Mid September Tabenings
Well, it looks like even over on 4chan they've given up on seeing an end to 'Pierced', so I guess it's about time I got off my ass and wrote one! Ending that is, not an ass. I don't even know how you would write one of those.
Also, given my recent dearth of smut activity - entirely explicable, mind you, given RL commitments that ramp up this time of year - I'm thinking I may go back to some sort of 'Tidbit' paradigm. Since I do a blog post on Tuesday, maybe Thursday would make sense. For the alliteration.
Other than promises and intentions, though, nothing to report on here this last week. Well, nothing from *me*. I can report that I've seen not just one but two stories - very nice, smexy stories - that other writers - very nice, smexy writers - have done based on or related to my stuff, and that you will probably be seeing the delicious fruits of their labors in the very near future.
Also I've been playing Pillars of Eternity, since it was on sale on Steam recently, and... well, I'm underwhelmed. The mechanics are fine but I've just not been pulled in by the setting. If you want to go dark and morally uncertain in your game's fantasy world, that's fine, but then you particularly need some levity and uprightness to create contrast - even if you plan to tear it down for effect later. Eh. They made an actual game, and I did not... but it would have been better if they'd hired me, that's all I'm saying.
Anywhoo, I'll get some prose bubbling or my name's not Tabico, see if I don't.
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Tuesday, September 13, 2016
Tuesday, July 19, 2016
Tabenings - Post-Release
Wow! I didn't post on Friday, I didn't post on Sunday... good thing I have this habit of posting on Tuesdays! Let's hear it for the power of habit, eh? Let that be a lesson to you all!
Now if only I had a habit of writing smut at a set time...
So! The big news is of course the release of CORE #10, available over at Uzobono's DeviantArt page.
NOTE: SPOILERS follow, so if you haven't read the issue, go read it now!
I'm pretty happy with it, although there are a few commentators (a small number, but ones whose opinions are of outsize importance to me) who are displeased with the, shall we say, tone of the ending.
This is of course ironic, given that just recently I was being lambasted for always having the bad guys win. I guess if I displease only some of my audience with any given story then I am doing alright!
I'm actually kind of glad to go the other way with CORE #10 - it gives me some mental leeway to indulge in "bad" endings again. As regards CORE, the medium kind of constrains the message. If I want to write episodic entertainment with a given set of characters, I can't eliminate those characters.
I have looked into the face of Saturday morning cartoons, and they have looked back into me!
I am also reluctant to add more than a handful of new characters in any given issue because finding the art assets for each character - the skin, hair, outfit, face, etc - represents a non-trivial amount of work for my awesome partner in this endeavor. "Oh, we need to introduce 6 more people" -> hours of work I am blithely handing off. So I don't do that.
Also, as regards CORE, I have actually been planning the whole showdown and dramatic role for Lilit for, oh, many issues now. I was going to have my showdown surprise by God, so things were gonna be made to work out that way.
On the other hand, trilby did accuse me of going soft in my old age, and he may have had something there.
So, what's on the drawing board currently? Hmm. I should finish 'Pierced', and indeed that is my intention, but demands for it have intruded on my feedback for CORE and this is causing my mule-like hindbrain to dig in and refuse to write. Yes, I have a grumpy old person inside me. "You want what? Screw you!" But I do need to finish it to clear the decks for whatever I want to do next, and I basically have the entire conclusion done in my head, *and* now I can indulge myself in a
In a what? In a what?
And as usual, I've spent the last 24-48 hours loading and reloading Uzobono's page (and checking the MC Form and MC Garden) to see if anyone liked my story, and although there were a few very nice notes it's never really enough, is it? So I'm also having a fair amount of "eh, why do I even do this?" - which I always do after releasing anything - and will require a bit longer to restore my illusion of an adoring public before I turn my hand back toward smutty endeavors.
So nothing Tabening at this exact moment. The conclusion of 'Pierced', eh, fairly soon. Probably.
Wow! I didn't post on Friday, I didn't post on Sunday... good thing I have this habit of posting on Tuesdays! Let's hear it for the power of habit, eh? Let that be a lesson to you all!
Now if only I had a habit of writing smut at a set time...
So! The big news is of course the release of CORE #10, available over at Uzobono's DeviantArt page.
NOTE: SPOILERS follow, so if you haven't read the issue, go read it now!
I'm pretty happy with it, although there are a few commentators (a small number, but ones whose opinions are of outsize importance to me) who are displeased with the, shall we say, tone of the ending.
This is of course ironic, given that just recently I was being lambasted for always having the bad guys win. I guess if I displease only some of my audience with any given story then I am doing alright!
