I very rarely do plot edits, and virtually never do them after a chapter is posted. That said, a comment I got from last week has been bothering me. In the comment, they said that the condom felt like an odd choice to make for a chapter that wrapped everything up. Given the lack of […]

The first thoughts I had when I first finished Mutual Benefits Chapter 20 while looking it over were of all of the things I could have done. Could I have paced it better? Could I have included this one extra scene? Should I have padded this one scene? I’m trying to unlearn all that. I […]

I got the greatest piece of critical feedback today from a person respectfully exiting their Patreon support. Along with their exit, they filled out an ‘exit survey’ explaining how the story used to be special to them and the current direction makes it not “special” anymore, even though they wouldn’t call it ‘bad’ per se, […]

I can sometimes be a sensitive person, and in particular, when things in my “real life” get hard, a lot of my walls come down. I just want to say upfront that this week’s topic is largely a complaint that likely doesn’t mean all that much to me when I’m doing okay, but weighs on […]

There are slight spoilers in this blog for Mutual Benefits Chapter 19. Be sure to read the chapter first. I felt oddly relieved when people started correctly guessing the “twist” in Chapter 19 of Mutual Benefits. I used to think that the worst kind of twist to have in a story is one that everyone […]