I'll admit to cheating a little with this one. This lovely piece of art by Fraylim was posted sometime ago, also lost when I reset the tiers to come subscribers. I held back on reposting it. Initia...
2025-06-24 06:54:36 +0000 UTC View PostChange: +8,289
Year to Date: 115,757
A good week for writing, with another chapter pushed out the door. The two most recent chapters are listed as 'dra...
2025-06-20 07:06:51 +0000 UTC View PostOkay, so I probably should've held off before p
2025-06-19 19:26:27 +0000 UTC View Post
A lovely piece of art commissioned from Fraylim by a patron: a variation on Cindy from a scene in Book 6. The relevant text from the story below:
"And it’s just under twenty minutes later t...
2025-06-17 12:16:10 +0000 UTC View PostChange: +8,417
Year to Date: 107,468
It feels good to finally be hiting some bigger numbers with the word count, regaining a sense of genuine progress....
2025-06-13 06:36:32 +0000 UTC View PostWith absolute predictability, this chapter's grown larger than originally planned. There's more, but at 7k words already, this seemed a good place to cut it off, and post. I may later merge the nex...
2025-06-10 08:28:25 +0000 UTC View Post
Seems as good a time as any to recycle the celebration-Cindy pic: hit the 100K-word mark for the year yesterday!
Those words were spread across:
--> Book 6 of Constant,
--> ...
2025-06-07 12:04:52 +0000 UTC View PostChange: +4,949
Year to date: 99,051
So frustrating to fall fifty words short of the week's target! But then, it's been a busy week. Ch...
2025-06-06 09:33:57 +0000 UTC View PostFor your reading enjoyment, the final draft of
2025-06-02 20:15:07 +0000 UTC View Post
In anticipation of an upcoming chapter, Fraylim created a couple of concept pieces, Cindy decked out in an outfit designed to get close to a specific target.
As always, such wonderful work! I...
2025-05-30 21:46:54 +0000 UTC View PostChange: +116
Year to Date: 94,102
Okay, I wrote a lot more than 116 words this week. But along with the writing, there was a lot of editing, and trimming away unsuccessful earlier attem...
2025-05-30 21:36:37 +0000 UTC View PostChange: +5,244
Year to Date: 93,986
Until a few weeks ago, I had a massive lead over last year's word count. I was very pleased with that, but sadly th...
2025-05-23 20:11:59 +0000 UTC View PostHere you go, the first draft of Book 5, Chapter 5. This is very much a draft in progress - I expect it to expand by a couple thousand more words before its done, and individual bits are still sort ...
2025-05-22 08:42:59 +0000 UTC View PostFour: In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
Last time I last saw Darius? Five years ago.
It’s not like we had, y...
2025-05-15 15:45:00 +0000 UTC View PostThe ever wonderful Fraylim created a second version of the red polka-dot vintage-inspired dress, as a sort of gift/commission for a reader who requested it. That reader has very kindly shared it wi...
2025-05-14 09:39:09 +0000 UTC View Post
I hope you'll forgive my hack-job on editing Fraylim's 100 members celebration picture from last year. I sort of crept up on me, but when I checked this morning, we'd hit 200 members.
Woo hoo...
2025-05-10 08:14:09 +0000 UTC View PostThough the writing's not quite back to my usual pace, it's still ticking along, just slower than I'd like. Unexpected RL workplace demands, now dealt with. Also, minor revisions and improvements to...
2025-05-09 15:34:37 +0000 UTC View PostA reader recently asked if there was any artwork of Cindy in her "homemaker" dress, the vintage-inspired, red with white polka dots dress worn when first cleaning the apartment in Book 4, and again...
2025-05-08 16:28:06 +0000 UTC View PostA short one, this week.
It's been a busy week. Sadly, most of that's been RL work-busy, with way too many long work days and little downtime for writing. Fortunately, that's over with now - b...
2025-05-02 22:42:17 +0000 UTC View Post
Please find below books 1-6 of Constant in All Other Things.
(Book 5 still in progress)
Currently available in PDF and ePub format.
(ePubs currently based on the version of the st...
2025-04-26 14:23:17 +0000 UTC View PostChange: +6,782
Year to date: 80, 948
Word count is cumulative for the past two weeks. This is in part due to real-life work, which dumped a couple of unpleasant twelve-hour days on me (...
2025-04-25 07:45:58 +0000 UTC View Post
And here's a selection of book covers I've put together in anticipation of creating the ePubs for the series. What do you think? They're really just a showcase for Fraylim's fantastic art, but I've...
2025-04-22 19:07:51 +0000 UTC View Post
Had a little time to mess around with Canva today, and mocked up two series covers. I think I'm leaning towards the 'femme fatale' one, but I've got a soft spot for the David and Cindy side-by-side...
2025-04-22 19:03:41 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey, happy Easter monday, everyone!
So, last week I -did- enjoy some time off of work, which gave me a much needed chance to catch up on sleep. However, I more or less failed in my plan to ta...
2025-04-21 20:45:15 +0000 UTC View PostHere's the final draft of Chapter 4 of Who Made the Lamb. Author's notes at the end. Enjoy! As always, would love to hear what you think of this.
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Chapter Four: Just...
2025-04-21 17:45:15 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Two: All Bar One
An hour later, he meets his sister at the All Bar One on Kingsway, just a little way down from the station.
...
2025-04-15 08:59:29 +0000 UTC View PostChapter One: Standing Straight
There’s this photograph of his father. Alex rescued it from a pile of old papers his mum put aside, intended for the bin during the cleanup a...
2025-04-15 08:57:47 +0000 UTC View PostYes, I'm on holiday, but turns out one of the things I enjoy doing during my downtime is writing. I recently posted Lamb to the usual sites - nicely positive feedback on SH, and some 'political' (?...
2025-04-14 22:21:00 +0000 UTC View PostChange: +4,308
Year to date: 74,166
The week started strong, then sort of fell of a cliff for various reasons and I fell short of my weekly target. I checked myself against last year's ...
2025-04-11 07:41:29 +0000 UTC View PostChange: +6,044
Year to date: 69,858
Not much to say this week. I posted over on the FM hyperboard to gather opinions on how FM specifically, but the ge...
2025-04-04 06:51:22 +0000 UTC View Post