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  1. <Fingers crossed> I went and got tested for COVID-19 today. I feel like trash though… So… yeah...

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      Mal

      I just got released from hospital today after 5.5 long grueling days. The bad news is I’m not fully recovered. I still have a bit of pneumonia in my lungs and am a little run down. The good news is that my doctors felt confidant to take me all the way off O2. Meaning that as long as I’m taking it easy my O2 lung saturation is sufficient to keep me going! Now I just need to rest and recover a bit more, build my strength back up and everything should work out. I do feel better, so that is good. (Much better than I felt going into hospital), I’m hoping now with  couple more weeks to recover I can get back to relative normality in my life… I’ll continue to keep you guys posted but I want to thank everyone here again who was pulling for me while I’ve been sick. It really does mean the world to me!

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  2. <Fingers crossed> I went and got tested for COVID-19 today. I feel like trash though… So… yeah...

    1. Mal

      Mal

      Just to fill you guys in. I tested positive for COVID-19. I am feeling a little better, so I hope to just slowly trend upwards during my next 10 days in quarantine but who can say… Thank you all for all the support. I’ll try to keep you guys in the loop as my symptoms get better and hopefully not worse…

      Till next time,

      -Mal

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  3. <Fingers crossed> I went and got tested for COVID-19 today. I feel like trash though… So… yeah...

    1. Mal

      Mal

      Thank you guys for all the support. Frankly, I’m very worried. I feel terrible, my whole body hurts all over and I keep getting the chills… Not sure when was the last time I felt this bad. I really appreciate the kind words, and the virtual hugs. I could use some more :hug:I’ll be sure to update you guys when I get the results in a few days. 

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  4. Holy word count, Batman! I was looking today, because I just posted chapter 50 of my main story, Billion Dollar Harem, and I just can’t believe how far this story has come! It blows my mind to think I’ve written an entire novel… of smut lol! At chapter 50, I’m at 711 pages and at over 375,000 words… of smut… lol! Its so strange to think when I started this story… holy crap 4 years ago now, that it would be this freaking huge! I want to give a huge shoutout to anyone and everyone who has given my little harem fic a read and especially to those who have reached out to tell me they liked it or to offer up some comment or criticism of its very immaterial material... Thank you!

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      Mal

      That was a truly interesting read, Thundercloud. My favorite part was about the view points by gender. Since my story has significantly more female characters than male it would be no surprise at all to see women dominate the word count in Billion Dollar Harem. It does make me wonder though just how much of the story takes place from Alex’s (my main OC), POV. He is clearly one of the story’s main protagonists / antagonists I guess… lol. But he is the one introducing things into the lives of his harem that they must deal with. Yet, I feel much of the story is from a female perspective… Anyway, its interesting to think about, and makes me want to go and reread the Wheel of Time series...

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  5. Holy word count, Batman! I was looking today, because I just posted chapter 50 of my main story, Billion Dollar Harem, and I just can’t believe how far this story has come! It blows my mind to think I’ve written an entire novel… of smut lol! At chapter 50, I’m at 711 pages and at over 375,000 words… of smut… lol! Its so strange to think when I started this story… holy crap 4 years ago now, that it would be this freaking huge! I want to give a huge shoutout to anyone and everyone who has given my little harem fic a read and especially to those who have reached out to tell me they liked it or to offer up some comment or criticism of its very immaterial material... Thank you!

    1. Mal

      Mal

      Holy crap! Is that true? I always figured I had a long way to go, word count wise, to even come close to a Robert Jordan length novel. You just blew my freaking mind, sir!

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  6. Earlier tonight, my story, Billion Dollar Harem reached 200,000 dragon prints! I can hardly believe just how incredible this is! When I started this story a few years back it was just to practice my writing and for my own personal pleasure. Now, today, I share that experience with nearly 7,000 people each month! It just blows my mind every time I think about how big this story has gotten. So I just want to take this time to once again thank all my fans and readers, those of you who check the archive once or twice a month to see if I’ve updated and especially those of you who’ve taken the time to offer me encouragement with your comments and questions here on the forum. Thank you so much from the bottom of my heart. Remember this is your story as much as it is mine and I hope that I can continue to prove myself worthy of your viewership as I begin Billion Dollar Harem’s final chapters. This time next year I expect it to be finished and I hope you will all continue on that journey to its end! Thanks again, and I look forward to hearing from you all in the future. P.S. Chapter 45 should be on its way in the next few days!

