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~BenRioteWorks
Welcome one and all! I tend to write Warcraft-based smut more than anything, so if you're into that, great! If not, well, I might be branching out into other topics before too long, too! I had a tumblr for just over two years writing specifically Warcraft smut, but since tumblr's down the tubes I figure the change of scenery to Furaffinity might give me a little more freedom. To those of you coming from tumblr, thank you for continuing to read! For the new readers, welcome! Any and all feedback is highly encouraged!
I'm also sorry I'm such a sporadic poster. I dunno if I'll ever be as consistent as I'd like, but I try. Striking this out for now, 'cause I've been hellishly productive lately, not to mention I've had enough restraint not to post everything at once. I'm back, baby!
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The Gears are Turning... Slowly
a month ago
So, I'm gonna lead into this by admitting that I probably shouldn't ever say I'm *back*, because between time constraints, parenting, work, family, and muse, I may just never be consistent. I *want* to be, I really do. I'd love to be another artist/writer who engages with everyone and posts on a weekly or bi-weekly basis all the time. I'm just not sure if I'm capable of it, no matter how many times I've tried it.
That being said, hello again! Hope everyone's well. Despite how quiet I've been since my boyo's birth, I actually *have* been writing. My time is minimal and my muse has been sketchy at best, but most recently things have changed for the better. Eliza got a new job, so she's down to working one instead of two, got a pay bump, and drastically changed her schedule, and by extension, mine. If I swing things right, I can get in a little time both in the morning and in the evening, and since I was able to put down the new FFVII after beating the main plot (I still gotta plat it) I've had a burst of creative energy to write with. I'm working on some corrections and changes for some commissions that I hadn't gotten to yet, but my actual commission backlog is empty otherwise, for the moment. I'll have some more work coming up, but not immediately, so in the meantime I'm trying to recombobulate my collection a little.
I have SO MANY GOT-DANG UNFINISHED STORIES.
It makes me sick to see, and I feel especially bad about some of them that have been pretty well-received and relatively popular. And the sucky part is, as much as I *want* to finish them, I just banged out an entirely new story that ended up around 11k words, and started another one that will be extremely relevant to some of the others later. Muses are fickle goddesses.
As far as commissions too, I have more finished ones than I've let on that are part of an overarching canon. I *want* to post them too, but my commissioner started me halfway through, and I can't justify posting them until I can go back and do the original ones first. Whenever that happens... I'll have enough weekly posts to last me over a year. No joke.
So in short... I haven't done much more on Quela yet, or Blood Isn't Everything, I have some more on Drenan's Folly I can post... I'm just all over the damn place. My end goal will be to complete ALL of them someday, but there are some that I don't even know how they're gonna end yet. I don't do the outline thing, it just doesn't work for me. I think I did it for The Shadowclaw Urge, and I threw it out about four parts in.
The other crappy part is I can write like mad, but actual posting is trickier. The formatting won't be right if I just copy and paste my google doc text onto a notepad doc, unless I put in [i] brackets as I write, or go back and add them later. *Then* I gotta make thumbnails, separate the writing parts into individual docs, throw them into postybirb, get all my tags in a row, and it's just... a lot. It's a lot that I can't do unless I'm at my desktop, and I can't be at the desktop unless my kiddo is asleep or at daycare. I do most of my writing on a tablet nowadays, which is nice 'cause it lets me write from the living room while being with my family, but it's too limited to be able to post much as far as I know.
TL;DR: Technical difficulties and motivational issues make Ben a dull writer.
That being said, I promise I am *trying*. I wanna get some new stuff out to you all as soon as I'm capable. I miss watching the views go up and getting to reply to comments. It's so nice to have validation for what I do in this tiny, niche corner of the internet. I also wanna see how Drenan's Folly ends. That story still means a lot to me. You guys are the best.
Cheers,
Ben
That being said, hello again! Hope everyone's well. Despite how quiet I've been since my boyo's birth, I actually *have* been writing. My time is minimal and my muse has been sketchy at best, but most recently things have changed for the better. Eliza got a new job, so she's down to working one instead of two, got a pay bump, and drastically changed her schedule, and by extension, mine. If I swing things right, I can get in a little time both in the morning and in the evening, and since I was able to put down the new FFVII after beating the main plot (I still gotta plat it) I've had a burst of creative energy to write with. I'm working on some corrections and changes for some commissions that I hadn't gotten to yet, but my actual commission backlog is empty otherwise, for the moment. I'll have some more work coming up, but not immediately, so in the meantime I'm trying to recombobulate my collection a little.
I have SO MANY GOT-DANG UNFINISHED STORIES.
It makes me sick to see, and I feel especially bad about some of them that have been pretty well-received and relatively popular. And the sucky part is, as much as I *want* to finish them, I just banged out an entirely new story that ended up around 11k words, and started another one that will be extremely relevant to some of the others later. Muses are fickle goddesses.
As far as commissions too, I have more finished ones than I've let on that are part of an overarching canon. I *want* to post them too, but my commissioner started me halfway through, and I can't justify posting them until I can go back and do the original ones first. Whenever that happens... I'll have enough weekly posts to last me over a year. No joke.
So in short... I haven't done much more on Quela yet, or Blood Isn't Everything, I have some more on Drenan's Folly I can post... I'm just all over the damn place. My end goal will be to complete ALL of them someday, but there are some that I don't even know how they're gonna end yet. I don't do the outline thing, it just doesn't work for me. I think I did it for The Shadowclaw Urge, and I threw it out about four parts in.
The other crappy part is I can write like mad, but actual posting is trickier. The formatting won't be right if I just copy and paste my google doc text onto a notepad doc, unless I put in [i] brackets as I write, or go back and add them later. *Then* I gotta make thumbnails, separate the writing parts into individual docs, throw them into postybirb, get all my tags in a row, and it's just... a lot. It's a lot that I can't do unless I'm at my desktop, and I can't be at the desktop unless my kiddo is asleep or at daycare. I do most of my writing on a tablet nowadays, which is nice 'cause it lets me write from the living room while being with my family, but it's too limited to be able to post much as far as I know.
TL;DR: Technical difficulties and motivational issues make Ben a dull writer.
That being said, I promise I am *trying*. I wanna get some new stuff out to you all as soon as I'm capable. I miss watching the views go up and getting to reply to comments. It's so nice to have validation for what I do in this tiny, niche corner of the internet. I also wanna see how Drenan's Folly ends. That story still means a lot to me. You guys are the best.
Cheers,
Ben
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Rock n' Roll, Alt Rock
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Ghost Rider, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure
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World of Warcraft
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Playstation 4, PC, Nintendo Switch
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Lion
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homestarrunner.com
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The unhealthy kind.
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Ask not for who the bone bones, it bones for thee.
Suel