Does anybody know if Nathan is still active?

[LongPorky123 (imported)]

Sorry if this is the wrong place to post this question, I'm not often in the threads here so I don't know all the etiquette yet :/

Basically the title. Nathan is one of my favourite authors here, and especially the Ayzinthion series is just amazing in my opinion. But his last work was updated last year in fall, so I just wanted to ask if anybody here knows is he's still active here or if he stopled writing (wich would be sad, not gonna lie).

Thanks everybody!

[Paolo]

His Yahoo email address, which is attached to most of his stories, should still be valid. I have not heard from him since his last story was posted.

[LongPorky123 (imported)]

I tried to write him, but both times I tried the mail never delivered. Weird. Maybe its not valid anymore after all?

[Nathan (imported)]

Ahhhh....seeing the comments here I felt like I ought to reply. I'm healthy, staying away from Covid19 for the near term; and hoping they get it figured out sooner than later. As for writing, I just don't sign on the forum very often, and have a pretty busy very normal life that keeps me away from storytelling. My last tale on this archive was "Ayzintion City - A Wish Granted and a Future Foretold." I liked the idea of it, and it was fun to write back into some of the scenes and characters of that imaginary land. The main problem with writing is that it takes me a long time to put together a work that I like, and sometimes I might spend a month or two just hashing out the idea of it. The twists and turns of the storyline are what make it interesting, and in some cases it takes a fair amount of research to be able to write intelligently. As the last story had a lot about ancient sailing vessels, I had to figure that out and imagine it before I could actually write about it. Then I visited the old replica of a 1749 merchant ship when I passed through Amsterdam, which gave me more insight into the possibilities of the story. The kicker for me is that the main "pay" I get for putting out a story on the EA is the feedback, and I fully get that many readers are nervous about writing or even posting a comment -- safer I suppose to do the lurking. That said, it's the comments about the story that make it work writing, and the more feed back people are willing to give, both pro and con, the more that is helpful in motivating any author to continue putting out the effort. I've put out a few stories and got one or two feedback comments, and on occasions after I post a story I get slammed with a few emails that viscously attack me for what I've put down for them to read. I guess I expect that to some extent but it they don't like it why are they reading it? Kink writing can be fun adult entertainment, but if I get bashed too many times I end up sort of just thinking "What's the point?" But, nevertheless when my mind is roaming and I'm in the mood to tell a tale, then I don't write really with any expectation. My last story was read by 23 people, and 9 of them left a feedback comment. I have a few stories elsewhere, but not castration stories, but some of those stories are thousands of hits and scores of comments. My email address posted at the end of most of my stories still works, but it is not an address I go to everyday. Still, if you write to me I'll get back to you at some point as long as the email as a return address and doesn't require me to sign into some website.

Stay safe, happy reading, and have fun! Nathan

[LongPorky123 (imported)]

Sorry it took so long to reply, I'm not checking into this account a lot...

Well first of I'm glad to hear that you're okay and I want to thank you for your response!!

Hearing that only 23 people read that story is kind of sad, I thought it was great and it definity deserves some more recognition :/ I don't think it has anything to do with your work though, it's just the nature of this very niche forum, mixed with the lack of options to follow a specific author (no possibility to search by more specific tags, no suscription feature ect.)

Have you maybe considered cross-posting your work to other sites, such as fanfiction dot net or Ao3? I bet you'd find a larger audience there..

I'll happily read your next work, no matter how long it takes to create!

[JessicaH (imported)]

Maybe you should also post your stories on Literotica which usually gets lots of feedback.

[LongPorky123 (imported)]

Yeah, thats another good website!

[pinkpeopleeater (imported)]

Hey Nathan,

Just wanted to say on this thread that I've enjoyed reading your stories and that to a certain extent, they influenced the ones that I've written and submitted to this site. So thought I'd say thanks for writing and sharing your stories here.

-PinkPeopleEater