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I just saw a quote from fantasy writer Scott Lynch that made me think of “The Man in the Tree”: “Elegant worldbuilding is the act of using little things to invite big inferences. When you tell us that a woman in a fictional world has bought an apple from a vendor, you have also told us (if we care to make the inferences) about farmer, orchard, tree, and seed.”

A forensic psychologist once told me about a psychopath (back when psychologists still used that term) he interviewed who was imprisoned for life after having been a hit man for the mob. The prisoner had no remorse about any of the murders he had committed, but he also argued that everyone he killed was someone the world was better off without (because they were all criminals from rival organizations). So even a person with no conscience may feel the need to justify their actions.

Not at all. I'm happy to get any length of review from you, at any time. Oh, no, I've accidentally written a "journey of self-discovery" story, just like I inadvertently wrote a "coming of age" story with "Quiet." I might as well just move to Europe and make indie movies. Once you read chapter 10, I'll be interested to find out what twist you might have been expecting. Thank you, and you too!

Re: “Mia: Confessions of a Dickgirl” Ah, you’re quite right. I hate having factual errors in my fics (inadvertent ones, anyway), so I went back and fixed this. Thanks. Thank you.

Re: “Mia: Confessions of a Dickgirl” Thank you, for that and for the beta! *blushes* These sex scenes were really fun to write, particularly the whole strategy of Mia seducing Lorraine without revealing what she's really got going on down there. So glad you enjoyed that. Thank you!

My stress-writing continues to be productive. Last night, I posted chapter 1 of “Mia: Confessions of a Dickgirl” (beta-read by JayDee, who has my gratitude), and just now, I posted chapter 7 of “Country Summer.” I also expect to have chapter 4 of “Auntie's Home” ready for beta in the next day or two. I realized today that I now have nine incomplete multi-chapter stories in progress (not including the ones that don't have any posted chapters yet, most notably “Wishful,” which I'll be starting on soon). So I made a list of them and the date on which each story last had a new chapter posted. 4/18 Auntie’s Home 5/10 The Miss Cutie Patootie Pageant 5/17 Make It All Better 6/10 The More, the Merrier 6/16 Little Rose 6/18 Delta Delta Delta 7/02 Multiversity 7/11 Mia: Confessions of a Dickgirl 7/12 Country Summer So I'm going to be working on new chapters in roughly that order. (I say “roughly” because I'm always subject to the whims of inspiration or lack thereof.) I'll be adding “Wishful” to the rotation at some point, but I won't start posting any other new multi-chapter stories until at least a few of the ones on the list above are complete. Also: With the one-shot “Imaginary Tokyo” now completed, a new one-shot story has leaped out of the “ideas” file and onto the List of Twenty. Its working title is “Tension,” and it's about a single mom who gets sick and tired of her teenage son and daughter’s constant bickering. The mom realizes that her kids’ feud is the result of unresolved sexual tension between them, so she makes them *cough* resolve it. Finally: Indeed, SWP1, Gretchen will not be the only female who gets DPed in TMTM. There’s a reason why I added two more male characters to the ensemble.

Whereas some people stress-eat, I stress-write. Between dealing with my parents’ deaths and some nasty stuff at work, the first thing I want to do when I get home is throw myself into my imaginary worlds. As a result, I’m finishing things left and right. I’ve just posted “Imaginary Tokyo” (in which a man describes his travels in a land where anime tropes come to life), and tomorrow I expect to post the first chapter of “Mia: Confessions of a Dickgirl.” And I think the next chapter of “Country Summer” will be ready very soon after that.

Thanks so much, SWP1. Hope you’re having a good day, too. News: Both “Imaginary Tokyo” and chapter 1 of the story tentatively titled “Mia: Confessions of a Dickgirl” are now in beta. “Imaginary Tokyo” is mainly satirical comedy about anime, whereas “Mia” is porn with doses of character development.

The ratio of dragon prints to reviews varies massively by author. At one extreme is BronxWench; for most of her stories, the number of dragon prints is in the hundreds or the low thousands, yet virtually all of them have multiple reviews. Just eyeballing it, I would guess that her average ratio of reviews to prints could be as high as 1 to 100. I’m at the other extreme. Most of my stories have print counts in the thousands or tens of thousands. But the absolute number of reviews is relatively low. Again just eyeballing it, I’d say that my average ratio of reviews is probably lower than 1 to 1000. I would also add that for those stories that I post on other sites as well as AFF, they tend get more reviews on sites with smaller readerships. So I have come to conclude that there is actually an inverse correlation between readership size and reviews. My theory is that when readers feel that they are just one of a great many, they are less inclined to leave a review because (1) they don’t feel that it will have much impact on the author and (2) they figure there are plenty of other readers who can leave reviews, so why should they bother? In contrast, readers who feel that they are part of a smaller readership may feel more of a connection with the author, or at least that they are not shouting into the void when they leave a review.

