ghostwritten: Blog

Hello readers,

New week, new Blog. Let's get into it.

The Lifeguard - Recently posted chapter 6 of this serial. I've been trying to expand the scope of this story with some new characters. That was where this chapter came in, introducing some of the other people at the recreation facility. The plan was to create new relationships and 'problems' for Mark, Wendy, etc. Unfortunately, as I stated in a previous blog, the response to the return of this story hasn't been the best. I think it might just be most of you prefer my newer style of writing (less sex/more characterization). The Lifeguard (and others like Ashley's Awakening) were high sex stories with varying degrees of character work.

I've decided to wrap up this story with two more chapters that I'm working on right now (these will be chapters 9-10). I could have just done one to finish it, but leaving it with nine chapters seemed weird, so why not one extra. It'll give me an excuse to do a few things I was setting up before the finale. I'm a little disappointed in having to close it up this way, but it will free up bandwidth to write something new that hopefully more of you will enjoy. I think I'll still write these types of stories here and there, but topics and fetishes like water sports (when I use them) will live on the 'ghostwritten after dark' account from now on.

Speaking of, I just finished the next chapter in A Girl's Guide to Cookie Dough which my editor is currently fixing up. It should be out at the end of January, around the 29th. It is a fun little chapter as I slowly move to bring that serial to a close as well. I will talk more about it closer to release, but it will start the move towards the end. I hope you all enjoy it when it comes out.

The Next Story - The Lifeguard's new chapters has caused my next serial to be delayed by two weeks unfortunately. It is done and written but my editor hasn't had a chance to get at the chapters yet. It will be four chapters long and tells a complete story; no room for additional chapters after the fact. I wanted something that had a clean, cut and dry ending that I hope is satisfying to all of you. I'm still figuring out the name, but I will say it is a hitchhiker story (I know, not very original).

Sister's Servant - The delay due to The Lifeguard will not impact the return of Sister's Servant. It has delayed me starting them but I have a firm return date in mind, February 26th, which I think is still quite possible. I will update you all on here if that changes of course. I am looking forward to getting back into those characters and I hope you are excited to read it.

Next Week - We have The Lifeguard chapter 7. We have the pairing of Wendy and Sandy. Things aren't perfect in paradise for Mark as he has to navigate tensions between Wendy, his primary girl, and Sandy, the lesbian who's trying the other side.

Well, that's it for this week. As always, feel free to leave comments or reach out to me if you have any questions or thoughts.
Thanks for reading!
-ghostwritten

Hello readers,

Another weekend, another blog post.
Chapter 5 of The Lifeguard just went live on Saturday and the views have been lower than I was hoping for. Not really a big deal, to be honest, as the story does have some limiting tags that people tend to skip. How are people feeling about it? I am attempting to add character to some early and thin characters I wrote early on, so it might be disjointed currently. I was still hoping for views to be a little stronger though which makes long-term viability questionable. I'll make a decision on if I will continue it after the prewritten batch (which will bring the chapter total to 8) is complete. I planned for more but I also have a plan to wrap it up quickly if needed. As always, I would appreciate your thoughts on what you'd like to see from me.

Onto the future, the next story I'm currently working on has been going quite well. Planned as a three-parter, it has grown to four chapters and is a little more character driven than originally conceived. It was supposed to be a basic hitchhiker story, and it still is, but I figured why not try to improve my character work. I haven't committed to a title yet, so I won't share that yet, but it will be ready when The Lifeguard ends (in whatever way that is). Once I'm finished with this new story, the next thing on the docket are new chapters of Sister's Servant (also the monthly A Girl's Guide to Cookie Dough too). Sister's Servant is likely to arrive on the first Wednesday of March, if things go to plan.

Lastly, looking forward, I'm still mulling the next narrative story idea. I had a bit of a breakthrough on that front, possibly combining multiple ideas into one large story series. It would start as a coming of age story and then morph into something else, following the characters through their lives. Then another idea crashed into that one and suddenly I'm looking at 40 to 50 chapters and I'm terrified. I don't know if I have the abilities for something like that, but man is it intriguing. I've got time to see if there's a way to make it viable. I like mixing things up and writing the same characters for that long is scary. I don't know, I'm just throwing it out there to the void of this blog. Maybe I wimp out and take the easy road or maybe I try to hedge a bit. We'll see when I get to that point.

