Current situation

Right, so, negative part first. My current level on inspiration for Journeys of Seraphiel is pretty dried up, as I already hinted at the last chapter. It's been on a downward spiral for a while, but I've been forcing myself to write anyway, with wildly swingy results. Some of the bits that I've written were pretty good in my opinion, but generally the quality has gone down. Most of it is just that I don't know what to do with the story. I have a vague end-state that I'd like to reach eventually in mind, but no inspiration on what happens until then. The story is already getting a bit on the repetitive side, with chapters with similar content, and I don't want to continue that. I refuse to keep writing bad to mediocre work just to keep things going. As a result, that story is going on a creative hiatus, effective immediately, until I get some of my mojo back.

Now onto the better news. While my inspiration for that story is nil, I have plenty of inspiration in general. I've been writing sporadically for three other stories, though none of those have gotten very long yet. At least on the number of chapters. That's partially because they haven't been written with a weekly schedule pressing down on me, and as a result are often at least twice the length, sometimes much longer. If the chapters for my weekly releases are around 3k words, the longest chapter for these side projects was somewhere around 10k.

What are these side projects? Well, I mentioned some of them before. The one with the most meat on the bones currently is the contemporary corruption story about an investigative journalist. This one has, in my opinion, some of my best writing in it. Note, I said best writing, and I mean that in technical terms, so it might not be the best story, but I like my own writing on that story.

The second one with the most work is a system based fiction in the Warcract universe. It uses the new system I've been working on with more defined rules and limits, and follows the Cyberpunk 2077's system for the most part, only adapted to fantasy of course. If you've read the story Ghost in the City: Cyberpunk Gamer SI by Seras, which I recommend by the way, then you'll have a pretty good idea. This story originally started as part of Seraphiel's backstory, so will have some commonalities, but I've been changing it and turning it into a separate story. For instance, the main character isn't a Draenei anymore.

After those two, I have little side-side projects that I work on when I have a sudden burst of inspiration. For instance, I just wrote three chapters, and counting, for a small fic based on the erotic game Karryn's Prison. Just because I felt like it. I also mentioned a Mass Effect project before. That one's still in the planning phase, as I feel more inspired for other stories, and because of the similarities to the Warcraft story, but I believe the time for that one will come as well.

When might you see any of these? I think I'll put at least some of them up here when they have more stuff written, just to see if they're actually going anywhere. Besides, they're all still in a phase where I might need to make large changes, which is easier when I haven't actually released anything to the public. The Warcraft story is the most likely to end up on Royal Road as well. I don't know if I can put the contemporary reporter one there, because as a corruption it by necessity includes quite a bit of sexual content. I should say will include, as so far it has none, but things will start heating up. The Karryn's Prison one definitely will never be on Royal Road for similar reasons.

So I suppose you'll get some benefit from being on Patreon, even as a free member.