Suburban Girl Ch. 10! (and Shawn and Lilly Ch. 3)

Hey everyone!

I just posted chapter 10 of "Suburban Girl" to SOL.net. It's quite a long and sprawling chapter but I think it sets up the rest of the story quite nicely. There's just one chapter left and I'm working on it right now... in fact, making this post to my blog is taking away from my precious writing time. Grr.

Oh, and as promised, I also posted "Shawn and Lilly" Chapter Three. Thanks so much, by the way, for all the awesome feedback about this story! As predicted my SOL.net score for it sucks (my fave explanation so far? "...I gave you all 1s on principal because I need my fiction to have some truth in it"... ???) but your positive letters buoy my spirits! :)

-shannon-

p.s. Yes, I'll be putting up SG9, SG10, and all the S&L chapters, in text format, on this site soon, too. In the meantime just register for SOL.net already... geez! :P

Suburban Girl update plus a new story!

Suburban Girl Chapter 9 is now up on Storiesonline.net! Make sure to login over there, read it, and then give me all 10's in the scoring system to let me know how great you thought it was. :P I'll be adding SG9 to this site in text format soon...

Something else I'll be adding here soon? A completely new story I just posted at SOL.net! You might remember that a couple days ago I asked you guys if you thought I should start posting "Shawn and Lilly" even though it would add yet another "in progress" story to my growing list ("Trailer Trash Teen", "Daddy's Firm", "Suburban Girl" being the others). Well, using an online poll you voted overwhelming, 263 to 46 (or 85% for, 15% against) that I should. So please don't get mad when this story takes forever to complete. I posted the first two chapters just now so you can meet the two main characters but I won't post any more updates to it until I post the next update to "Suburban Girl". I have the first four chapters already complete so don't worry, S&L won't slow down the progress of "Suburban Girl". :)

Like I said, I'll be adding the S&L chapters to this site soon. Meanwhile, go read it at SOL.net and make sure to... oh, you get it. All tens. :P

Also, please let me know what you think about the story! Either comment here about it or e-mail me... I'm really curious how it will be received. I mean, definitely let me know your thoughts on SG9, too, but S&L is very, very different than anything I've written before: very dark, violent, and crazy. I know that's not everybody's thing but hey, I like trying new things! Besides, Lilly is really fun to write for. She's nuts. You'll see... and your feedback will mean a lot to me just like it always does.

So why are you still here? Go to storiesonline.net and check out not one, not two, but three new chapters by me in one night! How cool am I? :P

-shannon-

Shawn and Lilly?

I've been working on a new story titled "Shawn and Lilly" for quite a while now. It's unlike anything I've written before and I've only sort of batted it around as a side project when, for whatever reason, I wanted to write but wasn't in the mood to work on my other works in progress (i.e. Trailer Trash Teen, Suburban Girl, etc.). I've actually got a bunch of stories like that-- stories I'm unsure I'll ever finish so I don't post (Family Honor was one of those until, one day, it was done!). In truth, I think I have like, three times as much stuff written that I haven't posted than stuff I have posted... shrugs.

Anyway, I've been doing a lot of work on "Shawn and Lilly" recently and I'm 90% sure I'll end up finishing it. So I was thinking that maybe I should start posting it, even though it's only just over halfway done (five chapters complete, ten outlined total).

So, should I start posting it? I get e-mails all the time from people who are upset I haven't finished TTT or SG, and if I start posting what I have of "Shawn and Lilly" I'm pretty sure I'll end up with similar e-mails. Unless everyone hates it! :P

I don't really mind the angry/upset e-mails (e.g. "Why don't you finish TTT already?!?") but I was wondering how you, the readers out there, feel about this. Frankly, as a reader myself I don't mind "stories in progress" but I understand that a lot of people do. So rather than make the decision myself I'm giving the choice to you. 

Please vote in the following poll to let me know whether or not I should start posting this incomplete/in-progress story or wait until it's completely done before I post word one!

//update: I've removed the poll after leaving it up a solid week... the final results were 263 to 46 (or 85% for, 15% against). Hearing the will of the people I did post Chapters 1 and 2 of "Shawn and Lilly". /update

By the way, here's the synopsis for this story I've come up with (maybe it will help you decide whether or not I should post now or wait until the story is done):

Shawn Rolland is not an intelligent man. He knows this. He also knows that he's a pedophile, a drunk, and a drug dealer. What he doesn't know is that he's also a murderer. But when Lillian Anderson, his beautiful but crazy teenage lover discovers this last truth she turns him into something far more dangerous and evil than Shawn could ever imagine: a monster.

Like I said above, this story is unlike anything I've ever written. It's very dark and very intense. Plus, both protagonists are really evil... the story codes will include *snuff* and I've never done that before. Still, after rereading the first five chapters the last couple of days, I'm sort of proud of it. It's not going to score well on SOL.net because it's very, very non-"feel good" but I think it's one of the best things I've ever written.

Anyway! I'll leave this poll up for a few days... consider it closed when the poll is gone and replaced with the final results. Thanks!

-shannon-