Darwin2005

A new drabble added to the collection called "Impressions"!  Please take a moment to look it over!  Read and review to your heart's content!
          	
          	https://www.wattpad.com/story/229392501-darwin%27s-drabbles

Darwin2005

Hi all... I know, I have been sporadic to the utmost when it comes to posting here.
          
          Guess the lack of traction for my works has something to do with it. (No pity parties, just an observation of facts).  It gets harder and harder to shout into the void hoping for just an echo in return.
          
          Wattpad, it seems, has a very particular clientele and finding an audience with prose that doesn't include a romance hook seems to be getting more and more difficult to find.
          
          Never really gravitating toward the genre myself, I don't really write it.  (I have relationships in my stories, they just aren't necessarily the focal point of the story).
          
          I mean my favorite author growing up was a woman who took a man's pseudonym so she could write science fiction and get taken seriously in the 50's and 60's, even those didn't really have romance aspects.
          
          So I am mulling whether it's worth continuing to post my novel WIPs here, or whether I just fall back to FictionPress where I can see what my audience is doing, and where I get feedback on a more regular basis.  If I decide to discontinue posting here I may pop in with more drabbles as I get them written.  Those seem to be something people were interested when I was posting regularly.
          
          I truly am grateful for those who followed me here, those who read and reviewed my works.  I've made some very good acquaintances here.  I am also very grateful to have found this place in that I have found some stories I never would have been exposed to if not for Wattpad.
          
          Whether I continue to post my stories or not, I will be keeping my profile, because I still have people  whose stories I'm very much interested in continuing to read! 
          
          I will post again when I make a final decision on all this.  Still pondering.

Darwin2005

Hello followers!  Wanted to drop a note here to let you know that I revamped the prologue to Saying No because I completely omitted Michael's 18th birthday (which would have fallen on the summer between Relations and Saying No.)  Please take a moment to read it again if you like.  The basic story is the same, so you're not missing a ton if you don't want to reread.
          https://www.wattpad.com/1336721463-saying-no-is-harder-than-it-sounds-prologue

Darwin2005

For those of you wondering why I haven't posted a whole lot in the past few weeks, the cover above (or below) should say it all.  I am in the process of editing my latest short story collection "Tales of Victor Sierra" which I am now doing final proofs of.  Thanks for those who have been patiently awaiting more Saying No or Nathan's Tales!  Hopefully once this is out of the way I will have better headspace for those efforts.  The story will go live on September 30th, but the Kindle Preorder is live now!
          
          https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CGWB797S

Darwin2005

Good Morning!  Several bits of news!  First off I have posted two new stories!
           This is the Way the World Ends is the first of them.  As a sequel to Tales of Victor Sierra, it extends Jacob's and Enrique's story as they try to survive the nuclear accident in 2403. https://www.wattpad.com/story/339075784-this-is-the-way-the-world-ends
          
          The other is "Saying No"  the fourth installment to Michael's journey through high school has begun!  Michael's senior year isn't getting any easier when he hosts a mutant from Japan - or that she's seven feet tall without her wings.  https://www.wattpad.com/story/340120579-saying-no-is-harder-than-it-sounds
          
          The other news is I will be pulling Midnight and Relations down (For very different reasons).  Midnight is out of time with the season (And really gained no traction).  Relations is going into private beta to prepare it for publishing.  Thank you to everyone who read them!  Time to refresh the offerings!

Darwin2005

Annnnndddd.... Michael: Relations is FINISHED!  WOOT!  Thank you to everyone who has read and supported the story!  I know it's not nearly print worthy at this point, but I've got a solid foundation with which to build more of the story!  
          https://www.wattpad.com/story/259967749-michael-relations
          
          That means, I can start looking at the previous material I had for the next (final?) book in Michael's high school experience, "Saying No."
          
          In the mean time, I've got to get on the next chapter of World Ends...