OldBillyBob: Blog

I'm not dead, nor am I even sick. I am, however, seriously inconvenienced by current circumstances. When the pandemic began, my family all ended up in the house full time. My wife was forced into early retirement by the downturn in her companies fortunes, my son was no longer teaching in the classroom and my style has been cramped ever since. I did manage to finish "Things Get Better" last summer before I got kicked out of my home office so the boy could tutor on line but I've been unable to settle into a serious writing 'groove' ever since.

That said, I've been plunking at a few stories here and there, including the two chapters that would complete "All A-Twitter" and rid my page of the dreaded yellow bar of incompleteness. None of the stories is making fast progress, though. Maybe by the end of the year, I'll post something...

... or ends, as the case may be. The final chapter of "Things Get Better" has been posted. Voting and comments are enabled. Feedback has been mostly positive other than a few of the 'burn the bitch' crowd not getting the story they wanted to read. Meh. Let 'em write their own if they don't like mine. Then I can one-bomb them like they're doing to me.

Thanks for hanging in there. Thanks for the votes and the comments. I'm working on several other stories but who knows how long it will take for any of them to be finished.

"Things Get Better" is into its penultimate chapter now. Things are turning the corner for Ron and things are actually starting to look up. Chapter four, the final part, will post on Wednesday with comments and voting enabled shortly thereafter. Thanks for reading and thanks for the feedback.

You know you got their attention when they send you a note.My newest tale, "Things Get Better" has brought in lots of mail. I've fielded guesses about the next steps in the story, a host of variants on 'thanks for writing' and 'hurry up with the next chapter' and stuff like that. Occasionally someone writes in to disagree. Take this morning for example. A short note from someone who can't find the shift key, and believes periods are something only women have, wrote in to say the following.

what kind of cuckold bs is this take this crap and shove it where the sun dont shine

Apparently he's fan of the violent retribution stories other authors contribute here. ...sigh... Can't please everyone, I guess, though trolls like this guy are part of the reason I left the voting and comments turned off until the story's final chapter is posted.

Speaking of which, chapter three of the four posts on Monday. The story ends on Wednesday.

Queue... such a great word. I used it in a game of Scrabble once. Tripled the Q and doubled the word. Messed with my opponent's head. Good times...

Anyway, I've submitted chapter two of "Things Get Better' for posting on Saturday morning. I've gotten some good feedback on chapter one. I hope you kind readers (and all the rest of you reader types) like the next one. I'll turn on comments and voting when I post chapter four, which will be the conclusion of the story.