Jeff Burton

Yeah... about that. You're at a critical part now where everything goes absolutely bat shit sideways.

Yeah I had a little fun with this one.

You know I haven’t thought of that. Madison just floating in the background of stories progressively getting worse as time goes on.

Yep mid season break is over I guess lmao.

I enjoy the rambling. But man I could go for some hot wings. 😂

Trust me that story is as dark as I want to go. I love the story, I go back and reread it myself all the time. But my head wasn’t in a good place when I wrote it and thankfully it’s not anywhere near that place now. And @Jason Rimbaud my apologies for highjacking your thread lol I’m trying to work it out.

I’m happy with the 3k that’s there my problem is the push to continue. I’ve actually got a solid plan on the plot for the first 10 chapters that make up Act I, clear direction, and I’ve got a chapter map for those 10 chapters. But the push to continue, isn’t there. Take The Last Key to Avalon, a story im 3 chapters into. That one has the entire road mapped almost with the entire plot done, key points mapped out by chapter. I’ve got enough technically to carry that one all the way to the end. If fact if I kept writing it the entire time I’ve done nothing I would have finished it 2 weeks ago. But there it sits lol. Motivational process makes absolutely no sense especially to me. It all boils down to the will to continue, that’s where I’m stuck. My brain is just absolute static when I think about it.

Yeah that was pretty damn dark. Crazy that Black Sun gets mentioned by the both of us for totally different reasons. And trust me I have the ability to go even darker than Black Sun but I’m not going to do it. Not here anyway. But yeah I need to figure myself out.

lmao. i did start the sequel to that one and it’s got way more sexual tension in it then the first story did. I just need to get passed chapter 1. So far I’ve got 3k of text I haven’t deleted and what looks like a solid plan. But I kinda need something else. I need a story for me. When I wrote Black Sun that was a story for me, to help me vent some stuff and it’s a dark story, but it was written from the heart. Thats what I really need, another story for me, written from the heart, so I can vent some stuff but it isn’t as dark. Something with hope, maybe some filthy stuff so I can take care of those urges as well. Usually when I write something I can feel the emotional over tones of it way before I have a plot or even characters, I kinda have that feeling for something now but it’s not there yet, the feeling is not done fermenting. I have ideas all the time but finding that one that sticks with me to make it on paper and is able to follow through to the end even when it’s a struggle like Encrypted was is hard.

If anything, I may end up writing that piece soon if I can’t get unstuck since it’s one of the major ideas in my mind.

Your giant ants are getting mentioned in my anthology piece isn’t that enough? 😂

Okay I’m caught. I’m also actually behind in reading as well. I joined a Star Trek play by email/nova group which is basically a bunch of people who like to write, and it’s run by old friends, this happened 3 months ago so I could practice third person narrative and I don’t have to think of a plot, just contribute to an existing one. So yeah I haven’t been reading. I’ve been writing on the down low where people couldn’t see. Is that cheating?

One of these days I’ll write a filthy story to sate you animals.

That’s really what the whole jist of this story is, a series of obvious tropes done in a tasteful way in the manner in which they’re done by averages. i wasn’t trying to reinvent the wheel, just give the wheel a nod and maybe pay some homage to memories of other stories readers may have read in the past, you know not a direct call out but give that vague feeling of familiarity. But I’m also poking a little bit of humor into the tropes as well, just a little over exaggeration. Im glad I was able to pull off something you mentioned, most people would be turned off on something like this, just like you said you would. It’s something I do worry about.

Trust me I didn’t take it as such lol. Im having a tough go at it, a writer that can’t write is like erectile dysfunction and the pills don’t work. 😂

I would just like to point out one of the times this happened I disappeared for almost a year lol. I think I’m doing good at only 3 months 😂

I know you aren’t mocking me Mister. Just because you didn’t tag my name doesn’t mean I’m not gonna see it!

I'm so glad to see Granger headed back on a boat. The sea is where he truly thrives.

Yeah well, we all know what's about to happen because I'm one of those authors. 😂

Had to cancel, I had a previous engagement that ran long. Trying to reschedule for later this week. It was kind of spur of the moment, last minute planning that didn't work out lol.

Yep. At some point after posting chapter 9, I started chapter 10 then totally forgot I did so. So imagine my surprise when I setup to start chapter 10, I already had that file name taken. I read it, went "oh, well this is good," then just finished it lol. Amazing what you forget in the span of a couple of months.

So I bet you’re thinking the night after the dance was all cute texts until someone fell asleep at 3 a.m., followed by a weekend of blurry selfies, soft-filtered memories, and petty arguments over who looked hotter under gym lighting. Yeah. This isn’t that story. What actually happened was I replied to Ryan’s text with a carefully crafted masterpiece: Okay—followed by a smiley face and a heart emoji. I know. Try not to be overwhelmed by my emotional bravery. And then… nothin

Well I knew eventually someone would go there didn’t realize it would be you. 😂

I'm writing today, working on the Encrypted sequel. I did end up go back and rewrote portions of the first chapter because yeah, it needed it. I just need a completed Chapter 1 I'm happy with.

Well then I hope the wizard likes my anthology entry when the time comes. 😂