As many of you who read my stories know, I've had one story that has been the "Red-headed step child" of my stories - quite literally.
(As the main character is a red head, that tracks).
https://storiesonline.net/s/23522/visiting-aunt-scarlet
Mike McGifford wrote the first few chapters with my feedback way back in 2020. I didn't know how to make AI pictures at that time. I tried to write an ending because I thought it was a great premise.
Instead, I let it sit and sit, unloved and untouched.
Then one day, I get inspired and I started writing more, and illustrating with AI. The main character he wrote happened to have a striking resemblance to Scarlett Johanssen and for AI that's great because I can make a persistent character with a LORA.
One thing that I learned from this and one other story, was never publish a story until you have written it all.
My new process is fairly complex. I free-write every chapter so I don't lose momentum. I go back and polish later. I wont bore you with details but until it's out of a rough edit phase, I won't post it here.
If I did try and edit and polish each chapter, I'd eventually lose momentum like I did with Aunt Scarlet back in 2020. It takes too long to get it where I want it and by then I've forgotten what I wanted in the next chapter.
Through my own creative energies, I managed to get inspired to write the New Foal story, which is quite popular. I've had this NIS: Breeder story for so long that by god, I am going to publish all 77 chapters if it kills me.
I want to do all that before the end of the year.
I also wrote a Mary Christmas story and I want to have it finished by Christmas. It's not doing so hot voting wise but the votes here are skewed anyway.
I ASKED politely in the story notes not to vote until at least chapter seven. Just give it that to see if it grabs you are not. It's impossible to judge from chapter one. However, all 20 votes are from chapter 1 and 2 from people who basically gave me the middle finger and did it anyway.
Which is why I hate voting and tend to think it's more punitive than anything else.
I explained in the story notes that this story starts out a bit grim for the two girls. They are set up by a stepbrother, to get in trouble but it eventually has a happy outcome (as Christmas stories should).
It's kind of like the "Bad Dad" story on Hallmark. You already know the trope. He'll get stuck at the airport and through a series of really unfortunate events he'll learn the true meaning of Christmas and say fuck the Anderson account, and spend it with his wife and kids throwing snowballs at their perfect house.
You gotta go through the crises to get to the end.
Originally it had about 12 chapters. I was QUITE unhappy with the ending I slapped on it. I had another idea brewing that I felt inspired to write.
However, I decided to go ahead and rewrite and expand the ending. If I post a chapter a day every day I won't finish by Christmas.
So, I am doing two a day when I can, to finish NIS as well by the end of the year.
For those of you who want more Aunt Scarlet and Foal: Both have more chapters written but I want to prioritize these others because they are close to the finish line, and Foal and Scarlet have a long way to go to the end.
I apologize about that. I am not pulling a George R.R. Martin on you here. I am just prioritizing to focus on finishing a few before 2025.
I've got one story called "Birthday games" completely finished after that. I've got another one called "Nude Rules," which I am quite proud of that is leading a family toward a nudist household. I've got a bunch of other ideas percolating. However, give Eddie the benefit of the doubt. I love the Aunt Scarlet story, and if you are a fan - I love you too.
It's been waiting this long to get its ending. Give it a little longer, and check out the conclusions of these other two stories in the mean time.
I violated my own rule posting Foal early, because it was so fucking good that I couldn't wait. I learned my lesson there. Finish one, start another.
Once these all get completed, I'll be doing that from now on. There could be gaps in posting a story because I tend to enjoy longer stories.