So here is what I am working on:
(Title is unrelated)
Resetting my Bitch Button:
An homage to a great author who no longer posts on this site - I thought this story would excite people. It's received good scores (one unabomber to drag the whole thing down to a 7) but low readership. I planned this to be by "Magnum Opus" or "Magnum Condom" to fit the biggest dick.
Sadly, I don't think there is much interest in the story. I have done the mother's arc where she decided to submit to discipline. I've done the daughter's arc (no spoilers) where they visit a nudist resort in Georgia for a private event at the "Dip."
Now, I have posted the first chapter in the young Master's arc. I feel like I am writing for an audience of possibly 300 people who are marginally interested at best. I used to get positive feedback, comments, etc. Zero, zilch.
So, I may let this story rest for a bit and come back to it. I'd like to finish it, but at the same time - I am not sure a story like this could ever truly end. It is just a constant journey and learning process for the family.
Nehal:
I work with some Indian people. I wanted to write a story that was told in their voice (in my head). The subject of the title is based on Nehal Chudasama as an unruly/bratty teenager. This is a story of how she is put in her place by her strict Indian mother with the help of the storyteller - her youngest son.
I have the final chapter in editing and should post it up soon. I'll turn on voting with the third chapter. I am still hoping actual people with familiarity with Indian culture look at this story and let me know if it sounds authentic. Most of the Indian erotica I've read has been unappealing to me.
The language barrier is not the issue. I can deal with that, and I attempted to write this as readable but still like someone who spoke a foreign language primarily wrote it in English for an English-speaking audience. He explains for instance, what an Indian vegetable is. He also uses phrases from his native language (Which is not Hindi in this case). I've found Indian people are often quite willing to shed the stereotypes if you ask questions - like do all Indians speak Hindi? Yes, most do but they also have some other language like Tamil that they speak, and maybe one town away they speak something else.
So that was a fun jaunt, but sadly I am not sure there is much interest in that work either (Sense a pattern? lol)
New Project: I am not sure what I am going to call this story. "Are Pussy Lips one word or should I spread them apart?" does have a nice ring to it.
I may just go with "Keeping the womenfolk in line: Beth's Tail" because I think that it belongs in my Keeping the womenfolk in line series.
The thing that makes this story VERY different is that it is a collaboration with fellow author Mike McGifford.
He writes a section, then I write one, and we roll with it. He takes it down a different path than I would, and that has helped us to break out of what we may call a "formula" or way of concluding and moving a story along to make it more fresh. I also do not know what is going to happen to my characters and so I am just as excited finding out as you are, and that's awesome.
This particular story feels like lightning in a bottle. We started with basically no exposition at all. There is literally no reason why the characters are doing the over-the-top hypersexualized actions at the start of the story. That's new to me.
However, over the course of the first three chapters it's all made very clear by showing the reader instead of telling the reader as much as possible. That all fell into place with no planning and felt organic.
These chapters are in editing, so expect them soon.
The thing is when I am between chapters I have no solo project at the moment. I have a few ideas - but always open to yours.
One thing I want to do in the near future is to write a story:
"Destroy My Pussy: Not My planet" - I have hacked a first chapter. Young Greta is an eco-environmentalist willing to do ANYTHING to bring awareness to the perils of the planet.
I have some thoughts about a story set in 1700s France at a nunnery based on stories by Georges Prichard.
I also have a few random thoughts about revisiting a few of my stories and adding a few epilogue chapters. I am never happy where I end my stories. It often feels like I am abandoning my characters just when they finally learn something/evolve into where they were supposed to be.
I recently had a new reader tell me that he liked HOA: Big Day in Sunny Manor but that my main character was annoying and unlikable.
I was like "No duh" I didn't want him to be mary sue - where he is best at all, knows everything, everyone likes him.
I wanted a nerdy, loner who lacks confidence and makes mistakes.
That's fun to start a story with because as he fumbles and claws his way across the fetish line I can easily show his growth as a character. As he discovers his worth and addresses his own imperfections, he becomes likable.
Sadly, that's a long story and without patience, you won't see that until at least 25 chapters in.
So, I know I am an acquired taste as an author. I also know I have no editor, and some of my stories lack the polish of authors who have multiple editors. I have never even had the honor of a single story review after dozens of stories on this site. So I do resign myself to a lower readership - it's just the lowest point since I started.