Status update and poll · 6:10pm Oct 19th, 2016
Hi guys,
Ashinda here again. So where to start.
Okay, to put it bluntly, I'm kinda sorta the only writer here currently. Let's get down to brass tacks and get you all caught up on the last eight months of struggle with this thing.
Cody has RL smashing him senseless and what little time he has is usually going to other things. Totally understand how that goes, but it's reached a point of chronic where it has to be taken into account now. I don't even get much from him in planning sessions now, mostly he's just telling me if he likes an idea I've brought up.
Gold4tune went on a work trip for two months over the summer, and then never showed back up, doesn't return messages even though he is active on here again so I'm sort of at a loss for how to take that. I'm just operating on the basic assumption that he has had his fill for now and doesn't wish to participate further.
Which leaves me, the artist of the group, holding the bag here. And I am trying to figure out what to do.
There is exceptionally deep backstory and long term plans and effort already sunk into this fic and I would hate to just let it go. Alright, so can I write this story? Yeah. In fact the majority of the nonclop work seen in the later chapters is me. So yes, I can do that.
But clop writing is not me, and it makes me uncomfortable to think about writing sex, especially kinky type sex, and cast it into the currents and tides of the internets. Gold4tune signed on as the clop writer, but had more of a mind to writing his own ultra-kink clop stories in the universe. He did help out here and there in other areas, but the majority of his focus went to filly scouts, moondancer, and as yet unpublished sex machine scenes. Fun for sure but it left me still stalled on clop scenes in the main continuity that just got a 'meh' from him.
So for the majority of the past year I've been trying to generate some sort of energy, and more and more internalizing and owning the whole kit and caboodle. And here I am, now stressed out, realizing that I am feeling sort of abandoned, and recognizing I am at my limit for it to continue this way.
So what to do... well, if I am writing it solo, and we intend to keep all current facets of the fic present. I'm going to have to get over my clop aversion, and that is gonna take some serious support, because it's not a natural thing for me to do in what amounts to a public forum. There's not much exhibitionist in me I guess.
I could scale back the sex in the fic and have it transition away after inferring what is about to happen and leave the actual clop to the readers fertile imagination. This means no descriptive sex content but we have a gaggle of lust demons so it has to be implied.
Or I could put out a call for more writers who might like to participate who could write romance/kinky clop stuff which I incorporate into the narrative. I would be the director and have final editorial control of the content.
So I ask you dear readers, how would you prefer to see me proceed here?
Thank you for your patience with me.
Ashinda
While a total absence of clop would make things seem somewhat incomplete, I'd personally be in favor of whatever manages to get the core story moving forward.
(And hey, you could always find somebody later to go back and fill in some blanks!)
Personally I would prefer it if the clop would stay in and you find a new clop writer or even get over that problem with writing it yourself. But if you can’t find a writer and it is really not possible for you to write the clop scenes just continue the story it is interesting enough. I do read stories like this for both clop and story but as I said before if it isn’t possible or to stressful don’t get more clop. I and probably many others wouldn’t like it but a good story is enough for me to keep reading.
I do wonder why gold4tune stopped responding without a word. Although he hasn’t updated any of his stories lately, he hasn’t written anything since June, so it might just be that he either quit writing altogether, has other stuff on his mind, simply isn’t in the mood to write or he is just buzzy IRL. I do find it a bit rude to not say anything to you about it though.
4262272 Not a bad idea. I personally think whatever you can manage is good for me. You could do what Twidashforever did with the TiM series. Write the main story(ies) and then write/get someone to write the clop as a sub story, link said substory to the chapter it's in, and voila! Whatever you decide, even if you want to wait it out a bit more/pass it on to another writer/etc..., you have my support.
-Hope your in good health (and stay that way)
I intend to kick off the new story soon (either this evening or tomorrow). A prologue series of vignettes and chapter one. The better the support from the reader base, the faster new chapters will be finished and added. Momentum will be a big part of getting this thing moving and keeping it in motion. So I thank you in advance for helping maintain my energy levels while I start knocking the rust off this bastard and get it into gear.
If I'm not late yet...
Well, I, for once, whilst enjoyed clop very much. am more interested in the story itself, and I doubt I am the only one here. Solution presented earlier isn't a bad one at all, weird it may seem, so that's a thing, too.