harry lime: Blog

This 500 story account under the pen name of Harry Lime has recently been updated from 82 stories in the incomplete status to 38 stories in the incomplete status. Some stories are more difficult than others due to complicated story lines or multiple characters. The 500 stories have a total of almost 1800 chapters or an average of about 3.5 chapters per story. That is close to 8,000 pages of content. Estimate completion of update to be by the end of this calendar year of 2020.

Just submitted chapter 7 of this long neglected story. It was part of a book idea I had called "The Three Mikes" The other two Mike stories are finished but I had overlooked this one. This story was intended to be about 24 chapters or 50K words. The other two stories were also about the same size. They both need a lot of editing before publishing. The Mike stories are unrelated but there are some similarities. I believe that subconsciously they are all related to my love of Mickey Spillane's character "Mike Hammer". Working now on an update to "Flight 769 to Boca Muerte". A fictional location in South American serviced by "ASS" airlines and its friendly hostesses.

Managed to cut the number of stories needing updating from 82 down to 48 and hope to complete the Harry Lime project by the end of October. That will leave me with only about 20 other stories across the other 16 pen names to update and well on schedule to complete before the end of the calendar year. When I started in February of this year I had 242 stories to up date and I have focused on them rather than starting anything new. My old Windows 7 laptop is starting to fall apart and I will be forced to use one of the Windows 10 laptops to continue. This entry is on one of the Windows 10 units. I really need to take a course in the differences.

I am in the midst of updating my unfinished stories under this pen name and I came across "Generosity". This story will soon have chapter 3 added to the offering. I understand that it is not a writing style that appeals to most readers. I confess to reading "Pride and Prejudice" at least once a year for many years now. It is true that this story is laden with sexual innuendo and downright dirty passages that would never meet with commercial success with the general public. In all honesty, I am a different writer than when I first started this story. I must admit that as I read the words written at this late date, I am surprised that my writing has so many hidden nuances and I suspect that my grammatical form and vocabulary are seriously outdated or perhaps ahead of their time for typical readers searching for other genres. I risk the accusation of bias by suggesting that readers might dip into this story with an open mind imagining themselves in an entirely different era with with the same basic instincts that mankind has had since the early days in the Garden of Eden.

I am actually ahead of schedule on my 1,000 pages of updating project for all 17 pen-names. I have just recently started in on the final phase of addressing the Harry Lime stories. I had 72 stories to update under this flagship pen-name out of the 500 total stories under the Harry Lime banner. My writing career started in 2011 using the UK as my primary base of operations. My writing has evolved over the years since and I write in almost all genres and sometimes create cross-over genres that are difficult to describe. I have already finished 3 stories of the 72 Harry Lime stories and I figure I have about 280 more pages of content to complete the project. My projected completion date is December 31,2020 After that, I will attempt to complete the 200 plus stories of the 1500 stories in my collection before I start anything new. As I am already well past the life expectancy of the Average American male, I have only the will of God to do so. Thank you to all readers and try to overlook my mistakes in writing.