TheDarkKnight: Blog

(Spoiler alert: this may not interest anyone but me)

I've seen this coming for a while, and today it happened. "Volleyball Girls" has now become my most downloaded story. It passed "The Summer Teddy Learned About Girls", which I posted almost 20(!) years ago.

"... Teddy..." has a much higher rating, but then I think stories, at least mine, generally got higher ratings in the 'good old days'. Or maybe I'm just getting old and not writing as well as I used to.

One thing both stories have in common is that they started with a simple idea, and just kept going.

"Volleyball Girls" posted today. Took me a while to figure out where I was going with it, but once I picked a direction, the words just came tumbling out. At least one, maybe two more chapters to come. Can't be too much; it's almost the end of their season!

I've been trying to make up my mind where to go with the next chapter of "Volleyball Girls" for a while now. I'm not out of ideas, just having trouble deciding which of my naughty fantasies I want to explore. Luckily, the dam broke today, and I know where I'm going. The words are tumbling out now. I love that feeling. I hope to finish the next chapter in a few days.

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.