I think one reason I haven't been posting much is that my posts lately have tended to take on a whining tone. Poor, pitiful me. Yeah, I may have had a rough patch lately, but overall I've had a pretty damn good life, and even now there are lots of people who are a hell of a lot worse off. It disturbs me to hear myself being so whiney. It doesn't fit my self image.
So, while I want to keep my readers informed if there are reasons why they're not getting new material, I want to keep it simple and straightforward.
And by the way, who the hell decided that we should go straight from autumn to spring this year?
Sunday, February 12, 2012
Saturday, February 11, 2012
Mea Culpa
My apologies for having been silent for so long. I've often thought about posting, but I guess I've been embarrassed about not being able to report progress on my story. And I truly don't want to leave the story at its current point.
After my last post, I spent some more time in and out of the hospital. I was pretty weak for a time and, truthfully, will probably never be as energetic as I was previously. At least the doctors tell me that I shouldn't be in any specific danger for the foreseeable future. Although I suppose I'm at as much risk as anyone else to be run over by some idiot drunk driver.
So ... I suppose the news is, I'm still here, but don't have any positive news at this time about when you can expect further updates. The proper mood for writing has, shall we say, been a bit lacking. I just hope I manage to get the next chapter out before the one year anniversary of the previous chapter. Damn, but it feels shitty to think of it that way. But still ... I hope I can.
After my last post, I spent some more time in and out of the hospital. I was pretty weak for a time and, truthfully, will probably never be as energetic as I was previously. At least the doctors tell me that I shouldn't be in any specific danger for the foreseeable future. Although I suppose I'm at as much risk as anyone else to be run over by some idiot drunk driver.
So ... I suppose the news is, I'm still here, but don't have any positive news at this time about when you can expect further updates. The proper mood for writing has, shall we say, been a bit lacking. I just hope I manage to get the next chapter out before the one year anniversary of the previous chapter. Damn, but it feels shitty to think of it that way. But still ... I hope I can.
Sunday, October 23, 2011
Not doing well
Sorry not to have updated in so long. The truth is, my health took a turn for the worse back in September. A minor event that put me in the hospital for a couple of days, and pretty much wiped me out. I was forced to take some time off from work, and haven't had the energy for doing much other than reading and watching TV. (Great football game today.)
Let me tell you, getting older sucks. It sure would be nice to go back to being 20 again. Or 30. Or 40 ...
At this time, it is still my intention to continue writing. I really don't want to leave MV where it currently is. I actually do have an ending in mind, and would like to get there. However, if I can get back to writing, I may need to fast forward over some parts in order to try to make sure that I get to that end. Well, time will tell.
One of my reviewers suggested that the problem was with the point I had reached in the story, and that maybe I should try starting a new story. It was a reasonable thing to think, and in fact, I've had a few thoughts that way myself. Unfortunately, a couple of half-hearted attempts to start something new haven't proved very successful either. It might still be good advice, but it seems like everything is going to remain stuck where it is until I can find the energy to start writing at all.
Let me tell you, getting older sucks. It sure would be nice to go back to being 20 again. Or 30. Or 40 ...
At this time, it is still my intention to continue writing. I really don't want to leave MV where it currently is. I actually do have an ending in mind, and would like to get there. However, if I can get back to writing, I may need to fast forward over some parts in order to try to make sure that I get to that end. Well, time will tell.
One of my reviewers suggested that the problem was with the point I had reached in the story, and that maybe I should try starting a new story. It was a reasonable thing to think, and in fact, I've had a few thoughts that way myself. Unfortunately, a couple of half-hearted attempts to start something new haven't proved very successful either. It might still be good advice, but it seems like everything is going to remain stuck where it is until I can find the energy to start writing at all.
Saturday, August 27, 2011
A storm named Irene
Hurricane Irene is passing over. Battened down, though risk in this location is not too high. I also finally seem to be on the recovery from my illness. Fingers crossed.
To Zenta. (1) Concerning your request for a futanari Akane fucking girl-Ranma — sorry, but no. Dick-girls are not a fetish of mine, in any way, shape or form. I am willing to consider giving Akane, or one of the other girls, either a temporary or permanent Jusenkyo curse which turns her fully male, and then letting her screw Ranma or the other girls. I doubt that I'll be doing that with Akane in Moxibustion Violation, but I might do something of the sort with Ukyo.
To Zenta. (2) Regarding your question whether the Amazons will have a role in Moxibustion Violation. The answer is “no” they're in China and I'm planning to leave them there. I'm quite willing to consider using them in other, future stories, but I don't intend for them to make an appearance in MV. Oh, and as to whether Ranma and Akane will be cured in the end and get their revenge, I guess you'll just have to keep on reading to find out (and hope that I eventually bring the story to the conclusion I intend).
