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  1. Anyone else ever just feel like pulling everything they have posted or is it just me?  I feel like it might just be me...  Hmmm...  Probably is...

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    2. Tcr

      Tcr

      PippyChick: Yeah, I notice that myself and that's probably the reason now.  Just posted something new and yeah...  While I know comparing does nothing, I've found it happening with this one…

      DP: I wish I could say it was a big check...  I'd pull it there.  Still thinking no publisher will take the one I'm prepping...

       

    3. JayDee

      JayDee

      I did once pull everything I posted from AFF. Unfortunately one of the stories wasn’t backed up like I thought and I lost it. I can’t remember why, but I had ‘em back up before too long so it can’t have been too serious.

    4. Desiderius Price

      Desiderius Price

      Ages ago, I talked one author out of a complete withdrawal, (due to serious medical issues), pointing out that their fics (non-AFF) were a nice legacy, something that his nephew (who started him writing HP fanfic) would eventually treasure.  I know the lack of reviews/response can be frustrating, or the self-doubts gnaw, I struggle with those too, however, stories are tales, generally enrich us all, and can be a good legacy once we’re dust. 

       

  2. And now...  for the next five weeks, tough days ahead...  Lots of bad memories...  Not sure how much writing is going to get done on any of them now :(.

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    2. BronxWench

      BronxWench

      @Desiderius Price I found out on Thanksgiving Day 2012 that my dad had end-stage cancer. He and my stepmom flew up from Texas on December 5, 2012, and he died January 11, 2013.

      I still catch myself thinking I should text my dad about something, or call him. But if he were here today, we’d be having a cup of coffee together, something we started doing when I was a toddler (mine back then was a few drops of coffee in warm milk, but it worked!) and did almost up until he died. Cocoa was only for when I went ice skating, and Dad would be watching from the rail at Wollman Rink.

    3. Avaloyuru
    4. Tcr

      Tcr

      I hate working nights, never get to answer people right away... :(…

      DP: Regarding morselized penis...  Disturbing...  Yet, once again shows how reality can be stranger than fiction...  And I have a great number of strange things the cops would suspect me as a serial killer for...especially with my search history...  And apparently being a writer only goes so far when researching Nazis...  And rape...  And getting away with murder...

      BW, I'm sorry to hear that :(...  It's good you have the great memories, though.  Still, I understand...  And sure, let's be tough together :).  :hug:.

  3. There's a reason I don't write oneshots...  Because I never stop at one...  They're like bloody Pringles!!! :pissed: And then they turn into new projects...  Adding to a very large array of projects...  And again I've got another started...  Lol.  However, it is proving to myself I am capable of crossing genres...  So that's something!!:D

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    2. Desiderius Price

      Desiderius Price

      Step one, dispose of the plot bunny and wait for it to germinate in the refuse pile
      Step two, cut the seedling down, wait for it to become a oneshot
      Step three, cull the oneshot and see it bloom into a chaptered story
      Step four, smoother that story to see it become a full universe with lots of stories and backstories….
      Step five, set auto-destruct and abandon universe
      Step six, pray that nobody else realizes that their universes were infected from yours.

    3. CloverReef

      CloverReef

      @Desiderius Price you must have a very interesting garden.

    4. Desiderius Price
  4. Well, first time for everything.  Here's to the first non-Original story I've done in a long time and first I've posted on here...

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    2. BronxWench
    3. Avaloyuru
    4. Tcr

      Tcr

      CR:  lol.  Thanks.

      Ava: Thanks.  I certainly hope so.  :D.

      BW: Cookies?  Mmmm....  Cookies...  Beware, the Cookie Monster's around.

  5. ... How to tell when you'retoo tired to actually post a new chapter on here?  When you add the chapter to a oneshot and don't even realize it until you're actually awake again...  You win this round, exhaustion, you win this round…

    On a positive note, it's all corrected...  I hope...

  6. So, I think I'm absolutely insane (anyone know a five star hotel with a nice white padded room, those good suits that hug you, and dining arrangements?)...  One series I'm prepping to send for a publisher, two Halloween oneshots, four works on the go and posted here...  And another one I just started…

    Yep, I'm nucking futs! 

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    2. Tcr

      Tcr

      ... I must be the only one lost with that...  But...  Lol.  Well, I have six waiting for prepping...   So...  Do I win a prize?   Yeah, little strange here...

