Conclusions

 I'm working on the final part of Bride Rights, and it's driving me up a wall. I keep rewriting and deleting and getting nowhere. 

I know what I want to write, but with this being the conclusion I'm just so nervous about getting it wrong and botching the story. There's a lot of flashbacks, and is that just retreading old ground? ARGH. 

 I should, just, never finish a story ever. 

 Hopefully if I just push through the mess, it'll start flowing at some point and I'll be able to wrap this story up and put a bow on it. If it doesn't start flowing it might just be one of those painful, every word sucks to write sort of stories.

Anyway, it's nearly 2k in, and has a good bit more to go.  I've also logged 3k on my side project I've been writing every time I stall out on Bride Rights. It'll be mildly funny if I finish the side project at the same time, but I think this side project is going to be very long, so probably won't get it done that fast.

Part 4

I just uploaded part four of Bride Rights. It should go live in a couple of days. I enjoyed writing from Clarissa's point of view a whole lot. She's a fun character.

There's more plot than sex in this chapter, but the character development is entertaining and my beta reader liked it, so I think it works.

Initially in my head I envisioned one more sex scene in part four, but when I actually wrote it out I found it didn't work like I thought it would. That's always how it seems to go when I write things down. Like, "Great, this makes perfect sense in my head and will all fit together correctly. Oops, the flow of the written scene is all wrong for this, never mind."

Next up, I'm writing the fifth and final part of the series! After that, no more Bride Rights!

The last part will be a ton of character stuff in order to wrap up Alexander's arch. It'll be from Alexander's point of view and will give more context to the choices he's made in the story. I hope it will end in a place that satisfies most readers. I sort of see it as a HEA, though I'll see how it turns out once I've written it.

Part three just posted!!!!

Yay, it finally posted to literotica! Now I sit here bouncing with excitement, hoping someone reads it.

I'm a thousand words into part four, which is Clarissa's POV. I ADORE Clarissa. The current first line is: Clarissa fucking Dupier had a new plan.

And the final line I've written so far: “Well,” Queen Amice said. “That went well.”

I'm also a thousand words into the other erotica I'm writing, which I haven't settled on a name for yet. It's sort of a free use story about a prince. No lie, I started it thinking I'd make the love interest character sweeter than I've written my other erotica characters so far, but that didn't happen. He collapsed into assholedom pretty fast.

Update on Bride Rights

I've just uploaded the third part of Bride Rights to literotica. Waiting for it to switch from pending to published now.

It's been a while since I've added anything, but the quarantine finally got me some writing time.

I've started writing part four of bride rights. The series is planned to have five parts total, so the plot is moving toward the climax. The series is 13k total right now, and part 3 alone was 6k, so I'm curious to see what the word count ends up being. I'm still thinking I might fix it up and publish it on Smashwords, maybe. I've read about issues with publishing literotica content to the zon, so I think I'll play it safe and avoid that. I have clean content under a different pen name I want to be able to continue to publish there.

I have another idea for an erotica story that I'm really excited about. It'll be similar to Bride Rights with its vague alternate historical era and royalty thing, but it'll only have one POV instead of several. It's got similar domination/submission stuff (because that's my favorite erotica thing), but it'll all be from the subs point of view and be a free use type story.

I don't actually know what category it's going to slot into. It feels less dubcon than Bride Rights, but it's still a bit dubcon. I'll see how it feels after I've written it.

Second part of Bride Rights is up!

Bride Rights Pt. 02

Yay!

I'm 2k into the third part with no end in sight. It's going to be a long one. I probably won't get it finished until I have more time to write on the weekend.

Darn day jobs, taking up all my time.

Pretty happy with what I've written on it so far. It's from Amice's perspective and I'm enjoying learning more about her as a character. Fucking Clarissa isn't in it, because she's been sent off.

Okay, I have a confession. I wasn't sure what to do with Clarissa during the story I wanted to tell in the third part, so that's why she's out of the way for a bit.

The fourth part will be from Clarissa's perspective, though, so don't count her out yet. She's still got stuff to do. Schemes to plot. Trouble to cause.

Not gonna lie, I'm pretty excited about my plan for Clarissa's character. She's become quite the lovable selfish asshole.

Writing on Literotica

After four years of not writing any erotica, I've got a new series I'm working on and posting to literotica! I've only ever used the literotica platform for reading, not writing, so figuring it out has taught me all kinds of things about how the site works that I never suspected.

Like, I had no idea it was so heavily moderated and took days to post a story. Or that pages on literotica are so long (Over 3k?!?)

I'm writing under the username trickysnail because that's the username I made a while ago for reading.

The series I'm working on is called Bride Rights. It's a historical with a hazy time period because I didn't do much world building, and it's about an angry king who won't admit he's in love with a man and the man he's involved with pretending it's definitely just sex that he doesn't even want. Yup. Nothing to see here.

It's also about the queen trying to find her place in her messy hellhole of a marriage. Oh, and fucking Clarissa is there, too. (Okay, I started that joke when I was first writing it, and for some reason I still find it hilarious even though I suspect no one would agree with me.)

The first part is up, and the second part is pending. I'm a little over 1k into writing the third part. My plan is for it to be a five part series, with each of the first four parts being from a different character's POV and the fifth part returning to the king's POV.

Okay, so my initial plan was just to write the one story, but then I realized I wanted to write more so I decided to make it only part one. And now I've brainstormed it into a five part series.

With a sequel, apparently.

I'm really excited about it, which means I'm focusing on it instead of other things I should really be working on...

The biggest problem I'm having so far, is that since I'm publishing as I write, I keep having better ideas that I can't go back and fix because the earlier part is already up. I'm contemplating making an expanded, edited version that I publish to Amazon once I'm done. That way I can fix some issues and add more depth to the story that I've thought of after hitting publish.

It doesn't fit the doctor erotica I have on Amazon right now, though. Speaking of which, I'm a bit flummoxed about how 4 year old erotica I've never promoted is still selling. I'd write more of them, but I don't have any doctor erotica ideas right now.

I don't even have the files for those old stories because they were on my old, lost computer. Maybe I can set them for free so I can buy my old stories to reread? That would be some whacky hijinks.

Anyway, here's a link to part one of Bride Rights. Which, BTW, currently has 11k views and 17 favorites! So awesome!