We’ve come to the end of 3838 Walnut Street. Starting next week, I will begin working on completing unfinished short stories. I plan to write two short chapters for every main chapter I would have written. That will be in addition to the one or two short chapters that I would normally write per week. So, for the foreseeable future, expect three to four written chapters a week, rather than the usual two to three. The illustrated chapter schedule won’t change at all. Let me know if you have any questions.
ORIGINAL POST: I’ve received a bevy of comments asking for me to update the text to the short stories more regularly, even if the illustrations are taking a while. I’ve been thinking this over, and I’ve decided that it does make sense.
Right now, I generally wait for the illustrator to finish the previous chapter before writing the next chapter. That means once a story goes on pause, I won’t work on it at all.
Once 3838 Walnut Street ends sometime in the next few months, I’ll change my approach. I’m going to take a break from writing a main novel and instead put that time into writing two extra chapters from a short story every week. My plan would be to tackle the paused stories and to get out ahead of illustrations on the ongoing stories.
This should work out to roughly the same amount of words written per week. Of course, the style for the shorts is different than the main novels, so I don’t plan on doing this change permanently. But we’ll see how it goes.
Just saying…if you ever feel a need to write about what happened after Samantha & Mitch found Lance & Emily on the island, please do. Gillian’s discovery of them…backstory of Mitch’s the archeologist’s search for the pendant…? An indulgence, thanks for listening.
Yes, I’ll post each short when I get it back from the proofreaders. The turnaround time we’re working with now is three days after I send them the short they’ll have it back to me.
I would like to see a story where the hero connects with a fertility clinic. I remember Sam, in The Dark Stone, managed to impregnate his sister even though she was on the pill. Maybe he (why not reuse a character?) could help an infertile woman conceive. Then every such cuckoo daughter would be born into a home, and he would be free of any responsibility.
Another thought. Surely some of your heroes will want to impregnate their daughters, or the daughters will want to seduce their father.
Thanks for the feedback. I get a lot of pitches for stories, so I’ve made it a policy to only accept story ideas when I put up a story suggestion post and poll.
As for staring new short stories, I don’t have any plans to do that now. The plan is to finish the short stories that have been sitting incomplete since something happened with the illustrator.
Would this include returning to Aztec Dynasty? Crossing my fingers. I really enjoy your short stories so if I get to have even more each week to read a chapter of I am a happy, happy man!
Is this just a temporary interruption of the weekly Friday long chapter schedule until you get caught up on the short stuff and/or find inspiration for a new long story?
How is this going to work exactly? Are you going to jump from one story to the next every week or pick one and focus on that till completion? If the latter, then which story is getting the extra attention first?
Not sure how long. I’ll work on one story for the main chapter substitute, and then write my usual shorts as need for the illustrators. For example, I’ll start with Aztec. So we’ll get two chapter of that next week. Then we’ll also get McAllister Method and Enchanted Scepter, which the illustrators are waiting for.
Those are ongoing stories with illustrators, so they are not the priority. The first shorts I’ll tackle will be the ones that are paused because no one is working on them.
Just saying…if you ever feel a need to write about what happened after Samantha & Mitch found Lance & Emily on the island, please do. Gillian’s discovery of them…backstory of Mitch’s the archeologist’s search for the pendant…? An indulgence, thanks for listening.
Hi Rawls. Question, so that doesn’t mean your only gonna post stories on Friday that your gonna post throughout the week? Just curious
Yes, I’ll post each short when I get it back from the proofreaders. The turnaround time we’re working with now is three days after I send them the short they’ll have it back to me.
Ok. I think I get what your saying
It sounds like you have a plan.
I would like to see a story where the hero connects with a fertility clinic. I remember Sam, in The Dark Stone, managed to impregnate his sister even though she was on the pill. Maybe he (why not reuse a character?) could help an infertile woman conceive. Then every such cuckoo daughter would be born into a home, and he would be free of any responsibility.
Another thought. Surely some of your heroes will want to impregnate their daughters, or the daughters will want to seduce their father.
I don’t know if you’ve thought along these lines.
Thanks, R
Thanks for the feedback. I get a lot of pitches for stories, so I’ve made it a policy to only accept story ideas when I put up a story suggestion post and poll.
As for staring new short stories, I don’t have any plans to do that now. The plan is to finish the short stories that have been sitting incomplete since something happened with the illustrator.
I’m excited for that change
since I like a lot of your stories :3
🙂
Would this include returning to Aztec Dynasty? Crossing my fingers. I really enjoy your short stories so if I get to have even more each week to read a chapter of I am a happy, happy man!
Yes, short chapter stories are the ones with 2,000+ words per chapter, like Aztec Dynasty. That’s the first one I plan to finish.
Is this just a temporary interruption of the weekly Friday long chapter schedule until you get caught up on the short stuff and/or find inspiration for a new long story?
Yes, I’ll go back to writing a main novel in the future. Not sure how long I’ll work on the shorts though.
How is this going to work exactly? Are you going to jump from one story to the next every week or pick one and focus on that till completion? If the latter, then which story is getting the extra attention first?
Not sure how long. I’ll work on one story for the main chapter substitute, and then write my usual shorts as need for the illustrators. For example, I’ll start with Aztec. So we’ll get two chapter of that next week. Then we’ll also get McAllister Method and Enchanted Scepter, which the illustrators are waiting for.
Rawls please more chapters for my mother’s secret identity and nosferatu (with kinky impreg involved), thanks
Those are ongoing stories with illustrators, so they are not the priority. The first shorts I’ll tackle will be the ones that are paused because no one is working on them.