TheDarkKnight: Blog

Well, this is weird. I didn't expect a no-sex, horror story to be very popular, and I was right about that. 'Spiders' has only had a little over 350 downloads so far. The really mysterious part is that it doesn't have enough votes yet for the score to show. I don't remember ever having a story sit there for four days without getting a score. Not sure what that means - do people download it, start reading it, and just bail? Come on, readers, give me some feedback, even if it's a 1 or 2.

On a happier note, this morning I hit 500,000 downloads! It had been my goal to get there before the end of the year, and now it's not even Halloween. A small yippee! for me. I'm not embarrassed to post that, because we all know that the main purpose of blog posts is ego-stroking.

Now that I've got my horror story out of my system, I'm working on the next chapter of 'Daisy and Me', and a new story with NO teenagers, but plenty of sex.

We now return you to your regularly scheduled reading.

I've had the feeling that I'm getting into a rut. A lot of my stories lately have been about naughty teens. They're still fun to write, but I wanted to try something different, so I decided to try a no-sex horror story. I've always wanted to be a horror writer, but I lack confidence, and smutty stories are easier for me. This one kinda creeped me out while I was writing it, kept me awake for a couple of nights, so maybe I should stick to my wayward teens.

Since I assume that most of the people who read my blog posts also read my stories, I would like to get some feedback from some of you regular readers.

I was originally going to enter this in the SOL Halloween contest, but I decided I'm not ready to go up against the popular writers here.

Hope you enjoy the cover illustration.

Sometimes, if I'm really lucky, I find characters in my brain that I fall in love with and enjoy writing about. Daisy and J.C. are two of them. I have no idea where the idea to write about teens in a small town in Southwest Georgia in the 1960s came from, but once I found myself there, the rest has come easily. I hope some of you are enjoying their exploits as much as I am.

"Banana Anna" is a story I posted 16(!) years ago, but now I feel the urge to go back and add to it. I hinted at that in the endnote to the original post, but I almost forgot about it. A couple of recent comments have ignited my interest. I'm unsure whether I should post the new part as 'Chapter 2', even though the first part wasn't posted as a chapter, or if I should create a new story, something like 'The Further Adventures of Anna Banana'.

Oh well, since I haven't even started writing it, and I have three others in the works, I guess I have time to figure that out.

As the Orange Mussolini likes to say at the end of his social media posts, "Thank you for your attention."

Not really an update, just a change of status. After struggling through 2-3 ideas of where to go with this one, I hit a brick wall and decided to declare it as "completed". Nothing was working for me, and it got too frustrating. I think it's still a pretty good story as is. I know there are some readers who won't read a story in progress, so maybe I'll even get a few new readers.

On a happier note, Chapter 2 of "Daisy and Me" is almost ready to post.