Fatbastard: Blog

I just posted the first chapter of Uncle Frank, Pauline, sex, and Me (well yesterday, but I've just looked at it) - Anyhoo, I let the system choose the cover. Bad idea! The 'system' picked up 'farming' in the tags and produced somehing that looked like a collaboration between Mills and Boone and the Beverly Hillbillies. I am a man, and if all else fails, I read the instructions. If even that fails, I ask for help. SOL is good like that, and I eventually fixed it.

I am about halfway through the story of my relationship with Pauline, who I got together with sexually at the start of year 11. Even though this is the fifth story I have written for SOL, I still haven't found a pattern that works for me as an author. I have tied posting chapters as I write them. That produces big gaps as other parts of my life get in the way. I have tried writing and posting to a regular schedule. That produces chapters on schedule, but I don't like the pressure to write when I don't feel inspired. So I'm going to post the story of my adventures with Pauline on schedule until I don't, and then subsequent chapters will come out as time (and inspiration) allow.
The other issue is that while each story is (at least theoretically) a 'stand alone', Auckland in the 1960s is effectively a 'separate universe'and the backstory for my adventures with Pauline has become too large and unwieldly to lay out in the story itself. If there are more stories (and I hope there will be), this problem is only going to get worse.
And so - I am going to include advice in the story description that prospective readers start with Uncle Frank, Andrea, Sex and Me, and progress through Bronwyn and Robyn to Pauline. I really appreciate comments, both negative and positive.

The fourteenth and last chapter of this story will be posted shortly. My sexual relationship with Robyn Olds comes to its inevitable end (for forty five years or so anyway), but we stay friends and keep working and studying together.

I get my Drivers license, and try Robyn's back door. I suffer another concussion, and Frank and me officially move to live in the Kingsland house. I get an invitation to the School Ball, and get swept up in what Frank, Dad, and Grandpa describe as 'female big occassion madness'.

I get promoted to the First Soccer XI, Dad steps up further, and Frank and Emma make a big purchase that changes our lives.