Scenes for ENE

I finished going through the manga and jotting down quick idea for scenes for Erotic Nerima Encounters based on actual things which happened in the series. These really only represent starting points, from which more ideas could be developed by making even more changes from the source material. The initial list is about 220 items long, of which I've so far written up four.

Which is not to say I'll write up anything like that many. The main hope is that writing up some of these will get me inspired again toward writing longer pieces.

Ten Months Later

Hello everyone. Sorry about the lack of response. Mea culpa.

I'm still here. Still struggling health-wise. I'm currently taking a little less than a score of pills each day. I have good days and bad days, but the good days are usually spent catching up on real life things that were put off on the bad days.

I wrote a sketchy chapter for a new story a few days back. I'm not sure if it will ever see the light of day - I'd first need to resolve exactly where I'm going with it, and it would definitely need some polishing. On the other hand, I offer this information as evidence that there's a chance I'll publish something more at some future point.

I doubt that I'll return to Greenery Day. I'm just feeling completely uninspired where it's concerned.

I'd still like to return to Moxibustion Violation someday. The big problem there is that more than four years have passed now, and if I were to start adding to it the first thing I'd have to do is to go back over the first 29 chapters carefully and re-learn everything I did in the story, since I've forgotten a lot of it. And that feels like a rather daunting task, making it difficult to get up sufficient enthusiasm to tackle it.

So if there were any chance of my posting something in the near future, it would most likely be a new story. Hopefully something short, similar to Examination. But I really have no idea whether or not something like that is going to happen.

What came next?

I was looking back over the posts on my blog about the mini-fic Greenery Day, wondering if I might try adding some more to it.

And I can't remember what was supposed to happen next.

I know that I had a definite plan in mind. Ranma got rid of Genma for a reason as part of a plan to give him a chance to see one or both of the other Tendo daughters (or all three). I can even vaguely recall one small part of the reason. But for some reason I can't convince my subconscious to release the rest of the plot.

Maybe I'll just have to ignore whatever I was thinking originally, and just come up with a fresh approach.

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?

Forgetting Something

Well, I've finished the rewriting. I need to make a final pass with the spellcheck, and take care of formatting issues for the sites where I'll be posting it. That's three different formats, one for AFFnet, one for my web site on asstr, and the last a purely text version for asstr. I've automated the process somewhat, so it isn't too onerous.

What's bugging me at the moment is I'm certain I've forgotten something I wanted to include in the last scene. I'm sure that as I was approaching that point earlier today, I had an idea for something important I wanted to add. But now I can't remember what it was. Very frustrating. I'm going to let my subconscious knock it around for a bit, and see if it can find the missing piece. I'm not planning to post tonight anyway - it's getting late, and I want to take care of a few things before bed rather than dicker with the formatting crap right now.

I probably won't have time to do anything with the story for the next few weeks after this chapter. Like I said in a previous post, we have a major push at work for the end of April, and I'll be busy working on my taxes for the next couple of weekends. But I'll definitely get chapter 28 up tomorrow, one way or another.

MV 27 Majority Done

I made the right decision to cut chapter 26 off where I did. Chapter 27 is getting fairly long, and it all has to be there. It's currently up to more than eleven thousand words, and there's more to go. I think there will only be one more scene, or at any rate, just one more significant scene. It might turn into a fairly long scene however.

By the way, there's plenty of sex in this chapter.

Unfortunately, it's late Sunday night, and I don't anticipate having much time to write on the weekdays. I hope I'll get a chance to do so, but I probably won't. So I'm crossing my fingers I'll finish writing the chapter next weekend. I really need to make an effort, because the closer we get to Christmas, the less time that I'll have on the weekends as well.

MV 26 Possible Break

I've extended chapter 26 to some 7300 words, which is short although not the shortest of the chapters in the story. I'm thinking of stopping at this point and posting what I have as chapter 26 (after I go back and do some cleaning up). I'll probably make a decision about that tomorrow. The main argument against it would be that I'd be ending the chapter on a major cliffhanger. Also, there isn't a lot of sex in what I've done so far, although plenty of stuff does happen.

