I am hoping you all are not getting the idea that I am going to keep posting these up early. I have yet another busy day planned out for tomorrow and I will not be able to post anything. Once the stress is over in a week from now, the posting schedule should be just fine. So don't think that this is going to continue...

Man, I am a soft touch sometimes...

So, I am currently contemplating cutting down my various writing commitments. What does this mean practically for you the reader... not sure. I am going to stop other stories. I have two Kim Possible stories to finish and my Ranma 1/2 story to do. Once that is over I am hoping to focus on getting published professionally and doing Whateley stuff. That does mean that a number of fun side stories I have been working on are not going to go much farther.

I updated this weeks chapter early as I have a really busy day tomorrow and I didn't know if it would get up tomorrow. So there you go. That shouldn't be a problem next week, a far as I know.

I hope people are enjoying this so far.

Okay, so this is the beginning of a novel length story that I am planning on releasing a chapter a week, probably on Sundays. It may be a little shaky here at first, release wise as I am still dealing with the fallout of the death of my wife's mother and needing to take our daughter up to Ohio for school, so it is going to be a bit crazy for a while. It will calm down and the story will get to you guys.

Man, this has been a crazy, insane month. I haven't really been able to do much writing as life has whelmed me. But I am starting to get back into the groove. So I am wondering if I should complete a story I did for Nano, that I am considering posting here as I am unsure of how it would do in the market or perhaps something new. I really have no idea.

Thankfully though, the stress is dropping enough that I can write again.

So, I have been busy getting Soldier Boy ready to send to an Agent. That should be nice. The problem there is, since I am doing that I am not really writing as much stuff. So there many be a severe lull between postings, perhaps worse than now.

However, because you have been so nice, let me post the synopsis of the story. I am hoping that I can get that published and make some money. Enjoy.

H'okay so...

VA VocRehab is willing to send me to school to become whatever I want to be. Now while I could get an MFA I think I might want to go after something else. For a while I was thinking of an Advocate of some sort because I would be paid to fight with people and I can do that.

However, that doesn't fit me as much as this next job/ field... Ethnolinguist. I would basically study where language and culture make sweet sweet love. So I get to play with language and culture. That works for me.

Now all I have to do is get into Vanderbilt or UT Knoxville. Whee!!

Wow... 105 words leads to 26 and possibly + posts by others and a response thread by Nancy. Holy Schnikes!

Wow... I mean wow...

Anyway... thank all of you for your responses and for keeping things from getting too far out of hand. Some really interesting discussion.

To answer a few issues raised in the course of the conversation:

Well, Sorority Boy is finished. I may or may not do an Epilogue, so you all can know what happens to one of our favorite college girls. I honestly don't know right now.

This story began for me back in 97 when I was at Goodfellow Air Base in San Angelo Texas as a way to cope with being in a place where I didn't have the opportunity to dress when I wanted to or needed to. I transcribed those hand written notes into the first part of this story and this ties up a lot of the loose ends.

Well, A Splintered LIfe is finished. I am really happy by the way people reacted to the story. That has been a nice surprise. I was worried about that, because the story is different from most of my other stuff except Bound and La Faccia del Maestro. The fact that the first chapter has 96 votes at this point is pretty cool.

So, thank you all for reading it and FYI... you will probably all be amused by my next story, which I am hoping to counterbalance A Splintered Life. We'll see just how successful I am.

Fair Warning, things are about to get dark for a while in A Splintered Life. Just a heads up that there are 3 dark chapters to go with two non-dark chapters scattered here and there. Enjoy and don't say I didn't warn you.

Okay.. I think there might have been some confusion for a few people on A Splintered Life.

I finished this story in 2003-4 as a potential thesis for my Masters. I was kind of blown off. At the time I finished the story it was done and good and I was proud of it. The ideas of the story were fun and I thought it was a creative way to tell the story. Part of the artistic conceit of the story is that time is splintered around Deirdre and as the story continues things settle down time wise so the order of the chapters is linear.

Okay, the next section of Sorority Boy is done but I am wondering about the reaction to it. Sadly a lot of this is taken from a number of different sources, much of which in anecdotal. Since I a working on making this as true as possible, I am worried if readers will even believe what I have.

Sometimes these issues make release dates fall backwards.

You know what has been amusing me lately? The difference in numbers in the stories. What cracks me up is to see one chapter that has a large number, the next a smaller number and the third a larger number. Are people skipping chapters?

Just something I have been thinking about.

Well, I have a totally week in store for myself. This is the last week until Whedonfest, which is a three day mini-con/ charity fundraiser that is being held in Middle Tennessee. I am not ready to pound my head into walls yet, but by Wednesday... oh yeah.

Needless to say, there will be no updates then. However, fyi... I now know the ending to Sorority Boys and it's pretty cool in my opinion. I just have to figure out if I am going to write more of Caitlin's adventures after this or not. Once I know I'll have everything in place for the end of this book.