NOT Chapter 13

 

When I first posted Chapter One of Holiday Games in 2013, the original plan was keep posting the relevant chapters soon after the dates the action occurred in the story, as if the events had just happened to our hero. Previously I had always promised myself that I would never become one of those writers who posted unfinished stories. However, in this case I felt confident that I would still get the job done. When I published the first chapters about Easter I had already written about Christmas, and I had an overall story plan to take the story through to a conclusion at either Easter or Anzac Day in 2014.

 

Unfortunately, when the time came to publish chapter 13, I had become very badly stuck in chapter 24, and I didn't realistically think I was going to start writing again for the foreseeable future.

There are many reasons why I stopped writing.

         I had writer's block, particularly relating to the direction of the story. A big part of me wanted to go in a slightly more incesty direction, but I was worried about alienating the people who had enjoyed the story so far.

         I was down on the fact that the story probably wasn't reaching its intended audience. I am grateful to ASSTR for providing free hosting of my stories over many years, but I can't escape the perception that it has been superseded by Literotica and become little more than a home for child pornography that Literotica won't allow. Holiday Games has a lot of 16 and 17 year old characters, and it would take a lot of rewriting to bring them up to 18. (I would like to add that the age of consent in New Zealand is 16, so none of my characters were breaking any laws. It hadn�t occurred to me that sites like Literotica would draw the line at 18).

         I lost the ability to write while I was at work. I used to get a lot of writing done during quiet spells in my job.

         I had a bunch of stuff going on in my private life as well.

 

Even though I have written but not published many chapters, I made the decision to not publish them because chapter 12 provided such a good place to leave it. The story doesn't feel obviously incomplete at that point.

 

I have been doing a bit of writing on various other stories, but I'm struggling to focus on anything in particular and nothing is close to being published.If you have any motivational messages to send me, my new email address can be found here.

Chris Warner

May 2013

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