Unleash the Magic: Nightmare Night · 9:13pm Oct 18th, 2017
Hey, folks. Thought I'd give the first update on my promised Nightmare Night clopfic, now slated for release on Monday, October 30th... or earlier if I can get it ready in time.
Hey, folks. Thought I'd give the first update on my promised Nightmare Night clopfic, now slated for release on Monday, October 30th... or earlier if I can get it ready in time.
I’m back home after getting up at 4:45 for this and dragging my gym friend out of bed to drive me there and back. Took a little more than three hours after I walked in the hospital door. Little pain so far and no need for the crutches they gave me as I’m walking fine without them. That may change as the painkiller they gave at the time wears off, but so far, so good.
The next chapter of Unleash the Magic: Nightmare Night will release this weekend depending on how fast it gets finished and how quickly my prereaders can complete their pass. The chapter currently stands at around 6000 words and will end with another sexual corruption... or actually two! Want a teaser...?
I'd like to give a big shout-out and thank-you to Raven Regios, for commissioning a picture of me as a present, surprising me with it this past weekend. She said it was a gift and thank-you to me for all the help I'd given her stories. So thank you very much, Raven! This was very sweet and I appreciate it greatly! I like it a lot and have very happily made it my new Avatar.
In one word: Firefly. The objective of this coming month is to finish off the Battle of Epsilon and the first day of war. But I haven't stopped thinking about Nightmare Night, or other things I might be writing, including my anthro novel. I've also had a few other idea bunnies running around my head, but I'd think long and hard before starting them given my other obligations.
I'm currently working on a third edited chapter for Feathered Heart, which I'm still hoping to be able to post here if I rewrite them enough--basically, that's what they're telling me I have to do in order to not run afoul of site rules. I have not started the next Firefly chapter yet, though I'm certainly thinking about it, and starting to feel some strong tugs back towards Midnight Rising as well.
For Midnight Rising, which I'm pleased to say both featured, and garnered four new likes!
First, with my sincerest apologies, I initially neglected to link the picture of Ember I used and failed to properly credit the artist. So let me take care of that now:
An even 6000 words for the former; already 3300 words down for the latter, which will open with a short section from everybody's favorite bat-eyed badass, Fell Flight.
With my second new Feathered Hearts chapter in the books—thanks to everyone who liked and commented!—I'm shifting back to Midnight Rising. The next chapter, which involves our favorite party animal showing a bevy of female dragons how to have fun, is already 4200 words long and growing quickly. Oddly, I'm finding myself making a lot of lore for the dragons in the process of writing
Well, there are several things to discuss this week, but before I do anything else, let me give a huge shout-out and congratulations to AJ_Aficionado, whose entry into the Found out February clopfic contest soared to #1 on the feature list, and took home the $200 top prize! It was a smashing success, as he played the site's meta game and won it, finding the perfect slot to submit his story in that all but ensured it took off.
With now three full chapters written and a fourth starting production shortly, 20k words are already down on the side story in under two weeks. My muse has grabbed hold of this thing and will not let go. What sucks is that I have to wait to release the ready chapters until I've got the entire story arc written (6-8 chapters?) and then write the next chapter of the regular Feathered Hearts story to link to it.
In the previous blog post. So be it. All I ask is that folks keep it civil and refrain from personal abuse.
You will get a new Nightmare Night chapter tonight or tomorrow morning. The second chapter, unfortunately, is only half-finished and might take another week. The main issue this time is work--I have a slew of intensive online training modules to go through, and I’m way behind on them. It’s a good skill to know, so I’ll do it, for the sake of my next job if my current one. For those curious, I’m learning about The Cloud, which is something all pegasus programmers would no doubt know how
But before I address that, I want to touch on my previous blog posts regarding my attempted defiance of a workplace vaccine mandate. They generated a ton of comments which, at least for the most part, were fairly civil despite vehement disagreement. For that, I thank all concerned. It's a rare thing nowadays.
The last set will be chapters 23-25, with another brief but intense M-rated scene in Part 25. I had intended to release it tonight, but I’m going to delay a couple days to allow my prereaders a chance to catch up to it and give myself a break. So be looking for it this weekend.
3 out of 5 are in with a 4th in progress. And so far they’re quite positive, though I did end up having to excise an 800-word sequence towards the end when at least one prereader objected. I decided after sleeping on it that they were right and it was indeed over the line. That’s why writers need prereaders, folks—to save you from yourself.
Well, I admit I’m feeling better about Harmonic Resonance now, as the downvote brigades appear to have dried up and it’s been getting a steady trickle of new likes and tracks since. It should easily top 40 likes and 100 tracks before the year’s end, which gives it a decent but not spectacular start. I suspect at this point the main issue in the initial launch was twofold: clop readers want instant gratification, so as an earlier commenter suggested, they tend to be a bit turned off by
Readers will be happy to know that one week after Thanksgiving, I have finally finished most of my leftovers, and what remains will make excellent sandwich fodder. I’ve also got all my Xmas decorations up, making my play to win the neighborhood decorating contest.
I’m calling it a successful release of C&C Chapter 15 yesterday, with a bevy of new tracks and two new likes, taking me all the way up to 150! That means I now have nearly a tenth the audience the original story did...
The Eros update is simple: Chapter 13 will be released tonight at around 7pm US Eastern Standard Time, and thus far most of my prereaders seem to love it. I might have indulged a little fanservice with them as well, adding a couple things they requested along the way. But I don’t think readers will mind!