Happy New Year to the writers :)

[PrevertOne]

It has been an interesting year for me. It started out somewhere between poor and okay and ended between good and very good. High/low light of the year story wise was Revenge of The White Rose; most read, most responses, most praise, most insults. Real highlight personal wise was moving into a new apartment. It's larger, better (in both style and location) and, most importantly, cheaper. I'm still pinching myself with this luck. I like to think most of my writer's block came from too much worry over rent. The new apartment relieves those worries considerably. I can hope this alleviation can unblock some ideas. My new year's resolutions, writer wise, are to give more feedback to others (I'm always asking for feedback, I should reciprocate more), and to finally take care of long-standing stories left dangling for years. I salute the writers on this site who create so many eclectic stories, the editors who help shape them, the (legitimate) critics who keep them honest, and wish them all a Happy New Year

 

[Kantarii]

I started 2018 off under the gun working on a bonus chapter for “A Slut’s Triangle”, a series I wasn’t willing to let go of. It took a solid month to write. Then, I delved into my diary and decided to write “Best Friends Forever” - which is kind of a prequel in a sense. I must say it turned out better than the Star Wars prequels in my eyes. I’m overly happy with it as a series since it showcases a better writing style for me.

Towards the end of the year of 2018, two things happened for me. One, I went back and started updating some of my older stories to my new writing style and will submit the updates throughout this year. Second, I had an idea for a purely Non Erotic storyline with a transgender twist, “The Mantis” that hit me like a ton of bricks - so much so that it interfered with working on “Best Friends Forever”.

2019 looks promising. I want to finish “BFF” at some point and devote myself to “The Mantis. Lit may not be the right place to post Non erotic stories, but the story has so much potential that at some point it can take on smaller elements of erotica if I choose.

Happy New Year and best of luck on all your writing projectsKant

 

[MelissaBaby]

I spent all of 2018 with my Lit loves, Mary and Alvin, and in real life, married my true love, Dwight.

Good year.

 

[Hypoxia]

2017-2018... started off okay medically and emotionally although dry writing-wise. Things (me) started falling apart Memorial Day 2017. The rest until now, yes all of 2018, has seen many medical procedures and I'm somewhat repaired. I had a good couple months for writing. But I'm sure glad the last 1.5 years are over. 2018 was a write-off.

</whine>

Gotta do something in 2019. Gotta.

 

[KeithD]

Happy New Year to all.

I started the new year with a change in main account because, when the older account reached 1,000 stories, the author page became unwieldy to manage and check. The new account is cooking along fine on an intended cutdown in periodicity of submissions (about two a month now rather than one a week) and the old account has held its own across the year on the hub "most popular" listing. I'm still staying ahead in available backlog for posting.

In the marketplace, I had fewer than half the works of recent years published. That was due to other demands on the publisher than my creation of manuscripts, though, so I have quite a backlog there. I'm pushing 200 published marketplace titles across pen names now, though, and a slowdown is fine. Both my publisher and I expected the market to close down before now and that we'd be coasting along on royalties on the back list. Production continues, though. I expect habu's "To the Lighthouse" anthology to publish in the next couple of weeks to be followed up by the 15th edition of the "Grab Bag" anthology series (I'm writing stories to "Grab Bag 18" now, which indicates how deep my backlog with the publisher is now.) I'm also working on the last story of a Christmas anthology for next year's holiday season, most of which will consist of the stories I put in Lit.'s Winter Holidays contest this year, all of which did very well here.