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Nearly done with the last preview.
But here’s a writer question isn’t it a nice thing to do to put your manuscript through spellchecker/grammarly so your editor doesn’t hate you? You know catch the obvious errors first.
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“Sorcerer’s Stone” does run off the tongue a bit better than the Philosopher’s Stone, otherwise, yep, would’ve been better if the Britishisms weren’t removed.
As to my potter fanfic, not sure where the old disclaimer that I was American went to, apologizing in advance for not being perfect to British. However, I do try to insert some British where I can, particularly “todger” and “zebra crossing”.
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Only have two HP fanfictions when where harry is trying to survive in a zombie apocalypse a scenario were the wizarding world is almost guaranteed to thrive in since wands don’t run out of bullets
And a dark lord Harry who AK’d peter in the graveyard, a relatively slow corruption story hahah.
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I’ve only got one potter fanfic I’m working on, now A/U because it was a “continue the story” type of fic that was popular between book releases, and it’s interesting enough to finish. As it’s technically a sequel to my first “continue the story” fanfic, which itself was “continue the story” based on another (now abandoned) fanfic, I can’t bring the story itself to AFF w/o filing off the serial numbers which I couldn’t bring myself to do. However, it’s plenty fun to write with Harry being framed up to be a “suspected dark wizard” and it pokes fun at the Harry/Ginny shipping.
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http://hp.adult-fanfiction.org/story.php?no=600099588&chapter=11
Just a quick update to celebrate my achievement of finishing and then I decided to do a Preview Hahaha. The world is grand <3
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Lol I have the rest of my life to expand the verse as it were hahah.
Now off to find a decent editor!!!
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Now off to find a decent editor!!!
An indecent editor might be more appealing?
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Finally, my labor is nearing its ebb. 3k words left
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How does it feel? I’m always torn when I make it to the end of something. I’m thrilled to be done, but never quite ready to let the little story go out into the world all alone…
You guys are making it to the end of things?
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You guys are making it to the end of things?
“End of things” … that does not compute.
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6k words let just wow. Home stretch is nearly in sight. I can’t believe it.
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One more chapter… one more chapter… words seduce, and you’ll have that million in no time!
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Maybe for my HP fanfic
Tarnished Lion =p nearly 30k dragon prints and yet three comments so I assume people enjoy it? I’m pretty sure it’s almost as many words as order of the phoenix
but I swore I’d be a full fledged writer by my birthday
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My potter fic (on AO3) stands at 927k – that’s short, right? Not sure the best way to get people to comment/review, otherwise I’d be minting them myself.
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12K words left and my wordsmithing is nearing its end
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Lemme proofread… “12M words left” right?
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Hahaha.
No, 8k left since I essentially had to rewrite the entire novel almost from the ground up. So find another editor
getting nervous tho. What if everybody hates it? ugh..
How do you fellow writers deal with the nerves?
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How do you fellow writers deal with the nerves?
Close my eyes before I hit the post button.
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I feel like there is a whole untapped subgenre of what happens when a zombie apocalypse gets worse.
*Werewolf howls*
or demons escaping hell or vampires going crazy as they try to find the last living humans before they go totally feral.
or even suddenly it goes disaster movie.
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@GeorgeGlass Max Brooks*’ short story The Extinction Parade and the comic miniseries adaption pretty much matches that.
*The World War Z guy.
Edit – https://www.amazon.com/Max-Brooks-Extinction-Parade-1/dp/1592912346
“As humans wage their losing fight versus the hoards of the subdead, a frightening realization sets in with the secretive vampire race: our food is dying off. This is the story of the vampire's descent into all-out war with the mindless, hungry hordes of the zombie outbreak as humanity tries to survive them all! “
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Suddenly, the thought came to my head… “The Zombie Dating GAME SHOW!” I must be very disturbed.
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I kinda want to write a zombie apoclypse that happens during a dating game show. hahaha
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Writer question
Pen names are confusing af like you have to copyright it?
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IANAL, however, I think trademark applies to pen names.
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I never copyrighted my pen name, actually, but no one else has had the urge to use it as far as I know.
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Google search later, pen names may be trademark-protected, but aren’t copyright-protected. Though, more practically, I think other writers (& lawyers) may gang up on somebody poaching another’s name.
A scorched-earth option, make your writing sufficiently notorious so nobody dares to be associated with it.
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A grouping of humans is called a tribe
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And a grouping of crows is murder.
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A grouping of raven is an unkindness- I love how the naming are so amazing.
Bears- Sleuthe
Tigers- Streak
Hippos- Pod
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Heads up Offering Sorrow
is a dark antagonist’s POVs.
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Aw, a more clear-cut evil for the sake of evil? Most of my original fiction “antagonists” could be written as protagonists if you switched POVs – ie, they think they’re protecting society from the evils my typical main characters “represent”.
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Sometimes you don’t need a complex motivation other than
I’m going to destroy everything!- Angra Mainyu
Angrboda’s primary motivation is family. She genuinely loves her children Fenrir, Hel and Jormungander and wants them safe on earth is understandable. Wanting to avenge her own murder is too, Conspiring to get humanity to nuke Asgard less so.
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True, sometimes it simply takes a divorce to bring out the worst in people. Have fun writing whatever the heck you want to write!