    3. Desiderius Price

      Desiderius Price

      I think being “strange” was one of the AFF signup requirements.  :indubitably:

    4. Tcr

      Tcr

      I'm pretty sure I checked insane on my registration...  Off kilter...  Bizarrely creative...  Must have missed strange.

  7. Does anyone else ever just read a book and start comparing characters?  Or am I the only crazy one?  Admittedly, the toaster does tell me the Oven hates me, so maybe... 

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    2. Tcr

      Tcr

      That's good, I thought the fridge might have been lying.  ;)

    3. Desiderius Price

      Desiderius Price

      Dunno, that just gave me the chills :P

       

    4. Tcr

      Tcr

      Yeah, it was a pretty cold reception I got.

  8. Well, the creative side just dive bombed into the ground with a nuke attached to it.  If onlybad news would stop coming my way...  Or RL would dive bomb into the ground...  Either or...  I'm not picky... 

    1. BronxWench

      BronxWench

      I vote for RL dive bombing into the Laurentian Abyss.

    2. Desiderius Price

      Desiderius Price

      Well, only if there were plot bunnies attached to the bombs, those never die.

    3. Tcr

      Tcr

      DP: Plot bunnies, I can handle...  I keep them in a pen in the back of the farm...  Although a few get out and I go hunting...  Where's the shotgun again? 

      BW: I agree.  But I'm sure RL would come back in some form like The Thing or something equally creeptacular.  These damned storm clouds are just hovering...  <raises fist to clouds>  Go bother someone else, like my archnemesis!

       

  9. So the dark beast has struck again... My archnemesis, Self Doubt, is back... :( .  I wish he'd fuck off...  Jump into a fiery, raging volcano...   Or something... At least let me kick him in the nuts...   Just once...  

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    2. Desiderius Price

      Desiderius Price

      I prefer the bigboy myself… (double shot….)  And I’ve got an “adult” mod, so I’ve got a naked chick firing off mini nukes...unless I tweak the jetpack settings and then she’s flying across the commonwealth raining down terror.   :P

       

       

    3. Tcr

      Tcr

      Lol.  Definitely.  I have to admit, I keep mine on the ground, with Curie trailing...  Mmmm...  Lol.  I do have a tendency to make suicidal jumps off the Prydwen in power armour...  Best rewind moments!   Well, aside from blowing up Megaton in Fallout 3...  

    4. Desiderius Price

      Desiderius Price

      With the tweaked settings, I can jump up to the Prydwen. The next time I go against kellog, I plan to fly up to it as it’s flying….I understand that’s less rewarding than one might think.

      Fallout 3… I played both sides on more than one occasion.  I’d try to “rescue” the settlers of Megaton up to Paradise falls before blowing it up.  Named characters generally couldn’t, and Moria, I’d convince her it was her fault.  Another high point is selling Brian Wilks to Paradise Falls “It’s a welcome necklace, it’ll show you the way.”.

      Fallout NV, I played that a lot too, eventually settling on Yes Man as my preferred play through.   There’s a mod, now called “Tale of Two Wastelands”, that merges Fallout 3 into a “DLC” for NV, so you can play both, travelling between the Capital and the Mojave via a train.   (Though, that can generate plot issues when I put Brian Wilks into the personal safety shelter, and then travel to NV where the screen uses the “nine years later...” message.)

       

  10. Well, firstly, thank you to Sweetmamajama, for the new signature picture.  I think it looks great :).

    Secondly, new signature pic!  :).

    1. mastershakeme

      mastershakeme

      She’s great for doing stuff like that :P it’s nice having an artist on board!

  11. For an experiment into how far my self-editing has come, thirteen chapters posted is definitely something.  (Would love to get back to BaH, but I’m on too much a roll with Come Hell or High Water, lol.)  Here’s to thirteen more (and beyond).

    1. mastershakeme

      mastershakeme

      I feel like i have to apologize for taking a break on stories… I need serious help :rolleyes:

  12. So, today marks another milestone...  Through doubts and all, Blood and Honour has received 1000 dragon prints. :):)

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    2. BronxWench

      BronxWench

      Many congrats, and apologies for being behind in reading and reviewing. :blush:

    3. Tcr

      Tcr

      It’s okay, BW.  Everyone has their RLs :).  And I’m sure you have a long list of ones you’re reading, writing and reviewing :) .

