oyster50: Blog

As I stated in my previous blog posting, major changes have taken place in my life, causing me to develop completely different ideas of free time, writing time, etc. Posting might be sporadic until I get a handle on things.

Basically - new sweetie. If she says 'jump!' I jump. It's called 'knowing on which side one's bread is buttered'.

Posting will take place. I enjoy my stories just as you wonderful folk do, and I want to see what happens next myself.

And to all of you who congratulated my on my placement in the Clitorides Awards, that's YOUR fault. I'm just a hack writer. You folks make me a winner. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.

That's what a twenty-plus year relationship said last week.

Shocker, to say the least. Dorable and I are both recovering.

Aside from my personal life, Carlie reaches the end of the line. I do hope you've enjoyed it. For those who look for big dongs and bazongas and immediate sex, this story hasn't been that. Of course, you folks who read me often, you know that's seldom my style.

Another story? Possible. We'll see how long before it makes an appearance. You know the formula. Let's see if I can find the ingredients.

Actually, a LOT of help.

Friend and reader Harpoon had done us the service of wading through the stories of the Smart Girls and made up a character list with name and the story and chapter where that character first appeared, as well as a brief description of the character's function.

You can find it at https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/125I82I8b3dZus6JvJmLXVddcVV4593Gb18lT1AdTrag/edit?usp=sharing.

We've got a lot of stories in this universe, and I thank Harpoon for taking the time and effort to put this together.

I hope it helps your enjoyment of the stories.

Real life intrudes. I put in fourteen hundred road miles last week. I;m kicking off projects, doing myriad things to keep the wheels of industry turning.

In the midst of that, I have Dorable on my shoulder, feeding me stories. I'm trying to get a chapter a week out on each of three active stories. I have able help from my editor and from my friend who's been coming up with some great vignettes, some for the Community, some of them for Haley.

I strive to keep writing, one, because I want to keep entertaining, and two, I want to see what happens next.

Eight years ago I posted the first of my stories on line. No, it wasn't here. I didn't find this place for a bit longer.

I did start posting here, though, with the first stories of what later coalesced into the Universe. It's a comfortable place for me to write from. I have some emotional attachment to the characters.

Occasionally, though, I wish to diverge. The new story, Carlie, is not part of the Smart Girls Universe because I wanted to try something a little different. Yes, you'll recognize a lot of features that I enjoy writing about, because after all, as much as I appreciate you dear readers, ultimately I write the stories I want to read myself.

I have a few other stories that have been sitting on the back burner as well, none of them part of the Universe, either, and I may roll some of them out in the future.

In the meantime, let's see what happens with Carlie.