More of the same...baby steps!

Not really anything new to report.  I HAVE been working on Lapdancing Chapter 05 Sunday and even a bit last night (Monday), so that's progress.  I am mainly working on the grammar of what I've written versus anything "new" to the chapter so far, but I know where I want to go with it, so once I reach the end of where I left off, I won't be stuck any longer.

It's amazing how much slips by on the first writing of a chapter even when you re-read it a second time.  I found one spot where I went from present to past tense, another spot where the point of view shifted from Jen to third person, and a few other stupid errors.

When I write a story/chapter, I first pretty much go "free style"--I have my playlist blasting out music, the tv's going, and I'm writing the scenes as I imagine them in my head.  I am a fast typist, so I fly through the story without correcting anything other than spelling errors as I try not to lose the momentum the story is building up.  Once I hit either the end or a stall on the plot or get too tired, I put it away.  The next time I open up the chapter, I re-read what I wrote and correct the grammar and such I missed while writing, then I continue.  Invariably I reach a point where the story sits for about a week and I reread the entire thing again for stupid errors like I found above--change of tense, change of perspective, as well as better writing of a scene.

Only then do I run it through for a check on common mistakes I know I make such as lack of punctuation after a person says something, too many exclamation points (I tend to use them A LOT in my first runs), as well as grammatical errors Word finds that I may have missed.

It is only then I submit the story to Literotica for publishing.  It's a process that has kept me going all these years, and although it may take a few months to finish a chapter, it is of the quality that I personally feel it is "complete."

So I am sort of in the middle of Lapdancing 05 in terms of writing the story which is about 45% complete, and correcting the second run of grammatical errors.  I'll hit the new part of the chapter this weekend and we'll see how much I can get written.  I have high hopes to get it completed "soon" as a few new scenes have been running through my head continuously, and that's a good indication I am forging ahead in my mind with the story.

The next story I plan to work on after I get Lapdancing 05 done is Skyrim 03.  That one needs both a re-read and inserting all the screenshots I took, so it will be another big project to get completed.  The sad thing is Literotica takes a good MONTH to release illustrated stories so even if I get it done this weekend it will not be public until April  :(  I guess it takes that long to verify all the illustrations are not only the correct size, but to position them and verify they are "legal" in terms of content.

Then the next target on my list is Annie 08!  This next chapter focuses on her house-sitting for Brian's parents, left alone with the two boys who have been blackmailing her into sex.  Nothing wrong with that scenario, eh?

So bottom line, I have been writing, albeit slowly.  I've also been working on my 3D Graphics skills and hope to introduce the girls of my stories soon!

And on the personal health front, I'm about 90-95% normal.  I still have a slight cough which sometimes sends me into a coughing fit, but overall feeling normal.  At least this lingering cough isn't interfering with work or writing stories...

A little bit of writing, a lot of graphics....

Good news is I actually fired up Lapdancing 05 today and worked on it for a few hours.  Bad news is I didn't get nearly as far with it as I would have liked, but I definitely know where I'm going with it now.  I was sort of at a standstill--not necessarily writer's block, but just in a slump of dreading to write that I've been procrastinating on and off about it.

I write for my own enjoyment.  If I can't get turned on about a story, it isn't worth writing, so when I write, it's more for myself than any deadline of getting the story posted.  When I feel pressured, I tend to drag my feet until I get the desire to write again.  That's sort of been what's happened before I got sick.  Getting sick was another problem, but now that I'm at about 85% health, I'm back in the mood to write.

And when I say pressured into writing, I'm not talking about you the readers asking for the next chapter.  There are times where I feel I have to get a story out more because it's been a while than actually wanting to write, and that rubs me the wrong way enough that I drag my feet.

So today I actually FELT like writing.  There's a nice twist in this chapter a few have even suggested here and there that I have had planned, so it should be a good plot-driven chapter--with plenty of sex, LOL.

I also worked on playing around with my 3D graphics program a bit more.  I've invested quite a bit of money on models, textures, poses, etc, so have been playing around with lighting and such to get the hang of things.  Tomorrow I want to work on my first image based upon my stories, but I also will do some more writing.

Don't have an ETA on anything, but at least I AM writing once again...and have a definite direction as to where the story is going.  If the amount of sex is any indication--Jen will have sex with 3 different guys (not at the same time) and be felt up by at least a dozen other guys--then it should be a decent chapter, LOL!  I also hope to get a draft run of an image of her in Chapter 01.  I found the perfect model for her, so may post a preview tomorrow...

Music

So was thinking about what to write about to keep people interested, and decided upon the music I select for my stories.

First, a quick update, I am starting to feel better each day.  Appreciate the comments wishing me well.  What started out as allergies turned into the flu, and now I've been having a lingering cough and congestion for about 4 days.  Still sucking down cough drops, and as long as I have one, I'm not coughing...but getting tired of Hall's and Ricola cough drops.  I may just switch to hard candies...I think it's more just having something that keeps me swallowing more than any medicated crap in them, hehehe.

