#3WW / Dungeon Call – Check-In

Oct23

“Hey! Hey! Hands off!” The man couldn’t do much except yell, but he was doing a lot of that. His hands were bound over his head, his feet shackled to the platform, and three metal belts held him solidly down. There was, however, no belt over his mouth. Anna had a feeling someone up in management liked to listen to them. “I said hands off!“

“Mmm. No need to be defensive.” Anna watched the way the blue glow off her hands highlighted the man’s privates – not that there was anything private, splayed as he is. “You’re nice. Healthy. That’s good.”

He wouldn’t have made it this far if he wasn’t, but Anna did what she was paid to do. And he did…. well, he’d do what he’d been grabbed to do. “Mm. And you’re fertile.”

“Fertile?! What?” He fought against the straps now, his whole body arching against Anna’s hand. “What the hell? What are you people?”

“Oh, you know how it can be.” Anna patted his hip. “Men can be so needy, so high-maintenance. Sometimes women just want the seed. Sometimes they just want-” She gestured towards his un-private privates. “And here… here we provide that. Now settle down. You can’t get out of the straps anyway.”

This was written to Three Word Wednesday (yesterday): Needy, Defensive, Fertile.

Probably because of My open prompt call, the words just… ah, made this story. *cough*.

Cheers!

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Wordcount Jan-September

Oct23

I was looking at my chart!
These are just raw numbers, words written each month & running total (2014):
Jan – 48,724
Feb – 37,665 – 86,389
Mar – 35,630 – 122,019
Apr – 40,584 – 162,603
May – 24,651 – 187,254
Jun – 29,451 – 216,705
Jul – 42,970 – 259,675
Aug – 33,408 – 293,083
Sep – 18,513 – 311,596

To date in October: 22,314

Whee!

2013:
Month Wordcount Running
January 38,615
February 28,822 67,437
March 58,837 126,274
April 37,323 163,597
May 47,941 211,538
June 57,215 268,753
July 44,447 313,200
August 25,426 338,626
September 30,178 368,804
October 41,476 410,280
November 89,730 500,010
December 29,491 529,501

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Romance Novel Readers: I have a question

Oct23

I am beginning to notice a trend, in the few books I have read where there is a woman In Charge, On Top – where that’s the whole concept of the novel – where she decides like 3/4 of the way through the story that she wants to be on bottom, or he decides he wants her to submit and she goes along. And all of a sudden she’s all submissive and … I signed on to read an Fdomme story.

Is this common, or just the stuff I’ve read?

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Soooo Close… Dungeon & Caves #promptcall $6 from goal

Oct22

The Dungeon & Cave Prompt Call is at $94!

That’s just $6 from the next incentive level and $26 from the rug! So if you’ve been sitting on an “oh I’d love a little more of that story,” now’s the time. $6 will get you 600 more words. $26 will get you a whopping 2,600 more words.

~~At $25, T. & I get take-out. Thai, I think, though it may be Indian.~~ Reached!

~~at $40, I will commission a piece of character art from a crowdfunded artist~~ Reached!

~~At $50, I will write an extra fic for everyone. One prompter chosen at random will get an extra 500-word story.~~ Reached!

~~At $75, three prompters chosen at random will get an extra 500-word story written to their prompt~~ Reached!

At $100, three more prompters chosen at random will get an extra 500-word story.

At $120, I get a rug for my cave!

As an extra incentive – if we get to $120 I will then, in December (Nano is coming), write an ADDITIONAL 2600-word story continuation, chosen by reader poll.

Looking for stories to see if you want something continued? Use the Giraffcall tag!

(The cuffs are the tip jar)

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Well, I wanted to practice writing p*rn… (mem)

Oct21

Comment with a pairing (etc)* and I’ll write you at least three sentences of porn for them.

* of my characters, preferably.**
** It doesn’t have to be a believable pairing.

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Nano nano nano?

Oct20

Anyone else doing Nanowrimo?

What’s your plan?

I’m doing a series of stories – some for submission, some for you guys, more or less 😉

I have a cover:

~ @NaNoWriMo wellll *cough* pic.twitter.com/9es6jb2UGm

— Lyn Thorne-Alder (@ThorneWrites) October 17, 2014

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And a wordcount plan:

Okay! I have a wordcount plan for November! #NaNoWriMo2014 pic.twitter.com/PhyTndFPgJ

— Lyn Thorne-Alder (@ThorneWrites) October 16, 2014

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Whee~

Edited to add: PLUS write & address one Christmas card or buy/make one Christmas present (or one hour of a christmas Present) per at-home (not on vacation) day.

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Updated: the Aunt Family Landing Page

Oct20

The list of stories has been updated here: http://aldersprig.dreamwidth.org/172304.html
And on Livejournal: http://aldersprig.livejournal.com/318018.html

Learn all about the family, catch up, or revisit old friends. 🙂

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A Quiet Week in Alder (a summary)

Oct19

It wasn’t a slow week, I can say that. It was just a slow week for posting.

Last Friday was all-errands-all-the-time, including over an hour at Lowe’s and a good deal of time at a few other stores. I mean, we got a lot done, but writing wasn’t part of it.

Then Saturday and Sunday were an awesome drive to Albany to visit our friends E.Mc. & Pivin – again, awesome, and again, very little writing.

Monday-Tuesday, I was working on a piece for submission. Wednesday I was editing & fretting about it, then submitting it. And a lot of this week has been planning Nanowrimo.

So if I’ve seemed quiet, in terms of blogging, I have been.

But this is what I posted this week:

Giraffe Call Stories
Probably a Rescue – technoshaman‘s commissioned continuation of A Rescue, of Sorts
Cuckoo’s Egg – a story of Tír na Cali
Captive of the Night Witch – probably Fae Apoc
Not Rehabilitation – probably Fae Apoc
Serial
Interlude: A Brief History of the Empress Edaledalende Academy of Higher Learning at Ileltedez
Random
Cleaning out Files – Population of the US in fae apoc post-apoc