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Battle of Buttons, Part 3

Battle of Buttons, Part 1: https://www.patreon.com/posts/64548439

Battle of Buttons, Part 2: 2022-06-03 20:38:02 +0000 UTC View Post

Saucy Side: Pirate Booty (Kenna, Talia, Ambrosia, and Sally Version)

Moments inspired by: https://www.patreon.com/posts/66987476

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Kenna – Parrot in a Crow’s Nest

Kenna’s favorite location ...

Saucy Side: Pirate Booty (Kent, Ferro, Ambrose, and Gray Version)

Moments inspired by: https://www.patreon.com/posts/66987476 

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Kent – Parrot in a Crow’s Nest

Kent’s favorite location on the ship i...

Writer’s Blog: May June Not Be Like May

The Saucy Sides and UCRT Fairy Tales will come out tomorrow, with the final third of Gil’s interview released on Tuesday. All are over half written, and I just need to tie the bow and end the stories. Full disclosure: my focus has been all over the place recently. Partially because of real life...

MB Short Story: The Ideal (Part 3, The End)

Part 1: https://www.patreon.com/posts/66987476

Part 2: 2022-05-29 00:34:09 +0000 UTC View Post

MB Short Story: The Ideal (Part 2)

Part 1: https://www.patreon.com/posts/66987476 

This has become a twenty page story. I'm now officially writing a pirate novella. Help. 2022-05-28 05:21:47 +0000 UTC View Post

MB Short Story: The Ideal

NB: The second half of this story is also releasing tonight, but I figured that I'd post the first half now since as most people are in a later time zone than I'm currently located. Originally, I'd intended to finish the short story about John and Mayor Z, but ultimately I needed...

The Great Rewritening Feedback Request: Chapters 8 & 9

I've already done a lot of work on these two chapters, so wanted to push out this post as soon as possible in order to quickly get working any changes that I didn't personally think of.

For those not wanting to replay the chapters: Chapter 8 and 9 includes the training scenes with Gray and ...

Chapter Seven 2.0 is UP!

Considering that this chapter primarily focused on walking up a flight of stairs, it went through a lot a changes. . .  and is now almost a third longer, due to all the variations with Nick’s dialogue. This chapter ended up being an even 100 pages on Microsoft Word, which meant I kept losi...

Writer's Blog: If I Only Had A Brain

I've been so distracted lately that yesterday I forgot to push the "Publish" button for the post notifying everyone that the 2.0 version of Chapter 6 was up! Sorry about that, and Chapter 7 should follow by this Sunday.

There's less changes to Chapter 6 than there were to Chapter 5, in larg...

Guess The Quote: Round 3 (Now with Solutions!)

No one's correctly guessed all of the quotes yet, although each has been been rightfully attributed by least one person (unless I overlooked an answer on discord, but I'm pretty sure that I checked them all). 

All quotes are new lines by either an RO or a Wiseman, from the rewritten Ch...

Guess The Quote: Round 2

Clue: Each quote has been correctly identified at least once, but no one has guessed all correctly. All quotes are new lines by either an RO or a Wiseman, from the rewritten Chapters 6-9.

Be the first to identify all speakers to earn the Sanctum role of "Nick's Smartest Sibling" and braggin...

Writer's Blog: Cancer Jokes Aren't Funny . . .

. . . But Virgos make great punchlines. (Ha.)

The good news: My mother's surgery was a success and her tumor was removed!

The bad news: She still needs chemotherapy as the cancer has metastasized to her lymph nodes.

I'll be staying with her for the next months as Live-In Dog Wal...

Photo: Ziva Fending Off The Paparazzi

My mother's surgery was sucessful yesterday! I'll post more tomorrow, but wanted to thank you all for the well wishes.

Waiting through her procedure definitely gave me new insight into what Button went through at the hospital waiting for Nick, and the next Patreon short story will subseque...

Writer's Blog: Like That One Couple That Lights Each Other On Fire

Chapters 6 and 7’s rewrite is well under way! (Also, the majority of Chapter 9, because I found it easier to write all of Hope’s scenes at the same time. But Chapters 8 and 9 probably won’t get posted for another two weeks, as I still need to make a feedback post for them.) 

Rega...

MB Saucy Side: Twilight Anniversary (Grayson)

When did darkness become alluring?