Anyways, back to music...

As many have noticed, I pay particular attention to the music playing in the background, especially for Lapdancing Girlfriend.  I have quite a collection of songs in my repetoire, and always looking for new stuff that is both sexy and a character in my stories can dance to...whether it be rock, pop, hip-hop, rap, or even heavy metal or goth, I'm always looking for the right song.  I go through various sites monthly to see what new music is out there, as well as listening to various radio stations and XM Satellite radio and when I find a song that "rings" with me, I grab it for my collection.

Writing my stories, if there's a part where music is playing in the background, I start to go through my collection.  I keep a playlist of "sexy songs" and when I find one that again reverberates within me, I add it and play it while I'm writing.  I try to keep the songs limited by the character's actions, so if the song ends and she hasn't really done anything while I'm writing, I'll play it again until I'm done with that scene.  Then I start the song over again as I read the scene, imagining how she would act, to make sure the length is appropriate.  In that way, if you play the soundtrack while reading the story, things "click" and "make sense" to what she is doing, how she is moving.  I also add a few hints to where in the middle of the song I expect her to be so readers can pace themselves.

Here's an example from Lapdancing Girlfriend Chapter 01...and I've linked the song on YouTube so you can play it while you read the insert!

Rob Zombie’s ‘Pussy Liquor’ came on as she got up, strutting her hips while her arm still covered her breasts.  She began swaying her hips seductively before the crowd, moving rhythmically to the beginnings of the song.  Her arms would alternate back and forth, still hiding her breasts as the crowd started cheering “Show us more!” 

Finally Jen, or Diamond as her stage persona, slowly smiled and seductively raised both her arms over her head, exposing her breasts fully to the crowd while her hips swaying as Rob Zombie’s voice came over the speakers, “Get fucked up and fuck up with you!”

Jen moved her hands across her stomach, moving them up to cup her breasts as she swayed, bouncing one after the other, alternating them to the beat of the song. Strutting to the crowd, she pulled one guy into her chest as others reached out to insert dollars into her thong. Jen looked over at Dan and then turned around, bending down, her crotch only inches from the face of one guy, who grinned like a kid in the candy store as he took the dollar bill in his hand and pulled the crotch of Jen’s thong out, blatantly shoving the money between it and her pussy.

Even from his angle Dan could tell Jen was turned on, as the guy held up his finger to his and his buddies’ noses. Dan could see it glistening, a testament to how wet she was. Typically the more Jen worked the crowd, the more turned on she got, another thing Dan hated when she danced, but he was too engrossed in her display on the stage to give it much thought.

Jen turned back to the pole, spinning on it to the music in nothing but her thigh-high red boots and white laced thong, swaying to the beat, occasionally running her body over herself as she danced for the crowd’s delight. She continued to work the pole, undulating her body up and down the metal rod, mimicking humping it. Moving away, Jen slowly lowered herself towards the crowd until she was on her knees, thrusting her crotch forward and back, humping the stage in beat to the music while she pulled the sides of her thong up her hips with her hands. Dan knew from the cheers of the guys in front of her they were getting a glimpse of her pussy lips surrounding the crotch of her thong as she tightened the material into her crotch.

Typically the girls did three songs to a set; however, Jen stayed where she was as a fourth song came on and Dan groaned,recognizing Theory of a Deadman’s ‘Bad Girlfriend’ starting to play.

Now that's only a few paragraphs, way too much for a 4:46 song, but if you play the music, you start to get a feel of the pace of the Jen's dancing compared to the song.  The first two paragraphs she is swaying and teasing the crowd, purposely to make Dan pay for their argument earlier in the morning.  I specifically leave the chorus "Get fucked up and fuck up with you!" so people who are listening to the song know to wait before reading further.  That sets the pace for the rest of the paragraphs, so hopefully you, the reader, read the story slower, imagining Jen dancing to the crowd to the beat of the music.

To me, it adds a bit more "realism" to the story, and something the reader can enjoy both visually through reading, and aurally through listening to the songs...as well as mentally when you put the two together.

Some people care, some people thing it may be too frivolous to write about, but to me, it adds to the story and makes it much more "believable" to me and hopefully you, the reader!

A picture's worth a thousand words...

So I've made mention a few times of other things I have been working on besides writing stories.  One of those has been slowly introducing myself into 3D Graphics.  For the time being I've been playing around with DAZ Studio, but eventually I will probably invest in Poser as that seems to be one of the standards a lot of graphic packages are based upon.

