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Medusa Chapter 14 - Story Release

My parents told me I could grow up to be anything I wanted. I should have become a necromancer.  I do have a thing for bones.

Chapter 15 will either be in about 10 days, or it'll get delayed if I think I can finish Medusa in this chapter. The last chapter in a series should be a long one, after all.

Character Ethnicity - Discussion

Here's an interesting question for you.

Do you care about the skin color of the characters?

I realized as I was writing down all my MLV characters into that spreadsheet that I have a habit of making all my characters white. This is largely just because I live in a mostly white community, and it's how I grew up.

So as I craft new characters in MLV in preparation for when I return to it, I've been trying to be a bit more ethnically sensitive, and include more characters of various sk...

Medusa Vote

Spoilers below if you haven't read Medusa Chapter 13.

Medusa's coming to an end! Chapter 15 or 16 it's looking like, then it's onto My Little Ventrue for a long time. Lots of content.

In the mean time, Otrera and Chimera get one more sex scene (since Chimera lived). I'm going to keep this vote vague so I have a little more freedom in the scene, as it's their final one. Will hopefully be a surprising and delightful read.

Medusa Chapter 13 - Story Release

Arg, this chapter was hard to write! For so many reasons!

Status Update

Whoa, Medusa's almost done. I had said originally that it'd be about 15 chapters, and then I thought it'd be less, but now I'm back to thinking 15 chapters. The planned story remains the same, but certain scenes take a while. Chapter 13 in particular has proven to be one of the most challenging chapters I've ever had to write from a technical/prose standpoint.

You may notice I got rid of the 'expected release date' I was including for chapters in my workflow. I figured it'd be best to get rid ...

My Little Ventrue Future - Characters Discussion

While I'm writing Medusa, I've been planning the future of MLV.  Medusa has been a fun project and I'm glad I decided to go back and rewrite the old story, finish it proper. I learned a lot about what sort of angles of writing I'm good at, which ones I'm not, which ones need work, which strengths I should stick with, etc. It should lead to a large increase in the quality of my work as I return to my main focus, MLV.

In the future of MLV, there's the 6 main characters I've already created,...

Medusa Ch. 12 - Story release

Had a lot of fun writing this chapter, mostly cause I know what happens next. 

:3

Medusa/Darian scene vote

We're getting close to the end of the Medusa story!

And for the next love scene between Medusa and Darian, we're getting something with a much bigger emotional weight. This is a pretty big deal in the story, so while I won't go into details, I do want you readers to have a little context on this vote. Harder to do that without spoilers, so the best I can give is: emotional!

I'll also be doing a little POV switching, so you'll get to see the scene from both Darian and Medusa'...

Medusa Chapter 11 - Story Release

Chapter 11 complete! Lot of building up to future events in this chapter, approaching the story climax.

Chapter 12 won't be the last chapter though!

Just how big is Chimera?

I get this question a lot actually. It's hard to visualize how big he is, especially when I try my best to avoid giving exact measurements. Exact measurements like inches sort of detract from the weight of the imagination; it's better to let the mind do the work, and I just steer it in the right direction.

But when scale gets super important, a comparison picture can go a long way. Here's a picture of the size difference between Chimera and Otrera. Otrera is a small woman, only a ...

Medusa: Future romance scenes

Spoilers for chapter 10! Don't read unless you've read chapter 10.

Spoilers:

You'll notice in chapter 10 I got quite close to an orgy. Our four main characters having sex with their better half, next to each other. 

Darian/Chimera have no attraction to each other, Chimera/Medusa have very little to each other, and Darian/Otrera have only a little attraction to each other (and considering th...

Otrera/Chimera scene vote

Spoilers for chapter 10 in this vote! Don't read this if you haven't read chapter 10 yet.

Next Otrera/Chimera sex scene:

So the relationship and sexual kink between Otrera and Chimera so far is: some light choking, some rougher sex, large penetration. All in all a pleasant blend of light bdsm and submission.

But that can change if you want! The sexual chemistry is very malleable, and I can make a lot of situations work with the Otrera and Chimera dy...

Medusa Ch. 10 Story release

Chapter 10! Setting up the stage for big events in the future.

And setting up the stage for some potential erotic situations that I'll ask the readers for opinions on in a future discussion.

Small delay

Ran into some snags dealing with my new living arrangements. It'll delay Medusa Ch. 10 by two days, pushing it to July 17th.

Tip: don't run your air conditioner on the same circuit as your computer.

MLV Character Sheet - Discussion

When I started writing MLV, I realized I was writing a very character-heavy story. I'd created a spreadsheet and listed important things about these characters, so I'd have a reference while writing.

And of course once the story got going, things got out of date as I adjusted the story for better quality over the original design.

But the idea was sound: a spreadsheet with important character information. So I went back, updated the sheets, and put them into a googlesheet.

I'm still...

Status Update

Sorry for the lack of updates. Moving sucks. Took a while, but after I quit my job, I moved across the country, and now I'm set up to write write write.

