Midnight Rising chapter 17 draft complete · 1:47am Aug 20th, 2023
It’s ready for review, but—stop me if you’ve heard this before—I broke up the chapter, since it was getting too long and a completed version would be upwards of 20,000 words. A bit too big for a clopfic, but fortunately, there was a natural breakpoint at 11k words. So that’s what you’ll be getting.
It’s with prereaders now and will be released as soon as they’re through with it, and I’m satisfied with it. Tuesday, most likely. I will still continue working on it, however, since I’ve got 3200 words on the chapter to follow and I need to finish this arc. So far, prereaders seem generally happy with it, and hopefully that will continue. Expect a lot of running commentary from Sunset’s friends this time around as they’re finally made aware of this project and do what my prereaders do during prereads: leave comments on the doc, which will hopefully give a lot of interesting background information and hints of things to come.
Among other things to look forward to will be the start of the climactic (pun intended) showdown between Queen Molyneux and Dragon Lord Vesuvius, and my first ever Anon-A-Miss reference. Expect the usual array of M-rated action as I introduce one more new fetish I haven’t ever used before: living condoms. But don’t let that scare you off. There’s a of lot interesting info and commentary in here as Sunset finds herself relieved to no longer have to hide all this. As to why that is, you’ll learn up front.
Current projected release date is Tuesday night, though it may change depending on how quickly my prereads come back. Sorry again for the delay, but hopefully work will be calming down a bit in the weeks ahead.
I'm looking forward to reading it when it comes out.
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I know you are, and I’m glad.
It’ll be out no later than midweek. I hope you’ll enjoy it.