue past that. This is my first real foray into this style of story, so please let me know your thoughts. The overall goal for this story project is to revive the ‘after dark’ account, play in some darker themes, and if it goes well, use the experience for a larger story in the future. Again, feedback will be key here, so please leave comments or send messages on what you like/don’t like about this story. It will matter for this and future writing projects.

I hope all this was exciting and not awful and terrible. Thank you as always for the kind words and messages/comments. I write for fun, so I hope reading it is just as enjoyable on your side of the screen.

Thank you for reading,
-ghostwritten

Hello readers,

Smaller and less insane blog today. A few things to talk about, so let get into it.

Jane Finds Herself is still chugging along. On my end, I’m putting the pieces together to get towards the end. It’s a strange thing, writing something like this for so long, to know you’re getting close to the end. I want to make sure I conclude things satisfactorily for all of you, at least the best I can do. It might not make all of you happy, I don’t know how that would be possible. I just have to hope it’s good enough that you don’t hate it. So. Much. Pressure.

The big thing I want to write about today is the Science Club series. If you haven’t read it yet, please do. Episode 4 is doing pretty poorly in terms of views. I don’t know about scoring since it hasn’t met that vote threshold yet so I can see. For those of you reading it, what are your thoughts so far?

I think I messed up with the massive break between Episodes 3 and 4; losing all momentum. I knew they’d always lose readers, but this was a lot more than expected. It is unfortunate because I enjoy the complexity of writing all those characters and storylines.

So where does that leave the series going forward, you might be wondering. Am I going to cancel it? Abandon it like I did Ashley’s Education? No. I won’t.

Episode 5 is already being written, and Episode 6 will follow somewhere after that. The plan was always to write at least 6 episodes, so that’s what I’m going to do. I had hoped to do a few more, but it seems there isn’t an appetite for that. The series will conclude with Episode 6, so I hope some of you will stick around till the end.

The plan is to have a 5-week break between episodes, where something else will be posted during that time (more on that in the future). So, Episode 4 will finish, 5 weeks, then Episode 5, break, and then the conclusion with episode 6. Somewhere near the end, I’ll probably write a post-mortem blog on the good and bad of the series, so feel free to let me know what you liked or disliked on the whole endeavor. I’ll try to include comments from readers.

Anyway, that’s my week. Thanks for reading and all the support. Writing is still fun, so I hope reading is fun for you too.

-ghostwritten