If you liked my writing here, you should check out the visual novel I made: it's called Monstergirl Mansion. It's hella queer, kinky, and femme-centric; it's got art by  sigil and  piratical; it's got a variety pack of lewd situations for you to get into; it's pay-what-you-want-no-minimum on itch•io and you can play it on your computer but not on your phone.

https://krinndnz.itch.io/monstergirl-mansion

I've continued to write and to commission visual art since 2013. If you're interested in either of those things, here's how to find them:

* Fanfiction, including NaPoWriMo 2014 stories: http://archiveofourown.org/users/KrinnDNZ/

* A 2015 crop of kittyslut stories: http://jgks.org/

* Commissions I've gotten: https://www.weasyl.com/favorites?us.....feature=submit

Eventually the whole lot of it should be available at https://www.weasyl.com/~krinndnz but since doing that the way I want to do it requires me writing my own gallery-sync tool, it's definitely an "eventually" rather than a "soon" (it's probably not even a "2015").

I am in the middle of doing my November project again. This is my fifth (ETA: holy blap, sixth actually) year and I'm pretty happy about that. I am also, at this point in the month, doing quite well on word count: I'm at about 21k right now.

Those stories will primarily be showing up on Archive Of Our Own, which is doing a good job of meeting my needs as a writer. AO3 has some really nice accommodations for writers. Here is a link that leads to all of my November 2014 stories in one place.

I am also experimenting with vulnerability, with working on stories more publicly. As a result, if you keep an eye on my Twitter feed, you'll see URLs showing up there as I work on stories. They are effectively very lo-fi art streams.

At some point in the future, I'll upload the NaPoWriMo 2014 batch, everything in my FA gallery/scraps, and a variety of I-haven't-gotten-around-to-it-yet prose and visual-art stuff to Weasyl.

This is my fifth year doing a November project: I'm not really enthused about writing a novel, but I'm all over a socially endorsed excuse to spend more time than usual writing. So from 2009 to now, my Novembers have been NaPoWriMo, subbing out the novel of National Novel Writing Month for porn.

Here's this year's crop:

"Hypno-Slut And Guest" --- in which an invitation is taken with enthusiasm.
"The Escape" --- in which rubberization features.
"The Takehome" --- in which didactic explanations and taurbutt are presented.
"On Track To" --- in which a tigress' toughness is tested.
"Ancient Practices" --- in which an immersive teaching method is employed.

It's been great for me, for my writing productivity. Due to some social issues, 2013 was a rotten year for my writing, but I got my act together enough to get some fine writing done this year --- and the difference from previous years shows. I've definitely learned what kind of story I can write quickly, and I've learned something about my tropes in content and my habits in terms of getting words cranked out.

I also have learned that I have some distinct favorites:

2009: "Reverse Rapture" has a concept that I really need to come back to, and "Special Delivery" presents some catgirl pets, a theme you can't keep me away from.
2010: "The Chase" remains a fairly good depiction of the gorgon and I like how fantasy tropes ended up working. "A Game Of Questions" is a story that I'm actively proud of.
2011: I did a good job with "Dissolution," I should point my writing at those kinks more often, and similarly "Binding the Pack" was an experiment that came out pretty well.
2012: A very lean year, but I'm very happy with "Like Fire A Dangerous Servant" and I enjoyed the quiet intimacy of "A Gift That Expands Horizons" even though I wish I'd come up with a better title.

I have some more ambitions for this project: I'd like to get the stories I just listed, a few more, and my favorites from this year, and then apply a vigorous round of editing and wrap them all up as an ebook. I think that'd be a good way to present my work --- to get together and differentiate work I'm proud of, and to make it easier to access for people who don't care about, don't know about, or are repelled by FA (which, heck, sometimes includes me).

I've never yet hit NaNoWriMo's official goal of 50,000 words, and sometimes I've fallen short of my own 1000-words-a-day and improve-on-last-year goals, but I've also learned that that's okay. I've gotten a lot of work done that I wouldn't have otherwise, I've turned out gratifying stories for a bunch of people I like, and I've persisted. All important things.

It's been a great five years, and I'm looking forward to five more. Writing is one of the things that I want to be doing for the rest of my life.

A yere yernes ful yerne, and we're back to November. November is still National Novel Writing Month, I'm still doing NaPoWriMo, and I still welcome suggestions as to what I should write about. My goal is to produce and post 40,000 words of prose this month - I've been building slowly every year I've done this, and I'm aiming to keep up that trend. It's an exercise that I like a lot.