As with most of the stories on the List of Twenty right now, progress on the next chapters of TMTM and “Little Rose” is slow but steady. Here’s what currently appears to be closest to being finished: --Chapter 7 of “Country Summer” --Chapter 3 of “Auntie’s Home” --”Imaginary Tokyo” --Chapter 1 of an as-yet untitled dickgirl story

I’m glad. Writing an alternate ending was an interesting experience for me.

I think you’ve just helped me realize why I have absolutely no fics outside of the Cartoon and Originals domains. Writing porn/erotica (which is mostly what I write) about real people is uncomfortable for me, and so is writing about characters played by real people.

The alternate ending of “Splinter” is posted! I think readers who were hoping for something darker are going to like it. I certainly enjoyed writing it. Of course, as one story drops off the List of Twenty, a new one leaps on to take its place: “Wishful.” My friend Jomahawk, who has beta-read for me for years and has asked for very little in return, offered to commission me to write it, but because I don’t do commissions, I’m doing it as a thank-you.

Nope, no minors in this story. This dickgirl likes ‘em fertile.

Well, it took me 6 months to get past my mental logjam regarding “Multiversity,” but chapter 9 is finally posted! Thankfully, I think I’ve now got a pretty good handle on how the rest of the story is going to go, so I won’t need another half-year to get out the next chapter.

Oh, you know there is. Dipper ain’t done with her yet.

Re: “Pony Dearest” From JayDee on July 02, 2018 This was actually my first-ever futa story. Not the last, though; I've got another, multi-chapter story in the works about a (human) futa whose sex drive is such that she has had to build her life around finding women to fuck every day. *blushes* I don't really know anything about MLP except for what I see in porn drawings on Inkbunny. I believe it was one such drawing that inspired this story. Yes, wire hangers are about the last thing Mother wants Raema to have. I like the whole concept of cocksucking-as-nursing, so I had to work some "cockfeeding" in there as a follow-up to the regular breastfeeding. Thanks! I figured these details would really drive home the point that although Raema has a small amount of control over her situation, it's nowhere near enough for her to escape being her mother's perpetual breeding slave. It's the next big thing. I read that in Forbes. Yeah, the furry thing kind of takes the edge off. But it also creates endless biological possibilities. Thanks for the review!

SWP1, thanks for the nice comments about “Dil-Drones.” I don’t have plans to add anything else to the story at this time. Oscar and Adele were my favorite characters, as they were really the only ones that I spent any time fleshing out (other than DelNet, although “fleshing” doesn’t seem quite appropriate for an AI ). So I’m glad you liked them.

Re: “Curfew” I think this is one of those stories you mentioned that attracts readers, but not ones who necessarily want to identify themselves. I once read a story in which a woman had some kind of pear-shaped leather thing forced into her mouth that she couldn't get out without help, and that made me think of it. Thank you! And I really appreciate your taking the time to read and review this story and knock it off the "zero reviews" list.

I think you’re right about this one having had reviews, because I vaguely remember reviewing it. I might have made some comparison between your version of Valerie and Foxy Brown. It’s actually a really fun little show, about a brother-sister team of professional adventurers. (One of its working titles was Dungeons and Dayjobs). It started life as an internet cartoon; you can find a bunch of the shorts on YouTube. Yeah, the distribution of effort was about the same in my case. Clearly, I need to spend some time on Reddit. I had to visit Wikipedia to figure out what that was about. And it’s not grammar Nazis; it’s actual Nazis. (88 is apparently used by some neo-Nazis as a code for “Heil Hitler,” because H is the 8th letter of the alphabet.) And JayDee, thanks so much for reviewing “Curfew”!

