To My Sunflower Is Contracted to Webnovel.com

I signed a #Webnovel contract, handing over To My Sunflower to them a few days back. 

I'm expected to finish the book to contract, which I intend to do by the new year at least in draft format. 

This is a big leap for me, and I'm honestly not sure how it will go. Especially when routines to uploading may need to align to a business schedule. Still waiting on confirmation of that. For now, all updates are set to draft.

There's also reader reception.  For now, I've been lucky with a handful of nice comments and wonderful reviews. Most due to swap reviews. 

Once this story is in more of a public eye, it could be a different reception.

It contains LGBTQ and an impression that US had more going on in Japan's mainland during their war with them in 1945.  So, it may spark some opinions on the matter. I guess historical fiction of any kind can do that.

Non-historical fiction writers don't realise the risk taken when creatively writing a perspective of a time that actually happened.  Although, I'm doing my best to keep perspectives fictional and hyperbole. There's a chance it might ruffle a feather.  Not much I can do on that matter, other than writing out the story as respectfully and objectively as I can.

I'll focus to finish.

What does this mean for Tapread?

I'm permitted to leave all the current chapters up on Tapread.com for the time being. Any new chapters will published on Webnovel exclusively going forward.  So, as far as Tapread goes, there are no changes made currently.

Once the book is completed, I'll likely need to remove Tapread's chapters. This will be a few months away. By this time, any potential readers will have been made aware of the version at Webnovel.

What does this mean for all other books?

They will still continue to Tapread, when I get around to them.  Right now, my focus is to finish Sunflower. 

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Evolving Out of Web Fiction

It's been my Achilles heel for some time - web fiction.  I love to write out the weirdness pooling around my brain regardless of audience presence. Although, I don't know of a writer who doesn't write for one. Even if it's an imaginary mob in one's head.

The more I keep to my method of posing and sharing my fiction through blogger and other free-for-all post-share-as-you-go channels, I realise writing this way is a lonely world.  It always makes me feel as if I've been dumped into the middle of a swinging party but as a ghost where all I can do is watch and dream.

I've been writing web fiction through blogger and similar sites since 2006 but have yet to achieve anything of it. My blogger audience has consisted of ad-crawl bots and system referrers from a "good time" site to a "shag a lot" site.

I must admit that I have been inconsistent and absent at times. Real life will do that to your passions.

So the time has come to admit a truth.

I'm ditching the whole web fiction method when it comes to works I've decided to publish.  This means that the stories below will continue to be offline and eventually made available into traditional (self published) titles.

• Original Music Makes
• Seriphyn Knight

For stories that I have decided to make web fiction will be posted to Wattpad.   No more blogger.

That's not to say I won't re-purpose the current sites for these stories. I'm sharpening up my digital art skills to turn them into something fabulous. So stay tuned.

It has been a history of fun posting web fiction on blogger. Unfortunately, it's an outdated channel for this sort of writing.

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Thanks blogger for being support to my web fiction dreams, and continue to take care of me for everything else.

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