What I am interested in doing is putting some of my stories to images.  Not necessarily an ENTIRE story, but key scenes to depict how I, the writer, envision the scenes to take place.  I've been illustrating my Skyrim stories, but those are actual screenshots from the game I am playing (heavily modded of course to show off Cerise and her girls' assets, hehehe).  What I was thinking about were pivotal scenes in each chapter which would show off well with images.  For example, various scenes I have been thinking about:

• Lapdancing Girlfriend Chapter 01
• The scene in the club where Jen is sitting on Chuck's lap and he is chatting with Dan while showing her off to the guys in the crowd
• The scene where she is in the midst of the crowd being felt up
• The scene where Chuck is fucking Jen in the VIP room
• Lapdancing Girlfriend Chapter 02
• The scene of her dancing on the bar for the construction workes
• The scene of her being felt up by the foreman in front of his men in the VIP room
• The final scene of her dancing nude on stage
• Annie 01/02
• Annie being seduced/blackmailed by the boys as she is babysitting them
• Annie 03
• Annie in the mall shopping in her provocative clothes
• Annie in the bathroom sucking off her fiance's friends
• Annie gangbanged in the furniture store

As you can see, I figure about three images per chapter would cover the main scenes.  To give an example of what I've been working on, here's one of my first images I have put together playing around with scenes, lighting, and color saturation:
 

Vanquished

Here's the colorized version as well, to show you what I was originally working with:

Clicking on the images will give you the full sized images from my Google+ profile...

Other stuff I'm working on...

Besides all my up-and-coming additional chapters to existing stories (Annie 08, Lapdancing 05, Skyrim 03, Dreams 03, Grim Fairy Tales 03, Director Jekyll 02) I have several other stories that have yet to see the light of being posted.

Galactic Spy

This is a sci-fi story I've been working on for years.  It is set only a few years ahead where a girl has to drop out of college due to the death of her grandmother/guardian.  Looking for a job, she finds a vague job description in the paper and goes for an interview.  She discovers she has all the makings to become a Galactic Spy!

Think Star Trek, where Earth or any planet has to reach a certain technological level to become a member of the Federation.  Such is the case; however, because Earth is preyed upon for its resources--primarily women for the slave trade--a certain population of earthlings are brought into the fold to become spies and work for the galactic police force.

After several genetic enhancements and alien technology, our heroine goes off to rid the world of evil.  Apparently all aliens find human females attractive, so they are a hot commodity in the space slave market, so our heroine goes undercover to try and stop it!

Lifeguard Gets Wet

This is another story I started due to a forum post on the Literotica forums.  It is about a rich girl who is forced to get a job by her parents to prove she is responsible and not always sucking on the proverbial teat of her parents' wealth.  As such, she gets a job as a lifeguard in the inner city of Atlanta.

Unfortunately, the swim club and lifeguard group has always been male, so the introduction of a girl causes some resentful feelings, so the guys decide to haze her into leaving.  The girl is not daunted, and succumbs to their male domination pranks.

Halloween

Not the working title, this is a submission I've been wanting to do for the annual Halloween story submission contest.  I finally finished it 2012, but it was too late to submit, so it will be put in later this year.

The story is of a lovely married couple having a Halloween party.  They are visited by the wife's sister who is a Hollywood make-up artist and dresses them all up as Tolkien (Lord of the Rings) characters, the women beautiful elven maidens and the husband an evil Uruk-hai orc.

A bit of magic is involved, and soon the three find they are not wearing costumes any longer, but actually the characters they dressed up as!

College Days

This is a story I started writing almost ten years ago.  It is about a college girl who at first is shy and introverted, but then through hypnotherapy becomes a wild slut.  The main story centers around her boyfriend who is part of a fraternity that has a sex contest for determining who gets the best rooms at the fraternity.  The girl joins into the fun to get her boyfriend the best room!

Several parts of this story I've pulled out and put in Annie's story.  In fact, this may be a continuation of Annie's story...or it may be another story line later.  I haven't really decided.  It's one of those that I pull out time-to-time to look at, rewrite, and then put away again.

CCA 069

There is a story on Literotica I really liked, but wanted to rewrite, much the same way I rewrote the original Annie series.  The story is Clandestine Corporate Associate 069 Ch. 01 written by xxxgretchen.  I have tried to contact them to see if they would mind me rewriting and moving on with the story to no avail.  It seems they wrote the story and then quit.  Although it is frowned upon to rewrite somebody's work without their permission, I may eventually rewrite and submit the story as I feel it should be continued!

The story is of a bored trophy wife who gets hired by a company to infiltrate another company for their industrial secrets.  To do this, she must seduce the high-level corporate types of the other company to glean what is going on.  We find she will do whatever it takes to get the job done!

Miscellaneous

I'm always perusing the "Story Ideas" forums on Literotica for something new.  I have many posts "bookmarked" so I can eventually write a story about them, so my plate is definitely not empty.  I just want to get existing stories out before starting something new, although sometimes my Muse moves me in ways I cannot control!

Grim Fairy Tales

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