First, I am sorry that I haven't put anything up. I am so embarrassed that I admit I wanted to lie and blame it on something like PostyBirb failing, but the long and short of it was that I changed some alarms on my stripedkittyscribe google account and the last month had me distracted enough that I just forgot in the chaos of writing and life.

I won't bore you with the weirdness that went on, it's mostly not all that important and it's (basically) over. What I will say is that there's a pretty significant backlog of things that will be thrown up here over the next few days. I'll also say that over the last month of writing and thinking, I've come to a few conclusions, some of which I don't like, but that doesn't change the logic or reality of things. I've noticed a few different things about my writing and I need to address them.

1. I will come up with something that I can't keep up on my own. This is the case with both Brothel to Another World, and Incentive Department. Ironically, the whole reason that I created them was to have a more or less revolving door of characters that would come in and out, and I just don't have the capacity to keep coming up with something new all the time. I'd originally thought that there would be suggestions from the audience on my Patreon, and the response just hasn't been there. This is not to blame anyone other than me; it was a bad idea in the first place. But the long and short of it is that these 'aren't working for me'.

2. Some of the things that I come up with, I can't make anything work in the universe that fits the tone I want. The example on my Patreon would be the Injectors and Intakes world. I wanted a reverse harem Fast and Furious found family kinky fun thing. The first attempt at a first draft had emotional abuse of a minor and literal right wing extremists preparing for a terrorist attack. The second attempt had a gang war. I love the main character, but none of the rest of them were anything special, and one of the things that I can't stand in a harem is anyone in the main group being bland. Admittedly it's more annoying when the fulcrum is the plain one, but both sides of it need to be there.

The same main point is true for Agent 0069. I really, really struggled to not let it get super dark. I wanted Spy Hard, and I more often than not ended up with No Time To Die. The characters were at least a little closer to what I wanted but that was totally ruined by my inability to get the comedy to be played straight.

3. I come up with something that I think is just fantastic, and the characters all work well, and then I get through a few chapters and... Now what? This is what happened with Prideful Pair and the Penetration Testers. A little bit of this also hit Agent 0069 but the main problem there was the tone. I love Chinzee and Takara's dynamic, and for the most part I even like Spring/Mimi/Bonus/Feedback's thing, but I just can't really come up with something that works to keep it going without it turning into a slice of life plus cyberpunk tech levels, or magic in the case of Chinzee/Takara.

4. I have something that I know where to go with it, and I love the characters, but I don't have the skill to portray them how I wanted to portray them and the world. This is, mournfully, the case for Playthings of the Rich and Famous. I have pages and pages of notes and things for him to do and go through. There's a whole arcs; space pirates, a dramatic escape, Rocky being sent as a bodyguard, revolution against the government, losing friends, gaining friends, and him falling dick first into problems then bumblefucking his way through things right up to the point that Lei and he end up flying off into the sunset together on their own little freighter with a few people on board trying and failing to keep the ship actually functional with the hyperactive sex drives of most of the crew interfering with what pays the bills. I don't remember if I've said this anywhere publicly but one of my primary influences for this was Tanj's Tales. If you don't know what that is, it's a pretty old compilation of stories, and long story short it revolves around someone who's going along several of the same general arcs as listed above.

So what does all of this mean for you all? I'm going to post all of the work that I have in the hopper. I'm going to start posting things over the next few days to catch up to where we "should" be, and then there will be a new posting schedule. I'm going to work on essentially nothing but Starlet in Training, and the WolfKing rewrite.

Many of your compliments and suggestions about WolfKing are going to go into the rewrite. And my loyal readers are something that I cannot easily say how grateful I am to have and entertain.

I normally don't push this, just leaving it as a passive mention at the end of stories, but I would be grateful for any support that you would be willing to give me at my patreon: patreon.com/StripedScribe

I'm about to go to a vocational school, and thus the time that I have to write will be much less, which means that I need to focus more, at least until all of a sudden everyone recognizes the awesomeness that is my writing and I get the whole successful publishing deal and/or career.