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Now taking Story Commissions

Posted a year ago

I am now ready and able to take story commissions. If you are interested please send me a Note titled 'Commission Request' as well as a general overview of the plot and any references for specific characters. As well as information to reach you on Discord or Telegram.

If you are interested in my pricing and preferences check here: https://www.furaffinity.net/journal/10917363/

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Writing Commissions Price List & Preferences

Posted a year ago

Hello Everyone,

This has been something I have been debating for a long period of time but I've finally decided to go through with it. The information to follow is pricing & preference information for anyone that would like to commission me for any form of written story.

Commission Pricing & Preferences is as follows:

-Pricing will be at 2.5 cents per word.

-Stories will be written using a first and second draft which will be confirmed with the commissioner using Discord or Telegram. Before a story is written the general concept the commissioner would like the story to be about will be verified as needed and the subject, characters and primary concepts. The first draft will allow the commissioner to verify any major story concept adjustments or changes to be made while the second draft is for smaller details to be reviewed and adjusted. After confirming any final adjustments needed before the final draft, the total price for the commission will be verified and paid before the Final Draft is provided.

-I will not write any story that include any of the following subjects or fetishes: Diapers, Underage, Nonconsensual Interactions, Intentional Gore or Cruelty.

-I am comfortable with most other subjects, although I do prefer subjects involving Macro/Micro interactions.

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Where was I and What about the 20 Minute Stories?

Posted 2 years ago

First off, I want to apologize to how long it has been from my previous update journal but something unexpected happened in the middle December. As most of you may or may not be aware the 20 Minute stories were a daily practice to get me back into the mindset of writing and also working on my focus to try and get a little writing down every day. While there were occasional hang-ups there were no major issues until my bike crash near the tail end of October, which then transferred into the busy time of November and December which was filled with a lot of over time for work and little writing time for me.

In the middle of working on the stories for December something happened, something I assumed I would need a year of writing to reach but it was still a moment I decided to seize. Outside of the various short stories I have been writing, and side projects and stories I have at various stages for Fur Affinity. I have always desired to write a larger story, if not a novel. And during one of my down periods before I resumed the second half of the stories for December, I was struck with sudden inspiration. Not wishing to miss this chance and with every intention of catching this lightning into a bottle I dropped my work on the 20 Minute Stories to pursue the idea.

As of this moment most of my free writing time is actually pitched forward to work on a story idea and I have been nailing down the setting and getting a proper outline for the character and story events. Going forward this will be my major focus so my general activity of the written persuasion will decrease on the channel for a time, though I may still post pictures I get from various commissions of YCHs from other story ideas and content I had.

So for the immediate moment all my attention will be on this story concept. However, going forward and once I have the larger story outlined properly I should most likely resume writing here. And while the 20 Minute Stories have been a rousing success (especially considering they reached my desired outcome 4 months earlier than I expected), when I return to submit more stories I will say that I probably won't do any further 20 Minute Stories again but I will most likely work on larger stories or consolidate various story series i wrote in the 20MS works into proper long form stories with extra details and no limit on time frame.

Once I have a strong idea of when I have a solid base for this grander story I will either post another journal or perhaps to a surprise post of a different story.

See you all then!

PS. While it is currently off the table, I will most likely be taking things into consideration to maybe do commissioned stories going forward, but I promise nothing.

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Sovrim which was basically an idea to create a story concept and write it out in the span of 20 minutes. I found the idea to be interesting and a means to provide a way to start writing every day and get the creative juices flowing once again. So after spending the latter half of March puzzling out what exactly I would be doing I have come up with the following rules:

1. All short stories would be completed, from the concept to putting them on the page in 20 minutes or less. After the first timer is over I am allowed to double back to clean up any spelling mistakes but no further than that step.
2. Regardless if the story or idea is complete, and after I clean up what I have written, I will post it to FA and identify it as such, 20 Minute Story: Title.
3. Writing Prompts and Theme words are created before the start to each month and there is one writing prompt and a one word theme per day to try and follow for the sake of the story creation.
a. Define each Writing Prompt on the story entry itself as some Writing Prompts can be confusing on their own.
b. Make sure each entry has a small synopsis as well as appropriate tags
4. Make sure to post each month's writing prompts and themes by journal entry so others know what to try and guess the story will be about, or join along if they so choose.

Beyond that I will be trying to maintain this idea through the rest of the year, and have fun while doing it, but we'll just have to see how long I can make this last.

