The Marshmallow Ranch Gazette (Patreon)

Howdy, patrons!

I hope everyone had a wonderful Canada Day or American Independence Day! Mine was spent with great friends and good food, along with a few abominations like blueberry pie Oreos, waffles-and-syrup Oreos, A&W root beer Pop Tarts, and mint chocolate chip marshmallows. Now that I'm thinking about it, it's kind of amazing that the day didn't end with a vomit-orgy of brisket and terrible American snack food.

I'm nearly one-third done with the Clarion Write-A-Thon, but not quite hitting my word count so far; I'm going to see if I can put the pedal to the metal this weekend to catch up. The goal is to have a draft of "Demolition" done and sent to my generous benefactor by Monday AND to be ahead on blog entries for The Writing Desk. It's definitely doable, it'll just require some focus and elbow grease. Anyone...got any to spare? 

Not sure if anyone caught it, but I drew up a brief outline on my writing process over on The Writing Desk. So far, it's paid off with "Demolition" in spades; thinking about the story's structure and how the characters build it through their personalities and actions have really helped me get over the fear of writing it. There have been changes from the outline, but that's all right. Chalice, the herm dragon, is more and more fun to write the deeper I get into the story. I think I found hir voice in the second scene, and it's distinctly draconic -- at turns amusing and frightening and teasing. Hopefully my commissioner will like hir too when he gets to meet hir!

I'm trying not to look too far ahead of that -- between the blog and the short story, I want to make sure that I've got my head down on making sure what needs to get done is done. But let's talk a little bit about "Too Much Universe", eh?

So this introduces two characters, Cooper the kangaroo and Rodney the snow leopard. This was written a couple years ago so it's kind of rough, but...I like their rapport well enough. Hopefully we'll get to see these two again, once I've thought of a good story to get back to their world. The story takes an idea for, you know, growth, and explores what might happen when it goes wrong. It's straight-ahead kink material, so enjoy…

I'm still working on the next serial, but I'm not quite ready to talk about it. Hopefully as I catch up on my projects through the end of this week, I'll have some more information.

In the meantime, enjoy "Too Much Universe" and I'll see you later, buckaroos!