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Grand Prize 7: Disney Love

Howdy gang! Thanks for being patient with me. Been under the weather the past couple weeks, but finally coming through it and back at the craft. Here we have the seventh installment of the TIOS offshoot, "Grand Prize," in which Amanda uses TIOS to have all the Northside hotties fall madly in love with her fella. (#BitchesBeCrazy) In this chapter, we get to hit some of the highlights, a little quality time with superstars Jordan, Miss C, and Amanda herself. Not a lot of heat in it, but part of...

Heavy Is The Head poll, "Giving It Your 70%"

So last week's *looked* like a tie, but one of those votes included an accidental vote from yours truly that I forgot to delete, the decision was to bank the favor for another day. So that's what we got this time around. For this installment, your options are below. Without meaning to give anything...

Heavy Is The Head 5 poll

Howdy! Sorry for the delay, but I've been under the weather the past week or so and it took me a bit to be able to do much. We're back at it though! This is a fairly brief installment, mostly a set-up, but hopefully whatever you folks choose next will be something awesome! I decided on this one to ...

Heavy Is The Head 4 poll

Howdy gang! So after your meeting with VP Amy Marchiano, time to decide how cool you wanna play it. Vote below! Poll is open until Saturday morning.

Heavy Is The Head 3 poll

A new chapter of Heavy Is The Head is live! Your voting options are below. And I think I've said before, but if you have feedback on the polling (if it's not up long enough, or you would prefer it open to more people, or whatever), I'm happy to hear it. DM me, email me, leave it in the comments, as you like.

Grand Prize 6: The Third Thing

Howdy! Closing out the weekend, we have a new installment of The Grand Prize. It is the sixth one, called The Third Thing. This time around we get to see how Amanda's meddling impacted one of her closest rivals for Conner's affections, Heather Blake. It's got costumes, it's got boobs, it's got heart. 

Also, if you aren't following me on CYOA, the sec...

CYOA poll 2: Meeting at the CEO's Office

All righty! Another chapter is up. Read up first, then come back and give us a vote for where we go next! As a side note, I feel like the choices aren't as broad as I eventually want them to be, but for now, we're trying to establish our settings and characters (and discard other characters who don't pique interest), so rest assured it'll get more open-ende...

Heavy is the Head Chapter 1 poll

Howdy! So first off, thanks to all of you for your support and generosity, especially those of you who let me churn out an entire novel-length serial with THAL last year. It is appreciated so much! To show my appreciation, you fine folks (the $10+ tiers) are exclusively eligible to vote on the outcomes of each chapter of my new Choose Your Own Adventure (CHYOA (for some reason there's an H, nobody knows why)) series, Heavy Is The Head. You can read the 2021-01-05 06:06:40 +0000 UTC View Post

CYOA series: Heavy Is The Head

Howdy everybody! Hope your 2021 is off to a good start. Over here, I'm starting a brand new series at the very loose direction of one of our commission drawing winners. The new story is a choose your own adventure story (or CYOA, or, as the site is titled, CHYOA). If you just wanna check it out and skip the blah blah, here you go.

This story will be put up in free installments on the site linked. The...

Updates and WIP/WStBIP*

So hey, party people, we're coming up on the end of the year, so here's some news about what's going on behind the curtain. As some of you know, I've just posted a new segment of the on-going Grand Prize TIOS sidebar tale. If you're looking for that, head here.

Meanwhile I'm about 10k words into the next installment of Losers, though I think I will continue its tradition and do that as a novella once it's to...

Grand Prize 5: attachments

That's no typo ladies and gents. No, that's a writer ending a title with a preposition, because fuck you, gods of grammar, I do what I want. We're coming up on 2021 and I'm burning ALL the bridges, yo. I'm slapping the attachments on another post, just so the news stuff is available to all, so for the attachments, head here.

In this installment, we get a little time with Conner and Amanda, and what would a TI...

