Hey y’all. Just a question. Would anyone like a choose-your-own-adventure commission? I posted one earlier this week but never really had the chance to compare those and my regular writing.

Let’s say 1 spot, similar length to “Involuntary Confinement”, for $200 (CLOSED! Thanks!)

If you’re interested but think it’s too short / too expensive, etc, let me know as well. As always, all feedback is welcome here ^^

Okay so website subscribers will know I broke my hand a while ago, and I haven’t been able to write this whole time. Now my laptop died. Boo.

The point is that I’m bored as hell. I need to be constantly doing things, but I can’t get myself to dictate fiction.

But it turns out I can dictate nonfiction.

Question for y’all: Would anyone get value from a guide to writing? It would be everything I know about prose. With real examples.

If it is well received, I’ll also dictate a guide to creating an engaging story.

Anyways. I’m off to mindlessly scroll Twitter now. Byeee

As the commissioner, the story is yours for personal AND commercial use. This is one of the least restrictive licenses you'll find in the furry fandom :)

You CAN:
- Post, publish, distribute
- Sell copies for profit
- Modify it
- Use it, or parts of it

You CAN'T:
- Claim you wrote it
- Use it in ways contrary to the spirit of the work (eg. can't present it to Congress as an example of furry degeneracy)
- Use it in an illegal manner
- Sell your rights under this license

You MUST:
- Cite me as the author and include a link to my FA or website

(In legal jargon: By commissioning me, you are granted a non-exclusive, non-transferrable, irrevocable license to use, modify, publish, or otherwise make available to the public the piece for both personal and commercial purposes. However, I reserve the moral rights to my work, including the rights of paternity, integrity, and association. This agreement is subject to Canadian law.)

This is gonna stir up some controversy I just know it. But that's okay. I think challenging the established way of doing things is an important part of innovation.

I was lying in bed sick as a dog (or wolf?) when a question came to me. Why do writers charge by the word? Readers don't go and count the number of words in a story. There's little correlation between wordcount and quality. Wordcount is merely a proxy for the time and effort to produce the work. Imagine commissioning an artist that charged by the hour, how frustrating would that be?

"Hi, I quote you 13.5 hours for this illustration" sounds crazy. "Hi, this will be 2500 words" sounds sane? Baffling.

So I reflected on all my previous commissions. It turns out, for a few stories, I felt the urge to pad the word count. For others, I cut good scenes to stay within a certain range. Why? Because they are fundamentally different types of stories. I identified three broad types: (Yes, I gave them cutesy names. Let me live my life lmao)

1) Taste Tester: A short and intense scene, no setup, no resolution.
2) Nose to Tail: A story focused on getting the characters through a single scene or idea. Usually has a beginning, climax, and end.
3) Long and Thick: A long-short-story or novelette length work where the characters act out their motivations across multiple scenes. This has several points of intensity. You definitely a sense of an arc for these.

I can effortlessly classify all my previous stories into one of these three categories. To me that's validation enough. So... I did the thing I'm known for. I tore up the whole base structure of my porn writing: charging by the word. In the future I will charge by the category. Tbh the actual wordcount doesn't factor into the complexity of the story at all. It's the planning pre-writing that consumes most of my time. For those that know me well enough, y'all'd know I'm not a plotter. Most of the delivery time I give for commissions is time for me to load the premise into my unconscious and wait for a juicy story to drop.

For example, the Taste Tester stories have little complexity, since it goes straight into sexiness. The Long and Thick stories, on the other hand, have tons of interweaving elements. They take a long time to develop. Right now, I have one in this category that's been loaded in my unconscious for a week and half now. The last one I did, I took it on vacation with me. Thinking about porn on the ferry while watching the islands of the Georgian Bay pass by me was a unique experience.

You, the commissioner, is the big beneficiary of this structure. The stories you get from me will no longer constrained by the wordcount, and you no longer have to worry whether you're getting the best bang for your buck. You're paying for the results depending on the type of story you want. Not the number of words.

Kind of like the Sketch -> Flat Shade -> Full Render pricing scheme by most artists. It's focused on what the customer wants, rather than the metadata of the piece...

Idk, it just makes sense to me.

Thoughts? I'm rambling again.

New pricing scheme: https://jimmybelvins.com/commissions-info/.

Today we say our farewells to one of the greatest of all time. Good luck out there, old man.

This one hits hard. You might have noticed that the namesake of this account was one of Cormac’s characters. He’s been my writing inspiration since the beginning. Sad to see him go. Really.