I'm afraid that I've been spending time the last couple days which I should have spent writing instead playing the flash game Atomized which was posted to Hentai Foundry. And it isn't even a hentai game! But I do have the #2 score of 4962 (for which I gave my initials H.S.). I find it strangely addictive.
To Zenta. (1) Concerning your request for a futanari Akane fucking girl-Ranma — sorry, but no. Dick-girls are not a fetish of mine, in any way, shape or form. I am willing to consider giving Akane, or one of the other girls, either a temporary or permanent Jusenkyo curse which turns her fully male, and then letting her screw Ranma or the other girls. I doubt that I'll be doing that with Akane in Moxibustion Violation, but I might do something of the sort with Ukyo.
To Zenta. (2) Regarding your question whether the Amazons will have a role in Moxibustion Violation. The answer is “no” they're in China and I'm planning to leave them there. I'm quite willing to consider using them in other, future stories, but I don't intend for them to make an appearance in MV. Oh, and as to whether Ranma and Akane will be cured in the end and get their revenge, I guess you'll just have to keep on reading to find out (and hope that I eventually bring the story to the conclusion I intend).
I'm afraid that I've been spending time the last couple days which I should have spent writing instead playing the flash game Atomized which was posted to Hentai Foundry. And it isn't even a hentai game! But I do have the #2 score of 4962 (for which I gave my initials H.S.). I find it strangely addictive.
Sunday, August 21, 2011
Still here
Hi everyone. Just a brief post to let you know I'm still alive.
Afraid I've had to make a few trips out of town recently, which took up a lot of time. Then after I got back the last time, I got sick. As in, sick enough that I needed to go to the hospital. I'm still feeling pretty miserable.
So this is just to reassure you that I haven't given up on the story, and do plan to get back to it.
Oh, and I've also received a couple of reviews or comments I might want to reply to in a later post. Once I'm feeling better.
Afraid I've had to make a few trips out of town recently, which took up a lot of time. Then after I got back the last time, I got sick. As in, sick enough that I needed to go to the hospital. I'm still feeling pretty miserable.
So this is just to reassure you that I haven't given up on the story, and do plan to get back to it.
Oh, and I've also received a couple of reviews or comments I might want to reply to in a later post. Once I'm feeling better.
Saturday, July 23, 2011
tuatara's Review
This post is in response to the review by tuatara of my story Moxibustion Violation, which appeared on AFFnet on 2011-07-22. In fact, he apparently created an account on AFFnet just to leave the review.
First, let me say that I'm happy to get reviews of all kinds, positive or negative. Hell, what's shocking to me, given the type of story I've written, is that I haven't received a ton of negative reviews. And tuatara's review wasn't even really negative, at least in regard to the story, only toward the other reviewers. I do wish that AFFnet would give me a means to respond to reviews, aside from putting responses in an author's note in the next chapter, when I finally get around to posting the next chapter. Hell, anybody else on the planet could respond to one of these reviews by writing a review of his own. But if I do that the administrators will hide the story and threaten to delete it (since this is precisely what they did when I made some responses of that sort).
Second, I don't want to say anything particularly negative to this reviewer. His review was civil, and he's entitled to his opinion. And I want to hear that opinion. The reviews give me a chance to hear how my readers as a whole feel, and this is how one of them feels.
At the same time, it definitely feels to me as if he's off target. He says, "if I'm to take many of these reviews at face value." Who would take anything related to non-vanilla porn at face value? It's all about fantasy. I sincerely hope there is no one reading my story who cannot separate fantasy from reality. Anyone who would wish for non-consensual scenes from MV to take place in reality would be a sick, sick person.
When people write reviews to express the pleasure they've experienced in reading the story, they are expressing their pleasure in the fantasy. When they tell me what they enjoyed in the story, or would like to see happen, and so forth, it is a given that they are telling me what they liked or hope for from the fantasy. I don't see how anyone could mistake this as a statement of what they like or would enjoy in reality, or even anything remotely close to that. I have certainly never received any such impression (of the latter sort) from any of my reviews, and I hope I never do.
In the end, as with any porn, you should read the things which appeal to your fantasies and avoid the things which don't, and never confuse your fantasies with reality. It seems to me that should go for reviews of such stories as well, at least regarding the reviewers' emotional responses to the story. So I suppose that tuatara is making the right decision to avoid reading any further reviews, if he finds he has difficulty reading them in that manner.
First, let me say that I'm happy to get reviews of all kinds, positive or negative. Hell, what's shocking to me, given the type of story I've written, is that I haven't received a ton of negative reviews. And tuatara's review wasn't even really negative, at least in regard to the story, only toward the other reviewers. I do wish that AFFnet would give me a means to respond to reviews, aside from putting responses in an author's note in the next chapter, when I finally get around to posting the next chapter. Hell, anybody else on the planet could respond to one of these reviews by writing a review of his own. But if I do that the administrators will hide the story and threaten to delete it (since this is precisely what they did when I made some responses of that sort).
