Ink Raindrops

This month’s winner, that is.  It was a showdown between the most juvenile and adult stories on Ink Raindrops this month, but the dice decided in favor of blood.  I have a good idea for where this next chapter will go, for a change, so I’m eager to get it done.  I can’t bother to procrastinate this time, either, as my beloved husband and editor has a birthday at the end of May.  Time to knock this one out of the park, so that we can spend the long Memorial Day weekend trying to grill in the rain.  Anyone for chicken with rain-chili glaze?

Oh yes – some business, while you have a moment.  It has come to my attention that my World of Warcraft fanfic, Shadow and Flame, rarely receives votes.  When it does get them, it’s from my husband, who will admit to these things if pressed.  I suspect that most of my current readers aren’t involved with WoW, and that may be part of the reason.  In a fit of egotism, I also choose to consider the possibility that my original concepts are more enjoyable and interesting.  (Correct me, at length, if my assumptions are false.)  This, combined with the massive overhauling of the game itself via the next expansion, will render pretty much everything I have written nonexistent.  It will be a peek into WoW’s past, but I can no longer accurately look at what I am writing once that happens, and I fear that will impact my progress.

So here’s my thought.  I don’t want to remove it from the site, since it’s good writing and something I enjoyed doing.  However, I’m not sure that there’s any merit in keeping it available for votes when it doesn’t seem to be a priority for you all (or, really, for me.)  Unless there are any firm objections, I’m planning on taking it the way of Blank Slate – that is to say, I will leave it up, but only for posterity.  There will not be any further updates or continuations unless I someday decide to change my mind.  That is, after all, what it is currently doing.  If you like the number four, I guess you’ll just have to vote for a new story…  otherwise, the usual suspects are lined up and ready to rock!

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