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This is where I will post responses to any reviews of my Phineas and Ferb story “Hot Yoga.”

I go with word counts because page counts are so easy to manipulate (font size, page size, font type, spacing, etc) – I remember playing with those back in school when a teacher would specify “X” pages and I’d come up otherwise short. I’ve tried 3Kwords, I’ve tried 25Kwords, and I’ve settled on a general rule of thumb for 6k-8k. However, I’ll tolerate less/more if the chapter/circumstances demand it. At 10k I’m generally looking to see if there’s a good way to divide it. Below 5k, and I’m considering whether the chapter should be condensed with another, or something should be added. Too short, and nobody gets engaged to click that “next” button, and too long, well, both makes it more daunting to me as an author and gives fewer natural “resting points” for the reader to set aside and come back later (I mean, if it’s a really long story, they need breaks).

I was gonna ask if the multi-appendaged people jumping school girls are female multi-appendaged people, but I’m afraid we may have gotten off topic. Um, so yeah… Diversity is good. Another thing about writing a diverse cast I really like, is that research GeorgeGlass mentioned. It kinda forces you into learning about other types of people, and learn a little about things you’ve never experienced before. If you do it well, it’s an excellent lesson in empathy.

Glad you liked the shifting perspectives: I wrote about two thirds of the chapter before I realized that it really needed more sensory detail, and it couldn’t have that without different POVs, so I went back and rewrote it to make that happen. As for the stopping point, I can never resist a cliffhanger.

Hi everyone. so the new is good, bad, and several shades in between :P. I am doing better, much better, but I’ll be having one more surgery to replace the graft that failed. Hopefully it isn’t a disaster like last time, everyone cross their fingers Steve is doing good, really good. He’s had zero growth from his cancer and is feeling so much better, nice to see him laughing and joking agin. He has started working again but promised he wouldn’t be taking any risky jobs, believe that when I see it LOL. My hubby the adrenaline junkie :-/. Angie is teething so yay, cranky baby LOL, but she’s a little toughy and actually still pretty happy. Still not growing much but her doctor assures me she is doing fine, she’s gonna be little like her mother evidently. Kinda hoped she’s get some height from her father but oh well. everyone else is doing good so life is going on as usual, my happy little insane asylum LOL. We have started writing again and hopefully will be posting chapters soon, but summer is coming and it a busy time for us, but we’ll do our best. Hope this finds everyone doing as well as we are, and I appreciate all the well wishes and concern (thanks Rescue for poking me to find out if we’re still alive LOL). Talk to you all again soon...or when Rescue prods me to wake up again LOL.

Hm… cannot see the image, but here’s what I can find as references for Skuld’s adult form: Edit: Actually, I found out where the image was from, but danbooru doesn’t allow direct linking, so it cannot be posted here like that. Still, that’s exactly the version of Skuld I had in mind for this story. Here are some screenshots from the episode where Skuld was an adult (the same episode where the gif image originated from): Those are both considered as canon, since they’re from the anime itself. So, that’s what Skuld should look like in this story. The only difference is, that here, she’s a real adult, and not just temporarily aged up (as it happened in the anime).

Thanks! And if there’s a class like what this one is going to turn into, sign me up.

As I always say, there’s no higher praise than an involuntary physiological response. Oh, I wouldn’t worry; Melanie’s going to be rather busy... Thanks for the comment!