Like JayDee, I have an awful lot of stories posted, so I’m just going to list the ones that have received no reviews. Fanfics: Cartoons > Phineas and Ferb > The More, the Merrier - Dragon Prints : 1800 I’ve only posted 1 chapter of this so far, and said chapter is pretty much all setup, so I’m not completely surprised that there are no reviews yet. Cartoons > Mighty Magiswords > The Princess Hire-ees - Dragon Prints : 683 I’m guessing that Mighty Magiswords doesn’t have anywhere near as large a fan base as the other fandoms in which I write. Cartoons > ThunderCats > Brides of Evil - Dragon Prints : 8317 I’ll be honest: This fic just isn’t very good. I co-wrote it with somebody on Inkbunny; our collaboration wasn’t a great experience for me and did not result in a great fic. Originals: Erotica > Het - Male/Female > Little Rose - Dragon Prints : 2750 This story is only 1 chapter in, so I’m not too surprised by the lack of reviews thus far. Erotica > Het - Male/Female > Curfew - Dragon Prints : 7106 Now this one’s lack of reviews surprises me. This story, about a young woman who is raped by a pack of specially trained dogs, was partly inspired by the popularity of one of my earlier stories, “Caitlyn’s Punishment,” which was about a woman whose sadistic husband forces her to have sex with a series of animals. (That story has 13 reviews, which is by far the most that any of my original stories have garnered.) Maybe the appeal of that “Caitlyn’s Punishment” had more to do with the sadistic husband than the animals, I don’t know. Erotica > General > Pony Dearest - Dragon Prints : 6120 I'm not totally surprised about this one. My furry stories don't tend to be big hits on AFF (unlike Inkbunny, which is exclusively for the furry crowd). What is more, although this is a story about anthropomorphic ponies, it's not an MLP story, so it may not appeal to a wide audience. Original - Misc > General > A Perfect Mismatch - Dragon Prints : 2661 Well, it turns out y’all did me a favor by inspiring me to make this list, because in doing so, I realize that I put this story in the wrong place: “Original – Misc” instead of “Erotica.” I have just moved it. In any case, this story is part of an anthology series titled "Tales from the Glory Wormhole." Although authors can post their stories anywhere, the “hub” for the story is located on Hentai Foundry, where people can read the intro to each story and then click a link to go to the story itself. So reviews get posted on HF and not AFF. Erotica > Het - Male/Female > Dear Hazel - Dragon Prints : 3750 This story takes the form of a letter written by a man to the woman he desires. For that reason, nothing actually happens in this story, and maybe that’s why it hasn’t attracted any reviews. Erotica > Het - Male/Female > The Small Hours - Dragon Prints : 13625 Underage furry incest PWP clearly draws readers, but maybe not the reviewin’ kind. Also, it’s a very short story, so maybe people don’t feel like the time they spent reading it justifies writing a review. Poetry > Free Verse > Twins: An Incest Poem - Dragon Prints : 4941 If anything is less likely to attract reviews than underage furry incest PWP, it’s probably underage incest free-verse poetry. Erotica > FemSlash - Female/Female > The Single Mothers' Support Group - Dragon Prints : 24128 Erotica > Het - Male/Female > Keene's Really Good Week - Dragon Prints : 24042 Erotica > General > The Playground - Dragon Prints : 12998 All three of the above stories are furry stories, so there we are. Erotica > Threesomes/Moresomes > Satisfaction - Dragon Prints : 24595 I’ll confess that I’m disappointed by this one’s lack of reviews. I think it’s some of my best work in the feel-good incest genre. Erotica > Het - Male/Female > A Day at the Beach - Dragon Prints : 59977 More underage incest getting plenty of hits but no reviews. Erotica > Het - Male/Female > Everything She Needs - Dragon Prints : 20904 This one I understand, because it’s a sequel (to a story titled "Wild Side"), and sequels are never as popular as the original. (The exception is when the sequel has the word “Daddy” in the title and the original does not.)

I had a dental appointment yesterday morning, and honestly, there’s nothing like having to sit still and not speak to get you doing serious mental work on stories. I figured out a bunch of stuff about the next chapters of “Multiversity,” and as a result, I made a lot of progress on chapter 9 yesterday and today. I might have it drafted and out for beta this weekend. In other news: The Loud House fans who like the idea of some Lincoln/Lucy romance (6 years in the future, when Lincoln is 17 and Lucy is 14) should check out “My Angel, My Demon” by Trillhouse. It’s very well written, especially Lucy’s poems. And the sex.

Earlier this week, I made some decent progress on a couple of stories, mainly the next chapters of “Country Summer” and “The Miss Cutie Patootie Pageant,” and a one-shot, “Imaginary Tokyo,” which is a diary-format story about a guy who visits an imaginary version of Tokyo where all of the tropes from anime are real. After that, I started having decision paralysis about which story to work on, so I decided to do a cycle through all 20 of my stories and make a little progress on each. Some notes from that: --One particularly good result of that was that I figured out how “Little Rose” is going to end. Yeah, I know I should really work these things out before I start posting chapters, but “Little Rose” wasn’t meant to have too much of a plot arc, so I don’t think it’s a big deal in this case. (I still have no idea how “Country Summer” is going to end, or how many more chapters there will be before it does. That one was really meant to be an open-ended story.) --I don’t know how soon the next chapter of “The More, the Merrier” will be ready, but boy, when it is, it’s going to be intense. Because the majority of the characters have been attending “yoga club” for a little while now, they don’t pussyfoot around anymore once they’ve breathed in enough of that incense; they just get right after it. Especially Adyson and Gretchen. --One project I’ve had in the works for a while now is a series of short stories collectively titled The Power Arcane: An Erotic Anthology. What I’d really like it to be is a series of self-contained stories that tell a larger story, like World War Z (the book, not the movie). So although I’ve got some text written—in fact, the first story is nearly complete—I some serious plotting to do before I’ll be ready to start posting.