And that’s Round One done! I’m sorry it took so long to get here – my day job and moving house and various other non-smutty things all got in the way over the last little while. But we’re here now, our friends are completely naked and increasingly drunk and reckless, and things can only get better with Round Two.

I’m going to sit down now and figure out the details of how round two will work. There’ll definitely still be opportunities to vote on how the dice rolls go – I still think that’s a neat way to play out how the story goes, even if it stretches out the process for me. But there’s also a balance to manage, which I’m not sure I did entirely successfully with Round One. So much of erotica is about the tease, and the set-up, and escalation (like a lot of genres, I guess). You don’t want things to drag out interminably but you also don’t want to just dump everything in the reader’s lap straight away without any build-up. Getting this balance right feels like enough of a challenge in and of itself, and adding the voting situation to it has made it more tricky. But that’s the fun of it, right?

Anyway. I hope people are still enjoying this experiment, and I’ll do my best to make Round Two go quicker than Round One. Thanks to everyone who got involved with the voting, and I hope you’ll stick around to help me decide how this all plays out.

Ed