I'm actually kind of glad to go the other way with CORE #10 - it gives me some mental leeway to indulge in "bad" endings again. As regards CORE, the medium kind of constrains the message. If I want to write episodic entertainment with a given set of characters, I can't eliminate those characters.
I have looked into the face of Saturday morning cartoons, and they have looked back into me!
I am also reluctant to add more than a handful of new characters in any given issue because finding the art assets for each character - the skin, hair, outfit, face, etc - represents a non-trivial amount of work for my awesome partner in this endeavor. "Oh, we need to introduce 6 more people" -> hours of work I am blithely handing off. So I don't do that.
Also, as regards CORE, I have actually been planning the whole showdown and dramatic role for Lilit for, oh, many issues now. I was going to have my showdown surprise by God, so things were gonna be made to work out that way.
On the other hand, trilby did accuse me of going soft in my old age, and he may have had something there.
So, what's on the drawing board currently? Hmm. I should finish 'Pierced', and indeed that is my intention, but demands for it have intruded on my feedback for CORE and this is causing my mule-like hindbrain to dig in and refuse to write. Yes, I have a grumpy old person inside me. "You want what? Screw you!" But I do need to finish it to clear the decks for whatever I want to do next, and I basically have the entire conclusion done in my head, *and* now I can indulge myself in a
In a what? In a what?
And as usual, I've spent the last 24-48 hours loading and reloading Uzobono's page (and checking the MC Form and MC Garden) to see if anyone liked my story, and although there were a few very nice notes it's never really enough, is it? So I'm also having a fair amount of "eh, why do I even do this?" - which I always do after releasing anything - and will require a bit longer to restore my illusion of an adoring public before I turn my hand back toward smutty endeavors.
So nothing Tabening at this exact moment. The conclusion of 'Pierced', eh, fairly soon. Probably.
Thursday, June 2, 2016
Mmm latex
Just emailed Simon the two epilogue chapters of 'Seed', so even if the bus does hit me, you'll see them this weekend. Can't say the same if the bus hits you, mind. I wanted to get them in because this weekend, starting tomorrow, is looking pretty darn busy.
Haven't done any other smut writing - though I discovered a couple other unfinished stories whilst tidying my drive that might see the light of day here on the Secret Files, although thus far no one has actually appeared interested in my unfinished arcana. I guess if it ain't done, what's the point, amirite?
In other news, apparently Reflective Desire has decided to support the fetish by placing all their works into the public domain. Does thrall know about this? Because she ought to.
Hmm, I wonder if she even knows I blog...
Just emailed Simon the two epilogue chapters of 'Seed', so even if the bus does hit me, you'll see them this weekend. Can't say the same if the bus hits you, mind. I wanted to get them in because this weekend, starting tomorrow, is looking pretty darn busy.
Haven't done any other smut writing - though I discovered a couple other unfinished stories whilst tidying my drive that might see the light of day here on the Secret Files, although thus far no one has actually appeared interested in my unfinished arcana. I guess if it ain't done, what's the point, amirite?
In other news, apparently Reflective Desire has decided to support the fetish by placing all their works into the public domain. Does thrall know about this? Because she ought to.
Hmm, I wonder if she even knows I blog...
Tuesday, May 31, 2016
Final Tabenings of May
So, the 'Seed' epilogue has been split into two parts and nicely polished, so that's a go for this coming weekend. No sex, no mind control, but there are some good lines in it.
Not a lot of motivation beyond that, at least tonight. Playing a little more Stardew Valley and debating if 'Blood and Wine' is enough to motivate me to re-learn how to play Witcher 3. I played the entire release campaign, and liked it well enough to start a second 'complete everything' play-through, but that fizzled out somewhere in Novigrad and I haven't touched it since last year. I bought 'Hearts of Stone' but despite everyone saying how good it was, have never yet played it.
'Stellaris' still appeals, though waiting for the next major patch might be the way to go.
Not going to kick off 'Joba' (Note the cunning name change! Also... Novamist Valley. How clever! How obfuscated!) tonight. If I'm feeling horny tomorrow, perhaps.
Also need to get CORE #10 revised and completed and over to Uzobono (who sent me a nice email from Belgium, or maybe Belarus) before I leave on vaycay at the end of June. Obviously there's time, but since I need to do it, perhaps sooner is better than later.
So, the 'Seed' epilogue has been split into two parts and nicely polished, so that's a go for this coming weekend. No sex, no mind control, but there are some good lines in it.
Not a lot of motivation beyond that, at least tonight. Playing a little more Stardew Valley and debating if 'Blood and Wine' is enough to motivate me to re-learn how to play Witcher 3. I played the entire release campaign, and liked it well enough to start a second 'complete everything' play-through, but that fizzled out somewhere in Novigrad and I haven't touched it since last year. I bought 'Hearts of Stone' but despite everyone saying how good it was, have never yet played it.
