Visiting

No writing today, although I did a little more planning.

I'll be visiting relatives through July 4 and beyond. I'm taking a laptop, so hope / might get some writing done. Probably not as much as I'd like to pretend to myself that I will.

The other students at school are going to know about Ranma's weakness. How could they not? They knew about it before the moxibustion chart was shredded. It would only be natural to ask Ranma if he found a cure, and he couldn't easily get away with lying and saying yes. Which means that Ranma is probably going to have to depend upon Ryoga to be a "protector" at school, concerning anyone who might have a grudge or just want to take advantage of her. I'm sure that Ranma is just going to love that state of affairs.

Kagome Pairings

I've written some of chapter 30. Ukyo's first time playing with Ranma and Akane under Ryoga's rules. She isn't thrilled to find that Ranma is stuck as a girl and thus can't service her as a boy, but agrees that it's not a bad idea that her former fiancé won't be able to screw Akane anytime soon.

I was reading an Inuyasha lemon yesterday, pairing Inuyasha and Kagome. It got me thinking about something. I enjoy Inuyasha/Kagome lemons. I can also enjoy lemons, dark or otherwise, in which Kagome has sex with Koga, Miroku, Naraku, Shippo, bandits, Hojo, male schoolmates, or other strangers in the past or present (though I'm not partial to these as ordinary pairings). What I am totally unable to read, as ordinary pairing or lemon, dark, light or in-between, is any suggestion of a relationship and/or sex between Kagome and Sesshomaru. It's not that I can't stand reading Sesshomaru pairings - I have no problem if he's paired with Rin, Kagura, or someone else. It's particularly strange when you consider the large number of Kagome/Sesshomaru shippers out there in the fan-fiction universe.

Planning for MV 30

I did some planning for chapter 30 tonight. No writing yet though. Chapter 29 ended on New Year's Day, and the next school term should be starting about a week later. My current plan is that chapter 30 will cover some events of that week, and leave me positioned to start the next school term - with associated hijinks - in chapter 31.

As people familiar with the manga are aware, the magic of the Dragon's Whisker reached its expiration date shortly. However, if Ranma is careful about not turning into a guy - and Ryoga and the rest of the gang would also be more than willing to help her avoid hot water and stay a girl - it might be quite a while before she realizes that the magic has worn off. In other words, I'm planning to leave Ranma stuck as a girl for a while, before she finally finds out it's safe to change back to a guy without going bald.

I don't know how many chapters there are yet to come. There are a number of developments I have planned which can't take place all at once. I do have a resolution in mind which is gradually become clearer as I get closer to it. In any case, I'm pretty sure there are going to be a good many chapters yet before the story ends. What worries me is that at my current pace, that could take years, and I don't want it to take years. So I hope that somehow I can start writing faster again. Still, que sera sera.

Chapter 29 Up

Chapter 29 was posted a little over an hour ago. I'm fairly happy with it, although I feel a bit like the end of the chapter was, sort of, like I said "I'm going to stop now". In other words, kind of bland, like I just chopped it off at that point.

One thing I definitely feel is that there's a lot more plot, and a lot less sex, at the moment. I need to try to change that, or at least balance it a little more. I think it may be a continuing side effect of my meds. At least I feel more willing to write now, then I felt at one point. But the parts with the heavy breathing still don't seem to be doing quite as much for me as they did back when I started writing this. Ah well, I intend to keep going so long as I have any interest in it at all. I just hope I can last long enough to give the story the resolution I have in mind.

Since it came up in an email someone sent me, I want to remind people that this site seems to require acceptance of third party cookies be turned on in order to post comments. Or at least it did at one time, so I assume that was the source of his problem adding a comment.

Any special requests for indignities / embarrassments Ranma should experience while attending school as a girl?

MV 29 Draft Done

I have brought chapter 29 of Moxibustion Violation to a point where I am satisfied with ending the chapter. I'll try to find time tomorrow to clean it up so that I can post it.

MV 29 Progress

For some reason, Google Chrome is really misbehaving trying to make this post. It crashed a couple of times. Finally switched to Firefox.

In any case, I wanted to report that I've made some good progress on chapter 29 of Moxibustion Violation. I've finished the scene on New Year's morning between Ryoga and Kodachi. Although I don't want to make any promises, I've got a reasonable hope of posting the chapter by the end of the coming weekend. I've got my fingers crossed, anyway.

I tried reading The Dragons of Spirit and Love on FFnet, and just couldn't. It reinforces something I've already realized. When it comes to a story which is clearly erotica/porn, I find rape and other coerced sex an exciting, arousing element of the story. Because I see the entire story as fantasy, and don't get as "involved" as I do in non-erotic stories. In those other types of stories, where I want to suspend disbelief and get "into" the story, I don't like to have something ugly and dark like rape occur. It's a bit of a bipolar attitude I suppose.