oyster50: Blog

Most of the way through April. Between my muse, Dorable, and you readers, one in particular, I've got a lot of fodder for the stories. That means that the chapters come pretty regularly.

I'm having fun. Yes, there's a certain vicarious life I enjoy through the lives of my characters. I hope you continue to enjoy them as well.

I'm STILL waiting for Dorable to cut loose that third story I usually have going. She's teasing. Says 'any day now' and I have NO idea...

Can there be a good story from human trafficking? Or a girl who's been disowned by her family because she divorced the guy THEY arranged for her to marry? Or 'Wanted: Technologically adept individual to assist in correcting IT problems in an independent business with limited resources.'

"Where'd Sandy come from?"

Yep, I introduced Sandy into the stories. I assumed that my readers already met Sandy, but I've learned differently.

Sandy's the daughter of Dan Gleason in my story Nina, so if you're of the mind to see some of her backstory, haul yourself over to my story page and pull that one up.

And just so you know, putting Sandy into the 'Smart Girls' universe was a suggestion from multiple readers. Hope you enjoy her.

Oyster

So here's the deal. I got a chapter beck from the editor for Bill, Haley & Deena and I immediately posted it.

To the WRONG story. It triggered the 'Hey! New Chapter!' post on SoL.

I went back to writing, then it dawned on me. I looked for it on my homepage, and sure enough, it's on the wrong story. I immediately asked our webmaster to pull it from the WRONG story.

In the meantime, I posted it to the right story.

Trouble is, that 'Hey! New chapter!' post is out there and you, my loyal and anxious readers looked for a chapter of Community 4 that wasn't there.

Sorry about that. The proper chapter of that story will post, hoping for this weekend.

In the meantime, you may deduct 25% from my weekly check.

Thank you for your support.

Posted Chapter 10 of Bill & Haley & Deena to Community 4.

Getting it pulled. In the meanwhile, I did post the corrected chapter to Bill & Haley & Deena.

Chalk it up to road stress.

Plot twists, turns, character devilopement, all the things an author is supposed to be doing - I'm doing those.

With help. There's MORE than enough content in my stories to give credit to a couple of other sources - my editor, for one, who keeps me between a wandering set of tracks, suggesting where I might be heading with a particular story line, and a reader that comes up with a lot of bright ideas, twists and turns.

Recent revelation that Bill Carmody has a daughter? My reader buddy. Cindy and the Citation? Him. too many other twists to list.

They come up with ideas, I flesh 'em out, mostly trying to put my particular style into the suggestions.

I tell you, folks, it makes things flow fast sometime. Dorable looks forward to seeing what comes up next. I like being able to see what fits my idea of my characters, how their story goes forward.

I won't give you names, but please understand that wherever you're crediting ME for a good story, I'm crediting THEM as well.