Hello readers,
Another weekend, another blog post.
Chapter 5 of The Lifeguard just went live on Saturday and the views have been lower than I was hoping for. Not really a big deal, to be honest, as the story does have some limiting tags that people tend to skip. How are people feeling about it? I am attempting to add character to some early and thin characters I wrote early on, so it might be disjointed currently. I was still hoping for views to be a little stronger though which makes long-term viability questionable. I'll make a decision on if I will continue it after the prewritten batch (which will bring the chapter total to 8) is complete. I planned for more but I also have a plan to wrap it up quickly if needed. As always, I would appreciate your thoughts on what you'd like to see from me.
Onto the future, the next story I'm currently working on has been going quite well. Planned as a three-parter, it has grown to four chapters and is a little more character driven than originally conceived. It was supposed to be a basic hitchhiker story, and it still is, but I figured why not try to improve my character work. I haven't committed to a title yet, so I won't share that yet, but it will be ready when The Lifeguard ends (in whatever way that is). Once I'm finished with this new story, the next thing on the docket are new chapters of Sister's Servant (also the monthly A Girl's Guide to Cookie Dough too). Sister's Servant is likely to arrive on the first Wednesday of March, if things go to plan.
Lastly, looking forward, I'm still mulling the next narrative story idea. I had a bit of a breakthrough on that front, possibly combining multiple ideas into one large story series. It would start as a coming of age story and then morph into something else, following the characters through their lives. Then another idea crashed into that one and suddenly I'm looking at 40 to 50 chapters and I'm terrified. I don't know if I have the abilities for something like that, but man is it intriguing. I've got time to see if there's a way to make it viable. I like mixing things up and writing the same characters for that long is scary. I don't know, I'm just throwing it out there to the void of this blog. Maybe I wimp out and take the easy road or maybe I try to hedge a bit. We'll see when I get to that point.
Next week is again, The Lifeguard. We have the pairing of Wendy and Sarah on their first shift together as employees. Will Wendy make sure Sarah gets her late punishment in the end? We also meet some of the other lifeguards working at the recreation center.
That's the end of another ghostwritten blog update. I just broke 3000 reads of this thing tonight, so thank you to anyone who clicks that button to see my madness. It is weird that anyone would even read my stories, let alone this rambly blog. If you have any ideas or suggestions, feel free to reach out. Thanks for reading and everything you all do.
-ghostwritten