    1. Mal

      Mal

      Thanks JayDee, I hate to seem like I’m bragging, I’m really not. But I honestly get so overwhelmed by how big this story has gotten that I just have to say something. I also think its super important to the fans to let them know how much I appreciate their continued support.

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  7. Billion Dollar Harem has just surged past 150,000 Dragon Prints! I knew it was going to happen, I went to sleep needing around a hundred more and when I woke up, it was almost 80 prints over! I’ve spent the past few years working on this project and I still cannot get over the amazing response this story has had. It seems like every week I get an email or a forum post asking me about it or just some wonderful person telling me how much they loved it. This is a huge milestone, and I have you guys, my fans, to thank for it. Without your comments and your support, BDH would have died off a long time ago. But its because you guys give me the motivation to continue on that has allowed this story to shine. Remember this guys, Billion Dollar Harem is your story as much as it is mine because without you it never would have gotten this far. Thanks again so much to all my fans out there, and now, lets push forward to 200k!!!

  8. Billion Dollar Harem has just surged past 150,000 Dragon Prints! I knew it was going to happen, I went to sleep needing around a hundred more and when I woke up, it was almost 80 prints over! I’ve spent the past few years working on this project and I still cannot get over the amazing response this story has had. It seems like every week I get an email or a forum post asking me about it or just some wonderful person telling me how much they loved it. This is a huge milestone, and I have you guys, my fans, to thank for it. Without your comments and your support, BDH would have died off a long time ago. But its because you guys give me the motivation to continue on that has allowed this story to shine. Remember this guys, Billion Dollar Harem is your story as much as it is mine because without you it never would have gotten this far. Thanks again so much to all my fans out there, and now, lets push forward to 200k!!!

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      Mal

      Thanks, JayDee, I appreciate it! I’ve got an end game in mind for the story now. Granted its on about a 60 chapter trajectory,  so more than 20 chapters from now. But I hope the story will have continued success in the mean time.

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  9. So I’m over on Literotica reading this Erotic Horror story called “The Girl Next Door.”  It’s about succubi, and it’s creepy and sexy and honestly kind of sad, but it’s carried me along for about four chapters seeing what’s going to happen next.

    Then at the end of Chapter 4 and continuing into Chapter 5, out of absolutely nowhere, we find out that the succubi have captured an angel, specifically the Angel Lailah, the only female angel.  The first scene of Chapter 5 is then concerned with her corruption (in these kinds of stories that’s less “seduced to evil” and more “physically pumped full of evil and forcibly transformed into something villainous”).

    There are three explanations I can think of for why this is happening to me.

    1. After spending too much time reading Thundercloud’s G.S.P. story, I have absorbed Jennifer’s superpower of Terrible Luck.
    2. The internet has become sentient, knows I have a thing about bad things happening to female angels, and is actively fucking with me.
    3. JayDee knows Kingmaker711, and ten years ago, they were talking, and JayDee said something like “You won’t believe this email I got about my story where a female angel is raped and tortured,” and Kingmaker was like “Oh yeah?” and JayDee was like “Yeah, some guy wants to write her a happy ending,” and Kingmaker was like “Man that’s bullshit; you gotta stop him,” and JayDee was like “I mean, I already said he could, besides it’s been a while and I haven’t seen anything, so he’s probably not writing it,” and Kingmaker was like “No, dog; I have a plan.  In 2013, I’ll write a story about succubi, which will be totally normal for the first 3.95 chapters or so, and then I’ll reveal that their apocalyptic plan involves corrupting a female angel, using her actual role in Jewish folklore so it fits, and they’ll succeed, but only after really dragging it out so this is as upsetting as possible, and then she’ll just be hissing villain for the rest of the final chapter and when the other angels show up they won’t try to fix her, but instead she’ll be sentenced to exile until Judgment Day, and naturally Email Guy will be wondering how she can repent and be redeemed since she was basically mindwiped and didn’t choose to do any of this, and then I’ll have the last time we see her be while she and Michael are locked in combat and he’s trying to strangle her, so Email Guy will realize that I haven’t established whether or not angels have souls in this setting and will have to contemplate Lailah being wiped from existence as punishment for things she didn’t choose to do, and just to make sure Email Guy can’t just write off the story, I’ll give it an ending with a gloriously insane action scene featuring the human protagonist, Michael, Gabriel and Raphael, and I’ll give it the most amazingly happy ending of any of my stories, as in the human race isn’t destroyed and Creation doesn’t unravel,” and JayDee was like “I don’t know if I see your point,” and Kingmaker was like “Email Guy will read this just as he’s attempting to write the Happy Ending part of his Happy Ending story, and he’ll be so depressed over Lailah that he’ll get serious writer’s block.  Problem solved!” and JayDee was like “Can you see the future?” and Kingmaker was like “I’m from the future!”