That means no job, which I know a lot of you are probably thinking makes me insane. But, I'm in the unique position of being able to spend a few years writing and see where this takes me. If I can hit my new Goal #1 by then, then this becomes a permanent lifestyle.

That means starting July 15th, I release a chapter every 10 days!

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Medusa Ch. 9 - Release

Release of Chapter 9! Chapter 10 should be in 3 weeks, and then things are going to pick up after that, with a planned release every 10 days.

Medusa Details References

Thought you readers might enjoy seeing what I frequently check when I'm writing.

https://imgur.com/a/leQyYxy Imgur album of my map, landscape, and architecture references

I do have a habit of nitpicking about certain details. I try to only reference places I know existed, or that the Greek populace of the time thought existed. I try to use realistic estimates for travel time between locations. I try to describ...

MLV - Mini chapter? - Discussion

This mini chapter would be basically "My Little Ventrue Pt. 02 Ch 12.5" instead of moving onto Pt. 3.

This was a chapter I had started writing randomly between bits of the final few chapters of MLV Pt2. It's almost entirely a sex scene, and the POV is Natasha. I wanted a Natasha sex scene before Pt2 ended but I never found a spot to insert it.

Natasha is a tiny, skinny little introverted shy girl, and a bit of a pushover. Jessy is a tall, strong, extroverted dominant-type girl, who has f...

Otrera Scene - Quick Vote!

Definitely spoilers if you haven't read Chapter 8 yet!~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Voting below.

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Read it yet? Good.

Otrera and Chimera, new avenues for sex choices! What kink would you like me to explore? This will be from Otrera's POV.

Medusa Ch. 08 - Story Release

A new kink enters the game!

Demon girls - Discussion

So I'm planning out the various elements of My Little Ventrue's future. It's going to be a long running series after all, potentially even running multiple years.

MLV is set in Vampire: the Requiem, and there's a lot of openness about the setting, a lot I can add or re-imagine.  And while I'm going to keep the series genre the same (Paranormal mystery/thriller), and the focus will be on the vampire characters I've created, I'm planting seeds for potential future characters, future directi...

Sexual Content Discussion

This is something that crosses my mind pretty much every time I write a sex scene.

Too long? The long sex scenes are written specifically to be very arousing, and many paragraphs are straight-up masturbation material.

Sometimes I think I may be overdoing it, or maybe writing too much sex, not enough story.

I was considering in the future, I keep the sex scenes the same length, but have slightly less of them. With MLV it was about 1 sex scene every 25K words. With Medusa it's about ...

Medusa/Darian Scene - Vote

Sex scene vote for Darian and Medusa!

Next scene will be from Darian's POV. I won't spoil anything, but the scene will be a strange mixture of exhaustion, excitement, and worry. Sort of a "oh shit what's going to happen next? I'm excited and terrified" before-the-storm scene.

Medusa Ch. 07 - Story Release

Woo, chapter 7!

I'm a bit disappointed in the length. I'm still hitting the minimum 16k, but overtime at work (which is still coming and going) makes it hard to write as much as I'd like.

Very excited to start writing the next chapter though! Chapter 8's something I've been building up to with lots of little hints.

Head Hopping - Discussion

I'm currently doing my last editing pass on Medusa Chapter 7, and I thought I'd ask about this.

Head Hopping, or where I switch POVs from person to person. You notice these sections each time I start a new section with:

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I've noticed that I've come to use this more freely in my writing. I used to force myself to stick to a specific POV for a certain amount of time, but I've come to find a lot of scenes work best with a lot of ...

Sexual Content - Discussion

Breasts. 

That is all.

I kid I kid. Breasts are awesome. Big ones small ones heavy ones perky ones. I love them.

So it's no surprise I guess that some of my lead females have very large breasts. Not only that, a fair amount of my sex scenes have large sections devoted to breast worship. I spend a similar amount of time describing the breasts of Beatrice compared to Antoinette, but at the same time, Beatrice has normal sized breasts, while Antoi...

Medusa Ch. 06 - Story Release

There we go. Had to take an extra week on this chapter due to all the overtime I'm working at my job (soon to be a thing of the past, just 3 more months).

Complicated chapter! Reminds me of MLV Pt2 Ch11, with so much information coming together and I have to double check a dozen things.

Ouch! - Discussion

Medusa Ch. 05 doesn't seem to be reviewing as well as other Medusa chapters, on Literotica at least.

Now, as a professional game dev, I'm used to negative feedback. It's useful, it lets you know what people like or don't like. If someone commented something like 'I disliked this scene because of A B C,' that is very useful to me, though not necessarily for the reasons you may think.

If there's one thing you learn as a game dev, it's that:

- Players usually know when they hate somet...

New Patreon Banner? Discussion

It's likely going to be that I'm going to spend 1-2 years outputting My Little Ventrue content, once Medusa is done. Dolareido is a big city, and the Vampire: the Requiem setting has a lot of tools for me to use to craft some storylines outside the typical 'thriller' formula I've been using. Dark mysteries, things that go bump in the night, more characters, expanding the city, and even flashback stories depending on who wants what.

So that got me thinking, I need a proper Patreon ba...