April 2023 Writing Prompts
May 2023 Writing Prompts
June 2023 Writing Prompts
July 2023 Writing Prompts
August 2023 Writing Prompts
September 2023 Writing Prompts
October 2023 Writing Prompts
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December 2023 Writing Prompts

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The Fate of Tabletop Troubles Ch 5

Posted 2 years ago

Hello everyone,

This journal has been sitting unfinished on a word document for nearly three years. The entire contents of that document has been scraped save the title and I will cut right to the chase. For those of you who grew interested in the Tabletop Troubles story and have been hoping I've just been on some long hiatus before the story's final reveal, this journal is for you.

Will Tabletop Troubles Ch 5 ever fully release? No. The proper story is dead and will not be finished.
Will Tabletop Troubles get anything to close out the story? Yes. I plan to release the first draft and outline for Tabletop Troubles Ch5 within the next few days to at least provide some narrative closure.

If you were only interested in the main topic listed above, now is the ideal stopping point. The rest of this Journal will address the 'Whys' of it all, and what will be coming up next in the long line of future plans.

1) Why did this story have such a massive delay for Chapter 5?

Tabletop Troubles was a rather ambitious story that not only involved a wide array of characters but also the daring motivation to make the D&D side of the game as close to the actual medium as possible. To those ends, all the races and creatures encountered in the story as the challenging moments in the game are actual creatures from D&D itself and a few third party sources. On top of this I had made each D&D character that the story characters would use. And whenever a skill or combat check or anything came up, I would actually roll the dice and run with the results. Beyond those results I wrote the character's reactions to the scenario. These facts are true for every chapter of Tabletop Troubles but for Chapter 5 it had the final set piece encounters. A few random encounters and a massive boss fight that required a lot of outlining and tracking of dice rolls beyond the story itself and it could of made the finale be an awesome fight or a tpk depending on how the dice fell.

Translating dice rolls to a story took time, and I didn't have a lot of time during my days, so a lot of my writing actually took place during the down time of D&D sessions that I DMed or Co-DMed with a number of in real life tables and friends. Naturally, writing in those conditions makes it incredibly easy to absorb outside influences that may change or adjust how the writing is perceived or handled in regards to the final execution. It was because of these exposures that one of my characters was unfortunately tainted by real life drama: Boetian. This drama with one of the players makes it nearly impossible, to this day, to separate the character from the player and if I made any attempt to work around or fix this issue it would require a complete rework or rewrite of Chapters 1-4. It was for this reason Chapter 5 was kept in hiatus.

2) Why was Boetian unsalvageable?

To understand that I will have to break down the drama that happened during the Wednesday night D&D games I used to run at a comic shop before the world was thrown into disarray and a certain pesky disease was spreading everywhere all at once.

My Wednesday night game was a game where I was the DM for the D&D module: Dragon heist. We had a wide array of players that, due to store policy limiting the number of players at each table players had to RSVP ahead of the game night in order to make sure they got a seat before they all fille dup and they would have to miss a week or more depending on their luck. While I encouraged making sure players signed up in time before following games, a few players got it in their heads to compete to see who could get the closest to the opening registration time which was 12:00 AM the night after game night. Players being players, this competition tuned into a full on event where all my players would stay up late, or wake incredibly early, to RSVP their spots as soon as possible.

Enter our problem player. This player had a similar mindset and some actions to how I had written Boetian, despite the character existing well before the player came into the picture. With his confident attitude, and fixated mindset he knew what we best he was integrated at the table as a fighter and didn't like to delay around for RP events to occur so long as he got his combat in. While at the table he was openly friendly with a girl who also participated at my table and from their interactions they could almost be mistaken for a couple, if not close friends. Then one day, while checking the player RSVPs for the next game I noticed a pair of messages from our problem player who expressed outrage at missing the chance to sign up for the game several weeks in a row and wanted to boycott my game for "forcing players to stay up early to sign up for the game" A fact I never enforced and was something other players started for fun. To top the incident off, this was something he immediately escalated to the table wide discord chat and even alerted the comic shop owners and other event coordinators needed to be halted immediately, without even conversing with me to the side on his opinions or ideas to see if the matter could be resolved. This eventually lead to me taking an entire week's session off the play time to talk to my players about expectations and concerns they wished to voice in person to make sure the game was running smoothly, and remind everyone the signups were not mandatory for a midnight RSVP.

At the time I hoped this would be enough, but this player had other plans brewing for me.