“Life is brief and to have to spend every day of it doing what somebody else wants you to do is not the way to live it.” —Cormac McCarthy, Oprah interview

I think our time is up.
I know. Hold my hand.
Hold your hand?
Yes. I want you to.
All right. Why?
Because that’s what people do when they’re waiting for the end of something.
— from Stella Maris

Hello Friends,

I did something either extremely smart or extremely stupid.

I made my own website! https://jimmybelvins.com/

The purpose of the website is to transition away from Patreon and FA and Twitter. Being platform-locked gives me anxiety. With all the Terms of Service changes at FA, the whole Reddit API, furry Twitter's seasonal mass psychosis, it doesn't feel good to build an audience on these platforms. Especially for someone who writes stuff that often dances the TOS line.

My website allows me to take my audience (you lovely people) away from the claws of the platforms. That way I can reach people more easily. I can also start writing harsher stuff. I think it's worth it, even if it means moving to a free-account-registration system.

So as of today, I've suspended Patreon billing. It's been less than a month since my Patreon launch, so thankfully there's no double-billing issues here. The raffle will still be conducted among the Bound & Executive tier members on June 15th. Voting will be honored. If you just signed up and feel like you're wronged by this change, please message me and we can figure something out.

The website is really pretty. I made it specifically for reading. Will you check it out? Go to https://jimmybelvins.com/ and make an account. You can delete it at any time.

Will discuss the future of the Patreon later. Let me take a nap. I've been working nonstop for 3 days. :)

Thank you.
JB

I'm going to step up the benefits for higher Patreon tiers. Let's start with this. Bound and Executive members can now vote for the next story (comes out in 2-3 weeks, queue depending). Here are the options:

1. Facility Change Management - An engineer working at The Facility gets mistakenly taken as a new trainee.
2. IO Stream - A streamer gives viewers access to their sex toys for money. A hacker has other plans
3. Indecent Exposure - Hidden public bondage goes terribly wrong when a sub loses his/her master in a crowded place. Its hard to ask for help with a gag under your mask
4. Winner Takes All - A slave is promised freedom in exchange for competing and winning a competition that pits slaves against each other in increasingly more demanding sexual situations
5. Work Life Balance - A sub’s self-chastity is discovered at work. Of course the boss wants the key. Maybe this will motivate him to be productive?
6. More COS stories!

Take your pick: https://www.patreon.com/posts/patre.....ory-1-84389852

Alright y'all. Public service time. I was looking at fiction writing courses for a friend earlier and they're all so wishy washy. And they're all 7 hours long. Bleh. Wanna write better? You don't need a course. Just do these five concrete things next time you write to achieve better prose.

1) Remove filter words

Filter words are descriptive phrasing that filters perception through a character's POV. For example: "he saw flashes of white and heard the deafening gunshots", "she smelled smoke as she took a whiff".

They're fine sentences. But you don't need to tell me, the reader, that he heard these things or she smelled them. "Lights flashed, followed by deafening booms" makes it more visceral for the reader. Also, "The room smelled like smoke." Be simple.

The more obvious filter words relate to immediate senses. Heard, seen, felt, tasted, etc. Other filter phrases include: he tilted his head, she found herself, anything that describe a character's process of obtaining a sensory description. Most of these can be omitted, unless you need them for story effect.

2) Un-compound your sentences

Readers are lazy. There's not been a best-selling book in this century with a reading difficulty higher than 8th grade. So forget what your English teacher said, and improve reading flow by breaking up your compound sentences. Like this. You can start sentences with "but", "so", "end", "also", etc. There are no rules to English grammar. Only guidelines.

Also un-compound your paragraphs. A paragraph should have one single purpose. Forget literary convention and focus on readability instead.

3) Do or do not, there is no try

This is a personal pet peeve. I see a lot of "he began walking towards" or "she tried to inhale". These things are really disruptive for your prose. There's no 'began walking'... How does someone begin walking? If you mean "he hovered his foot over the ledge", just say that. If not, just say "he walked".

This relates to show, don't tell. Which is a really overused trope that nobody understands. But in this case, show the action, instead of telling the intention. Action > Sensation > Thought > Intention. A book with only actions reads brilliantly. A book with only intentions is a manifesto.

As an aside, this is also the source of Stephen King's prohibition on adverbs. Adverbs tell intention. Intentions are weak. "He said angrily" is better phrased as "he snarled".

4) Detail is in the eye of the beholder

Another one that bogs down the reader. Are your readers dropping off? You may be describing too much. Detail does not make for immersion. Immersive detail does.