'Stellaris' still appeals, though waiting for the next major patch might be the way to go.
Not going to kick off 'Joba' (Note the cunning name change! Also... Novamist Valley. How clever! How obfuscated!) tonight. If I'm feeling horny tomorrow, perhaps.
Also need to get CORE #10 revised and completed and over to Uzobono (who sent me a nice email from Belgium, or maybe Belarus) before I leave on vaycay at the end of June. Obviously there's time, but since I need to do it, perhaps sooner is better than later.
Friday, May 27, 2016
Sprouting
I just now finished the Epilogue for 'Seed'. 50Kb, which will probably increase the usual 10% upon editing, and looking back I brought the chapters for 'Seed' in at under 25k each, so I'll need to break it in half for posting.
But it's done!
Almost.
I still need to edit it up, and frankly I am not gonna chain myself to my desk and slave away at it tonight (as I do with surprising frequency) just to get it into Simon for this weekend's update. So you should expect not to see any Tabico prose for the Memorial Day weekend update, but (barring that ever-worrisome bus attack) you *will* see the conclusion to 'Seed' in next weekend's update.
There's no sex in it. Hell, there isn't even any mind control. It's pure fantasy-novel, from start to finish. So those of you who like that sort of thing will hopefully like it. And it will give you a chance to read 'Seed' again, because I had forgotten most of it and I daresay you have too.
Now to see if 'Pierced' is ready to be concluded or if I should switch gears again and put some milage down on, oh, say, 'That Which Has Been Lost'.
I just now finished the Epilogue for 'Seed'. 50Kb, which will probably increase the usual 10% upon editing, and looking back I brought the chapters for 'Seed' in at under 25k each, so I'll need to break it in half for posting.
But it's done!
Almost.
I still need to edit it up, and frankly I am not gonna chain myself to my desk and slave away at it tonight (as I do with surprising frequency) just to get it into Simon for this weekend's update. So you should expect not to see any Tabico prose for the Memorial Day weekend update, but (barring that ever-worrisome bus attack) you *will* see the conclusion to 'Seed' in next weekend's update.
There's no sex in it. Hell, there isn't even any mind control. It's pure fantasy-novel, from start to finish. So those of you who like that sort of thing will hopefully like it. And it will give you a chance to read 'Seed' again, because I had forgotten most of it and I daresay you have too.
Now to see if 'Pierced' is ready to be concluded or if I should switch gears again and put some milage down on, oh, say, 'That Which Has Been Lost'.
Monday, May 23, 2016
Monday Mooning
No, not with my butt, you perverts.
So, Uzobono is off on her month-long trip for the CIA (note: informed speculation only), which basically means I can stop writing for a while. Right?
No?
Eh. I did precisely bupkis this last weekend (aside from playing Fallout 4's Far Harbor DLC) so any chance of 'Pierced' the-conclusion-no-I-mean-it-this-time coming out over Memorial Day weekend is pretty much shot. Which may be for the best, I'm continuing to second-guess the endgame I've come up with. I'm having difficulty living up to the reputation I have created for myself in my own mind, and to be honest (spoilers!) I haven't been seeding the preceeding chapters with hints or clues with the intent of there being some big reveal, I've just been writing to move the story forward.
Maybe I should know better. Don't write anything without a solid, gut-punch ending ready for it.
But at any rate, I'm not best pleased with my plan for the finale at this point but I need to put the story to bed so I can move on to the next thing, whatever that may be. I'll try getting it underway this week so that I can hopefully conclude it first weekend of June.
I'm still a bit enthused by that Stardew Valley / Joja story idea I outlined a few posts back. Some intelligent, urbane commentators provided some really great suggestions there in the comments and cogitating upon them gave me the intertwined plotline I need to actually make it a story with some tension to it; if I could knock it off in a week, I'd do it, but I am doubtful of my ability to do that.
Also, need to write that last chapter of CORE #10, and then collect all the renders that Uzo has created thus far and re-edit the whole script. That is our process, by the way; here, I shall outline it for you:
a) I sit down with a blank page and write story pages, which consist of a page number, the layout of the panels on the page, a brief description of the content / image in each panel, and any dialogue. I'll do this one or two chapters, each between 4-12 pages, at a time. Send to Uzobono.
b) Uzobono renders the images. (As far as I'm concerned, this step is fucking magic, because holy shit does she make purty renders, with details and oh the expressions she can capture) She sends them back to me as individual images, a chapter's worth at a time.
