Tales of Interest - Part 1 (The Changer) By: cheetaking243

[curious_guy (imported)]

This is a very good start to the story. I liked the dialog, the thoughts of the protagonist and the action. I just wish it had not violated the law of physics that says that matter/energy cannot be created or destroyed.

[cheetaking243 (imported)]

Don't worry, the 'physics' behind the changes will be explored in much greater detail in future parts. I won't spoil it, but don't worry, there's no laws of physics being broken here. Just laws of practicality about what the mind is and is not able to control in real life.

Anyway, thanks for the feedback! It's great to know that you thought the beginning worked, because beginnings are almost always where I have the most trouble in my stories. I'm always afraid that I'm putting in too much objective character detail that people won't care about because I haven't established the central conflict yet.

It's also great to hear that you liked the dialog, because I really did put a lot of effort into it this time, trying to capture the feeling of a realistic conversation as best as I could. This may sound stupid, but for this story I actually spent a lot of time talking to myself in front of a microphone, pretending that I was actually having the conversations in the story, and writing down the results. (My girlfriend must have thought that I was going absolutely nuts...)

[Cainanite (imported)]

Great little story. I look forward to future parts.

Here is the link,

"Tales of Interest - Part 1 (The Changer)" by cheetaking243 (https://eunuchworld.co/s13890)

[Lucas Mcwilliams (imported)]

It is an interesting premise. I look forward to future installments, and hope you don't get dumped due to insanity

There's actually a way to handwave the violation of physics - the Changer could just be changing his body density. Packing his cells in more tightly so to speak, so absolutely no magical creation or destruction of mass.

[cheetaking243 (imported)]

^You shall see. Oh, yes, you shall see. Trust me, things are about to get really weird really fast. Lots of insanity is to follow... MUCH more insanity than in my other stories. The only question is whether I can succeed in getting on paper what I have in my head or not. (This is admittedly a much harder story for me to write than the others because it's dealing with supernatural events. As such, it's much harder to get the characters' reactions right, and to get the proper sense of scope for such a miraculous thing.)

Part 2 is probably at least a month or two away at this point... it's going to be a very difficult part to write because there is a hell of a lot that has to happen. And I have a really hard time getting the right scope to something like this.. too often it feels like I'm just going through a list of the events that are happening rather than really getting into the characters' emotions and thoughts. So I expect that it's going to take me a while to get it right.

Again, my goal as a writer is to post at least one part of one of my stories per month. I may finish two or more, but it all depends on what's working and what's not. Here's my list so far, including my current writing slate.

May: "Me & My Best Friend" parts 1&2, "My Life As A Girl" part 2

June: "Me & My Best Friend" part 3 (finished earlier than planned, released in May.)

July: "Me & My Best Friend" part 4

August: (postponed... hypothetical release needed more work.)

September: "My Life As A Girl" part 3, "Tales of Interest" part 1

Current Slate:

-"Me & My Best Friend" part 5 ['Punishment, Prodding, and Panties'] (done writing, just need to do some final editing for length.)

-"My Life As A Girl" parts 4&5 ['My Life As Charlie' / 'My Life As Carrie'] (haven't started yet, but I know exactly what I want to do here, and am especially excited about Part 5 because the feelings involved will be hitting very close to home with what I have been feeling in real life recently.]

-"Tales of Interest" part 2 ['A Year of Body Changes'] (Have about 1 page written so far. Still needs a lot of work, and will be tough going.)

-"Me & My Best Friend" part 6 ['To the Void and Back'] (yes, I actually have started writing this already, even before part 5 is finished. It's about 1/3 done already. Still needs a lot of fixing, though.

[Cainanite (imported)]

You are one of our more prolific authors at this point.

Keep up the wonderful work, but don't wear yourself out. Thank-you for your wonderful stories. They are just great, and very creative too.