What are we all writing right now?

I'm ferverishly working on Oh Sweetie, inspired by a thread several months ago. It's the story of a supportive aunt helping her niece realize her sexual orientation. (Not incest, although I realized that might be inferred from that description.)

It's for Valentine's Day contest
 
Pantsing through my V-Day contest entry. Worried it's a little too slice-of-life so far, and that it includes too many "categories" besides just romance, but we persevere through the draft. About 10k words so far, figure it will be 15-20k when it's all said and done, making it one of my longest pieces so far.
 
During my break from Chapter 2 of The Melody in my Heart, I need to write the final installment of Writing Away the Darkness to tell why I am now writing in the light. There is now an authenticity in my soul that's resulted in writing that pleases me more than my earlier work and a lot more of it--four stories in the month, and the last one, is the first chapter of my first series that was intended to be a series. I fully embrace my identity as an amateur erotic fiction author.

My writing has changed, and so has my life. I need to tell how. I'm now entirely single and cautiously open to online relationships. My medical condition makes in-person relationships impossible. I need to correct some lies I told myself about my LTR, and have mentioned here. My credo now is unashamed honesty about everything. I'm sure I will overshare. In this forum, I have gotten unconditional validation as a sexual being. That's actually comparable to the validation I got in those wonderful early years of my marriage. Not so much in my LTR, there were conditions. Limits not only on the sex I was allowed to have, but increasingly on what I was allowed to want.
 
I've completed the first draft of my Valentine's Day entry - it was the fastest 20K words I've ever written. But because of that, there is some significant editing to do in order to make it a better story. I'm very excited about it because it's a departure from my usual HEA romance.
 
I was writing a teenage (18+) sex for tutoring story, with a twist, when I got another comment on one of my stories complaining that it was a male teenage fantasy and improbable. I replied with a definition of fairy tale that I think applies to many of my stories, but suddenly I was inspired to write an actual fairy tale. So, I switched to gender-bending a Grimm Brothers classic. It strays well away from the original story, but I don't think anybody will have a problem recognizing the original tale I used for the groundwork.

Then, yesterday, I was saying some not-so-kind words about certain so-called AIs when the thought of a modern version of SkyNet came to mind. So, I punched out a fun little 750 word story that I will put in Humor & Satire come February. That brings me up to seven that I have queued up for the project.

Now, I'm back to trying to write seven consecutive sex scenes that are fair and somewhat consistent for each of his partners, without being repetitive. (Yes, it's that fairy tale, but you won't find any hairy dwarfs in it.) Three down, four to go currently.

UPDATE: Six down, one to go, but I'm taking a break and re-editing my pending since September story.
UPDATE: All seven have been completed, plus a few on the evil characters side. Now I'm back into the guts of the story, having written the build up on both sides that led to the fight between the heir and his stepbrother. Currently, I'm working towards the end of the evil stepmother, which I've figured out how happens, but I have to get all the characters there. After that, I think there's basically just the first time between the MC and the princess, then a final nonuple (which sounds a lot less sexy than triple threesome, although more accurate) that fades into happily ever after.

Yeah, my version is a lot different than the original, even beyond the gender swaps.
 
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