Next week is again, The Lifeguard. We have the pairing of Wendy and Sarah on their first shift together as employees. Will Wendy make sure Sarah gets her late punishment in the end? We also meet some of the other lifeguards working at the recreation center.

That's the end of another ghostwritten blog update. I just broke 3000 reads of this thing tonight, so thank you to anyone who clicks that button to see my madness. It is weird that anyone would even read my stories, let alone this rambly blog. If you have any ideas or suggestions, feel free to reach out. Thanks for reading and everything you all do.

-ghostwritten

Hello readers,

Happy New Year to everyone. I'm sure we're all tired of all the holidays crap, so let's get into it.
So the first new chapter in The Lifeguard came out earlier, and it's doing ok. Not great but also not horrible. It was never a massive success to begin with but has been fun returning to that world. My hope is the views improve but it isn't the end of the world if they don't. I recognize that this story deals with some more fringe or unpleasant activities (also Mark is an ass, as my editor likes to say). I do hope the review score improves over time but that might not happen either. Truthfully, I was just happy to get back to writing anything and this was the first thing that worked.

As I've stated previously, there will be 5 chapters in this batch for this story. What happens after that depends on how things go. I could continue with another 4 or 5 chapters if demand is there, if not, I have a backup plan to fully conclude this story. That's one of my main goals this year is scalable stories. Stories that could just stand alone in their main release batch, but could be expanded if it hits my weird little metrics of success. I also don't want to panic as much this year if a story flops, I think people got kind of sick of that last year.

Coming up on the next weekend, we have chapter 5 of The Lifeguard. In this chapter, Wendy decides she needs to get the truth from Mark about their relationship. She's not too happy about the new edition and needs to know where things stand. Will Mark tell the truth or will he weasel his way out of it.

One thing I'd like to go back to are niche stories. Stories that might not be popular with most people but challenge me a bit and mix things up. Winter's Bite was one such story and I still want to get to the sequel, which has been sitting half finished for months now. Stories like that are more for me than anyone else, to keep writing fresh and fun. I need to embrace that every so often. Something weird and quirky that makes me laugh or is just super outside of my usual material. Maybe I'll finish that WW2 military story or finally write that bizarre fantasy story that's in my head. WAIT! Don't run away yet. I'll still write my normal stuff too. Lots of fun stuff (and maybe a serious one too?) are on the horizon.

As always, thank you for reading and following along on my journey here. I'm trying to catch up after a Teacher's Pet induced break. With the holidays done and a return to my regular schedule, I'm hoping to get the ball rolling on more stuff. Comments and emails are always welcome.

Thanks,
-ghostwritten

Hello readers,

As the title suggests, this is the final blog of 2024 so it will be a longer one. Let's get into it.

So I posted the final chapter of Teacher's Pet on Saturday and I would like to thank everyone who checked it out. There were quite a few more readers in the first 24 hours than usual; the Saturday itself had more readers than most full weeks for chapters. I hope I was able to recover from the poor first few chapters and wrapped it up in a satisfying way. Feel free to let me know your thoughts in the comments.

What a crazy six months posting here. I started in June, writing and posting my first story ever to anything like this. It was an adaptation of someone else's work (Ashley's Awakening) that was really just supposed to be a clean-up job on a real old single chapter story. A change here and a thought there with the original chapter turned into 4 more completely original chapters. Next thing you know, I'm writing new stories of my own design with the modest goal of one chapter per week from that mid June until the end of August. Things changed to two chapters per week, and readership grew from there. I've now continued with at least one thing posted each week from the original June till the end of December which is really crazy.

