Five Star Service Reviewed! · 4:26pm Jan 31st, 2020
And quite favorably by PaulAsaran, who previously reviewed Before the Storm: The Rise of Firefly:
And quite favorably by PaulAsaran, who previously reviewed Before the Storm: The Rise of Firefly:
Five Star Service, my first story on site, has finally passed the 300 like mark! I'd like to thank all the longtime readers of it, and everyone who ever commented on and contributed to it. It was my first and remains my most daring and unusual story in many ways, as well as sporting one of my biggest screw-ups that required a complete rewrite of two chapters to fix (The Attorney ones).
Did you know Five Stars has a political party on Earth? It's true! https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-02-25/five-star-leader-may-seek-grand-coalition-for-italy-government And how appropriate she'd be the impetus behind an Italian populist party seeking to shake up the status quo...
Current projected release date is Wednesday; just waiting on two more prereads. And in a change, there will NOT be any sex scene in it. In the course of writing this, I realized something I should have long before--sometimes a scene is more powerful without overt sex; sometime’s it’s better if you just leave it in the background undescribed.
After some discussion with my prereaders as to how best redo the climactic scene, most notably AJ_Aficionado who offered some very good advice, I believe I have settled on a new approach.
Hello, Five Star Service fans. As promised, I'm going to redo the two chapters regarding the man who would become known as The Attorney near the end of the story (Parts 26 and 27) and release them as new chapters. I will not be deleting the old ones right away as that would mean I lose the comments (I haven't decided if I really want to do that) but for now I will clearly mark them as deprecated and move the author's notes up front to explain why.
Hey folks. Just wanted to let everyone know where things stand with our favorite mare and the future of the Five Star series.
So I just discovered that the site updates some months back broke the color text formatting in parts of Five Star Service, causing the opening editor notes text colors to spill over into the main chapter sections. I've fixed what I can from work, but a careful check will have to wait until I'm home. For those who have encountered that issue already, apologies.
All prereads are in, and four different Gentlemanverse authors contributed multiple sections. It's coming in at over 13k words, which seems appropriately large for the story's grand finale. Just a couple minor things to take care of and it'll be ready to go... including my setting up a Patreon account.
That's right, folks. The second half of the great crossover involving a certain famous fictional lawyer is going to prereaders and currently tips the scales at 11,574 words. Will Five Stars get her man and first Gentleman? Or are his wounds simply too deep?
But it will probably be a few more days yet. Currently sitting at 10k+ words, but the chapter is only about 2/3rds done. It's tentatively titled The Attorney and The Earth Pony, which, yes, is a deliberate play on the title of a certain other story I do.
Only awaiting final preread of the chapter draft. The next-to-last article in the series goes into the formation and initial staff hires at G4M as a prelude to the hiring of gentlemen themselves, which will be told in the final article. And that final article will be double-length, one last tale of sexiness... telling the story of a very special gentleman; the very first Five Stars ever recruited, in fact. Who is he? You'll find out, but there's a hint given here. All I'll say for now is
Despite not having worked on the story for a few months, my muse was with me and I punched out the chapter in record time. The full chapter draft is complete; it's just awaiting prereads before posting. A preview? I'll pass this time, but I will say this:
Hot Topic's search for her missing Gentleman will finally reach its resolution! Be looking for it tomorrow or Thursday...
Restarting work on it, and this time, it goes to completion. You heard me--I'm finishing it! Only 2-3 chapters remain, and of course, the last one will be the final Q&A session just before Five Stars departs for...
Well. That will be the subject of the eventual sequel! Will attempt to get the next chapter out by month's end. Those of you who still want to submit questions for the final Q&A may here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1M_NG22xR9Fgv2uGdF0g4zz9zPkwJzrq5Ugb8Xb2BCXU/edit
Hey folks. An update on writing progress and future works:
The latest chapter release of Five Star Service was, by most measures, a success. It featured for a couple hours for the first time in perhaps a dozen chapters, and gained nine faves for it. However, it also picked up three downvotes, which never happened on a single chapter save the first. That's the problem with featuring; it gets your more notice but you risk more downvotes as well... and downvotes tend to affect your story rating much more than upvotes.
Surprise, folks! I've just released a new Five Star Service chapter for your reading pleasure, showcasing Five Stars' remaining time with John, her first human lover. In it, reference is made to the following scene from my growing war epic Before the Storm: The Rise of Firefly. I'm excerpting it here to show exactly what Five Stars was referring to in the opening section when she said she had to
The long-awaited new chapter is going to prereads now... expect it to be very adult, and very direct. Some of you complained that the sex was a little thin in the last chapter? It won't be in this one! Heavy man-on-mare action ahead.
No preview, sorry. This is the kind of chapter I'd prefer readers experience full force without any inkling of what's ahead. Aiming for release NTL Friday night or Saturday morning.
Get hype, folks. It's happening.
Well, folks... The new Five Star Service chapter now stands at 5200 words and growing. I'm aiming for a post next weekend if I can get the chapter draft done and all the feedback in.
Well folks...
Hard to do blog posts on my phone, but I'll persevere. Next up on the Firesight writing list is finishing off the next TLaTU chapter, and then...