I just realized that I never mentioned that I've set up an account on Yiffstar - http://orcas.yiffstar.com/index.yiff?action=authorsearch&authorsearch=Iron-K - and I've started putting a couple of fairly recent stories on it. It's nice that there's a community that's more focused on writing, but while I'm getting a decent number of pageviews per story, not a whole lot of people are actually commenting or reacting to them at all. However, I know all this is something of a niche fetish, and it's nice to have any feedback at all.

I've just got the fourth round and final of IZ5 to finish now, and I would guess that it's coming up to halfway done (with one game fully written and most of the others pretty well along). But here's the thing - the complete story is now sitting at about 53,000 words, and I think that it'll break 60,000 by the time I've finished - just about double the length of the old ones.

Even though this means that my attempt to eliminate obvious "filler" games in this new series has worked, that's a clearly insane amount, and I'm going to have to find a way to cut my wordiness down a little, or a lot, if I'm ever going to have a hope of finishing another.