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Like everybody else, I’m frustrated as heck by the arrogance/entitlement of the perpetrator, cause it’s infringing on OUR server and curtailing OUR ability to speak/publish in a place that’ll tolerate our eccentricities. </end-rant>

Cleaned it out.... really frustrating how they are bypassing logins and security protocols.

Do it outside, much less cleaning up that way… but legal paperwork would be a bitch…

It tried to redirect me too but my antivirus program blocked the redirect. Unreal how determined and unrelenting this has been.

That was the sql injection attack we’ve been dealing with, and I strongly urge everyone not to click on anything like that. I’m tagging @manta2g and @DemonGoddess to let them know it’s happening again...

They say debut novels for publishing should be 100k or less… that’s a short story! I had a similar issue with wanting to write the smut while also wanting to have a plot-centric story when I returned to my potter story. I’ve ended up making two versions… one I consider “explicit” and the other “cleaner”, so think Unrated vs R MPAA movie ratings. This has been a success IMO, because I’ve also written a bit of software that lets me write the two versions in the same file, where I annotate what’s “clean” and what’s “explicit” – it filters it out and I post the results. Thus certain descriptions, scenes, themes, and characters (& implications) are in that explicit side only. Of course, this has now resulted in the explicit side being about three times the size of the clean…

I say go for it. I’m participating in the nh fair and wrote a one-shot of a story I plan on writing later, there was huge support for it and the feedback I got was incredibly helpful in shaping my outline for it. I think it’s a great opportunity to get a pulse on what kind of interest it’ll generate and you might get some really unique ideas from your readers. Well worth a trial run.

I know that game, lol. I used to think it was a joke when writers would say that a story took on a life of its own, its so true. My Naruto fic Monster has truly become a monster. It was one of the few stories I knew the ending to but had to figure out a beginning, but I got soooo lost in the beginning and middle that it’s become this 400,000 word smut collection (mostly) It was intended to be a 20 chapter smut/horror story, laying heavy on the psychological horror aspect but I just had so many ideas for this and that, and it just turned into idk wtf. I’m slowly getting back to its roots, lol, but now that it’s gotten so huge, I’ve had no choice but to plan for two more parts after. I’ve put my foot down on going farther than a trilogy though, otherwise it’d never end and I’ve got other stories I need to work on.

The *other* trap with an OC is the Mary/Gary sue phenomenon. (See the “Ensign Sue Must Die” web comic...) Nah, wrote mine with issues so he’d foil Harry in trying to assist Oliver Wood in teaching first year flying lessons (you know, have Harry focus on one person instead of helping with the entire class). This OC loitered because it was useful for showing Harry caring and helping somebody having trouble adjusting to Hogwarts. Subsequently, became useful to show the differing levels of concern teachers had when a student goes missing (all-hands-on-deck if it’s Harry, whereas a shy first year, the assumption is “ran away” when the truth was the opposite). And this OC is now a useful observer to show the events happening within the castle when Harry’s attendance is spotty at best. Overall, the story is definitely better with this addition, even if it’s blowing up my word counts (around a 7:1 ratio compared to the previous version). But I digress...