Barely a month after the party powwow to figure out the opinions and wants of the group from the game's session I got 2 different discord messages simultaneously. The first came from our Problem Player saying he was getting threatening messages from another player and he wanted that player charged with assault for sending those text messages and for the player to be removed from the table. At around the same time I received a different message from another player at the table who was close friends with the one female player in my group. He wanted to inform me that he had caught our Problem Player hitting on the female player while out at a bar and trying to get either a kiss from her or help walk her to her car even after being informed that she had a boyfriend. This new player confronted the problem player and made it clear he should back off from hitting on the girl any further or he would regret it.

This was the scenario I was made aware of 2 hours before the Wednesday game started. After getting the information from both sides and presenting it to the comic shop it was decided the Problem Player and the other player who threatened him would be banned from the shop, and at the same time the female player decided to back out. In a single night my player participation was gutted and having to play detective and intermediary of the whole ordeal left me too emotionally drained to continue, and also left me with the realization that the problem player had left me with feelings of close association between him and Boetian, which caused the first massive break in my posting schedule and end to Chapter 5. It also left me in a position where any direct interaction or addressing of Boetian in the story left me envisioning the problem player's face and actions over anything i tried to write about, which killed my mood.

3) Why bring all this up now?

Tabletop Troubles was the first story I've written for any online community that wasn't based on some rp I did with other people or concept I pulled from a video game reworked into a story. I had a lot of fun outlining and writing each chapter, especially with the idea to play the D&D game with the characters which lead to various moments that felt really close to the narrative style of a lot of the D&D I had run or played over the same period of time. To have that story written but not finished, in any circumstance has left a huge amount of pressure on my mind due to failing to finish the story and releasing it, along with guilt about telling people I have been working on the story even when the rough draft documents were lost and gathering dust when I realized I couldn't salvage Boetian's character from the lingering dislikes I had from the problem player.

I had to finish the story, or at the very least, released what I have on it so I can move on to work on other stories and settings without this lingering regret.

-|-

What does the future hold?

Honestly, I don't know. There are a few stories and settings I have bee slowly chipping away at even when I wasn't fully committed to it just yet. I'm sure some of you have seen the many adoptables I have acquired from Random-bard that make mention to either Micro Kit of Macro Zoo. Both of these are worlds I am working on expanding and eventually posting stories for in the future though i don't have a set date yet.

There is also a vast array of narrative settings I have been sitting on for almost 4 years now that I may consider putting some time into writing out when motivation strikes me, but hopefully things should go much more smoothly from here.

Thank you all for the time. The Rough Draft of Chapter 5 should be comin g in the next 2 days, so keep your eyes peeled.

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Return from November

Posted 7 years ago

Well November has rolled around and passed and that means I will now return from everything that happened to a hopefully more normal design. But first a breakdown of what occurred:

For those of you that read the previous Journal you were aware of a writing event known as NaNoWriMo I loosely explained. To reiterate it functions essentially like the writer's equivalent to Inktober. The ultimate goal is to finish a 50k word novel in the span of a month. Roughly 1,600 words and some change a day to hope to complete the submission by month's end but submission for the story on the official website can occur as early as Day 20. To all my fellow writers writing a story you enjoy can be heard making time for any amount of words, but forcing yourself to write almost 2,000 words a day can be incredibly exhausting. I will point out now i Failed to complete the NaNo. On Day 15 I had physically collapsed due to extreme levels of physical and mental exhaustion from balancing my work life, my writing life and other things together. End total was a story about 22,000 words in all. Far Cry what I aimed for but far better than I thought i could do leading up to the day I collapsed.

I want to break this down a bit more. If you are uninterested I invite you to skip over this section but this is an important realization I had to dwell on after that day. I've done the NaNo several times in the past. In fact on four occasions in 2009, 2010, 2011, and 2012 I managed to complete the challenge well before the 30 day mark and while i felt tired i never hand the mind numbing collapse that occurred this time. Dwelling on that why I realized that a much younger me going through community College and lacking even a part time job or outside social life had an excess of free time to throw at whatever I wanted and it got me overconfident. Follow this up with 6 years of little to no writing effort due to personal reasons such as taking on a full time job and slowly developing a social life running D&D and other tabletop games and the hours of unending freedom I believed i would have forever have balanced out at a shaky pestle I only just have in check. Throwing the time demands of the NaNo into this mess was a terrible idea and self destructive. Due to Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays being operated as event coordinators for three separate tabletop games i functionally went from an 8 hour work day into an additional 6 hour time sink that consumed any reasonable time i had to write. Pushing my time from 1600 words a day to 3200 words every other day. On top of that even if i felt an idea was slow or i needed time to think on how to approach the writing with my gap days only being Tuesday, Thursday and weekends I had to put further time into writing a steady pace and remove precious sleep hours that keep me balanced. I think you can all see where this is going. After my collapse I swore off writing for the remainder of November to collect myself.