The stories I produced in 2009, 2010, and 2011 are in my scraps here if you want to see how this exercise has turned out in previous years.

My thanks to everyone for being so helpful to my writer-kitty self every time NaNoWriMo comes around. ♥ ♥ ♥ I feel good about this year.

This post exists to keep track of where all my NaPoWriMo 2011 material has gone, and to keep a running tally of my progress.

You can still tell me what you think I should write, and I encourage you to do that. Always helpful.

Story 1: 'Our Manifesto', 1233 words, posted on day 1.
Story 2: 'Kittyslut Birthday Party', 3853 words, posted on day 3.
Story 3: 'Rejoicers The Creator Seeks', 4423 words, posted on day 6.
Story 4: 'The Third Room Is Ours', 4593 words, posted on day 7.
Story 5: 'Binding The Pack', 4808 words, posted on day 17.
Story 6: 'Dissolution', 5593 words, posted on day 25.
Story 7: 'High Summer', 5406 words, posted on day 30.

Total word count: 29,909 words, average 997 words per day.

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Postmortem: Well, that was disappointing. Fell short of last year - yuck! I'll try for 40,000 words again in 2012, and just chalk this up to experience.

Life contains both success and failure.

November! November's almost here, and November is a good time for writing. Me being me, I think November's a good time for writing porn: so here I am again with my National Novel Writing Month project: National Porn Writing Month. In 2009 I made it to 21,000 words, in 2010 I got past the 37,000 mark, and this year my goal is to reach 40,000.

My usual thing to do at this point, is to invite comments for what you think I should write about. Since we're talking about porn, though, having the option of privacy is important - so this journal entry is mostly a pointer to a blog entry where you can comment privately. If you want to speak your ideas in public here, more power to you. :3 The Dreamwidth blog entry also has something extra, another way to participate (you won't need a Dreamwidth account).

To get ready for NaPoWriMo 2011, I'm going to repost my 2009 NaPoWriMo progress to FurAffinity, into the scraps section of my gallery. It's a bit rough, but that's part of the point of the project. It was originally just posted on my Livejournal, behind a filter, so I think that there will be quite a few of you who haven't seen these stories before.

I also have advice for you: since FurAffinity is not very good for text presentation, you should check out Instapaper. It makes things easy to read, and it works on FA pages - you can read them on the Instapaper website, in a nice easy font with no crud around the content, or on your Kindle or iThing.

Links to the 2009 work:
[*]#1 - We Are Learning
[*]#2 - Reverse Rapture (a side)
[*]#3 - Reverse Rapture (b side)
[*]#4 - Psychotropic Bukkake
[*]#5 - Separate Farm Inflation
[*]#6 - Mimic Invasion
[*]#7 - No Good Deals
[*]#8 - Airport Accommodations
[*]#9 - Name Change Script
[*]#10 - Mike & Ariel
[*]#11 - Special Delivery

My thanks to everyone for being so helpful to writer-kitty last year and the year before. ♥ ♥ ♥ I feel good about this year.

So recently, I read about Pixar and their process. Pixar - lots of talented people, putting out lots of great work. And here's how they do it: start by being willing to suck.

In the process of making the film, we reviewed the material every day. Now this is counter-intuitive for a lot of people. Most people—imagine this: you can’t draw very well, but even if you can draw very well, suppose you come in and you’ve got to put together animation or drawings and show it to a world-class, famous animator. Well, you don’t want to show something that is weak, or poor, so you want to hold off until you get it right. And the trick is to actually stop that behavior. We show it every day, when it’s incomplete. If everybody does it, every day, then you get over the embarrassment. And when you get over the embarrassment, you’re more creative.

As I say, that’s not obvious to people, but starting down that path helped everything we did. Show it in its incomplete form. There’s another advantage and that is, when you’re done, you’re done. That might seem silly, except a lot of people work on something and they want to hold it and want to show it, say two weeks later, to get done. Only it’s never right. So they’re not done. So you need to go through this iterative process, and the trick was to do it more frequently to change the dynamics.

So hey - that's a good model to follow. I have a new goal: content, posted here, every weekend. Even if it sucks. Getting used to showing your work gets you feedback, and gets you used to your work being perfectible.

I have a National Novel Writing Month project going over on my LJ. The results will probably be crossposted here.

Go me. Now I have to come up with something to contribute.