Steps (a) and (b) proceed concurrently, so that in theory at least I am moving forward with writing while Uzo is moving forward with the renders. I throw in some initial comments on the renders in case there's something that I'd like changed or added.
c) Having received all of the renders, I review and edit the script both for general goodness and to best fit the images that Uzo has rendered. Send final, complete script back to Uzobono.
d) Uzobono does the necessary postwork and then stitches the images together onto the pages, and inserts all the word bubbles and sound effects.
e) Deliver to you!
So for CORE #10, we're well into step (b), with everything but one scene written and only two scenes left to render. But, as I say, Uzobono is off to Davos for some Illuminati consulting gig and won't be back until July, so there it shall stay until then, although I need to finish up my end through step (c) so that when she's back she can render the last two parts and kick right into (d) and then (e).
But tonight I'm still feeling 'bleh' so I'll probably do some video game and go to bed early. Perhaps tomorrow Tabico will be ready to kick ass and take names.
No, not with my butt, you perverts.
So, Uzobono is off on her month-long trip for the CIA (note: informed speculation only), which basically means I can stop writing for a while. Right?
No?
Eh. I did precisely bupkis this last weekend (aside from playing Fallout 4's Far Harbor DLC) so any chance of 'Pierced' the-conclusion-no-I-mean-it-this-time coming out over Memorial Day weekend is pretty much shot. Which may be for the best, I'm continuing to second-guess the endgame I've come up with. I'm having difficulty living up to the reputation I have created for myself in my own mind, and to be honest (spoilers!) I haven't been seeding the preceeding chapters with hints or clues with the intent of there being some big reveal, I've just been writing to move the story forward.
Maybe I should know better. Don't write anything without a solid, gut-punch ending ready for it.
But at any rate, I'm not best pleased with my plan for the finale at this point but I need to put the story to bed so I can move on to the next thing, whatever that may be. I'll try getting it underway this week so that I can hopefully conclude it first weekend of June.
I'm still a bit enthused by that Stardew Valley / Joja story idea I outlined a few posts back. Some intelligent, urbane commentators provided some really great suggestions there in the comments and cogitating upon them gave me the intertwined plotline I need to actually make it a story with some tension to it; if I could knock it off in a week, I'd do it, but I am doubtful of my ability to do that.
Also, need to write that last chapter of CORE #10, and then collect all the renders that Uzo has created thus far and re-edit the whole script. That is our process, by the way; here, I shall outline it for you:
a) I sit down with a blank page and write story pages, which consist of a page number, the layout of the panels on the page, a brief description of the content / image in each panel, and any dialogue. I'll do this one or two chapters, each between 4-12 pages, at a time. Send to Uzobono.
b) Uzobono renders the images. (As far as I'm concerned, this step is fucking magic, because holy shit does she make purty renders, with details and oh the expressions she can capture) She sends them back to me as individual images, a chapter's worth at a time.
Steps (a) and (b) proceed concurrently, so that in theory at least I am moving forward with writing while Uzo is moving forward with the renders. I throw in some initial comments on the renders in case there's something that I'd like changed or added.
c) Having received all of the renders, I review and edit the script both for general goodness and to best fit the images that Uzo has rendered. Send final, complete script back to Uzobono.
d) Uzobono does the necessary postwork and then stitches the images together onto the pages, and inserts all the word bubbles and sound effects.
e) Deliver to you!
So for CORE #10, we're well into step (b), with everything but one scene written and only two scenes left to render. But, as I say, Uzobono is off to Davos for some Illuminati consulting gig and won't be back until July, so there it shall stay until then, although I need to finish up my end through step (c) so that when she's back she can render the last two parts and kick right into (d) and then (e).
But tonight I'm still feeling 'bleh' so I'll probably do some video game and go to bed early. Perhaps tomorrow Tabico will be ready to kick ass and take names.
Sunday, May 15, 2016
Sunday Smuttenings
So, I just finished the first 24k of Pierced 6c! And it's pretty fucking hot, I think. I can never tell when I write the really explicit scenes, as I wind up jilling interspersed with the writing so that when I am done I don't know if it's hot because the prose is hot or if it's hot because I've been touching myself, BUT... I think this one is pretty hot.
If you like mind control and aliens ovipositing human women, that is. And if you don't... what are you doing here?
Anyway, so it looks like next weekend there will be some sexual payoff in 'Pierced'. Assuming that the rest of the writing goes to plan this week; remember that I like to reach about 40k bytes before releasing an update. Part 6b, from last week, was 56k, which was both the largest so far and really rather larger than I like, by way of comparison.
I won't promise a conclusion this week, given that I just wrote half the damned update on a single sex scene, but hey, I don't think people will be disappointed.