    Or maybe it was just an unlucky coincidence.

    1. Mal

      Mal

      Ruined? No. But I do love a good story where innocence and purity are corrupted into deviance and debauchery. Sometimes I like a happy ending, sometimes its nice to see things end in a… not so nice kind of way. I have an equal opportunity  attitude toward endings. My main thing when it comes to endings is that they have a least a little bit of a twist, and hopefully are somewhat unexpected. 

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  10. Ice is literally raining down in sheets and freezing to the side walk… I wonder if I’ll be trapped at work tomorrow after working all night...

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      Mal

      Luckily it didn’t turn out as bad as it could have. The ice turned to snowfall shortly after I posted this and we only got about half of what was projected so I doubt very seriously that I’ll be trapped at work… Thank goodness.

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  11. 10k!!  :yahoo:  10,000 dragon prints to Jefferey... wow.

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      Mal

      Congrats man, I know this is a huge accomplishment! I’m so happy that you reached your goal! I hope you reach the next one even faster! :yahoo:

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  12. Billion Dollar Harem just passed 100,000 Dragon Prints! I want to thank all my fans and readers for your continued support! I would never have gotten here without you guys, I am just humbled and amazed by the response and encouragement you all have provided me in the two years since we began this little trip together. Thanks again so very much.

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      Mal

      Thanks BronxWench and Desiderius Price for the well wishes! I still can hardly believe I made it to 100k. I don’t get many reviews in the review section of my story, but I do have quite a few regulars who comment in the Billion Dollar Harem thread on the forum so that’s nice. When I started BDH 2  years ago, I never thought it would be successful. It was just something I did for my own amusement and to practice writing. But as the story started to gain dragon prints, it was always my goal to reach 100k. I’m so happy that I finally got there. Hopefully, in time, you both reach the goals you’ve set for your own stories too. Thanks again, and good luck to you both.

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    Mal    KassX

    Yeah, I discovered this feature not that long ago, and had been eligible to change if for quite a while. All is right now though as I am properly titled: Captain Mal :) 

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      Mal

      Hey guys, I appreciate the feedback. I never meant to suggest that I wasn’t thrilled, humbled and awed by the number of prints my story has generated. I was only pointing out that the stories on the first page of the originals section alone have more reviews by probably double than the reviews of stories in the entirety of the celebrity section.

      Believe me when I say no one is more amazed than I am about how well Billion Dollar Harem has done. I’m quite sure its success is the only reason there is ever any traffic in the celebrity subdomain forum. I just wish there wasn’t that taboo or feeling that somehow celebrity fiction is not as worthy as other genres. (Again, this feeling could be me, but just based on the things I’ve mentioned, I don’t think its JUST in my head...)

      I never thought about keeping a written record of my prints. I just check in on my stories every week / few days and see how its doing. And am basically always amazing by Billion Dollar Harem. Even though I don’t check in, I have done some basic division to try and calculate how many people are reading my story with each chapter. That too is pretty amazing to think about…

      Anyway KassX, you mentioned there were some discussion threads in the writers corners. Were you referring to any in particular? I’d love a thread were I could dip my toe in the water and get a feel for the conversation without having to read 20 pages of forum posts...

