TheDarkKnight: Blog

Got bored today and decided to try to add a cover illustration to "Volleyball Girls". No AI was involved, just some Google Image searching and a free image editor called, strangely enough, Free Online Image Editor.

Not sure if I'm going to keep it. I would like to get some opinions from those of you following this story on whether it is an appropriate and/or fitting image for the story.

I've seen some comments by readers who are frustrated that I only post a chapter at a time, and sometimes it takes me a while to even do that. Sorry (not sorry), that's just how I write. When I finish a story, or a chapter, I get very impatient and want to share it with the world.

If I were a professional, which I obviously am not, I wouldn't dare post this way (even though it worked pretty well for Charles Dickens, and Stephen King originally posted "The Green Mile" in monthly installments), but as I said above, my impatience pushes me to the chapter-at-a-time method.

Here is where I should probably say I'll try to do better, but there's no guarantee I can, so why bother?

Anyhow, for those of you who are following "Volleyball Girls", I have two more chapters tentatively planned to wrap up Alex's adventures.

Unless I decide to follow him into his college years, where he enrolls at a school that has a beach volleyball team. Hmmm.

Chapter 6 was just posted. This one got a little crazy. I think I need to take a few days off to calm down before I get into Chapter 7. Sometimes I wonder who takes over my brain when stuff like this spews out. I'm gonna blame some of this on Jim Beam.

Finally finished. I've had some personal issues that have kept me from concentrating on writing for a couple of weeks, but that's all over now.

This one is very Becky-centric. She wasn't part of my original plan for this story, but she knocked on my door one night, and I had to let her in. Glad I did, she's quite a minx.

When I saw the news of Hayden Panettiere's passing, it reminded me of my only attempt at a fan fiction story, "Claire's Secret", based on her "Heroes" character, the sexy cheerleader Claire Bennet.