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  1. You should never, and I sincerely repeat never write without first writing an outline of your story—ever!  My story, and my protagonists, have had a new band member foisted on them by the plot-bunnies!  You’ll see him around Chapter 38 or so.  😉

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    2. Desiderius Price

      Desiderius Price

      Most of it was rewriting, expanding a bit on old.  Though there’s some additions too.  Now, I’m into virgin material (at least for a while), it’s technically filling in what had been a four-year gap in the character’s development, which is the underlying theme to the episodic serial.

      Ironically enough, now outlining and trying to figure out what I want for this next episode.

    3. Wilde_Guess

      Wilde_Guess

      Andy is really not happy with me right now.  He’s dyslexic, barely avoided being forced to join a monastery at gunpoint, and just got stripped naked and spanked almost hard enough to need medical attention in front of a yard full of people he’s barely met.  And he also got disowned by his father in front of the same people.

    4. Desiderius Price

      Desiderius Price

      Whereas… Jeff’d be more embarrassed if he was forced to get dressed, didn’t mind showing up on live-television interview (annoyed they censored out bits of him), and basically disowned by his mother instead (during a court proceeding)

  2. Have you ever been hit with “chapter mitosis?”  Well, I’ve been hit with it again.  Chapter 36 is ‘skinny’ again, but should be fattened up enough to post before the end of the week.  Chapter 37 is bigger, but has a ways to go before it’s ready.  Oh, well…  Just another ‘first world problem.’

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    2. Desiderius Price

      Desiderius Price

      While ago, I experimented with short chapters too and one pass for proofreading.  Kept them to 2k… and boy, the story really moved in writing speed.

    3. GeorgeGlass

      GeorgeGlass

      Nothing wrong with splitting up an overstuffed chapter, especially if there’s an obvious place to split it. 

    4. Wilde_Guess

      Wilde_Guess

      Chapter 36 just got uploaded at 6885 words that hopefully read well.

  3. I’m also not terribly fond of having to check my story calendar for full moons.  But in the Rowlingverse, needs must, I guess.  That is unless I want a werewolf pandemic in my story.

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    2. GeorgeGlass

      GeorgeGlass

      See, this is why writing fanfic is not easier than writing original stuff. You can’t play with someone else’s toys without playing by their rules. Or you can, but then they’ll take their ball and go home, or...Where was I going with this?

    3. Wilde_Guess

      Wilde_Guess

      Thanks for the laugh, @GeorgeGlass.  If anyone said that fanfiction was easier than original work, it sure wasn’t me.  It’s not harder, either; but the challenges to write well in either one can vary.  Fanfiction for “non-episodic” canon stories almost always involves changes, along with either following canon, or explaining why you took a different path through the story itself. 

      That’s why I’m working on Chapter 12, and I’m only putting Charlie Weasley on the Hogwarts Express.  While I’m effectively having to write a compressed story just to get to the ‘Harry Potter as lead protagonist’ part of my story, the other alternative would be a literal cosmic ass-pull, since Harry, Ron, and Neville will have changed that much by September of 1991.  It was tricky enough demonstrating that Petunia Evans had changed that much in Chapter 1, simply by choosing a different husband.

    4. Desiderius Price

      Desiderius Price

      A serious fanfiction requires some level of effort… heck I consult the above even in my originals too.

      For instance, lots of canon characters are very underdeveloped, so you gotta flesh them out into fullness that’s in line with canon (or in line with your premise).  Original characters… I actually have those developed better in my story than some of the canon!

      However, if it’s a short fluff bit...well, you don’t have to work too hard if you’ve got something of Fred’s & George’s backfiring to fill all of Hogwarts up with daffodils.

  4. “Len, don’t become a drunk.  Otherwise, stick to ale.  After all, ale will never lock you out of your own house and bust up all of your belongings in the front garden just ‘cause you’ve had another pint!”  Would you expect to read this in a “T” rated fanfiction?

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    2. Desiderius Price

      Desiderius Price

      I’d think a “T” rating would cause some of my stories to implode into clouds of nothingness, or at least lose a lot of their impact.

    3. Wilde_Guess

      Wilde_Guess

      Of course, that depends on the story itself.  “Yankee” is plot-driven, and sex isn’t necessarily needed.  The original story where I ‘borrowed’ the Dvoraks from, though, is a different story altogether in more ways than one.  It won’t be appearing on the originals side of St. Elsewhere.  Ever.

      Cheers!

