AgathonWrites

Update: Breaking Radio Silence

Yeah...ok, so, I'm apparently not great at this whole Patreon thing. Like a lot of people on this platform writing/creating is a hobby for me and that means that it's at the whims of IRL. It also means that if the muse isn't there I've not got to sit and force myself to still get however many thousand words out just to keep paying the bills - and therefore when writers block hits as hard as it ...

QT UK - Chapter 15 & 16 (Almost Final)

There's still the need for a little edit pass o

QT UK - Chapter 15 (WIP 3)

I meant to upload this a few days ago, apparently I didn't

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Nia sighed.

Almost as soon as the call had finished however, she was reaching into the folds of her coat. With Jordan no longer watching, her shoulders bunched as she stashed her phone and replaced it with a lighter and a pack of cigarettes. Stress rolled off her in a heavy wave, and she flicked, impatie...

QT UK - Ch 15 (WIP 2)

Here's the next chunk of Ch 15 for you. It's probably still got another 5k words or so to go and might get finalised as two chapters, but there's enough of a pause point here to share for now :)

If you're a supported of CorruptingPower's patreon you might recognise the new character here from his latest Phil's Tale chapter. He reached out to me and asked if I'd like to do something where...

QT UK - Chapters 1-14 epub

As requested, here's a compiled version of the first 14 chapters of QT UK as an epub. I'd not realised just how long this all was until I put it together like this and it hangs together fairly nicely as a part 1 or book 1 of things. The formatting however on exporting it from googledocs is frankly kinda wonky in places (mostly the spacing between chapters), and I'm not entirely sure how to easi...

Update - It's Been A Minute

So, it's good to be back to this. I was honestly hoping to be able to share something like this weeks ago, but...yeah.

If you've read my previous update you'll have known I said my Dad passed away in October and while I've been doing fine in myself day to day what I wasn't really prepared for is the way it completely killed my energy for doing things, creative or otherwise, and that's ta...

QT UK - Chapter 15 (Part 1, WIP)

As is often the case, this is coming to you a bit hot (and before the QT editors have cracked it into shape) to stop there being a delay getting it to you

28th October 2020

Tomorrow always comes after a happy ending.

The words drifted up from the back of Ethan’s mind as he stirred. It was something his first boss at the BBC News had been fond of saying, a reminder ...

Picture Perfect - Chapter 5

Sat on this for a bit, have given some minimal tweaks to phrasing from the draft, but otherwise largely the same to what you might have read already. I'm not 100% convinced but can't tell if that's just where my heads at right now so I'm putting a pin in this one and letting myself get more earnestly stuck into the handful of words I have for QT:UK instead. Seems like the healthy way to play th...

Picture Perfect 5 - Draft

So, the poll was less helpful than I'd hoped, managing to be more or less neck and neck since I put it up. Probably should have seen that coming!

What I'm going to take from it so far is that there's enough of you who don't want to have things spoilt by a rough version of things, but also plenty who'd like to give feedback which could be valuable in helping me tweak at things. So we'll se...

Picture Perfect Draft - To Share Or Not To Share

I've got a decent draft of chapter 5 of Picture Perfect but am a little stuck on whether the ending works quite as well as I'd like or if I've managed to get the exact flow I want. I'm genuinely unsure if you supporters here would be keen for me to drop drafts like that which might be prone to a bunch of subtle tweaks and rewrites here so you can give me feedback, or if you'd rather wait for so...

Another Update - And Thanks

So, I'm getting there :)

Before anything else I need to say thank you to the people here reached out or commented and said nice things when I said my Dad had died. I wasn't expecting it, so to have so many supportive messages was genuinely touching in a way that really helped at the time. It's kinda trite to say that it meant a lot but...yeah, it meant a lot.

Funeral is this week bu...

If I'm Honest - Picture Perfect - Chapter 4

Santiago, Chile

Update

So, I did promise I was going to have new chapters here by now, but, yeah...life had other ideas. I've had one of my parents in hospital, going through a short illness over the last couple of weeks and they've just passed away. Surprisingly this makes it really hard to find the creative energy needed to write smutty little fiction sooooo, yeah. Take my apologies on this one. I'm going to throw ...

IIH: Picture Perfect - Chapter 4 (part 1)

Took a tiny bit longer than I wanted, and the second half is still up on the chopping block being reworked to get it where I want it, but here's the first part of the next If I'm Honest Chapter. As I think I said, there's another chapter mostly written but in need of some hefty editting to get it to fit in place with the restructuring of things, so once the next few thousand words of this are d...

