Update 8th Sep '24

An up-and-down week, but one that ended up being fairly productive.

The new short story went out a little later than I'd have liked. That can be found in a previous post and is titled "An Exclusive Performance with Magistrix Synn". I hope you like it!

I somehow managed to get both of my deadline-pressure behaviours on that one. For 3 days I felt locked up and made slow progress and then there were 2 days interspersed in those where I was at full throttle. I got there, and the early look at that is now available. Sometime next week I'll give it a more thorough edit and post it up on Literotica.

As I planned to do, I kept the rest of the week as a break from working on HoHH. I did have the usual problems that spring up from (self-imposed) deadline pressure. i.e. only being able to work on the thing currently late, resulting in some dead hours where nothing is done as I'm fully focused on the late thing but also a little bit blocked on it. After it was done, I managed to surge on with some other ideas, with yesterday being a pretty good day. I typed up 2.5K words on another short story I started a couple of months ago and rescued an old Annette Brite story idea from the scrap heap and have maybe got the first draft for that halfway written.

I also took a look at the next short story collection again. One thing I might change for those is some of the fixed elements - eg always 13 stories, always a 'Vs' story, always a Nicole story (X with a Succubus), always a succubus tablet story (A Succubus for X). I've noticed that I have quite a few long (10K) short stories in my unassigned pile. The major anchor on new collections is the fixed elements. Without them I probably have enough material already finished for 2-3 60-70K word short story collections. I'd want at least one exclusive story per collection, but I might think about organising them based on word count rather than aiming for 13 stories.

At the moment I seem to be in the right frame of mind for finally clearing up and finishing a bunch of half-finished short story ideas that have been sitting on the side for a while. While the spark is there, I think I'll continue with this clean-up for another week. This might also solve one of the problems I've been having with the HoHH mini-boss scenarios. They are too big to get finished in a month, which puts me in panic-mode as I don't like to have a month with no release. If I can finish off and stockpile a bunch of short story ideas, that will give me material I can put out while continuing to work on the big mini-boss (and later Queen) scenarios for HoHH without deadline pressure.

I'll see how next week goes. There might be a good reason why these half-finished short story ideas have been stuck on the side for a while - they ain't any good. If that's the case, I'll jump back to HoHH and Temptacia.

Thanks for the interest and support!
- manyeyedhydra