Forum: Story Recommendations

I'm glad you mentioned "Bec". I hope that means you might possibly be thinking about "Bec, Christmas Week". Or even, "Bec, the Week After Thanksgiving".

Yes. But due to a certain virus, am currently working harder than ever so absolutely no writing is happening. The working title is "Bec: the new kid" and will cover several days, not necessarily contiguous. The frustrating thing is that Bec isn't speaking to me right now. It will happen but please be patient.

ps. Madnige, yes, the line is still there.

It's a line that's cropped up in a few places and I'm fairly sure I first heard it before that film - I've never actually seen that film btw. I certainly didn't invent it.

I got a lot of grief over the "twist". However, the flaws had always been in Linda, she was a slut before she met him, and simply returned to being a slut after he left.

That is often a danger people do not realize when reading a first person narration. When the narrator is giving his impressions, the reader may not realize that his opinions are colored.

Heh this story just pissed me off. But the twist is realistic so I am certainly Going to keep reading it.

In fact, if you reread the first book again knowing what is known in the second, you will actually see it quite differently.

Back before I had even finished Chapter 5, I knew who Pete was going to end up with. And with this in mind I threw in plenty of hints and clues as to what Linda's "destiny" would be.

I have had more than one person read it again, and say that doing so revealed a lot of things they had simply overlooked before. I had also thrown in a lot of clues to who he would end up with, which many are still guessing at.

Will we be getting an update soon?

How ironic that I peeked in here just now. Because I just posted a kind of an update.

I sometimes suffer from writers block. And one of the ways I deal with it actually is to try writing another story. I had done that, and it was not helping this time. So I tried something else.

One of the stories I had promised I would write is this saga, from Linda's point of view. Now obviously I could not finish it, to many spoilers for Country Boy if I was to do that. So I started from before they met, and took it to where in the story she met Pete at his house when he was on leave.

It is 2 chapters so far, and I will be adding the second one once the first is posted. And I will continue it, but not posting anything until I have finished the main story. Far to many spoilers if I was to do that.

I have already decided that to move forward, I will be killing the chapter that has had me stuck and starting it again. Hopefully that will be enough to get me unstuck and let me finish this. This is not the first time this has happened to me, and hopefully it is the last.

And ironically, I think the solution to Dire Wolf (which I also got stuck on) is going to be the same way. So when I finish this, I will be killing my last chapter there and starting it over also.

You might surprise yourself if you sat down and made a serious effort to define your comfort zone on paper.

Actually, it is nothing like that at all with me, it never has been.

I really do not have any "comfort zones". I write stories, and if that story takes me to something I am not comfortable with, so be it. My issue often comes about when some then aspect of a story just gets me "stuck". And it has nothing to do with comfort, they can frequently be doing something I had them do before, and will do again.

But for some reason, normally when that happens it is because somehow I know that doing so is "wrong". As in wrong at that time, place, or with that person. But it is subconscious I think. Sometimes breaking away and moving to another story clears it up, sometimes I have to restart the chapter. But then again, sometimes I just need a break then come back to it again with a fresh mind.

I have written a lot of stories that probably "squick" some readers. And while normally a writer of "light and fluffy love stories", I have written other kinds as well. Sometimes to challenge myself, sometimes because the story demands it.

Snuff, rape, transgender prostitution, even castration. STDs (including HIV), 2 crossdressers picking each other up and not knowing it. I do not like horror at all, but even wrote one that is kind of a "nightmare Groundhog Day", where the one revisiting the same day is obviously insane and enjoys torturing people, even describing to one gal how he had raped and killed her over and over again, including disemboweling her and draping her organs over her as she lay dying.

So actually, not much is outside my comfort zone. But there are things I will never write about. Rape is never something to be enjoyed, and I will never describe it as other than brutal and preferably with the rapist "getting what is coming to them" in the end. My favorite so far was having the penis severed while it was inside the girl he was raping, that one felt fitting.

In fact, almost my entire "Dark Tales" anthology series is like that. "Once Again for the First Time" actually was going to be one of those, but I felt ultimately it should be posted by itself (especially as I may choose to revisit it again someday). The "main character" is cruel and undoubtedly insane by this time, but the setting still fascinates me. Almost the exact opposite of my usual stories.

Case in point, in "Dire Wolf" I got stuck because now I know the sexual situation Di was starting to get into was not right. And when I return to it the last chapter and a half will be scrubbed. Kinda similar with CBCG. Pete started to get into one, and finally after a few weeks of reflection (while I wrote several other stories) I just decided the situation was not right, so excised most of it and went on with it never happening. And I have finished 4 chapters since then now.

I did a long one called HOA: Big Day in Sunny Manor

Where a man and his submissive wife move to a clothing optional BDSM community. It's from his son's perspective. He meets girls, learns a lot about BDSM, sneaks out and goes streaking out of the community, etc.

I think that was probably my favoring cumming of age story.

So like if you have never gone sky diving or something do that

I wish I could, it is something I have always wanted to do. But my knees are shot so I can't.

I have always been kind of an adrenaline junkie, skiing, motorcycles, even SCUBA diving. But after an injury and aging, I have had to tone it way down. And now even the parks are closed, so it is not like I can even do that to try and clear my mind (why Oregon decided to close public parks where nobody is even close to each other at this time makes absolutely no sense to me at all).

But making the decision to dump my last chapter seems to be the right one. And hopefully it is the solution I needed.