Been working a lot of Sundays as of late, trying to get things done before the snow is piled up in front of my door. Today though, I’m a hundred miles from home, with nothing precise to accomplish. Lunch will at some point be on the agenda, but until then:

Flashpoint - minor language bits. I think I also added some small hints about the growing emotional connection between Jadyn and Tari to this or Intentions, that will be much better explained later on. (Yes, I’ve actually started planning ahead. Shocked me, too)

Intentions - minor language bits, a significant tidbit added near the beginning regarding the attack on the Serin. It also would appear that January 5th is Jadyn’s Terran birthday. I’ll have to fix my spreadsheet (which would also require installing the application) but as far as I can remember that particular calendar date lines up with his Val’Traxan birthday only on the actual day of his birth.

Dissemination - language bits. A little bit of exposition involving alien anatomy. I’ve for a long time grappled with how much sexual content to show in my works. I’ve written quite a fair amount of erotic content (again, keep in mind, when I first started writing I was a teenager with raging hormones and this was my outlet ^_^ ) but I’ve never posted it for a variety of reasons:

  1. My old hosting provider may not have appreciated that sort of content. I don’t believe the current one would care, so this is sort of a write-off.
  2. At the time, I was underage. Probably not a good idea to post that sort of content when I’m 15. Again, no longer an issue. Long since no longer an issue… Christ, I’m going to be 30 in another month and a half.
  3. People I actually know may read this and I’m not entirely sure how that makes me feel.
  4. People I don’t actually know may read this, and I’m not entirely sure how that makes me feel, either.

All in all there’s a lot of erotic literature out there on the internet, some of it VERY well written (sex comes secondary to the story, or is intertwined with it in such a way as to not detract from the story) and some of it not so well done. All in all, sex is an important part of human nature, regardless of how we try to hide it. I’m just not sure where I personally should draw the line in the sand. The idea ‘if you can’t show it to your mother, you shouldn’t show anyone’ may be fitting, but as she hasn’t seen most of this work in over 10 years I’m not really following that rule either.

By the way, if anyone would find it convenient, I can post links to the text-only versions of what I’ve already put up. I’ve stopped littering my internal documents with HTML markup for formatting and am purely using Markdown. It’s easier to read without <i>Formatting Codes</i> scattered all over the place.