Getting it out of the brain and onto the screen took a lot of writing, erasing, re-dos, and edits. Oh, it's long existed in snippets and outlines, but seeing the two express their love for each other and settle in for their "Happily Ever. It's refreshing to finally have Alize and Hudson's happy ending typed up. The story will be made available on Pastebin, as updates to the currently available document. Hopefully the entire story will be available for reading within a month! Right now the bottleneck is time for those final spellcheck/proofing passes. These will be posted far more aggressively than in the past. Hopefully the quality of the individual chapters and the characters can make up for the meandering pacing.Ībout 10 chapters remain for Thief and Healer. Am not currently planning to revise the entire story, or abridge it, since that would take considerable time which is not currently available. A lot of very justified criticism about the pacing has been posted, and all of it has been saved as notes alongside the story's chapters.
Putting this story together over the past nine months has eaten a lot of hours. It's been a very solid learning experience, and the characters are quite pleasant to write for even if their adventures are difficult to do justice! Alize's steam-stripping in this latest chapter, the scene with Hudson and Alize escaping the grave dirt trap, and many other little teasing interactions between the two were all opportunities to work on unusual perspectives, action scenes, and believable dialog.
Writing this presented a lot of really interesting challenges. The final draft clocks in at over 80,700 words. Originally, this story was supposed to be five chapters long, 10k words at the max. All the teasing scenes are written, the boss fight is complete, and the final wholesome smut scene of two adventurers in the baths is also finished. No more new ideas, no more last-minute edits, just a final revision pass for clarity and spelling. Yes, this has happened before, but feature creep messed everything up. Thief and Healer is finally completely drafted. As she tries to tease Hudson into letting those base urges drag him right into her arms, she finds a steamy way to give him a strip-tease!Ĭurrent tags: Tiefling rogue/Human healer, fantasy setting, combat, blood, teasing, handholding, stripping, references to assorted sexual acts /lgbt/ - Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, & Transgender.