In other news, I sent Uzobono another two scenes for CORE #10 on Friday night, so that's also moving forward, though I daresay she'll be done with them shortly and I will need to get her more. I like to keep her busy lest her volcano goddess heritage surface (as it does when she has nothing to do) and bury a major metropolitan area under flaming liquid rock.
I also need to figure out how to add a links section to the sidebar of this blog, so I can link to her art as well as to my stuff on the EMCSA, Callidus' website, the various fora... a whole host of things.
But for now I am tired, so that will all have to wait for tomorrow. I think tonight-Tabico did some damn fine work.
So, I just finished the first 24k of Pierced 6c! And it's pretty fucking hot, I think. I can never tell when I write the really explicit scenes, as I wind up jilling interspersed with the writing so that when I am done I don't know if it's hot because the prose is hot or if it's hot because I've been touching myself, BUT... I think this one is pretty hot.
If you like mind control and aliens ovipositing human women, that is. And if you don't... what are you doing here?
Anyway, so it looks like next weekend there will be some sexual payoff in 'Pierced'. Assuming that the rest of the writing goes to plan this week; remember that I like to reach about 40k bytes before releasing an update. Part 6b, from last week, was 56k, which was both the largest so far and really rather larger than I like, by way of comparison.
I won't promise a conclusion this week, given that I just wrote half the damned update on a single sex scene, but hey, I don't think people will be disappointed.
In other news, I sent Uzobono another two scenes for CORE #10 on Friday night, so that's also moving forward, though I daresay she'll be done with them shortly and I will need to get her more. I like to keep her busy lest her volcano goddess heritage surface (as it does when she has nothing to do) and bury a major metropolitan area under flaming liquid rock.
I also need to figure out how to add a links section to the sidebar of this blog, so I can link to her art as well as to my stuff on the EMCSA, Callidus' website, the various fora... a whole host of things.
But for now I am tired, so that will all have to wait for tomorrow. I think tonight-Tabico did some damn fine work.
Friday, May 13, 2016
Pierced 6b is done!
Or nearly. I've given it the mandatory second edit, so I can send it in to Simon this evening and it will be ready for this weekend's update. Huzzah!
I'll aim to give it another polish this evening, depending on time available. Uzobono has caught up to me with the CORE #10 rendering, so I badly need to send her the next scenes for that as well.
Also, I think I may have resolved a years-old problem I encountered while writing 'What Has Been Lost', a story I set in Iago's Middle Urth universe. I published the first part on the MC Garden lo these many years ago, then never followed up with the rest.
Be warned, there will probably be what some consider spoilers in this part. These are the Tabico Secret Files, you have to expect that there are going to be some secrets here.
I'd come up with this nifty story structure for 'What Has Been Lost'; the protagonists are in 'present time' Middle Urth, and they discover an ancient ruin with an olithoi in it. (If you don't know what an olithoi is, go read my Middle Urth stories.) They interact with this olithoi and in the process, experience some of the olithoi's life from hundreds of years before.
So the story was going to be one 'present day' chapter, one historical olithoi past-life chapter, another present day chapter, another past-life chapter, etc, for a total of seven chapters, three of them set in the past. I've written (as in, they're actually done) the first, second, and third chapters, and I know what's going into the fifth and seventh (the present day chapters). I even know the dramatic ending! (Which has been my problem with 'Pierced', really, aside of course from real life taking away all my time.)
BUT I got stuck on the other two past-life chapters! I tried multiple times to start chapter four and just never got anywhere. If I had stuck to my advice which I gave Callidus ("don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good") I could have just dropped the two past-life chapters, written the rest, and no one but me would have ever known.
But somehow I couldn't do that. So the story has hung around, half-finished, for... four years? Something like that.
Happily, I think I've figured out how I can crack that fourth chapter! And the key is: noble houses. I'm writing about the rise of the Witch Queen, and I have to provide enough resistance to her for the story to be dramatic and not a forgone conclusion, but not enough that she would lose. And the way I'm going to do that is: noble houses. The political structure of the city is so factionalized, so riven by infighting, that although they could overpower her (fairly easily) in a straight-up fight, by the time they recognize the threat that the WQ poses, it's too late. She's knocked them down one by one.
So where am I now? Gotta finish 'Pierced', gotta finish CORE #10, and then maybe I can get back to Middle Urth. Oh, though I want to put out the final chapter / epilogue of 'Seed'. And Uzobono would really like for me to do the same for 'Compromise'.
Oh, and I would like to get back to 'Winter Flesh'...
Or nearly. I've given it the mandatory second edit, so I can send it in to Simon this evening and it will be ready for this weekend's update. Huzzah!