    4. Desiderius Price

      Desiderius Price

      My potter fanfic is similarly plot driven.   That’s why even the “cleaner” version is substantial at 631k right now.  However, the “explicit” version stands at 1765k, with sex, incest, slash, nudism themes mixed into it.  Something like “Jefferey” would have some parts that could work in a sexless “T” rating, the nudist aspect was part of why I wrote/developed the character, as Jeff’s needed for the main protagonist’s swim instructor.

  5. Switching between two different projects can get frustrating. :think:

    1. BronxWench

      BronxWench

      I’m switching between editing and a new project. I think I prefer two projects if i have to switch. Editing needs focus. 

    2. Wilde_Guess

      Wilde_Guess

      Agreed.  “Lincoln” Ch. 19 is giving me just a little bit of trouble, since I haven’t paid attention to it lately.  “Bond” is mostly being “brought over” from St. Elsewhere.  It needs some editing and revising.

    3. Desiderius Price

      Desiderius Price

      Usually, I just have to focus on one project, or the other.  So, now, I’m focusing on Jefferey again, which, cross my fingers, should be until a particular point when I can start working on the main protagonist’s story.  There is a threat in there, a plot bunny that’s agitating.

  6. Here’s some “ear-worm candy” for all of you to go along with mine.

    A very newly formed teenage rock band performs a cold-read “spite-set” during a live appearance before an audience because the band’s leader totally misunderstood a criticism offered by a performer he invited in to listen to them.

    The set consists of: Rock and Roll (Led Zeppelin,) Nights on Broadway (Bee Gees,) Immigrant Song (Led Zeppelin,) Babe I’m Gonna Leave You (Led Zeppelin version,) transitioned directly into 25 or 6 to 4 (Chicago.) 

    The band hasn’t performed any of these songs as a complete band before, and have no sheet music in front of them.  They literally put the set together in a two minute conversation before playing it live. 

    Yet they’re good enough that only the few people who know the band pulled the set out of their asses on the spot even realize that the set was anything other than a well-rehearsed performance.  This was their second set of the night.  The first set, which the band leader didn’t think they rehearsed well enough, was also very good and well received by the audience.

    1. Wilde_Guess

      Wilde_Guess

      The set ended up with six songs.  They inserted Steely Dan’s My Old School between Nights on Broadway and Immigrant Song.

    2. Wilde_Guess

      Wilde_Guess

      And Tim just stuck So In To You in between My Old School and Immigrant Song!  Help!

    3. Wilde_Guess

      Wilde_Guess

      … and Chris decided to stick Brandy by ‘Looking Glass’ between So In To You and Immigrant Song.

  7. I hate having to write “storyline calendars” for fanfiction, especially when the original author could care less.  But not writing the calendars is even worse. (Sigh.)

    1. Desiderius Price

      Desiderius Price

      Ages ago when I started my main potter fanfic, I did write up a spreadsheet.  And when I came back to it after a decade hiatus – it’s been a godsend for trying to remember how things were setup, what to elaborate more on, etc.

  8. It fought me tooth and nail, but I revised and updated Chapter 1 of Riding the Lincoln Way.  Again.  It only grew by about 1700 words or so.

    1. pronker

      pronker

      Excellent – I hope to update some of mine, too. I’m glad the site works once more.

  9. “And graven with diamonds in letters plain There is written, his fair neck round about:  Noli me tangere, for Caesaris’s I am, and wild for to hold, though I seem tame.”

    1. Wilde_Guess

      Wilde_Guess

      This quote appears a little more than halfway through Chapter 38.

  10. Armed Forces Day is for those who are serving the nation.  Veterans Day is for those who have served.  Memorial Day is for those who died in service of the United States.

    1. BronxWench

      BronxWench

      For all who have given their lives in service to the United States, you are not forgotten.

  11. I’ve posted Chapter 15, “June Bride Again,” to “Riding the Lincoln Way.”

  12. I’ve posted two “Harry Potter” fics over here from “St. Elsewhere.”  One is SFW, the other one will eventually “earn” its warnings, but not right away.

    http://hp.adult-fanfiction.org/story.php?no=600099685

    http://hp.adult-fanfiction.org/story.php?no=600099686

  13. More ear candy for you all, courtesy of the kids in Mokena.  Danny might play this in Chapter 37.  The RL artist doesn’t actually finish it, but his improv is still beyond cool.

     

  14. While I’m working on Chapter 36 and continued editing and revising elsewhere, here’s some more incidental music.

     

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