Second, I don't want to say anything particularly negative to this reviewer. His review was civil, and he's entitled to his opinion. And I want to hear that opinion. The reviews give me a chance to hear how my readers as a whole feel, and this is how one of them feels.
At the same time, it definitely feels to me as if he's off target. He says, "if I'm to take many of these reviews at face value." Who would take anything related to non-vanilla porn at face value? It's all about fantasy. I sincerely hope there is no one reading my story who cannot separate fantasy from reality. Anyone who would wish for non-consensual scenes from MV to take place in reality would be a sick, sick person.
When people write reviews to express the pleasure they've experienced in reading the story, they are expressing their pleasure in the fantasy. When they tell me what they enjoyed in the story, or would like to see happen, and so forth, it is a given that they are telling me what they liked or hope for from the fantasy. I don't see how anyone could mistake this as a statement of what they like or would enjoy in reality, or even anything remotely close to that. I have certainly never received any such impression (of the latter sort) from any of my reviews, and I hope I never do.
In the end, as with any porn, you should read the things which appeal to your fantasies and avoid the things which don't, and never confuse your fantasies with reality. It seems to me that should go for reviews of such stories as well, at least regarding the reviewers' emotional responses to the story. So I suppose that tuatara is making the right decision to avoid reading any further reviews, if he finds he has difficulty reading them in that manner.
Sunday, July 3, 2011
Shampoo Lemon Partner
(Related to a conversation I had with T H Tiger.)
I don't plan to bring the Joketsuzoku into my story Moxibustion Violation. However, I will hopefully finish that story someday, and I have a number of ideas for other stories I'd like to write. Some of them involve Shampoo getting her just desserts.
This brings up my ideas on who would be an appropriate person to give her what she deserves — i.e., overpower her by means physical or magical and then screw her brains out. There are several characters I would consider for the purpose.
On the martial artist side (subduing her physically) are Mousse and Ryoga. It was suggested that a lot of people would say "anybody except Mousse" for such a purpose, but personally I'd be perfectly happy using him for such. Of course, it is a prerequisite that he first grow a set of balls where Shampoo is concerned, but I don't see that as a major stumbling block. Another possibility, especially if the story is set in China, would be Pantyhose Taro. Kuno, on the other hand, I can't really see performing this task.
As for non martial artists (subduing her magically or by some other non-physical means) the leaders of the pack would be Hiroshi and Daisuke. Or possibly just anonymous boys from the school.
I can see Happosai in the role of facilitator, helping to set Shampoo up because she (or Cologne) did something to piss him off. I don't think I'd want him to participate however.
The one male that I really wouldn't be particularly interested to have teach Shampoo her lesson would be the title character, Ranma himself. He could do it, of course, and I can easily imagine scenarios where he would. I just wouldn't be very interested in writing them. Ditto the lack of interest in writing something where Akane, Ukyo and/or Kodachi turn the tables on Shampoo and make her pay in some sexual manner. It's not that I have a problem with such stories, and in fact could certainly enjoy reading them, but I don't feel any inclination toward them as an author.
Just a little insight into where my biases lie.
I don't plan to bring the Joketsuzoku into my story Moxibustion Violation. However, I will hopefully finish that story someday, and I have a number of ideas for other stories I'd like to write. Some of them involve Shampoo getting her just desserts.
This brings up my ideas on who would be an appropriate person to give her what she deserves — i.e., overpower her by means physical or magical and then screw her brains out. There are several characters I would consider for the purpose.
On the martial artist side (subduing her physically) are Mousse and Ryoga. It was suggested that a lot of people would say "anybody except Mousse" for such a purpose, but personally I'd be perfectly happy using him for such. Of course, it is a prerequisite that he first grow a set of balls where Shampoo is concerned, but I don't see that as a major stumbling block. Another possibility, especially if the story is set in China, would be Pantyhose Taro. Kuno, on the other hand, I can't really see performing this task.
As for non martial artists (subduing her magically or by some other non-physical means) the leaders of the pack would be Hiroshi and Daisuke. Or possibly just anonymous boys from the school.
I can see Happosai in the role of facilitator, helping to set Shampoo up because she (or Cologne) did something to piss him off. I don't think I'd want him to participate however.
The one male that I really wouldn't be particularly interested to have teach Shampoo her lesson would be the title character, Ranma himself. He could do it, of course, and I can easily imagine scenarios where he would. I just wouldn't be very interested in writing them. Ditto the lack of interest in writing something where Akane, Ukyo and/or Kodachi turn the tables on Shampoo and make her pay in some sexual manner. It's not that I have a problem with such stories, and in fact could certainly enjoy reading them, but I don't feel any inclination toward them as an author.
Just a little insight into where my biases lie.
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