Mounted for Performance Art

Lingerie Football With High Stakes

Future Farmers and Teen Witches

This one has been in my queue for a while, but I keep finding typos and tinkering with it. I just really love this photo and I hope that my caption does it justice.

Writing Progress (June 12, 2020)

The bad news is that I haven't been able to write as frequently as I had been. Thus, days go by with only a few paragraphs here, an edit or two there. The good news is that earlier this week, I had a really productive day and managed nearly 10,000 words (I think it was 9,700 or so), much of it in a section of my story that had been giving me fits in just trying to figure out what I wanted the characters to do and how they'd react to each other. Sadly, overnight, I had a computer crash. None of the text was lost (yay!), but the app that I use to write and track my statistics lost the information on what I'd done. So my single best day of writing is absent from my daily writing stats. I don't know why this bothers me as much as it does, but ... yeah.

And if I'm being honest, now that the weather has finally gotten nice, I'm spending way more time outside reading than I am inside writing.

Don't Worry, We'll Fix It

Customer Parking Only

Writing Progress (May 29, 2020)

Sadly, no real progress to report for this week. I kinda took the week off. Wrote a few words here and there but... Like I said, no real progress.

Coco the Petgirl

Writing Progress (May 22, 2020)

For most of the week, I didn't get much done, if by "much" I'm talking just in terms of word count. On Wednesday, I managed to write about 2,000 words but they were part of a section that has been giving me trouble. And today, I managed to write nearly 4,000 words on a section that I was anxious about (in both senses of the world). Anyway, the novella currently stands at about 56,000 words.

Body Sculptor Does Amazing Work

Writing Progress (May 15, 2020)

I felt like I was more productive this week than I (apparently) was in reality. Only about 8,000 words in my story (I guess I should start calling it a novella). Scrivener tells me that the project now has right around 48,000 words and would be about 140 pages if it were printed as a paperback.

I solved last week's problem by breaking the troubling chapter into two parts and using that first part to deal with some of the issues that were giving me trouble later on. I think I like the way the story is flowing now, but I guess we'll just have to see when I get a bit further. I have two sections coming up that I know will be difficult to write.

I've decided to give myself a break when I'm not feeling in the mood to write. My output isn't great if I'm trying to force myself. But when I am in the mood and the words are flowing, I'm finding that this sort of writing is ... oh, I don't know. A release? Cathartic? Anyway, when I'm in the mood, I'm really enjoying the effort to tell the tale.

New captions? Um... My queue has plenty right now.

Bimbo Gun Needs a Better Safety

Bimbo Gun Claims Another Victim

Writing Progress (May 8, 2020)

Looking purely at the numbers, it wasn't a very productive week. Only a handful of new captions and only about 5,000 words in Raspberry's story. But that doesn't tell the whole ... um ... story. You see, I wrote about 5,000 words in the chapter tentatively titled "Going Home" ... and then I erased it because it sucked. So I wrote it again. And erased it again. Better than the first draft, but still just not what I wanted. So I really wrote about 15,000 words this week but don't have anywhere near that output to show for it. Oh, well. It's not like I'm working on a deadline.

Best Harem Girl Gets a Wish

Writing Progress (May 1, 2020)

I'm sad to say that this was not a very productive week. I was very, very busy with work leaving me with very little time for other pursuits. And, if I'm being honest with myself, I think I was a bit mentally fatigued after creating 200 captions over the last two weeks. Not writer's block, as such; rather, I just need a bit of a break. I did manage to write about 4,000 words in my story, though I spent more time plotting out future chapters and doing some revisions on earlier parts of the story. So, like I said, not a terribly productive week. Oh, well.

Backpack Babe

Writing Progress (April 24, 2020)

Nowhere near as productive this week: Only 53 new captions. But I did manage to write 8,000+ words in my ever-lengthening story. I'm beginning to wonder if I haven't actually set out to write a novel.

Alien Design Ideas

Writing Progress (April 17, 2020)

I'm not sure if anybody is particularly interested, but I've been having a lot of fun writing both long form fiction and captions while stuck at home. And I've been having a bit of fun letting my readers know about my writing progress. So, at least for the time being, I'm going to try to provide a weekly-ish writing update.

This week comes with bad news and good news. The bad news is that I only managed about 2,000 words on Raspberry's story. It's not that I've burned out or lost focus; I just had other things going on...

Like captions. Lots and lots of captions. I mean a lot of captions? How many new captions did you write I hear you yelling. How many?

Drum roll please...

In the last week, in addition to correcting typos and cleaning up about 20 older, as-yet unpublished captions, this week I wrote ... are you sitting down?

This week I wrote 145 new captions. Yes I did. Seriously.

Which of course presents a bit of a dilemma. I've been posting one new caption each week (usually Friday night or Saturday night). If I keep to that schedule, I've got enough captions in my queue for three years! And while I like the idea of a full queue, especially so that if I hit a dry spell, my blog won't go quiet, I'm also really anxious for my readers to read my new captions (several in particular). So I'm thinking about posting new captions more frequently. Not sure yet about that. Time will tell.

Oh, and as for what the protagonist of my story will be named, I think I'm going to stick with Raspberry Monaco (but her friends may call her Razz; I liked that suggestion). For those who asked, I viewed "Monaco" as being similar to names like "Dakota," "Montana," "Malibu," "Aspen," etc. And to the anonymous reader who suggested the name "Toledo" ... just, no.

In the meantime, keep safe and stay healthy.