Even weeks I've done nothing, that isn't necessarily true...

I've received a few e-mails that lends me to believe my last few posts were somewhat misunderstood.

When I say I worked a little on a story, what that typically means is I've invested anywhere from 1-2 hours a day on it.  This is usually during the week when I am at work, where I will do some editing to the printed hard copy of my stories fixing grammar, spelling, and overall continuity of the story.

For example, to take a paragraph from Extenuating Circumstances 0101 (Ch. 01, Part 01).  Here was the original paragraph:

Part of her anxiety was not being comfortable flaunting her body so openly.  Normally her attire was conservative, and when she was more 'properly' dressed she did not mind the glances of other men--even a a married woman enjoyed knowing she was attractive.  But dressed in such a revealing outfit definitely changed the rules of the game, so-to-speak.  Under other circumstances she would have worn a high-necked dress extending at least down to her knees, and although many of her outfits were tight-fitting and showed off her body, even the sexiest outfits she had worn exposed less than a quarter of her body, whilst her current dress exposed well over half of her tanned flesh, making her feel practically naked before every pair of male eyes in the room.

Reading through the hard copy, I made the following edits:

Part of her anxiety was not being uncomfortable flaunting her body so openly.  Normally her attire was she dressed conservatively, and when she was more 'properly' dressed she so did not mind the glances of other men--even a a married woman enjoyed knowing she was attractive.  But dressed in such a revealing outfit definitely changed the rules of the game, so-to-speak.  Under other circumstances Whereas ordinarily she would have worn a high-necked dress extending at least down to her knees, and although many of her outfits were tight-fitting and showed off her body, even the sexiest outfits she had worn exposed less than a quarter of her body, whilst her current dress exposed well over half of her tanned flesh, making her feel practically naked before every pair of male eyes in the room.

Even then, when I transcribe it to the digital working copy, I make changes.  Here is what I consider the "final" edit, prior to some of you getting a chance to review/edit it:

Her anxiety arose from being uncomfortable flaunting her body so openly.  Normally she dressed much more conservatively, so did not mind the glances of other men—even a married woman enjoyed knowing she was attractive.  But being dressed in such a revealing outfit changed the rules of the game, so-to-speak.  Whereas ordinarily she would have worn a high-necked dress extending at least down to her knees, her current dress exposed well over half of her tanned flesh, making her feel practically naked in the room.

On average I will work on a story for 1-6 hours A WEEK at work.  It's difficult sitting at a desk working on an erotic story and people walking around.  For one thing, I don't want them to see what I'm writing, and for another thing, I don't want to be sitting there with a hard-on, LOL. But rest assured, when I say I worked on something "a little" I am putting several hours investment on a story.

In the evenings, time permitting, I typically do the transcribing like above, where I'll take the hard copy and put the changes into the digital format.  So again, it is not like I'm not doing anything, I try to keep up with things as much as possible.  I have about 10 pages of Extenuating Circumstances to transcribe and unfortunately, about 100 pages of Lapdancing Girlfriend to transcribe...wish I had a secretary, LOL.  But of all the time I am writing, this part is the most "work" in terms of being less of a hobby and more of a job...but it's an evil necessity.

Weekends is when I typically write new stuff.  Many people have suggested "why don't you set aside an hour or two specifically for writing."  While that's all fine and dandy for edits like I mentioned above, when I write "new stuff" and my "Muse" hits me, I write for 10, 12, even up to 20 hours straight!  At that point I am "in the zone" and writing madly.  Typically those moods hit me in the morning and unless something happens to break it up, I'll continue writing.

I cannot sit down for an hour or so and write anything new, as my thoughts get way too ahead of myself and if I did that, scenes would be disjointed and nothing would flow together for the story.  That's why I need a full day free...I just cannot write for short spurts at a time.  If I DO have small periods of time, it's spent transcribing like mentioned above.

Basically the whole point is even when I haven't done much, I'm doing SOMETHING.  And all of that is progress.  I may have not posted a story for a year at this point, but it's not for lack of not writing.  Yes real life has interfered at time with unemployment, illness, and visiting family, but if you look at week to week, there are very few weeks where I have done NOTHING related to writing.

I am trying, but sometimes the Fates and stars don't coincide...but believe me, I want to get stories out as much as you, but I want them to be from ME and not just something mass produced and riddled with errors and imperfections where I feel I've posted shoddy work.

So yeah, it takes a while to get a story out, but when it is, you have my promise I have put as much time into it as possible to make it something I'm proud to reveal to the world and more than just something to get off on.

Just wanted to post that, as some of my emails lend me to believe people don't think I've done anything for weeks on end in terms of writing.  I may not post how much I've done or even at times whether I've done something, as the transcribing part to me isn't noteworthy, but rest assured I rarely let a week go by where I've done nothing!