I'd like to thank everyone who's reached out and supported me at any point, either with messages, comments, scoring, or even just read something. It has been fun watching the response to new stories and chapters dropping each week. Some have not hit as well as others, but I'm still in disbelief that anyone would read anything I write at all. Getting to write The Creek, a story idea I had more than a decade ago, and the great response to it has been a highlight of my year. I also have to thank my fantastic editor, checkmark50, for all his hard work cleaning my gibberish up into something resembling coherent legibility.

I guess you might be wondering, what's next for 2025? Well, I have a few things planned. First off, January and February will be a bit lighter but I'll still have at least one chapter a week. I'll also be continuing my once a month A Girl's Guide to Cookie Dough, on the alternate account. I will be moving to wrap that one up over the next few months though to make way for some new serials. I don't want to have too many active at one time. Sister's Servant will also start working towards a conclusion when it returns in late February or early March.

For January, you'll see the continuation of an older story, one that always seems to creep back up in the top 5 active stories in my portfolio but with the worst score on this account. When we last left Mark, he just learned that Sarah and her friend Sandy had been hired to work with Wendy in The Lifeguard. This return will continue on with his story for five more chapters with the possibility of more, if there's interest. We've also gone back and edited the older original chapters, thanks to my wonderful editor, so they should read better too.

Following that, in February, there will be a brand new story that will run for three weeks. I haven't fully decided on what that one is yet, either a hitchhiker story or a camping story. I've got stuff written and planned for both, it just comes down to which feels best and is fun. The big goal just to set the stage for the next narrative story that should hit in March. I'm fighting myself on a few ideas, all of which have merits, but seeing what might work best. I think I have three ideas to ponder but I won't go into those yet.

There is one story idea that I really hope to get to this year. If I can start it, it's likely to be the largest and longest story I'll have done. I know just from my basic idea planning that it is likely to be 20 chapters long, at minimum. I'll break them up into batches of five, with breaks for other things in between. It is a solid idea, somewhere between my longer narrative stories and my usual sex stories. It just needs time to cook first, but I'm hoping to start it in the spring. This was a glimpse into the madness of my future plans for this upcoming year. It doesn't even scratch the surface of the topics that I have written down so I've got plenty of story ideas. There might also be more returns to previous stories too, but we'll see how everything shakes out.

A sincere thank you for making my first year writing so positive. Things haven't always gone to plan and I've gotten frustrated at times, nearly quit at points, but community members have reached out and helped me through it. I look forward to this upcoming year and I hope you all stick around to see what I have in store. See you in 2025!

Respectfully yours,

-ghostwritten

Hello readers,

I'm a little late this week on the blog but I didn't want to interrupt a good writing flow last night. With how things have been the last month, it felt good get a solid number of pages written.

This past week saw a new chapter in A Girl's Guide to Cookie Dough, on the 'ghostwritten after dark' account. First thing, I said I was going to move it over to my main account. I did try but for some reason it didn't seem to work, then I just gave up since it isn't that big of deal.

As for the chapter itself, it didn't seem to hit that well with readers. Now for a story like this, with no real sexual theme or serious plot, it isn't surprising that certain chapters don't land. Can't do much about it really, I just have to hope the next one will be received better.

That being said, I think I'll start wrapping this one up over the next few months. I don't really want to have too many unfinished serials running at the same time. I will also start planning the end of Sister's Servant as well. That will likely be another 6 to 8 chapters though, so not for a few more months.

As for Teacher's Pet, what did everyone think of chapter 9? I know it was kind of a bleak chapter but I hope I didn't lose too many of you. This upcoming week will mercifully be the finale. I hope the final chapter will be worth the time you all put in to reading this thing.

All of you who stuck through all ten chapters are the reason I'm still here. Many of you have reached out and offered support and guidance when it first came out and bombed. I can't thank you enough for everything and just for reading this, and all my other, stuff.

Due to the holidays, Teacher's Pet will be the only thing posted this week. I had hoped to have something for Christmas but it just didn't work out. I'll write a blog next weekend for the end of 2024 and what might be coming in 2025.

Once again, thank you to everyone who's ever read my gibberish. I hope you had fun, got off, or had a laugh. Talk to you one last time before 2025.
-ghostwritten