Lisa_Allen

It begins!

After getting feedback from two readers and fighting with the revising, I have started posting chapters of A Life of Fiction. It's all written; I plan on posting a chapter every twelve hours or so. As many of you know, my usual pattern is to post a chapter every other day, but this is an entry in the Lessons in Longing contest, so I need to accelerate the delivery, especially since I finished it almost two weeks later than I had planned. And it's longer than I had expected, which is not unrelated.

It's a fairly straightforward contemporary hetero romance. I also think it's one of my best pieces of writing with several characters that I really like, including the protagonist and her best friend.

I hope you read it and enjoy it.

As always, I love all feedback and comments, good or bad. I'm on a journey discovering my writing; guidance from any of you is the biggest help I can receive.

Thank you to all of you who have read some of my other stories. You are what makes this worthwhile.

Hey whats up? I was wondering if you have Wattpad? I just started my journey there and i was wondering if you have it we can follow each other there

Thank you to everyone who has read any of my stories and especially those who have given me any kind of feedback. I really appreciate your effort. You are the reason I'm here, publishing these.

Today is a little bit of a weird day for me. I should be posting a chapter today, but for the first time in several months, I'm going consecutive days without posting a new chapter. There is no chapter to post. The Witch is fully posted.

I had hoped my 17th story, A Life of Fiction, would be ready by the start of November, but it's certainly not making that. I had conceptualized the story for the Lessons in Longing contest. It's a good fit for it. Whether it makes the contest now depends on how the revising goes. I hope to still enter the contest, but I also want to give the story it's due in editing, not unreasonably rush it.

The story is a hetero romance. The FMC is a painfully shy college student who secretly writes steamy romances, well enough that it's paying most o her college bills now. But she has no actual experience with romance or steamy scenes. She of course falls in love -- it is a romance. I like the structure I ended up with for the story, but some of it still needs significant work. I had originally been worried whether it would make the 20K word contest minimum, but I think the final version will approach 40K instead. I'm terrible at guessing how long a story will be.

Talking about this story, I want to give a shoutout to my goof friend and fellow author @Nuclear Fairy who unwedged me at one point in the draft.

So it's going to be at least two weeks without a Lisa Allen chapter. I'm not sure any of you ave read all 16 stories that I have published, so not all hope is lost. Ask me and I can recommend something else in my catalog if you feel the need.

Beyond A Life of Fiction, there is nothing in the queue, at least not for this pen name. The two works I do have in the pipeline will appear under a different name, a voice that I've been neglecting while writing so much for Lisa Allen over the last eight months. It might be spring before the 18th Lisa Allen story appears.

I just unlocked the Chapter Champion badge! 🚀

It's the middle of October and I'm halfway through posting The Witch, so it seems like a good time for an update. I hope everyone is doing well.

Thank you to all my readers for just reading my stories, but especially to those of you who leave feedback and comments. Right now, with all her feedback and comments on The Witch, I owe a special shout out to @SarahJ25

The first seven chapters of The Witch are posted. The remaining seven chapters will post every other day starting tomorrow. It's a lesbian romance, but it's much more brutal than anything else I've written. It takes place in 451 CE in Gaul; there are Huns doing Hun things, including rape and violent deaths. Be assured it all ends well.

My next story, A Life of Fiction, is coming on more slowly than I had hoped, so I will probably break my streak of every other day chapters for a week or two until it's ready. I still hope to submit it for the Lessons contest, so I can't let it slip too far.

There is nothing else imminent in the pipeline, so there may be a more sizable gap after that. I suspect that will be it for Lisa Allen stories in 2026, probably until late winter. I'm happy with my 2026. I started publishing here in February; A Life of Fiction will push me over a half million words in nine months. Having so many of you reading has made this a joy. Thank you again.

Hi everyone! The Throne is fully posted now. It's not something deep, but I hope people find it a quick and fun read.

Tomorrow, I start posting The Witch. It's a lesbian romance at its core, but I think it's more than that. It's the grittiest story I have written yet. It's a commentary on commentary on being shunned, being an outsider and building a community. It pushes my bounds as a writer a bit. I hope people like it.

I'm feverishly working on my final revisions now. I will post it a chapter every other day, a pattern that seems to work well for me. I also abandoned the AI generated cover art that I played with. I cannot bring myself to use AI generated work. I preferred its feel for this story, but I don't mind the art I ended up with.

I'm working on the draft of A Life of Fiction, which I'm hoping to post in November, hopefully getting 20K posted in time for the lessons contest. After that, I suspect I will take a short break from posting new stories under this name. I have a historic fiction novel I want to work on some more. The Throne was the end of my backlog of revising things I had written last year.

I just unlocked the Insight Sharer badge! 🚀

Another story completed, time for another post on my wall. And welcome to my new followers (thank you for the shout out, @just_alicia). The Vault is now fully posted. I hope many of you have read it. I’ve gotten some positive reactions, which I always appreciate. Comments or reviews, good or bad, are also always appreciated on any of my stories.

Tomorrow I will start posting The Throne, a short story about a love gone wrong. It’s not my usual romance story (I actually wrote it originally in the spring of last year, before I started writing romances), but it’s still a happy ending of sorts for the POV character.

I have finished the draft of The Witch, which I’m feverishly working on revising now. It’s a lesbian romance, lower on the sex content than most of my stories, but it has some more graphic violence than I have ever written. It takes place mostly in 451CE in Roman Gaul, near the end of the western Roman Empire. The romance is between a survivor of a Hun attack (the POV character) and a medicine woman (the witch).

I’m not sure I will have it ready to post two days after The Throne finishes, but I’ll try. It needs to be soon after that because I’m hoping to enter it in the Love in Color contest.

I struggled to find appropriate imagery for cover art, so I’m thinking of using an AI generated picture for this one. I have more than a little ethical concerns about using AI in any form, so I haven’t decided yet. The current AI generated possibility is above. What do people think?

I’m also starting in on my next story, a hetero romance about a shy college student who is secretly a romance novelist and a drama major, intended for the lessons contest. That’s definitely a stretch to make that, but I’m still hoping. Tentatively called A Life of Fiction.

Thank you to all of you who read these and all who read my stories. I appreciate one of you.

I just unlocked the Story Critic badge! 🚀