    4. Desiderius Price

      Desiderius Price

      Congrats.  As those numbers tick higher and higher, you’ll feel better about it!

  13. Well…  Bit of a milestone…  At least for me…  The unbetaed (...raw?  Essential TCR?  Hmmm...) experiment/challenge to see how far I’ve come along in the years CR’s been betaing has reached eight chapters, which is now tied with Blood and Honour for most up here…  To believe that Come Hell or High Water was just something for the writer’s block to break apart…

    It’s kind of hard to imagine that just under a year ago, I never would have thought to show any of my work to anyone but CR and now, I have two that are up for a decent chapter length (with, in BaH’s case, many more chapters in the wings, waiting for examination…)  Come Hell or High Water is also, strangely enough, tied with BaH for the amount of reviews (albeit in a shorter time frame…  Not sure if I’ve entered the Twilight Zone there, maybe...)

    I’m glad for all the support and my fans :).  Maybe one day soon I can get on to the more vital prospect (and infinitely more terrifying thought) of finding someone to publish…  Until then, I’ll let that thought sink in…  While I roll back and forth in the corner…  In a fetal position… 

    Until such a time…

    For those who have, will, and continue to read, not mention the reviews…

    THANK YOU.

    TCR

    (If this seems a little rambling…  Yeah, probably…  No sleep make…  TCR…  Something…  Something...)

     

  14. So…  Warning rant ahead…

    Perhaps I am quite close to the written material I have up.  Perhaps I’m just stubborn…  Pigheaded…  Wouldn’t be the worst thing I’ve been called…  And I’m willing to take some fair concrit when it comes to the stories, even the ones I am most proud of…  The latest review that I received for Blood and Honour was neither concrit nor supportive, in my belief.

    I read the entire chapter before I review, before I form an opinion.  Being told, off the bat, that you did not read the entire chapter, thus forming your opinion from half...a quarter, I feel renders anything said not necessarily invalid, but also pointless in ‘constructive’ criticism – and I use ‘constructive loosely here (especially when a comment made is that ‘it would be more ‘readable”).  I’m not sure how four people can be confusing, nor can I understand how, and I will be exact here, one can be confused with four given names, three nicknames associated with those given names (Ie. Max – Maximilian, Fritz – Friedrich, Matti – Matilde), and two surnames.  As for feelings and emotional responses; I’m sorry that it doesn’t beat you over the bloody head with each and every sentence referring to how ‘utterly awesome’ the other one is while otherwise leaving a vacant slot where the MC is.  This one is not supposed to start happy, is not supposed to be cheerful and happy, this is supposed to be a dark start, a bleak future cast. 

    Perhaps because of my closeness and pride for Blood and Honour, maybe it’s not as bad as I think, but to me, this review was not constructive, this felt like full on criticism and, at some points, quite mean spirited.

    End of rant.

    Sorry…  Just need to bitch and complain, but didn’t want to clutter the forums with things.

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    2. pippychick

      pippychick

      And on the subject of bad reviews, at least it wasn’t personal. Wait until someone reads a story and then reviews or emails to says something like: “I read your story. Are you okay?” or otherwise speculates on the kind of life you’ve had.

      Sometimes, I think they even mean it, which is kind of hilarious.

    3. Tcr

      Tcr

      DP: Thanks.  I did look over them, but yeah…  When I’m feeling a little less… beaten down, I’d love to discuss them and hear them.

      Pippy: I wouldn’t worry about the concrit you gave.  I didn’t think it was that much and many of your points were valid (especially the double paragraph (you can’t hear it, but there’s still some head thudding against wall sounds going on here)).  (And, no, I see no pretentiousness or intellectual snobbery in your response.)

      And, uh…  ‘What about parfaits?  Everyone like parfaits?’  Okay, okay, I can take a hint over all the boos, I’ll be quiet now.

      The concrit you and BW have given (as well as CR in the beta sessions) are welcome, just as anyone’s, and I hope it never came across as being the opposite.  As I stated in the forum post, reviews and concrit help you grow as a writer.  This one just felt…  Unnecessarily harsh…  And I needed to growl and moan about it…

       

    4. Desiderius Price

      Desiderius Price

      My prescription to help improve your mood.  :P

      Cake_and_ice_cream_with_a_cherry_on_top_

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