After four months spent on other stuff, I am polishing up the next chapter of my epic series set in 1926, All That Jizz. I'm hoping to wrap up that series with one or two more chapters after this; I've enjoyed writing and re-reading it, but I started writing it 15 months ago and I'd like to get it finished before we get too far into 2026.
Writing the narrative for this chapter was easy, once I finally got started, but some CTRL+F research on the finished product showed that I had used the words "face" and "mouth" eleven times each! (There are six characters having sex. That's a lot of faces and mouths.) So now I'm doing a careful pass looking for different ways to phrase things, whether with a synonym or by cutting unnecessary verbiage. For example, if a lady is being introduced to the concept of sixty-nine and she's looking cross-eyed, I really don't need to include the details that the dick is in front of her face, or that it eventually explodes in her mouth. The reader can easily supply that information. 😉
AI created this bonkers dress, and I just had to use this as the cover image and work the dress into the story. Here's the opening sentence, for a tease...
Clad in a dress that was equal parts filigreed plate mail and diaphanous billows of silk, Astrid Qvistsjö knelt on the carpeted floor of her first-class compartment and bobbed her head to the relentless rhythm rising up from below.