MV 26 Started

I've started writing chapter 26 of Moxibustion Violation, and so far, at least, I'm finding it fairly easy to write. I just hope I can continue.

I already have over five thousand words, which I would consider as putting me about halfway. My chapter lengths have varied quite a bit, from about seven to twelve thousand words for the most part. I seem to care more about getting certain scenes into the chapter than cutting it off at a specific length.

Still, I've only gotten a little way into my original outline for the chapter. Given the length so far, I suspect I'm going to end up dividing my planned chapter into a couple of chapters.

I would really like to continue writing right now. But it's late and tomorrow is Thanksgiving Day, and I'll need to get up fairly early. So even though I'm feeling my muse, I'm afraid I'm going to have to shut down and hope that I'm still feeling the right mood when I come back to this.

Water Heater Inconsistency

While I was reading through Moxibustion Violation I spotted an error on my part. In chapter 18, Ranma and Akane sneak into Ucchan's, and Ranma uses hot water from the faucet to change back into a guy. He remarks, “I wonder why the hell she left the hot water heater running? Guess she didn’t expect to be gone that long when she went looking for me.” Then in chapter 24, they go into Ucchan's again on Christmas Day on the way back from the farm, and this time Ranma has to heat water in a pot to change back to male. I wrote, "... even if she had turned off the hot water heater before leaving."

Oh well. For now I think I'll just leave it that way. I'm not in the mood to fix either one of them at the moment.

Preparation

As I reported, the dosage on my medication was reduced and I'm starting to feel a bit more like my old self. This won't solve the problem of having less time to write, but I'm very hopeful I will at least start writing again. In fact, I've spent the last week re-reading Moxibustion Violation in my spare time, from start to finish. It felt good to, hm, thoroughly enjoy it. I felt that it was necessary to do this in order to re-familiarize myself with my story before I started writing on it again. I haven't actually started, but I'm feeling good about it and a lot more hopeful that I will be getting back to it.

While reading through it I found a number of spelling errors, the most egregious of which was "socks" where I meant "cocks". I'd like to correct these errors in the posted story, but I think I should hold off until I have the next chapter ready. I don't want to falsely raise people's hopes with an update, only to discover that there's no new chapter yet.

Damn, it feels like I'm forgetting something I meant to add here. Something I was thinking about at 4:00 in the morning, right before I went to bed. Of course, given the typical clarity of thought after staying up that late, it was probably something totally meaningless.

No Progress

I want to apologize to my readers, but it looks like I'm not going to get much writing done in the near future, unless I get really inspired. I tried today, but I only managed to churn out a few paragraphs, and they felt forced. I just couldn't get the feel for it. I also tried starting a different (short) story, but no luck there either. In the end I am forced to admit that I cannot write unless I have the right mood, and that mood is rare these days, let alone coinciding with free time to write.

I definitely do want to continue writing at some point - I want to recapture the way it felt when I started writing MV. I'll try to keep this blog updated from time to time, to let people know that I haven't given up, and to report on any progress which might come to pass.

MV 25 Plotted

I finally plotted out chapter 25 of Moxibustion Violation tonight. It looks like it might not be quite as much of a filler chapter as I was thinking, i.e., if I get everything I plan into it there will be definite plot advancement. On the other hand, there may not be a lot of sex. Don't get scared, though - there will definitely be sex.

I had an idea for a one-shot that I might see about writing someday soon, involving the Tendo and Saotome parents. Actually, I've had several ideas for other stories I hope to write someday. The difference in this case it that I might write the story before finishing MV. We'll see.

Water Temperature Goof

Oh ... blast. Bloody, bloody ... blast. As Scorpinac just pointed out to me, there's a major flaw in chapter 24. That pan of water in the greenhouse wouldn't be ice water, so it should not have changed Ranma into a girl. Damn. Now I have to go back and change the chapter, and find some way for some ice water to hit Ranma at that point.

Keeping plot points in mind is more of a pain than I realized before I began writing. Heck, just keeping track of whether Ranma is male or female is sometimes difficult.