Update 5th Oct '25

Another solid week on the short story collection.

Unfortunately, some IRL stuff lost me a couple of days at the end of the week, so it's not quite as done done as I'd like.

I did think about activating the "must be finished by end of September" clause, but that was mainly in place if I felt I got blocked, or was twiddling my thumbs trying to push something that was stubbornly refusing to happen. That hasn't been happening. My prooductivity has mostly been pretty consistent and good. The main issue is what should have been 3 stories of around 15K words has turned out to be 4 stories of around 45K words. That's not a bad thing as it means I'm only using 6 of the previously written stories and will probably be able to put out a new collection next year as well.

As for the stories in progress, I let Nicole get a little too carried away in "Outcall with a Succubus". That was originally supposed to be a 5K word story. I typed up 7K words this week with maybe 1K to go. Again, I'm fine with this. Nicole is a popular character and my initial fear for the story was I had some good world-building content at the beginning, but the erotic parts felt a little tacked on and filler-ish. No danger of that. Nicole gives the lucky protagonist the full succubus experience in that one!

With all the writing and typing up, I was struggling to find time for editing.

"Mage vs Succubus Slime" has been edited, so that's pretty much ready.

I've edited about half of the "Succubus for Social Justice" segments. One of them needs me to come up with a lot of random street names, so that's going to be a bit of a pain.

The 4th one is the Koontz story. The start of that is a little messy, but I'm getting to the point where Kiki Sumoppai gets to deploy her special weapons.

I'll continue with it this week and look to start transitioning back to writing HoHH harlot scenarios as I get the book down to just requiring the editing parts.

I've also seen the early sketches for a possible cover by marwmellow. That wasn't the only thing I commissioned. I haven't forgotten about HoHH, and I might be looking to add some slightly spicier art... ;)

Thanks for the support and patience while I take this temporary detour. Normal work will resume on HoHH ASAP!
- manyeyedhydra