--==< ORPHAN MAGUS >==--
Happy New Year everyone! Once again, we are looking at new stories, new characters, and new possibilities. Unfortunately, it also means I didn't finish Orphan Magus soon enough to make this year's Golden Clit awards. Darn!
Now, that being said, I have submitted 8 new chapters for Orphan Magus. Seth's problems continue to build up, but some good things come about as well. I don't want to spoil things, so I'll leave that thought there.
--==< PATREON >==--
As some of you know, I did not make my goal for December. I was a mess when I called my kids to tell them the bad news (that I didn't have the money to pick them up). I am blessed, however, to have two wonderful children who understand the concept of not having enough money. My daughter was disappointed but understood. She said they didn't have to come down EVERY Christmas and did her best to cheer me up because I was more torn up over the situation than she was. Then I talked to my son, who didn't seem disappointed at all. In fact, he came back with "We've got Spring Break in March, and then a whole summer coming up!"
In an effort to get ready for those times, I'm starting work on Small Deaths, the sequel to Crushed Heart. I'm not going to post it as a complete story, but make regular multi-chapter posts. My first set of chapters should go up by the end of this weekend. I know some of you have suggested I take a look at the posts other authors make, so I have an idea of what they're doing that's working for them. I have. Unfortunately, what works for one author may not work for another. The one detail that bothered me was the fact that a single post by some of these authors hit as many as 32,000 words! That was a single chapter! My chapters tend to float between 2,000 and 5,000 words each. So, unless I'm ready to post about 6-16 chapters each week, I won't be able to keep up. Not to mention, that would deeply cut into my writing time for Orphan Magus. I will figure it out, but I want to continue to write these stories like books, with specific goals or adventures in mind. I've enjoyed stories that just go on and on, like a soap opera, but without an end, I lose interest and I don't want that to happen to the stories I'm writing.
Thank you for reading!
TD