Hello readers,
As the title suggests, this is the final blog of 2024 so it will be a longer one. Let's get into it.
So I posted the final chapter of Teacher's Pet on Saturday and I would like to thank everyone who checked it out. There were quite a few more readers in the first 24 hours than usual; the Saturday itself had more readers than most full weeks for chapters. I hope I was able to recover from the poor first few chapters and wrapped it up in a satisfying way. Feel free to let me know your thoughts in the comments.
What a crazy six months posting here. I started in June, writing and posting my first story ever to anything like this. It was an adaptation of someone else's work (Ashley's Awakening) that was really just supposed to be a clean-up job on a real old single chapter story. A change here and a thought there with the original chapter turned into 4 more completely original chapters. Next thing you know, I'm writing new stories of my own design with the modest goal of one chapter per week from that mid June until the end of August. Things changed to two chapters per week, and readership grew from there. I've now continued with at least one thing posted each week from the original June till the end of December which is really crazy.
I'd like to thank everyone who's reached out and supported me at any point, either with messages, comments, scoring, or even just read something. It has been fun watching the response to new stories and chapters dropping each week. Some have not hit as well as others, but I'm still in disbelief that anyone would read anything I write at all. Getting to write The Creek, a story idea I had more than a decade ago, and the great response to it has been a highlight of my year. I also have to thank my fantastic editor, checkmark50, for all his hard work cleaning my gibberish up into something resembling coherent legibility.
I guess you might be wondering, what's next for 2025? Well, I have a few things planned. First off, January and February will be a bit lighter but I'll still have at least one chapter a week. I'll also be continuing my once a month A Girl's Guide to Cookie Dough, on the alternate account. I will be moving to wrap that one up over the next few months though to make way for some new serials. I don't want to have too many active at one time. Sister's Servant will also start working towards a conclusion when it returns in late February or early March.
For January, you'll see the continuation of an older story, one that always seems to creep back up in the top 5 active stories in my portfolio but with the worst score on this account. When we last left Mark, he just learned that Sarah and her friend Sandy had been hired to work with Wendy in The Lifeguard. This return will continue on with his story for five more chapters with the possibility of more, if there's interest. We've also gone back and edited the older original chapters, thanks to my wonderful editor, so they should read better too.
Following that, in February, there will be a brand new story that will run for three weeks. I haven't fully decided on what that one is yet, either a hitchhiker story or a camping story. I've got stuff written and planned for both, it just comes down to which feels best and is fun. The big goal just to set the stage for the next narrative story that should hit in March. I'm fighting myself on a few ideas, all of which have merits, but seeing what might work best. I think I have three ideas to ponder but I won't go into those yet.
There is one story idea that I really hope to get to this year. If I can start it, it's likely to be the largest and longest story I'll have done. I know just from my basic idea planning that it is likely to be 20 chapters long, at minimum. I'll break them up into batches of five, with breaks for other things in between. It is a solid idea, somewhere between my longer narrative stories and my usual sex stories. It just needs time to cook first, but I'm hoping to start it in the spring. This was a glimpse into the madness of my future plans for this upcoming year. It doesn't even scratch the surface of the topics that I have written down so I've got plenty of story ideas. There might also be more returns to previous stories too, but we'll see how everything shakes out.
A sincere thank you for making my first year writing so positive. Things haven't always gone to plan and I've gotten frustrated at times, nearly quit at points, but community members have reached out and helped me through it. I look forward to this upcoming year and I hope you all stick around to see what I have in store. See you in 2025!
Respectfully yours,
-ghostwritten