When I first started writing Wilhelm the idea was twofold: firstly to give me a chance to try to make an incest story that follows what I feel to be a believable trajectory; and second as a way to work through things from my own past.
However, it has become apparent that spending so much time with certain memories is not good for me. The thought of diving back into those memories is a large part of the reason why Sonata stalled so badly as I simply could not ginger up the enthusiasm needed to continue.
I also bumped into one or two complications which arose during the drafting of Sonata which made the story far more serious than was ever intended, and this can now be resolved in the rewrite.
Consequently, Wilhelm is about to undergo a slight rewrite.
I shall leave Scream up here as is, as it ends on a kind of a 'hopeful open future' which leaves space for the reader to imagine their own continuation, and people might come looking for it following the third it earned in last year's Clitorides in the incest section.
However, from the beginning of September, Sonata will be taken down.
The reason is that the rewrite, under a new title and in which Luke, Stef, and Leri will all be upaged to eighteen, will continue as one uninterrupted story, with Sonata being folded in at the end of chapter fifteen, and what is sketched out as the concluding part of the trilogy (Stone, for those interested in such things) to continue on from that.
The rewriting and proofing has already begin, and once I've got a few chapters in hand I shall start uploading them, though 'new' work from chapter nineteen onwards will come out as and when they are written/proofed.
Hopefully this explains things for those who have been asking.
Also, I'm doing much better now those old memories have been put back into 'offsite storage'. They only really ever bothered me when I brought them to mind, and they are kind of things for which there is no resolution, only peace.
Meantime, the dogs need walking, the Diddley Bow needs playing, and Germain's Rich Dark Flake is the smoke I've been looking for all these years.
Clee