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    Mal    KassX

    Yeah, I discovered this feature not that long ago, and had been eligible to change if for quite a while. All is right now though as I am properly titled: Captain Mal :) 

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      Mal

      I suppose I should clarify what I mean by elitists. I wasn’t trying to suggest that people who write original aren’t friendly and willing to help. I think all the writers on this site seem more than willing to do that. What I meant was that I think most people, especially for whatever reason, those on this site tend think that original fiction is somehow superior to all other genres and that specifically celeb fiction some how the is lowest in the order condescendi.

      I mean, if you just look reviews. A great many stories in the original section have a plethora of people reviewing and contributing to the discussion around them. Even stories with not very many dragon prints have reviews. Whereas if you go to the celeb section there are good stories with no reviews, and great stories with just a handful. My own story, Billion Dollar Harem up to until this month only had 2 reviews. And now, only has 3...

      To me, that illustrates not only the taboo around celeb fiction, but also to a certain degree the value placed on original fiction over celeb fiction. I personally don’t think any one genre is better or worse than any other, but its hard to deny things like reviews, or the fact that most everyone who posts comments on celeb fiction do so as guests so they can’t be as easily held accountable for what they say, or more specifically what they are talking about…

      I don’t know, this could just be something I’ve built up in my head, a bias based on having to carve out an active celebrity thread here on AFF basically by myself and with essentially no interaction with any other writers on this site. Perhaps I’ve done it to myself by sticking to my quiet little corner of the forum… but at the same time, I never really noticed writers of other genre’s walking into my thread to say hello…

      Maybe I’ll try to be more active, and see if that helps alleviate some of the bias and taboo around celeb fiction… or at least try to help people understand that its not so different than any other non-original fanfiction genre…

      who knows... 

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    Mal    KassX

    Yeah, I discovered this feature not that long ago, and had been eligible to change if for quite a while. All is right now though as I am properly titled: Captain Mal :) 

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      Mal

      I appreciate that you think I’m popular. I don’t know if its because my stories are well written, or just simply because they share in the popularity of the celebrities staring in them… I think probably its a bit of both, at least I like to hope so :D. Anyway, I guess the reason I think of celeb fanfiction as being the redheaded step child is because its notorious. Meaning its well known, and most people think there’s something not quite right about it… It kind of seems to me that the elitists write original fiction… on this site anyway, no offence. But there also seems to be a taboo around celeb fiction that doesn’t exist as much with basically any other genre just because it features real people. Although, I honestly feel once you’ve captured that ‘real’ person in a fiction, that version of them isn’t real… I don’t know if that makes sense...  Thanks KassX for thinking I’m nice though I don’ t know if it’s true. But I do appreciate the sentiment. 

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    Mal    KassX

    Yeah, I discovered this feature not that long ago, and had been eligible to change if for quite a while. All is right now though as I am properly titled: Captain Mal :) 

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      Mal

      I never noticed how many different and unique ranks people had. Most probably because I keep to myself a lot on the forum, since the sub-domain I write in is kinda the redheaded step child of the fanfiction world… At least it seems that way to me.

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    Mal    KassX

    Yeah, I discovered this feature not that long ago, and had been eligible to change if for quite a while. All is right now though as I am properly titled: Captain Mal :) 

    1. Mal

      Mal

      At least you knew about it, I didn’t even know it was possible. I thought you only gained new titles by making more posts :lol:

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  18. Okay, I have another question LOL  What are the Dragon Prints?

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      Mal

      I agree with KassX, sometimes it takes a while to build a following. But if you keep plugging away at it, people will take notice.

       

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  19. Okay, I have another question LOL  What are the Dragon Prints?

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      Mal

      I believe you can get 1 dragon print per chapter per user if I’m not mistaken.

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  20. I’m absolutely flabbergasted! Last Night I passed 75,000 dragon prints on my story Billion Dollar Harem! 

    1. Mal

      Mal

      Thanks for the kind words and the likes you guys. I really appreciate it. It took me 28 chapters to get this far, I just hope I can keep it going. 

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