QT UK - Short 3

Soooo, yeah, I ran headlong into a wall of writers block with If I'm Honest right as that was almost done and then things have been busy enough IRL to keep me getting over it. It should still be along soon, but in the meantime I've thrown together a quick short for QT: UK as an exercise in getting some words out in one sitting.

A little unrefined, but the idea was to just make myself put...

Quick Update (And a sneak peak)

So, a couple of weeks on from Chapters 13 & 14 of QT:UK and I couldn't be more pleased by how people have responded to it. It was really worth taking the time to get right and I know that everyone's probably desperate to see what happens next...

But I told myself from the point where I started Chapter 11 that I wasn't going to touch any other projects until things with Ethan and Aoife...

QT UK - Chapter 14 (Final)

And here's the final version of chapter 14, also ready for Lit and to go in the collection here

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It was the second night in a row that Ethan was spending alone in his old hotel room, but this time, none of his partners had come to find him. The quick message he’d dropped into the Team’s whatsapp, asking for space, had been respected, but it was the other open chat o...

QT UK - Chapter 13 (Final)

Here's the final, ready for publication version

QT:UK - Visual Reference v2

As a little bonus, here's an update of the references I have in my head when writing about the current cast. I've been holding off on sharing this until the current arc was finished and I could place Aoife under the Team Knight heading :)

QT:UK Chapter 14 (WIP) - #JusticeForAoife

The one everyone's been waiting for (myself included). I've just finished putting the last few words to this and the response from the other QT writers who've had a chance to read has been extremely positive.

 I'm currently sat at over 21,000 words since my last public update, so decided this 2nd half of things was worth being its own chapter. The plan is to let it sit over the nex...

Good news, Bad News

The good is that I've put down just shy of 7000 words down since the last update I sent you, which is longer than some of the other entire chapters I've posted here before. Pretty good for a week where the day job has been busy.

The bad? That's possibly a little subjective. I'd mentally budgeted about that much for the resolution of things with Aoife and Ethan so figured I'd be done with ...

QT UK - Chapter 13 (WIP 3)

Here's the latest update. I ended up taking a hatchet to the last section on CorruptingPower's advice after I got into this latest scene and realised the pacing and focus was all wrong, so that's included here along with the penultimate section of the chapter.

It's still not Ethan and Aoife hooking up, not just yet, but it's the final narrative hurdle I needed to get myself over and eve...

QT UK - Chapter 13 WIP (part 2)

This got a fairly heavy rewrite about halfway through and took me a little while to find the line through things. It also ended up a little longer than expected so I might end up cutting from it if the chapter as a whole ends up feeling too bloated down the line, but overall there's stuff in here I'm really pleased with now it's done and with choosing now to add a 3rd POV.

This marks abo...

Nia Art

@Kdlf_ on twitter coming through with the goods again, this time for Nia. In fairness to Ethan, you can see why he might be having a hard time thinking straight

QT:UK - Chapter 13 WIP

This one's coming in super hot before I've had a chance to let any proof readers from the QT writers room catch the inevitable raft of typos and spelling mistakes I'll have littered it with. But if I wait until they do, chances are it'll be Monday and my work week's going to delay everything for you, so I'd rather let you see now, jank and all. And that's before the usual caveats about me possi...

QT UK - Chapter 12

October 2nd 2020 (3 weeks earlier)

Evie Kimura (art by @kdlf_)

So, yeah, between seeing how both Aoife and Evie have come out, it's pretty save to say Ethan's the world's biggest idiot for managing to date neither of them for so long...

Art is again done by the awesome kdlf_ on twitter

Chapter 13 is coming slowly, but I'm putting more pressure on myself to do it right than to do it fast

Forced To Rethink Things Again

So, since my last update where I said I was planning on simply switching all my content to free to keep myself from having to feel under pressure to get a certain amount of content to you all each month I've been talking with various other creators and trying to work out the best way to do things. Turns out there's a big snag to this. Patreon uses payments as a form of age verification and thei...

QT UK - Another Chapter 12 WIP

Hayley died in the night. 

Aoife woke to find the door to her room unlocked and a cold quiet hanging over the house. It was the first time since the hillside that she’d been unconfined or unattended, something which immediately unsettled her without knowing why; her mind summoning up tension to stalk ghostlike in the negative space left by the threats and rage...

Aoife Art

Here's the final versions of things from @kdlf_ and I honestly couldn't be happier with how things turned out, the clothed version especially really manages to nail her sense of style. Hope you enjoy and I'll be back to writing for her from this evening once my 9-5 is over.

I'll probably look at getting more of the characters from the same artist since this turned out so well, so let me k...