All modern fiction have a fixed POV. We don't use 3rd person omniscient anymore and even if you did, you wouldn't get enough practice to do it well. If there is a POV, that means all descriptions and details come from the POV character. That means the POV character must have a reason to notice such a thing.

For example, a POV character running away from a murderer would not notice the color of the bricks or the fullness of garbage bins along the street. He might notice places to hide. He'll definitely hear the murderer's footsteps, though. Fill in your details to the level that the character might notice.

5) Mind the meter

Meter is flow. Rhythmic structure. Cadence. The source of all the "this reads nicely" feels when reading a published work. Resist the urge to write long sentences that don't also have meter. There is nothing worse than pushing through a long sentence only to find another long sentence right after it. It's just blah blah blah all the way through.

Achieving a sense of rhythm in your prose will take practice. Reading will not help your cadence. Try copy work. Take a book with great rhythm and excellent prose and copy it line by line. This way you train your brain to recognize cadence. Then edit your work (mostly by removing and rearranging phrases) until it feels right. Early on in my career I copied The Old Man And The Sea word for word. This one thing taught me the writing craft more than anything else.

Y'all, having to do the Patreon exclusives for COS is draining my creative energy lmao. I'm spinning my wheels here coming up with interesting exclusives that don't really contribute anything to the story. Best case, they are objects of curiosity. Worst case, they drag out the narrative and make the story seem much slower than it actually is... I spent so long plotting this thing, it would be a shame for it to be derailed by side stories.

Patreon exclusives will be reserved for one-off, exciting short stories instead of on a per-chapter basis. The main chapters will be Patreon early access. I'll just do a mass release once a month on FA. If you can wait that long, then the series will be completely free ^^

But I do appreciate your support. I can't believe I have 31 patrons after 20 days of Patreon <3

Is there interest for a PermaCage story? I'm kinda itching to write one so I'm accepting one slot (1k-2k words) for PermaCage.

This can take place in Pleax Industries (https://www.furaffinity.net/view/52328567/) or any other context you want.

It'll be my standard rate unless you want me to work with Pleax to bundle that with art. He's very open to this. Then we can talk numbers ^^

DM?

Fellas, folks, and friends,

From today onward, I'd like to guarantee your happiness when you buy stories from me.

Woke up early today to do some thinking, and landed on an interesting question: On a scale of 1 to 10, how satisfied is the average commissioner with what they get?

You guys can do this thought exercise in your heads. Out of all the art and writing you've ever bought, how many of them were 10/10? I commission art sometimes. In my experience, the average is around a 7/10. I post the ones I really like.

This begs the question. How happy are you with the stuff you get from me? I will hope its 10/10, but I know its probably less than that. I want to make sure its always 10/10. Forget my author credentials. If you're paying high-quality prices for a writer, you should get high-quality stuff.

I mean it.

If you're walking away thinking "meh", reach out and I'll redo it. If you're thinking "its almost perfect", reach out and I'll make it perfect. And if for whatever reason that doesn't happen, I will refund you the money and apologize for the time I wasted.

But this also means I will be much more selective in the commissions I take. I'm good at some things and ok at others. For example, I can write very hard-hitting BDSM porn but slow-burn scenes derail me. Multiple-character interactions is another weakness of mine. So here's the deal: if you want a comm, DM me with the idea. I'll take some time to figure out whether I can deliver a 10/10 piece. If so, I'll give you a word count estimate. If not, I'll send you a few other writers who might be able to do better.

Sounds good?
Let me know your thoughts.

JB

Hey y’all,

Here’s a breakdown of my Patreon perks. Link here: https://www.patreon.com/jimmybelvins

For Collared tier patrons:
1) Access to older, archived stories
2) Access to new stories as they come out
3) Read my Patreon exclusive stories

For Bound tier patrons, all of the above, plus:
1) Get entered into a monthly raffle for a free story
2) Vote on new story ideas, sometimes
3) Get a 10% commission discount on all commissions and YCHs, up to 3000 words per month ($21 value!)

For Executive tier patrons, all of the above, plus:
1) Get a welcome gift of a 1000 word story! You can cancel or downgrade at any time.
2) A 30% discount on all commissions and YCHs, up to 4000 words per month ($84 value!)
3) Jump the queue. All Executive tier commissions are priority work for me.

Thanks for all your support!
JB

PS. Collabs are always public. Comms/YCHs are always public, unless commissioner agrees otherwise. Patreon rewards are paywalled. Stories in original worlds may sometimes be paywalled.

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