Saturday, April 26, 2014

Random update to reassure people I'm still alive

Oops.  Saw PaperClip's comment on the last post and realised my going quiet here combined with some of the unfortunate nastiness from the start of the year might have led people to draw the wrong conclusions.  I thought I should post something here in case people were concerned and before I get a reputation as a serial internet flouncer.

Dark Souls 2 was fun.  About 100+ hours of fun to be exact.  That's part of the reason why I try to avoid computer RPGs now.  The Dark Souls series is one I'll make an exception for.  While the sequel isn't as strong as its predecessor, it's still damn good.  I've completed the main story and while I'm still playing it, it's more an hour or so here and there rather than must-rush-home-from-work-and-play-until-1am.

I did think about writing a few blog posts on reviews/hints and tactics, and some other blog posts on other things, but decided that the time I was spending on trying to scratch blog posts together was writing time I should be spending on stories and more particularly Succubus Summoning 201.  If it's not something I can hammer out quickly, it's time I should be spending on a new chapter/story.

Real life work has kept me a little busier than normal.  My usual writing method is to write longhand in notepads and then type up afterwards.  While the writing longhand in notepads might sound a little 1800s, it works for me as pen ink can't be backspaced and rewriting a first draft improves it a great deal.  My usual writing work day is to stay behind after work to do the typing up and maybe do a couple of hours of handwritten drafts before I go to bed.  For the last couple of weeks those couple of extra hours have needed to be spent on the day job instead.  Such are the realities of the hobbyist author with a 9-to-5 (or 7 in this case) job to pay the bills.

The Easter break was pretty good for me as I managed to get my head down and back to the notepads/typing.  After postponing the last collection I turned on ChaosWriting, which promptly thought trying to start two brand new novels and four new short stories was a good idea.  Oh ChaosWriting, you naughty little scamp you.  It's a pretty good methodology for being prolific with short stories, but you never know what's going to fall off the production line next.

Since the last post I've finished another short story, done about 4,000 words of another, added another ten pages or so to Succubus Summoning, and written the first chapter of another novel (Think Violated Hero, but with the most perverse monster girls ever imagined - more on that later).  Definitely still writing, but a little slower and more chaotic than usual over the past couple of months (been that sort of year).

The next Succubus Summoning chapter should be the next thing out.  Not going to give a date as it would probably be another filthy lie.

The other reason for a lean spell at the succubus bordello here is there's been a paucity of hot new monster girl eroges.  The Violated Hero walkthrough was fun and boosted the hits.  I had plans to make these walkthroughs a regular feature . . . and then the hot new monster girl hentai games dried up (or I might have missed them - feel free to recommend any I might have overlooked in the comments below).  After a lean spell it looks like Dieselmine has come to the rescue with an add-on for Violated Hero 4 featuring Lilith, the vacuum cleaner robot girl and two new fan-made girls that didn't make the full game.  Yep, I will be blogging that, just as I did with the full game.

As with the ending to the other post - still here, still writing, not going away anytime soon, but unfortunately still hopelessly chaotic when it comes to writing new stuff.


25 comments:

  1. It's nice to see some reassurance from you.

    If someone has an account in Literotica's forum, would it be better for them to ask you questions from there?

    How is SS208 coming along? Are you halfway through it you would say?

    Regarding that old crush of Phil's, that goth girl that Cerulea sorta played around with in Phil's memories in SS 110, will she feature in any later stories?

    Also will we run into Phil's parents or some of his old coworkers from the McRestaurant he was working at before he came to Wargsnouts? I think it'd be interesting if his succubi were wit him if/when that occurs.

    What do his parents know about where Phil currently is? He's like 18 or 19 right? Do they know he's going to a magic school or do they think Wargsnouts is just some sort of college or university?

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    1. Here is probably better for questions unless it's something you don't want others to see. I don't get many DMs through Literotica's forums and don't check it that much.

      More than halfway through 208, but editing it is going to be a bitch as Cerulea has picked a different form and I need to get their speech patterns right (she does like to test me).

      I haven't planned out future arcs yet. This one was supposed to be more in Wargsnouts, but looks like it's heading in a different direction. An obvious one will be Phil returning home and the succubi causing chaos in the real world. Have to juggle timelines a bit more as 201 arc didn't end up where I thought it would.

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    4. 1. You mention the 201 arc is heading into a direction different from what you expected. Can you give a hint as to where it might be going?

      Will the "real world" arc be in 301?