I'll aim to give it another polish this evening, depending on time available. Uzobono has caught up to me with the CORE #10 rendering, so I badly need to send her the next scenes for that as well.
Also, I think I may have resolved a years-old problem I encountered while writing 'What Has Been Lost', a story I set in Iago's Middle Urth universe. I published the first part on the MC Garden lo these many years ago, then never followed up with the rest.
Be warned, there will probably be what some consider spoilers in this part. These are the Tabico Secret Files, you have to expect that there are going to be some secrets here.
I'd come up with this nifty story structure for 'What Has Been Lost'; the protagonists are in 'present time' Middle Urth, and they discover an ancient ruin with an olithoi in it. (If you don't know what an olithoi is, go read my Middle Urth stories.) They interact with this olithoi and in the process, experience some of the olithoi's life from hundreds of years before.
So the story was going to be one 'present day' chapter, one historical olithoi past-life chapter, another present day chapter, another past-life chapter, etc, for a total of seven chapters, three of them set in the past. I've written (as in, they're actually done) the first, second, and third chapters, and I know what's going into the fifth and seventh (the present day chapters). I even know the dramatic ending! (Which has been my problem with 'Pierced', really, aside of course from real life taking away all my time.)
BUT I got stuck on the other two past-life chapters! I tried multiple times to start chapter four and just never got anywhere. If I had stuck to my advice which I gave Callidus ("don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good") I could have just dropped the two past-life chapters, written the rest, and no one but me would have ever known.
But somehow I couldn't do that. So the story has hung around, half-finished, for... four years? Something like that.
Happily, I think I've figured out how I can crack that fourth chapter! And the key is: noble houses. I'm writing about the rise of the Witch Queen, and I have to provide enough resistance to her for the story to be dramatic and not a forgone conclusion, but not enough that she would lose. And the way I'm going to do that is: noble houses. The political structure of the city is so factionalized, so riven by infighting, that although they could overpower her (fairly easily) in a straight-up fight, by the time they recognize the threat that the WQ poses, it's too late. She's knocked them down one by one.
So where am I now? Gotta finish 'Pierced', gotta finish CORE #10, and then maybe I can get back to Middle Urth. Oh, though I want to put out the final chapter / epilogue of 'Seed'. And Uzobono would really like for me to do the same for 'Compromise'.
Oh, and I would like to get back to 'Winter Flesh'...
Tuesday, May 10, 2016
Tabenings the Third
Well, last night (Monday) I spent all my free time playing Stardew Village. I suppose it's the way I came to the game (see earlier blog post), but "Stardew" sounds pleasantly kinky to me. The sort of thing you might lick off of an anthropomorphized constellation's pussy.
However, as these things go, my video game urge has fueled my smut urge, and I cranked out more 'Pierced' today. Good news! Part 6b is now 48Kb and has reached a wonderful cliffhanger to end on. Nor did I stop there, and Part 6c is now 7Kb, and we're just about to reach some squicky porn. Hopefully I can write that tomorrow, leaving Thursday and Friday to polish 6b and send it to Simon for you!
It's funny: if I have a video game to play, I write more smut. If I don't have a video game that I want to play, I sit around and browse the web and don't get anything written, despite having all this "extra" time. I guess I am just hard-wired to multitask, and if I'm not switching between things, I'm not doing anything at all.
Well, last night (Monday) I spent all my free time playing Stardew Village. I suppose it's the way I came to the game (see earlier blog post), but "Stardew" sounds pleasantly kinky to me. The sort of thing you might lick off of an anthropomorphized constellation's pussy.
However, as these things go, my video game urge has fueled my smut urge, and I cranked out more 'Pierced' today. Good news! Part 6b is now 48Kb and has reached a wonderful cliffhanger to end on. Nor did I stop there, and Part 6c is now 7Kb, and we're just about to reach some squicky porn. Hopefully I can write that tomorrow, leaving Thursday and Friday to polish 6b and send it to Simon for you!
It's funny: if I have a video game to play, I write more smut. If I don't have a video game that I want to play, I sit around and browse the web and don't get anything written, despite having all this "extra" time. I guess I am just hard-wired to multitask, and if I'm not switching between things, I'm not doing anything at all.
Sunday, May 8, 2016
Chugging Along
Just got back from Captain America: Civil War, and I enjoyed it thoroughly! Oh, I had a few quibbles, but by and large it required no untenable suspension of disbelief and was well-written enough, and the action sequences were excellent.
On the smut front, Pierced 6b is up to 39k, which is acceptable for an update, though it will of course need at least two edits first. Also, I want to end with a zinger scene and I've just reached one, so I'll probably pack that in before calling it an installment. And of course there is at least one more installment further, though only one, I think.
