TALK: End of Year 2023 (Patreon)

Hey, happy holidays and merry new year if I don't talk to you all between now and then. It's been a while since I did an updating post. Here goes:

Upcoming: mid-January through February or so, the schedule will be disrupted. I started a Morpheus' Twisted Universe story over ten years ago. That link to Big Closet is probably the best Twisted Universe resource since Morpheus' yahoo group was lost when they were all shutdown in 2020. I've written a prior work in the MTU called Hold That Pose. You can go give that a read if you'd like. I'll wait.

So, the "new" TU story is called Hard To Look At and it's about a young man whose twist turns him into a woman with snakes for hair. It is about 60,000 words and while all the main plot elements have been put to bed, I still need to land the ending. I plan to release it, three chapters per week, on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays over the course of 7-8 weeks so that I can finally release it to the rest of the world a few months later. Being a tg story, I can post it to Big Closet.

Deviant Art: Why is posting to Big Closet a "thing" I care about? Because deviantArt sucks balls so badly I wouldn't let it suck mine. I'm seriously considering no longer posting there. For years people on dA would say "I'm leaving deviantArt because it isn't what it use to be." And I didn't understand where they were coming from. Now I do.

The Truth: I hope folks are still enjoying The Truth. I worried that John's domineering attitude in chapter 3 might put people off. He mellows after that. There are still at least 20 more chapters after this week's chapter 6 drop. I still haven't finished writing it. Frankly, the ending I had always envisioned for it... I don't know how I'm going to get there. :)

Five-Minute Girl: There are only 5 finished chapters to this also unfinished story. I think it will wrap either with 8 chapters or I'll expand the last chapter to three chapters and there'll be 10 chapters. I still don't know myself.

Ted's Dolls: The next Emily part (7, oh, my, there are six Emily parts already) is still stuck with only like 900 words. Considering the average, non-interlude, TD story is nearly 3000 words, TD33 is just not finished. And I don't have anything finished either. I plan to get TD39 when the semester will finally end. (The other interlude in this group would be "what happens over winter break?")

Captions: I have a couple more captions and/or manipulations coming soon. I'm spacing them out so I don't feel obligated to make them frequently.

Future Content: Of course, there should be 8 more Ted's Dolls stories in the current "season". And I will probably do a 4th season next fall. I want to see if I can get the time go by faster. Or I might set Ted and his dolls aside for a while. I don't know.

I've mentioned One Wish several times here and it still isn't close to ready. I will tease it further though by mentioning the main character is a college aged man named Richard who is the same character as the old man in Boop. One Wish will be a multipart short story.

There are about a dozen short stories in various varieties of not done. And I have two Trust Machine stories that I really need to get around to finishing, three if you count I'm With The Band, part 4, which is a whole post this long itself.

Patreon: I started posting material to this Patreon in November 2022. In that (slightly over a) year, I have posted 33 short stories or multipart story parts, 25 parts of It Suits Me, 20 parts of The Cabin, 22 of the Ted's Dolls episodes, and two image captions. That is 102 releases (please, I hope I didn't add that up incorrectly) and doesn't include these "I Speak" posts or the various indexes. In that time, we peaked at 52 simultaneously paying subscribers. I am grateful to each and every one of you.

Especially those of you who arrived since the August post where I welcomed the flurry of new patrons who arrived then. Welcome all old and new.

As always, comments, critiques, observations, and other words vaguely meaning feedback are encouraged and deeply appreciated. When I look at "how to improve your follower count" stuff is says stuff like start a Discord. While I understand that having a community is useful, I can't imagine a Discord would go well without me needing to push hard at it. And I don't have that personality. Though, some of the character's I've created do, I suppose.