StarFleet Carl: Blog

I think I'll actually have time next week to get Chapter 85 written. Two days of showings this week, inspection this afternoon, a final walk through and closing tomorrow, then showings for most of Saturday. Considering that nationally, we're more than 2.5 MILLION houses short of where we need to be, it's not going to get better any time soon.

I don't know if anyone else is reading the public comments at the end of the story. I'm amused, because of three things.

One, apparently everyone has forgotten that this story is currently taking place in 1985 and not 2021. That means you can't apply TODAY'S standards to how people were then. How old were you thirty-six years ago? Me, I was 23, and just graduating from college. You think maybe YOU might have looked at things a little differently then?

Two, in line with that, yes, I've been married to my wife for 22 years now. I know some of you have been married for 40 years. Do you remember when you'd been together with your girlfriends for only four or five MONTHS, or LESS? You're assuming that Cal has the maturity of someone who's 50 or 60 years old ... not 16. If you're male, remember what an immature jackass you were as a junior in high school (or what a nerd, that got beat up all the time)? Really, guys? Would you like me to hold that ladder, so you can climb down off your high horse?

Third ... I even got a couple of emails that said Jennifer should know better because she's so much older, and been married before. Guys, she was married to a CHILD MOLESTER! She'd mentally compartmentalized things. This is all new to her, too!

In an upcoming chapter, Cal makes a comment to the effect of, "Whoa, this is a lot of changes in only a month!", with the response from one of his ladies being, "Now you know what you've been putting US through!" Cal landed in Kansas on August 24th, 1984. Chapter 12 starts on January 13th, 1985. That's a LOT of stuff happening in what amounts to a very short time.

This is coming of age story. The characters involved are going to make mistakes. They're human, no matter what planet they were born on. How they react and learn from the conflict is what makes the drama and story worth reading. And I think my editors would agree ... you guys ain't seen nothing, yet.

Once you've all read this, please, no comments about Cal being PWd. He's 16/17, was a virgin when he landed here, and now has 16 women in his life. Of COURSE, he's PWd.

I may have been unconsciously influenced by a certain author during a scene in this chapter, too. I literally just realized that after reading it one more time this morning before posting. You'll see, Saturday morning.

(For the clueless out there - pussy whipped)

This will probably be a one time bonus, until I get the whole thing done. I know that I'm sure not planning on staying up until 2:30 tomorrow morning like I did this morning, because the words for Chapter 84 (24, for Book Three) were just flowing out of me. I literally started it yesterday, and wrote 5,000 words before I went to bed.

Since I still got up at 7 to go into the office, and I have to show three houses starting in about half an hour ... yeah, DEFINITELY not going onto a typing fest like that tonight.

I truly am blessed to have a wonderful group of readers. Thank you.

Wow! It was an honor to be nominated. But to win over authors with the skills of G Younger, Shaddoth, QM, Michael Loucks in TWO categories? Damn! Thank you.

Chapter 9 is uploaded and in the queue for Saturday morning! California has finally made it to California, and it's going to get more interesting for people out there. On a related note, life has gotten interesting here, and this week has been THE perfect reason why I wanted a 15 chapter buffer.

I think I've spent maybe an hour, total, working on Chapter 83. Don't get me wrong, it's almost done. I've also shown close to 30 houses to a client, written four offers, and we finally got one accepted. Just in time for a new client to contact me, so I'll be showing at houses all day tomorrow, too. At least I don't have anything planned for this weekend ... yet.

And now ... MY vent.

I've gotten a couple of emails in the last month complaining that there's not enough graphic sex in the story any more, and that it's really annoying that I only post once a week. My open blog response to that is pretty simple, and in line with something Ricky Gervais said. "Fuck off, I don't care."

Each chapter of this story is about 15 - 20 hours of my time researching and writing in the first place. Then it's hours of time for my editor, proofreader, and final proofreader, plus more of my time. I'm posting it on a site where it's free for you to read, and it's completely voluntary on your part as to whether or not you purchase of a copy on Bookapy as a 'thank you' to me. The three books of 'A True History' are at 775,000 downloads total so far. I don't have a lot of different titles posted, but right now I have 1.8 MILLION words posted online here at SOL. If you don't like what I'm writing, or how I do things, don't read my story. It's that simple.