This thought occurs to you as you lie in bed, blindfold over your eyes, and wait.

There’s a reason that children, even the ones who pretend to be brave, are afraid of the dark. There’s no way of knowing—not for sure—what lurks in the...

Writer's Blog: How To (Not) Start a Story

Sometimes writing is hard. Honestly, a lot of times writing is hard. For me, at least. I like telling stories. Typing them up is no more than a necessary evil in order for me to share those stories.

The good news? Chapter Six 2.0 is almost finished, and Rosy is now approximately 1.7x sexier...

MB Short Story: Three Truths and Two Dogs (Part Two)

Part One: https://www.patreon.com/posts/65701262 

“Cerberus!” Glitch cursed, cradling his hand to his chest. “Hellhound, Devil Dog! Vile beast!”

Kent glared from whe...

MB Short Story: Three Truths and Two Dogs (Part One)

(Look forward to Part 2, coming tomorrow! This short story got long.)

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Every spring, Tobias Zarneki held his annual charity auction. Ostensibly to raise funds for A New Page, a nonprofit whi...

The Great Rewritening: Chapter 5 In All It's 50,000 Word Glory

I managed to get it down from 60,000 words with some judicious editing, but this chapter is still hefty. It's also late because I made the dumb mistake of having CSIDE (the program I use to test the coding) autoformat everything into spaces instead of tabs.

. . . Which meant I had ...

Mind Blind Sneak Peak: Vegetarian Restaurant Button

Chapter Five 2.0 will go up in a few hours (internet willing), but I'm sharing this snippet because I suspect most Buttons won't take time off wooing their love interests to go have have pineapple salsa with Nick at "Don't Kale The Vibe."

I'm really, really proud of the vegetable joke. Than...

Mind Blind Sneak Peek: Sally Romance Overhaul

Because I can never leave anything well enough alone, here's a sneak peak of Sally's new optional romance scenes! (Chapter five now almost breaks 60,000 words, but we're going to ignore that to focus on smooches.)

Originally, I'd intended for Sally's romance to have three starting points: o...

Wiseman Family Fluff (An Excerpt)

Delays happening since I added in a new clue to Chapter 5 that comes up in Hope and John's convo. This requires me to add in a scene, taking out Button's solo walks around Chicago and replacing them with scenes where Button can undertake various unethical endeavors such as hacking into their fath...

Writer's Blog: Get An Annual Physical. Now. Yes, I Know It's Midnight. Do It Anyway.

Chapter 5 and 6 are finally rewritten. I just need to finish debugging the code, and they’ll be released this weekend. I tried to finish Chapter 7 as well to include the three chapters together, but 7 underwent major changes and may still get merged with part of Chapter 8 (I’m workin...

Prettiest Please Answer This Poll And Earn My Eternal Gratitude

I'm finished with Chapter 5 (just had to resolve some issues that arose from switching computers), but I'm trapped with indecision about where to start it (and, subsequently, where to end Chapter 4). 

Chapter organization is essential to reading experience: it determines whether you se...

Battle of Buttons, Part 2

Battle of Buttons, Part 1: https://www.patreon.com/posts/64548439

Note: This interview is getting insanely long, with a third section releasing at the end of the month. Feel free...

Delivery Teaser: The CRAP System

Are YOU suitable for a postal career with THAB? Participate in the Courier Rating And Personality System to find out!

Link: https://uquiz.com/quiz/yKgOpo 

(Battle of...

Writer's Blog: Minor Edits and Half A Map

I updated the demo for Mind Blind 2.0! Hoping everyone likes the changes--I feel like it truly adds depth to the main character. Perhaps takes a way a tiny (unimportant) bit of character choice, but overall you'll be left with a poignant experience that will even change the flavor text f...

MB Interview: Battle of Buttons (Part 1)

Note: This ended up being a LOT different (and longer) than the reality show version I originally intended, with a main character from Delivery for the Damned rudely barging and commandeering the interview. 

Your questions will from ...

2022-03-31 23:36:26 +0000 UTC View Post

MB Saucy Side: One Night Stand (Ambrosia Version)

Seoul isn’t a city.

At least, it’s not a city in the way that Chicago is a city. Seoul stands with New York and London and Tokyo, a sprawling labyrinth of tiered levels, neon skyscrapers looming over tangled roads that arch over and dip under each other in a stream of ever-moving headli...