Chapter 10 of "At the Woodchopper's Ball" is now up. In this chapter, Rody, our protagonist, is confronted with a surprising development.
It was kind of strange and funny writing this chapter. I don't think what occurs will come as any kind of earth-shattering revelation to readers but Rody needed to be shocked by it.
But the thing is, poor Rody doesn't know he lives in a smut story... haha. He isn't aware of the tags attached to his life. He has no clue about the tropes of adult fiction.
Actually, that last point is not true. Rody is a consummate reader of adult fiction. There was something about that in an earlier draft of the story, but I took it out, intending to re-use it in book 2. Rody's favourite author of adult fiction is a certain "Admiral Draco". Here is an excerpt from what Rody has to say about him:
The heroines of Admiral Draco's stories were almost always improbably endowed and sexually ravenous. Fortunately, his heroes were up to the task. They could, at will, lay waste to a gaggle of them, leaving the girls in a state of ecstasy so profound they were rendered delirious if not unconscious. Often, little time would be wasted on any preliminaries and the young hero would briskly thrust his throbbing pike into the loins of his lover without preamble.
Admiral Draco is meant to be humorous (hopefully) hommage to a certain well-known and prolific author of smut on this site. I shall let readers decide who it might be.