The Grand Prize, part 4: Participation Trophies

More fun with TIOS! Here we have a piece featuring young Mary Buchanan, good girl of God, yet nevertheless ensnared with her peers by Amanda's meddling. I had a ton of fun with this one -- the quirky ones are always a treat to write. Next up, we'll see if my muse is leaning for my next commission waiting in the wings, or if it's time to hit Losers, but it'll be one then the other regardless. My goal at this point is to have Losers finished by Christmas. Why Christmas? Because my uncle is in t...

Commission: The Understudy

Here we are folks, a new piece for ya. This was kind of a weird challenge, but super fun. The individual requesting it said they didn't want a story with mind control in it. Now I wouldn't say this is *entirely* outside my wheelhouse, but... well, I'll let you judge the results for yourselves. Enjoy!

In the meantime, I'll probably have a little more fun with Grand Prize Game, then I think next on the chopping block is Losers. I'll have to do some re-reading, rethinking, because man that...

The Grand Prize, part 3: Behind the Coke Machine

Yeah, so here's some more. It might not be short yet, but it is shorter. I may pause this one for a little bit to work on some other stuff, including other commissions, but I'm not done pumping this well of fun yet, rest assured. In the meantime, happy Monday, and more to come!

The Grand Prize, part 2: Raising the Woof

Remember when I said I was going to keep these short? Oops. Anyway, here's another fun installment as the shenanigans of Angelica's quote start to take effect. It's only 11:30 PM in my time zone, so Happy technically Thanksgiving from the US, and know that I am so very thankful for your support and patronage! Here's to another year of being grateful to you all, and more to come!

Grand Prize, part 1 of less than freakin' 30 this time

Howdy! So here we are, at long last with a fresh commissioned story! This is a fairly short piece, though it's going to lend itself to a series thereof, so I'll keep tossing out more as they come to me. This here is mostly to introduce a premise for it, and then we'll just have some fun with it until the fun's done been had. This particular piece takes us back to the TIOSverse. Now, since some of you probably misplaced your notes since back when, I'll add a short introductory piece. If you fe...

Teaching Her A Lesson, Part 30

Here it is, gang. I am pretty sure this is the end*. Can you believe I published the first installment back in June? Man. The muse was freaking with me back then. Or at least, a muse who really really wanted a lot of words really fast. Maybe there's a new one hanging around for the resolution. I guess we'll see. As it is, if Simon doesn't take any time off, the full story won't be up on the EMCSA until the end of January.

Now, I say the end, but don't miss that little asterisk....

Curio Shoppe 4: Trick, or...

Howdy folks! Here we have the latest in a line of very silly and hopefully entertaining Halloween stories. There's no cause to go back and re-read the predecessors to make sense of this. It's pretty basic: there's a weird dude with a magic shop full of humorously cursed items. People buy things there, shenanigans ensue.

Happy Halloween everybody!

Teaching Her A Lesson, Part 29

Here we go, folks! More THAL, as promised. Also, again courtesy of the one and only Griz, we have a couple more illustrations of our GHS all stars for your additional amusement. 

I plan on taking the next few days to throw together a little Halloween story, just for funsies and to take a little breath before the final installment(s?) of THAL, but then we're gonna finish this sucker out, an...

Character Creation: Charm Person, and Rod of Wonder

Howdy! A couple folks have pointed out to me that the Character Creation series linked in the composite story list skips a couple entries. So... here ya go. We have Charm Person, the first in the series and probably the one I hear about most, as well as Rod of Wonder, about a magic item that creates very, very random effects. Enjoy (again)!

Teaching Her A Lesson, Part 28

Meanwhile, in posts that aren't student essays...

Here we are, Part 28. We're finally closing in to a point where I think I can see the way to the ending of THAL. (It is NOT this piece, so I don't shoot myself in the foot again with bad phrasing.) I know there is a lot of enthusiasm for additional pieces in this universe, and whether it's folks using their commission winnings or just me doing it on my own, I'm sure we're not Done done. In fact, I am sure there is way more to do with our...