Outside of writing Drama i was also caught off guard by a family planned vacation on the last week of November. I got to take some time off go someplace rather relaxing and enjoy myself, to an extent though the combination of family attention and weather prevented any real work on some of the stories i brought along to work at. Though I will say Chapter 5 of Tabletop Troubles is nearing the end of the Written Rough Draft cycle and soon will be typed in for all the edits i need to do thus far. All other stories int he previous journal are ongoing and I will create journals for them as time goes on.

Outside of my direct stories I have one very exciting piece of information but I would like to make a lot of it a surprise for the big reveal. What i will share is a few friends on FA have approached me about working on a Mod for a certain Sci-Fi game and they would like me to write the story and choice excerpts for the work that is being done. As the project looks to be fully underway with no complications or issues I will be a bit more comfortable to share who is working on the project with me and what the project is about but I will say to look forward to a surprise next year.

This weekend I promise to release Boetian's Character Sheet from Tabletop Troubles, which had fallen to the way side due to NaNoWriMo and the vacation at the end of last month.

Also, I have a special question for this journal. For everyone who has read Tabletop Troubles so far: What is Neinja's D&D Character's race? And Who was the mysterious women seen back at town? Please leave a single comment with your guess and if someone can guess correctly I have a special event for you in one of my upcoming stories. Thank you for your time reading my journal and for those of you that skipped it, thanks for the view for however far you got.

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Upcoming Stories

Posted 7 years ago

My first official Fur Affinity Journal! Doesn't feel terribly fancy but I figured I would get the jump on this in advance as this last month has been incredibly productive. Across the three chapters I have posted for Tabletop troubles in this last month I have more cumulative views and comments then an 20+ part story I remember a much younger me posted back during my days on DA and the level of excitement I have because of it is hard to quantify but does mean I have far more enthusiasm for the story beyond enjoying the story myself because I know others out there are enjoying it just as much. In that regard this Journal is my advanced heads up that Chapter 4 of Tabletop Troubles will be out by October 31st.

Outside of this one story it would behoove me to inform all of you I have a number of other short stories on the way, all of them much neater than some ongoing story that will go into the future. A fair number of them will be set in the UTO verse. The list includes:

Ronin, a tale about a Human and Ashishi(hyena) pair testing out a ship design that aims to try and improve the efficiency of short range scout vessels with a smaller compact and hopefully efficient crew, and what problems could also come from such an experimental design.

Warning! (Title Pending), A story about Space Pirates that hide in the reaches of space and what they do to keep themselves hidden, and what cargo they find worth a fortune.

Search & Rescue, A story about a mixed species disaster relief crew that has to aid early colonized worlds or civilian ships with any troubles that might arise far from main UTO controlled space. And the adjustment their newest human crew members must undergo to be used to this line of work.

Spooky Times (Title Pending), A collection of three very short stories about the blending of culture and what might happen if the UTO adopt the fight night of Halloween into their own customs.

Outside of UTO I do have one story planned. I won't reveal much except the title which is the only thing I am fully comfortable with at this time. The Story is called Beyond Jupiter and updates will be made in the future on its progress. It will be many chapters long but unlike Tabletop Troubles I plan to post the full story in it's entirety when it is ready.

In other news, and I think the most important news. I will not be posting any stories for November. Instead I have committed myself to participating in an event known as the NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) the entire aim is to write at least a 50k word novel in the span of a month. I have a story and topic in mind but zero outlines or prp work as I will be working on the challenge during this time. My aim is to write a UTO themed story about an Exploration ship that discovers a world viable for colonization and the troubles that go with it. The Main character is Tasha a mute human mech pilot with her AI partner Gahren and her Guardian-to-be De'Vrahn. When November is over I will be spending time on the site to make sure the work is cohesive and I will also post that story on my account, when I feel it is ready and Hetzer thinks it fits within the universe.

And that's it so far. Thanks for reading if you had the time, or if you skipped to the bottom thanks for a glance. To summarize more stories are on the way. To keep with my Tabletop Stories I have a question for you all. If you were a participant at Robert's table what kind of character would you have to add to the mix?

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