oyster50: Blog

Dana is at #8, Serendipity is at #15 and Community Too is at #21 on the 'Ongoing Serials' list.

I enjoy my own stories. I cannot begin to tell you how happy I am that so many of you enjoy them as well.

And I'm STILL juggling three active stories. I don't have a fourth one in the hopper at the moment, but there are a few 'Chapter One' files in my DropBox account. Dana was one of those files but none of the others grab me.

Serendipity was one of my attempts to get Dorable, my muse, into a bit more cooperative mood. The story was out of the clear blue, and I find that I like it. It's different. Jessica is a different pattern of girl than my usual female protagonists. I think she's going to be brassy and sassy as thing roll along.

Future? Do you REALLY think I plan this stuff?

Don't know what makes me keep three stories going, but here we go again.

Meet Barry and Jessica, introduced by Barry's warped daughter, Megan.

A little age difference doesn't make any difference to Barry and Jessica. Others, however, hold different opinions.

When I decide a story's got to end. Mi Vida is ending with the chapter posted tonight. I've enjoyed the ride with Carlita and Dave and Brindy.

You who have been reading my stories just KNOW that I keep three of them going. Rest assured that in a day or two I will roll out the opening chapter of a new one.

In the meantime, let me enthusiastically thank those of you who continue to write. Some of you have given me some very good ideas. Apparently my characters become as real to you as they do to me. That's a good feeling for a writer, even a tertiary-level hack like me. Keep the comments up. I try to fix the mistakes you find, and there's many a good story idea that I'm either using or getting ready to use.

An done more thing... reviews. I appreciate you telling ME you like my stories. Please tell others as well.

Chapter of Mi Vida off to the editors.

A new chapter of Community is in progress.

The new story seems to make Dorable happy, so I just started the third chapter. There's no rush, since it's unpublished, and Dorable exercises her whimsy by giving me bits of the new story while I'm writing the others.

We'll see where we go for a roll-out.

As always, I read EVERY comment and I replay to most of them, so feel free to write back.

Just sent a chapter of Dana off to the editor. Might have it posted by Sunday or Monday. I immediately started working on a chapter of Mi Vida. I have some ideas on different paths to go in that story.

In an effort to get my muse back in the story biz, I penned a chapter of a new story, thinking that if the site has a Valentine's Day contest then I'd have something to enter.

I don't think we're having a contest. I have a chapter of what might be a pretty good story. And I'm not crazy enough to try keeping FOUR stories going at once.

All that is just so you'll know that a) I'm working on this stuff and b) when I finally end one of the three active stories I've got going right now, there's another waiting in the wings.