Teaching Her A Lesson Part 27

[EDIT: This is NOT THE END OF THAL! The first line of the original post was only a bad joke about numbers. I promise I will actually finish the story and not just ... it with a weird sexless essay. Sorry for the tricksiness, folks!]

Here it is, the final post of Teaching Her A Lesson the number of which is a perfect cube. I don't mean to cut myself short, but I feel pretty confident we will not reach part 64 on this thing. This post, however, is something a little different. In...

Discord, anyone?

Dishing out discord makes me feel like one of the Sterns. However in this case, I'm referring to the app, not the general cause of mayhem and disharmony. In this post, I'll explain what it is, how to access it, and what you can expect to find and what I hope you'll contribute.

So we now have a discord! For those who just want to dive in or who already know what to expect, here is an invite link with which to access it. F...

Teaching Her A Lesson, Part 26

I was about to say something about how I wrote a nice short chapter for you, but then I realized it was still 7000 words. So... another mid-sized chapter? I don't even know. Apply your own adjectives. 

Loving all the ideas and discussion, btw. As many of you have said, though, Patreon is pretty weak for these communications, so I'll be getting on that discord issue pretty soon and hopefully we'll have a place to share ideas and theories and (if I ever do something wrong, I suppose)...

Sowing discord

Up front, let me say I am super new to all this. I have used discord, though 90% for voice chat for TTRPG gaming with friends, so I'm pretty in the dark about the kinds of things that are done there by others in my vocation. Tech-wise, I'm pretty trainable, but if it's not obvious from your months/years of observing me, I am no tech wiz. I'm reaching out to some other MC authors to see if they have any input or advice, but I figured you fine people are even better poised to guide me into this...

Teaching Her A Lesson, Part 25

We're getting close, ladies and gents. The story is officially in finals week, and this installment takes us up to pre-dawn Wednesday. Not that it has to end with the school year, or with graduation (and I'm honestly not sure it will at present), but with the story in a mode of Canon trying to decide what he wants his new post-Serenex normal to look like, he's enough of a literary dude to want to sync his life transitions with his career. I am super appreciative of all the thoughts and energy...

Teaching Her A Lesson, Part 24, & stuff

Sorry for the wait, gang. I knew when I was churning out three or four chapters a week at the early parts that it would catch up with me. Just way harder to guide a story than to let it flow how it wants. Still, I think it's flowing, going where it needs to (or at least where I want it to), so there's that. This chapter picks up in the aftermath of the dropping of the case and through the final weekend of the academic year. 

Also, as it's October 5th, that means payments have been ...

Teaching Her A Lesson, Part 23

Howdy, gang! Here we are, part 23 of my probably-only-two-or-three-parts story concept. Sorry it took me so long (is that long? after that spree I was on for a while there I don't remember). I turned 40 yesterday -- whee -- so I lost a couple days of productivity to existential dread. (I am *not* a birthday person, at least when it comes to my own.) Anyway, we somehow survived, and got the installment finished.

Some musings below, but this is for sure a case of read the story first, so....

Check Me Out, and check this out

Howdy hey! One of our wonderful patrons, the notorious WDB, has very generously cobbled together a list of links to all my available content on patreon. So first off, massive props to this fellow. My hashtagging game is pretty weak, so this should be a big help. You can find his list at:  https://docs.google.com/document/d/1myJUiYZFNkq9x8lZy7rnC77gtmBKHAdvj...

Teaching Her A Lesson, Part 22

Onwards! I had a great vacation last week with my annual week o' D&D. (And nobody unleashed a malevolent AI to suck me into a virtual reality RPG, so... bonus?) I gave myself a day to settle in, and now here we go with part 22, the aftermath of Canon's termination. Some musing on this installment follows, though I'd recommend reading the new chapter first, coming back to that second, just in case.

MUSINGS

There is still a significant extent to which I am winging this thing. I ...