And unfortunately, that verdict is unanimous:
Complaints were: too meta, hard to follow, does nothing to advance the plot, and potentially makes things worse while trying to fix them.
The good news is that the Midnight Rising chapter draft is complete, and as a bonus, I may shortly have much more time to be writing with. The bad news is that I may shortly have more time because I’m liable to lose my job at a large financial firm for refusing to obey a vaccine mandate. 
Been a wild ride, but it has to end... for now. In suitably appropriate manner, of course... 
In celebration of the 300th like, making it easily my most popular story to date, the epilogue goes live on Thursday morning.
So I can get more prereads completed and get another editing pass in. Sorry to make you wait, folks. But trust me—it’ll be worth it. Chapter will now launch on Thursday evening after I’m back from work.
My job is interfering, as well as worries over a couple troubled friends. The chapter is currently sitting at 11,326 words with at least 2-3k words more to go, meaning I was only able to put around 1800 words on it over the past week.
On the advice of prereader AJ_Aficionado, the-now 37,000 words I’ve written for the end of the Changeling arc is going into Eros instead of the main story. I realized he was right when he said that it was simply too big a scene for C&C and interrupted the flow too much. A single 4-5k word M-rated scene in the flow of the main story is fine, but I can’t afford to spend three whole chapters on it. I was already thinking about that, but he gave me the nudge I needed.
With apologies, I've only got one preread in, and as I require two before publishing something, I'm going to give the rest of my team the chance to hit it. So I thank AJ_Aficionado for going through it first, and at his recommendation, I'm shunting the last 4,000 words or so to the next chapter since he said they seemed anticlimactic. I thought about it and decided he was right. So you'll get 12k words in the new chapter instead of 16.
It's awaiting one more preread and a couple more editing passes before launch, which will likely be tomorrow evening. 9000 words of female dragon fun lie ahead, folks, as Pinkie Pie has her own surefire way to win them all over, converting six female dragons into large and lovely sex-loving lesbians... though one will take a little more work than the others!
Thanks for being patient, and be looking for the new chapter by Sunday night. Hope you enjoy!
And I do mean new. As in, brand spanking new, with very little pulled over from the original story.
I’ve made good progress on the Lemon Zest chapters this week thanks to a quiet spell at work, which is especially welcome after vacation. In fact, part one is only a day or two away from draft completion, at which point it will be off to prereaders.
Story submitted! Look for it later today... thanks, prereaders!
For readers of The Lawyer and the Unicorn and Unleash the Magic: Midnight Rising, I've set up a series of goals on my Patreon account, offering omakes/bonus chapters to existing adult stories of mine:
With another Midnight Rising chapter in the books, where where I successfully made a tsundere out of Ember and had Pinkie beat her in a contest of heat with a little something called capsaicin, I'm now heading back to Feathered Hearts. The next chapter already has 3500 words written and with it comes a question for readers:
How would you like a little early implied adult (T-rated) action that might lead to an M-rated side story later on?
At the rate of about 800-1000 words a day. That’s my key to getting stuff done that’s causing you issues; just be sure you put at least a little time in on it this day to have some forward momentum. The two chapters are now up to 24,100 words. I’ll work on it more this weekend, at least around continuing work around the maps and battle graphics I’m making for Feathered Hearts.
For all the love and support I’ve gotten the last couple weeks over my blog posts on the story, I’ve decided it’s only fair to reward everyone with a new C&C chapter, which I will be starting this week. It will be sharing creative space with the next chapter of Midnight Rising, which I’m in the middle of writing as we speak, but I’ll aim to have a completed C&C draft out in three weeks, and a chapter launch in time for April 1st.
I finished it yesterday and completed the initial editing pass, handing it off to prereaders. And you're going to be getting a huge chapter, weighing it at 16.9k words, plus a lot of juicy content. There'll be a slight tangent at the start consisting of Sunset describing what happened with the Elk (expect a big twist), but it's not going to take up more than a third of the chapter. Yes, I learned my lesson about getting lost in the weeds from the multi-chapter griffon arc earlier, though a
Both personal and professional. I’ll start with the former: Following a bout with severe stomach pain a couple weeks ago (which turned out to be bad gas but distended my gut enough to strain some of the area muscles), I have been diagnosed with hypertension—high blood pressure—and thus far I’m having trouble bringing it under control.
As promised on a blog in early December, I’m coming back to Midnight Rising with the intention of rewriting the poorly done ending to the Molly/Vesuvius duel to something far more fitting and appropriate. And once that’s done? I’m proceeding directly into the next chapter with the intention of putting the story back on track, finally focusing on Lemon Zest.
Which are particularly important this time, because the first preread I got back was negative. As it came from AJ_Aficionado, whose opinions I particularly value mostly because he’s more interested in the story than the sex, I tend to give what he said about it credence but still want to hear from everyone else before I start making changes to the new chapter.
Sorry to not keep readers updated, but I've found it hard to feel creative over the past week. You'll understand, it's a little difficult to be interested in writing, especially sexual stuff when you're recovering from knee surgery (or really any surgery), as your body devotes its energy to healing instead of to more pleasurable pursuits.
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