Someone, I shan't say who, wrote me and importuned me not to write Tsugerloi's awakening-into-the-brood offscreen, that is to say they asked me to write it on-screen, to give it some focus and step-by-step attention.
This had not been my original intent; I was going to wave my hand and have Tsugerloi confront Margot with "Sorry, we brood now" (paraphrasing), but since this person cared enough to write and ask, I shall do it the hard way. And it is harder, obviously, I have to be in the right headspace, but if it works (and there's no guarantee) it's definitely a hotter scene.
Anyhow, we'll give it a whirl, so hopefully you folks will enjoy that.
Just got back from Captain America: Civil War, and I enjoyed it thoroughly! Oh, I had a few quibbles, but by and large it required no untenable suspension of disbelief and was well-written enough, and the action sequences were excellent.
On the smut front, Pierced 6b is up to 39k, which is acceptable for an update, though it will of course need at least two edits first. Also, I want to end with a zinger scene and I've just reached one, so I'll probably pack that in before calling it an installment. And of course there is at least one more installment further, though only one, I think.
Someone, I shan't say who, wrote me and importuned me not to write Tsugerloi's awakening-into-the-brood offscreen, that is to say they asked me to write it on-screen, to give it some focus and step-by-step attention.
This had not been my original intent; I was going to wave my hand and have Tsugerloi confront Margot with "Sorry, we brood now" (paraphrasing), but since this person cared enough to write and ask, I shall do it the hard way. And it is harder, obviously, I have to be in the right headspace, but if it works (and there's no guarantee) it's definitely a hotter scene.
Anyhow, we'll give it a whirl, so hopefully you folks will enjoy that.
Saturday, May 7, 2016
Wednesday, May 4, 2016
Broke the Block
Good News, Everyone! You'll be making a delivery to Facehugger Four, the Implantation Planet!
But seriously, after yesterday's mopey post about my failure to pick Pierced back up, I managed to write about a third of the next update today! Dunno what it is in words, but it's 15K on the drive (that's how I measure progress). So that's good! If I can keep up the momentum, I should have a deliverable installment (which is not to say the rest of chapter six, which will be at least two installments) by early next week! I dare not say by this weekend, lest the terrible hand of jinx fall upon me.
Good News, Everyone! You'll be making a delivery to Facehugger Four, the Implantation Planet!
But seriously, after yesterday's mopey post about my failure to pick Pierced back up, I managed to write about a third of the next update today! Dunno what it is in words, but it's 15K on the drive (that's how I measure progress). So that's good! If I can keep up the momentum, I should have a deliverable installment (which is not to say the rest of chapter six, which will be at least two installments) by early next week! I dare not say by this weekend, lest the terrible hand of jinx fall upon me.
Tuesday, May 3, 2016
Tuesday Tabenings the Second
What is a 'Tabening', anyway? Sounds like... there was a movie... ah yes, the Highlander that didn't happen. Yeah, we don't want to go there. Let's envision it more like a 'happening'. Or maybe a 'ravening'. Yeees, that's the ticket. A yawning maw in the earth, eager to consume.
So, progress report. Although CORE moved forward yesterday, today has not been productive. I should be working on 'Pierced', I mentally have the next things to say all lined up and ready, and I just can't write. I just, I just need to, there's this... something, stopping me.
What's odd is that I seem to get into these funks when I lack for distraction. I don't have any video games that I'm playing right now - and I yearn for one, but they all seem "meh" at the moment. I had a big burst of work-related activity recently but that's died down. I just sit at my computer and don't feel like doing anything. It's bad. I have the time, I should get shit done, but instead I don't. Probably some manic-depressive thing, only not, you know, serious.
Ah, well. This too shall pass. Mebbe tomorrow the ol' fingers will work again.
What is a 'Tabening', anyway? Sounds like... there was a movie... ah yes, the Highlander that didn't happen. Yeah, we don't want to go there. Let's envision it more like a 'happening'. Or maybe a 'ravening'. Yeees, that's the ticket. A yawning maw in the earth, eager to consume.
So, progress report. Although CORE moved forward yesterday, today has not been productive. I should be working on 'Pierced', I mentally have the next things to say all lined up and ready, and I just can't write. I just, I just need to, there's this... something, stopping me.
What's odd is that I seem to get into these funks when I lack for distraction. I don't have any video games that I'm playing right now - and I yearn for one, but they all seem "meh" at the moment. I had a big burst of work-related activity recently but that's died down. I just sit at my computer and don't feel like doing anything. It's bad. I have the time, I should get shit done, but instead I don't. Probably some manic-depressive thing, only not, you know, serious.
