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After the baying fans demanded I continue on from chapter 11, I have just posted another few chapters and hopefully left the story in a more conventional "happily ever after" place.

Hopefully an opportunity now for some of the lower scorers to reassess the points they gave me? ;)

And already there have been some calls for a sequel, Seventeen! No pleasing some people ;)

Thanks for all the feedback and comments, I really appreciate it and especially like it when people relate how the story makes them feel about the characters and the choices they make.

Enjoy and thanks for reading!

So I'll schedule them up to come out, two chapters per day or so, once I get them back from Robin.

Let me know in the comments how you think or want the story should develop or end!

https://storiesonline.net/s/20191/sixteen

Everyone think that Sixteen ended too soon?

Yes, everyone seems to think that Sixteen ended too soon!

Okay Okay I can add a few more chapters. It'll take a few weeks so be patient.

The feedback I've been getting since Sixteen started posting is awesome! Thank you all!

The FINAL CHAPTER of Sixteen posts in just a couple of hours - 8pm EDT, whenever that is - and I'm hopeful people who like the kind of story I write will like the ending.

I particularly liked UncleDraggi's discussion about whom he hoped would get together with whom, and the whole romance and love aspect to the story; he posted that comment just as a chapter finished on a cliffhanger, and at that point in time it looked like the whole love triangle thing could go the way love triangles usually do: badly! Hopefully he liked the next chapter.

Early comments seemed to fixate on the unfeasibility of the barcode scanning. Well, really, you just have to google opencv barcode scanning like Sam did! Its actually within the realms of possibility these days, and there are tutorials so even young computer students like Sam can throw it together without understanding how it actually works. FWIW, I've seen some cutting edge camera stuff that would wow everyone and make you see how straightforward barcode scanning really is.

Anyway, I only wanted a get-rich that was borderline realistic and not like the usual plot twists where kid is born rich, or kid wins lottery, or is time traveler who corners the silver market... Them getting rich was just a vehicle to more interesting possibilities...?

All my stories are written first-person from the perspective of the boy, but the focus is on the heroine and how wonderful she really is. If you like that kind of love story, you might like some of my other stories? I've got some nice feedback from other stories recently, from people I suspect found them only because they started reading Sixteen.

I kind of have started a list of ideas for future stories on the forum: https://storiesonline.net/d/s5/t5448/diverse-ideas if you want to give encouragement and direct the subjects and styles I tackle?

I blogged a couple of weeks ago after I published Monsoon that I had two story plots that I was working on: Emily and The Heist.

The story about Emily, the mistress of the manor, was extremely fun to write. I deliberately spiralled into farce at the end. My favourite lines are "Paris? Who the fuck is Paris?" and "why, it looked like he meant to win!"

And whilst I like my own stories such as Monsoon and Alice and Lizzy rather more than the average reader here perhaps does - I think they are all the most awesome stories ever ;) - Emily's story seems to have landed better. If the public like her, they may want more of her?

And luckily I have become so fond of Emily and especially the teachers that I'm not about to stop! And so I have decided to rework my The Heist plot to use the same cast: Romeo and Emily becomes now the first story in a series. The second, which I've just started on, picks up straight after and has the working title Emily and Clyde.

Like all my stories, Emily and Clyde starts in my mind by assembling some of the sketches I've daydreamed up into something that can be woven together as a consistent plot. Then I find the sketches get tainted to fit how I imagine the characters acting: for example, the heroine of The Heist was to be nerdy girl walking into a restaurant like Pretty Woman, and now it's ... possibly ... Emily instead. (Note to self: maybe Will gets some assistance from a nerdy version of Ruth this time?)

I guess I could alternatively rework Romeo and Emily into the first chapter(s) of à longer story, but I've opted to test out the site's series functionality instead.

Read the first part here: The Manor Series