Trying to read the signs in the goat's entrails

[sirhugs]

[this is a duplicate of my post in the AH. not something that I would usually do or encourage, but to me, this is an important question, so I wanted maximum coverage, and aspects of the post seem to fit either forum]

Assume for the moment that I have six stories left in me.*
My puzzle is whether to keep on churning out further chapters of the existing, and mostly the recent, story lines for sequels or additional chapters, or to I do the hard work of creating a new world full of new characters?

* this entire year, I've felt like I'm living on borrowed time. That is part of the reason what I have been so productive. Round numbers appeal to me and I was going to stop at 200 submissions (my next submission now) or 200 stories (I posed a few poems). It's about six weeks before I get an update on the prognosis, and though I feel my energy level declining, I have no way of knowing how long, or how briefly, I will have the stamina to write. And if I end up in hospital, their net nanny will block me from Lit. been there. tried that. So every decision I make seems like an important one, even though Lit should just be about fun.

*the second: if I suddenly vanish for a while, you can assume that I am in hospital. But no one in my support network knows I am on Lit, so if/when I die, you may never know. That wears on my mind.

 

[Rob_Royale]

Wishing you the best possible outcome.

 

[sirhugs]

Wishing you the best possible outcome.

Thank you
and what advice do you have about what I should be writing next? I have the one draft in progress, but after that, am afraid that I will go dry again, though I could try one of the suggested further sequels to either Violet or the Cassie stories, both of which suggestions have failed to arouse my muse thus far.

 

[Rob_Royale]

Thank you
and what advice do you have about what I should be writing next?

If you have a 200 submission plan, or fear this may be your last, then you should be writing the story that scares you. And I don't mean a Halloween story. I mean that story idea that has ben sitting in your noggin for years but it's so elaborate, so big you keep procrastinating on it, perhaps afraid you won't do it justice. God knows I have those thoughts.

Make it a stand-alone so that it stands out a the top of your list.

 

[SteelPoint]

All the best.

Write whatever you're comfortable with psychologically.

 

[sirhugs]

I'm thinking that I have enough to try writing a story based on the discussion in The Black Cloud once i finish the current WIP. We'll see how it works out. I hope that the young shrink is not on Lit, and if she is, that she does not recognize herself.

 

[sirhugs]

Still open to other suggestions, as if I go for 200 stories, I need about 7 or 8 more beyond what I have in the pipeline.

__________________

 

[KindredFlame]

Love you

 

[KindredFlame]

Sophia gave a quick, perfunctory knock before immediately using her pass key to override the lock and step into the room, causing Sir Hugs to inwardly bristle at this unwelcome invasion of his privacy. Standing around five feet ten inches, or perhaps a touch less, Sophia moved with an effortless confidence; her long, dark hair, usually constrained in a sexy, thick braid tracing the length of her back, swung slightly as she entered. Her excellent figure was immediately apparent, defined today by a vintage, throwback Black Sabbath T-shirt beneath which her gravity-defying breasts strained the material, the outline of her nipples often pressing sharply against the thin cotton fabric, while a pair of cropped jeans clung perfectly to the rounded curve of her arse.

 

[sirhugs]

Sophia gave a quick, perfunctory knock before immediately using her pass key to override the lock and step into the room, causing Sir Hugs to inwardly bristle at this unwelcome invasion of his privacy. Standing around five feet ten inches, or perhaps a touch less, Sophia moved with an effortless confidence; her long, dark hair, usually constrained in a sexy, thick braid tracing the length of her back, swung slightly as she entered. Her excellent figure was immediately apparent, defined today by a vintage, throwback Black Sabbath T-shirt beneath which her gravity-defying breasts strained the material, the outline of her nipples often pressing sharply against the thin cotton fabric, while a pair of cropped jeans clung perfectly to the rounded curve of her arse.

not exactly how I picture it, but I'm gonna tuck this away to plagiarize if I find a spot where it fits.
I also think that "Sophia" might work as the shrink's name. I'll plug it in and see if it plays.

 

[KindredFlame]

It is not plagiarism if I have given you this to use as you wish oh master

 

[sirhugs]

It is not plagiarism if I have given you this to use as you wish oh master

I was of course being just a tad sarcastic when i said that. But I really have saved it to see where some of it might fit. And letting the name percolate in the back of my brain until i return to that tale. Having a name makes it more real, so more likely to be written to completion, in spite about my ambivalence about what seems like a betrayal of the real life relationship behind it.

 

[KindredFlame]

Anything I post you my lord becomes your property except if it’s a story.

 

[sirhugs]

Anything I post you my lord becomes your property except if it’s a story.

and then I only own your soul?

 

[sirhugs]

I took my meds this morning. I have been forgetting most of the past week. Rationalizing that as long as I had a decent level in my bloodstream, all would be well. Maybe not, so I went for the top up.

Still not sure if I will work this into the shrink story.
not sure whether I will continue with the shrink story, but she now has a tentative name, which is usually a sign I'm going to continue.
Check back in a couple of days, by which time I hope to have finished the secretary's daughter story, and will nee to be serious about what comes next.

 

[KindredFlame]

and then I only own your soul?

And my body master.

 

[sirhugs]

Okay. That is way too much. you have until i get home from church (about 4 hours) to do something about it (move it, edit it, save it...) before I get out my axe.

 

[sirhugs]

I have submitted the stepdaughter story (ch 5). Once approved, it will be my 200th submission (192nd story). That was previously my target for retiring from submitting. Since I have a few works in progress, I guess my current plan is to get to 200 stories and see how I feel. If I can get there. Death remains on my mind a lot.

Now to see how long it takes to get processed and approved. I am a bit anxious about hoping that happens quickly, not just because of my anxiety disorder but because the next chapter of Violet Loves Her Tentacle Monster is ready to go but I want to submit them one at a time.

 

[KindredFlame]

Posted in a thread not a conversation. Delt with.

 

[ChuckWolf]

Wishing you the best possible outcome.

Same here.

I would say focus on whichever project excites you the most creatively.

 

[sirhugs]

Same here.

I would say focus on whichever project excites you the most creatively.

unfortunately my flavour of depression makes it hard to get excited.

 

[Rob_Royale]

unfortunately my flavour of depression makes it hard to get excited.

My wife encountered that with most depmeds. The put her in the middle, 95% of the time. No depression but no excitement either.

 

[sirhugs]

My wife encountered that with most depmeds. The put her in the middle, 95% of the time. No depression but no excitement either.

I don't end up in the middle most of the time. The Black Cloud does a great job of hiding just outside my peripheral vision then sneaking into my brain when no body is looking.
Its almost like the "flat" days are good days. Which I know they aren't
but enough about me, lets talk Story Ideas.

I have the secretary story "almost" done, and a couple of fragments of the shrink story, that I still need help on, but that one has its own thread (The Black Cloud).

The question this morning is do I just keep my mind a blank slate as to "next", or do I at least tentatively assume that I will do another sequel to either Violet's tentacle story (of which the next chapter is written but not yet submitted) or the stepdaughter series, or reach further back to revisit Cassie's world (got one suggestion there that did not resonate for me, but might go back and relook, see if there is a nugget to build from)????

Thinking I might need more experience with actual tentacle sex before I write more about it
Not about to experience stepdaughter sex, so that just remains a fantasy and an obsession.
It's so long since I've actually had sex that "write what you know" just doesn't apply here.