Ah, well. This too shall pass. Mebbe tomorrow the ol' fingers will work again.
Tuesday, April 26, 2016
Tuesday Tabenings
Yes, yes, I need a better name for this column. ANYWAY, I figure I might as well have a least one anchor activity for the blog, so I shall endeavor to talk about what I am up to, smut-wise, at least every Tuesday. Probably a lot more often, at first, and then tapering down to only on Tuesdays as the novelty wears off. You know, as these things go.
SO, this week... well, I'm trying to wrap up 'Pierced', and doing a really crappy job of it. I am really struggling with where I want to end up. I've done the MC happy ending in 'Lens', and 'Pierced' is already an awful lot like 'Lens', so I don't want to go there, but... but I'm me and I like my Tabiconic happy endings.
(For those who have never communicated with me before, a Tabiconic Happy Ending is one where everyone winds up happy, frequently because they have been mind controlled and/or transformed into being happy. So the characters as they were at the start of the story would not consider what ultimately happens to be a happy ending, but the characters as they are at the end of the story think it's just peachy.)
So I'm really wrestling with the ending. I read a good observation recently, let's see if I can dig it up...ah, here it is. From Shigeru Miyamoto, the creator of what are probably Nintendo's most acclaimed games: "A delayed game is eventually good, but a rushed game is forever bad." The same holds true for stories; I don't want to write something just to be done and then regret it at leisure.
On the other hand, if I leave it too long, I may never finish it, and I honestly do hate doing that, too. (And I also mean it when I say that I will one day release the final chapter for both 'Seed' and 'Compromise' - in both cases, I know what's going to happen and what it should say, and my problem is instead that it's good storytelling but not particularly erotic, and without any erotic punch I don't feel like I am delivering something to my audience. But I will finish them, dammit, I will.)
Anyway, 'Pierced' is definitely on the current docket, but progress is halting.
In OTHER news, however, some will be excited to see that this is on the way:
I've sent off four of ten scenes to Uzobono, and should have little problem with the rest, so I'd expect to see it late May (?) sometime. Maybe June. Though there may be vacations/visitors who get in the way.
And I have to observe yet again, it is so awesome as an author to be working with someone who can create such fantastic, really top-notch imagery based on my fevered scribblings. I write, I send it off, and then Wow Zowy look at the beautiful pictures Holy Shit Wow! Which is probably why there are already 9 episodes of CORE, representing a good chunk of writing; the process is inherently rewarding to me in a way that other forms of smut/action writing are not.
Yes, yes, I need a better name for this column. ANYWAY, I figure I might as well have a least one anchor activity for the blog, so I shall endeavor to talk about what I am up to, smut-wise, at least every Tuesday. Probably a lot more often, at first, and then tapering down to only on Tuesdays as the novelty wears off. You know, as these things go.
SO, this week... well, I'm trying to wrap up 'Pierced', and doing a really crappy job of it. I am really struggling with where I want to end up. I've done the MC happy ending in 'Lens', and 'Pierced' is already an awful lot like 'Lens', so I don't want to go there, but... but I'm me and I like my Tabiconic happy endings.
(For those who have never communicated with me before, a Tabiconic Happy Ending is one where everyone winds up happy, frequently because they have been mind controlled and/or transformed into being happy. So the characters as they were at the start of the story would not consider what ultimately happens to be a happy ending, but the characters as they are at the end of the story think it's just peachy.)
So I'm really wrestling with the ending. I read a good observation recently, let's see if I can dig it up...ah, here it is. From Shigeru Miyamoto, the creator of what are probably Nintendo's most acclaimed games: "A delayed game is eventually good, but a rushed game is forever bad." The same holds true for stories; I don't want to write something just to be done and then regret it at leisure.
On the other hand, if I leave it too long, I may never finish it, and I honestly do hate doing that, too. (And I also mean it when I say that I will one day release the final chapter for both 'Seed' and 'Compromise' - in both cases, I know what's going to happen and what it should say, and my problem is instead that it's good storytelling but not particularly erotic, and without any erotic punch I don't feel like I am delivering something to my audience. But I will finish them, dammit, I will.)
Anyway, 'Pierced' is definitely on the current docket, but progress is halting.
In OTHER news, however, some will be excited to see that this is on the way:
And I have to observe yet again, it is so awesome as an author to be working with someone who can create such fantastic, really top-notch imagery based on my fevered scribblings. I write, I send it off, and then Wow Zowy look at the beautiful pictures Holy Shit Wow! Which is probably why there are already 9 episodes of CORE, representing a good chunk of writing; the process is inherently rewarding to me in a way that other forms of smut/action writing are not.
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