Welcome to the sandbox.

This is my attempt at something different. An experiment or a mental exercise, if you will.

I've written a number of fan fiction works, but only a handful of them are truly unique ideas. A lot of them are very short stories or scenes based on character studies, exercises in seeing how personalities bounce off each other. Most of them will probably never leave my hard drive, but one or two might end up here. And in an effort not to bore people with rehashed plots, I will only attempt to publish stories that have a newer concept, or a direction which other writers don't usually go.

I write what's on my mind. This is only a hobby for me, and all of my work is done purely for the enjoyment of writing it.

I make no apologies if I offend anyone's sensibilities. I don't set out to annoy people, but somehow I know invariably will. I also do my best to double check my work, but sometimes you can't help what gets past your eyes, or those of your beta reader.

Things I have learned from this experiment (so far):

- The first few drafts always suck.
- The muse will only talk whenever she wants to.
- When she does talk, she goes on for hours.
- I wish allowed me to specify more than 2 genres.
- Sometimes, you just have to re-write a few chapters.
- And sometimes, you just have to scrap 1 or 2 chapters altogether.
- Adding more polish after a chapter has been beta'd isn't smart as there's nobody to catch your typos unless you have it re-beta'd.
- Some beta readers are vengeful wenches and will probably let a typo slip just to make you look like an idiot.
- Apparently, I have been rude to the few folk who have left reviews. So I made my first ever author's note to thank them.
- Password protect your laptops. You never know what nosy betas will find.
- The relationship between artistic expression and the emotional state of an artist makes sense now.
- Regardless of how well you made your plot outline, you might still end up with an extra chapter...or 3...to cover a plot point.
- Some fans of harem manga do not like harem fan fiction. Go figure.
- I think I now understand what Ryoji Kaji must have felt like.
- Never underestimate the dirty mind of a female beta. No matter how smutty I write something, they can come up with a dozen ways to make it smuttier.
- Some people like to send you PM's and expect you to reply back even though they disabled incoming PM's to their accounts.
- Sometimes, the easiest plot is the hardest to write.
- There really is such a thing as too many hands in the pot.
- Despite how much a story offends them, some people will keep reading it for some reason.
- Sometimes, you really have to take a bunch of steps backward in order to move forward with a story.
- This isn't easy. Kudos to you folk who do this for a living.

Work in progress:

Princess Heritage - 73 chapters written, 66 chapters published (exclusively on )
Chapter status: 67-72 under review and A LOT of rework.

Update (7/3/2015)

I got a few plot suggestions from some of you readers and that got my betas and I talking. Turns out, each of the girls wished that the plot 'arc'ed' somewhat differently in various parts of the story and we had a fun discussion of how that could have turned out. It was an enjoyable exercise, and seeing that my collection of OMAKE for this story is upwards of 100k words now there were plenty of different directions the story could have gone. The 'round-file', as I call it, is full of conversations, scenes, and premises, that really didn't work for me. I'm considering putting it up as an 'out-takes' anthology like some of the authors here so I can share some of the ideas I played around with. Hopefully you all won't mind the typos as these never did go through betas.

Oh, and thanks for the reviews.