      2. Has Phil ever attempted to get the succubi to just call him "Phil" instead of "Master"?

      3. Rereading Soul Worm will we get to see anymore stories involving them? Like maybe some (un?)lucky victim gets to run into two of them and they both decide to have fun with him? Their big breasts seem good for titfucks. What about blowjobs from them as well?

      3a. Regarding soul worms, do they have a vagina in a normal place in addition to their tails?

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  2. It's Good to hear that you are still with us amigo. Was getting worried about ya. I don't know what I would do without my occasional succubii fix :-) That and the fact that I up until now, I had allways given up on figuring out how to post a comment here.

    There are several times in the past when I had tried to voice my appreciation for the awesome stories you share with us, only to end up thinking. "How do I sign in....maybe tomorrow then".

    So erm yeah. Glad I'm wrong and thanks for all the brilliant stories and stuff. You truely are the very best at what you do. Maybe one day I will try my hand at such a venture but it would only be a pale reflection.


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    1. Partly my fault for being silly and letting something trivial get under my skin earlier in the year.

      Anonymous comments should be open unless the settings have reverted, if anyone else is having problems commenting. Some people get shirty with allowing people to hide their identity, but I write erotica and know people will have very good reasons for doing this.

      Try your hand. Everyone starts from somewhere and gets better with practise.

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    2. I can confirm that anonymous posting works.

      And now that being too lazy to create an account is no longer an excuse for my silence, I simply /must/extend a huge thank you to M. E. Hydra for the amazing work!

      I love your writing to bits. Even the more twisted, why-would-a-sane-person-read-this kind of stories.
      It's one of those things about your writing that makes me come back for more every time: never know if the next installment will be pure sexy, a mix of provocative and terrifying, or if it'll make the protagonist wish they had been run over by a car in the first paragraph. :P

      And if sometimes the twisted aspects hit someone's more unusual fetishes, even better. ;)

      Carry on with the awesome work, and may life be kind to you in return.

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  3. わふにゃのくえすと do you think you can do a let's play of that one?

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  4. have you seen the newest images on the mgq website?

    looks like Luka can get raped by his mother and aunt

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    1. Haha that sounds hilarious ( in a twisted way of course ). The art does look nice as always :)

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  5. But are you still still alive?

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    1. Let me check on that one. Yep, the meatbag I'm currently attached to is still breathing.

      Had an eye operation (routine vision correction) and then roadworks outside my apartment knocked out my internet. Currently being quieter than normal so I can concentrate on Succubus Summoning as that is way overdue.

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    2. You mentioned it knocked out your Internet. Did you lose any updates or data or whatever?

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  6. Any idea when you would be bloggin violated hero 4 add-on?

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    1. Fairly soon hopefully. The annoyances (see above) that have kept me off the internet appear to have eased. I have the add-on, just got to find time to play it with an internet connection that works (for translation)

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  7. Just in case no one has seen this

    some info on the new angels on the mgq website

    http://www.ulmf.org/bbs/showthread.php?p=565769#post565769

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    1. I'm looking forward to see what torotoro does with the next game. I'm hoping he avoids the usual pitfalls with RPG-maker-type games (too much grinding killing the erotic aspects)

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    2. yeah, and too much walking around doing pointless quests in between the erotic aspects

      (Legend of Queen Opala is a great example)

      don't worry about grinding though, as I mentioned earlier when you were playing VH4

      'Cheat Engine' solves all your problems

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  8. Reading your Twitter account, it says you've finished 1200 words for Succubus Summoning 208 and 8 pages for Succubus Summoning 209. Are we going to get to two new chapters for the update I guess?

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    1. Will be one at a time. 1st draft for 208 is done and I'm about 1/3 through typing it up. I'm about 2/3s or more through 209. My usual sequence is handwritten 1st draft, typed up 2nd draft, edit, post. I'm hoping this time I can find a rhythm again and stick to it.

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  9. How many words are in 208, and how many pages is that?

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  10. And when do you think we'll see 208? Tomorrow?

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    1. Unlikely for tomorrow. Still got another 3-4,000 words to type up. And then editing. I'm just glad I've got the story moving again.

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  11. Hydra since you're here:

    1. You mention the 201 arc is heading into a direction different from what you expected. Can you give a hint as to where it might be going?

    Will the "real world" arc be in 301?

    2. Has Phil ever attempted to get the succubi to just call him "Phil" instead of "Master"?

    3. Rereading Soul Worm will we get to see anymore stories involving them? Like maybe some (un?)lucky victim gets to run into two of them and they both decide to have fun with him? Their big breasts seem good for titfucks. What about blowjobs from them as well?

    3a. Regarding soul worms, do they have a vagina in a normal place in addition to their tails?

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