As of time of writing, the first chapter of Like Mother Like Daughter  is done, pending payment and client approval! I really enjoyed working on this one—in ways I'll refrain from mentioning until I have the story in your hands. Like Bodyslyde, LMLD took me ever so slightly out of my comfort zone—or rather, it made me develop characters in a way I'm not used to, which is an essential creative exercise, so I'm very grateful to the commissioner for requesting such a story!

Speaking of Bodyslyde, that will be my next project. It's been a bit since we last heard from Stelle and I owe it to her and you to get that story back up and running.

I'll probably take tomorrow off from writing and planning, then get to Bodyslyde on Wednesday, and write from there. Sometime this week I'll put up a supporter poll for which story to continue next after Bodyslyde, and try to let that run for a few days while I finish the BS chapter.

Thank you all for your continued interest and support. I truly do love writing for you.

Remember, remember, 11 November.

With OEI Ch2 finished, I'm onto my next project: Working title "Like Mother Like Daughter!" A commission in which a distant, overachieving mother and her anxious, nonstarter daughter learn to get along better, without any help from nefarious or corrupting influences.

As a comm, Like Mother Like Daughter takes priority—but on the backburner I'm workshopping a new fanfic. I've been playing a lot of TurtleWoW recently (a World of Warcraft Vanilla romhack) which has me in the mood to emulate the great Mesmer5128, who is hands-down the best induction writer I've read and a source of continuing inspiration to me. I recommend A Thick Draenei and a Thicker Plot as a starting point. Anyway, recency bias and the mere-exposure effect both have me hankering for something set in the titular World of Warcraft (roll credits) and I have the core of an idea already formed—specifically, paring a pleasant and unusually idealistic Warlock with a haughty, arrogant Paladin. And then doing to them both what I do best. I don't have Mesmer's command of the setting, so no doubt my story will be lore-breaking (or at least bending) in the extreme, but the cartoonishness of Warcraft has a certain appeal for an author who revels in the absurd.

So, the good news is that this OEI chapter is coming along fantastically and is already 8.5k words.
The bad news is it'll probably be another day of writing, followed by a day spent editing (revision + proofread) before it's done. So I've overshot my planned release date (which would have been today) but I have been writing apace so I'm not sweating it too severely.
So long as I am writing, I figure that's the number one thing. This is less a missed deadline and more a "oops, I scope-creeped the chapter a little bit," which I did.

tl;dr the updated release date for Overwatch Entertainment Industry is Wednesday 6 November or Thursday 7 November. Thank you for your patience and support!

So it's been—what, a week, since we started this up? Thank you to you who have already subscribed, and to everyone who reads and enjoys my work. I constantly remind myself just how fortunate I am to have enthusiastic readers who share my interests and obsessions.

ZZZ - All Cops Are Buttsluts has now been released publicly, in full. For my money, it still reads best off the PDF. At some point in the future I'll reevaluate a public library of my works so everyone can read them the way they're meant to be read. While the Substar is still in its infancy, however, I'll keep that a subscriber perk. Eventually, though, if we get enough people onboard that polling can be the primary draw of subscribing, I'd like my work to be free (after the early access delay, which in the world of writing I don't think is all that painful).

Things I'm doing right now: Overwatch Entertainment Industries! Just over 2k words into the second chapter, and loving it. D.Va Gets An Upgrade was my big popoff fanfic, though I did eventually allow it to lapse for. . . reason I no longer remember, frankly. But following the lapse, I was always so hesitant to pick up where I left off, because I was plagued by such artistic demons as "are you going to accept that you're a one-hit wonder?" and the like.

Doing commissioned work has bolstered my ego significantly (thank you, those who patronize me) and now I'm happy to revisit Overwatch fanfiction without the pressure of living up to the D.Va story—I'll write what I want to write, analytics be damned! Or something like that.

It also helps that Juno is ridiculously hot and therefore a ridiculously effective motivator.

My goal is to have this second chapter done this week, probably about 5–6k words in total, and then I start work on my next comm—a mother/daughter corruption story that I'm also really looking forward to!