Pandion Post: January 4 – Welcome to the New Year!
Alternatively, new year, same me. I had a good, productive, and busy week off. I wrote for myself a fair bit, caught up with friends, and generally tried my best to take a big breath out. Last year was a great year for me, and I have no resolution for this year other than to keep it up: I wrote a ton, took pretty good care of myself, and even went to Japan! It was a busy year, though, and I'm looking forward to things being a little less hectic this year. I'll be writing just as much, but hopefully I'll have a little more mental headroom.
The Woman Made of Monsters goes public today, and I'm excited, and a little afraid, to see if there'll be any sort of public response to it. WMoM is something I'm very proud of, but it's also a vanity project—something I wrote almost as much to prove I could as anything else. It's a lot less porny than my other work (at least in this first book), and there's a certain irony in that a porn writer writing something with little porn is self-indulgent, when the opposite holds true for traditional writers. Make no mistake: I love porn writing. I also love traditional writing. WMoM was an attempt at both, and thus runs the risk of being too fetishistic for traditional readers and too slow burn for porn readers (and don't say it isn't. I'm a porn reader. I know.).
Regardless of public reception, I wrote WMoM for myself, and I loved writing it, and I'm proud of it.
Tomorrow, as voted, I start work on Dragon Tamer Neeko 2. This one should be good fun—look forward to it.