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Sounds like a perfect time to have a better-house-keeping course for witches, to help mitigate the possibilities.

Instructions unclear, Decided to found a school dedicated to Hansel and Gretal

The Hansel and Gretel Cookbook?

 Dark Lord Leo, The Black Lion That Stalks Unseen

-Slain Narcissa Malfoy on the crossroad to knockturn Alley after being provoked

-Subjugated The locket horcrux, Found Rowena’s Diadem.

- Plunged into the abyss and fought off the horcrux that infested him and ate it. Violating the fundamental law of magic on a level much worse than Voldermort did.

-Dark Lord finally matures. Leo has taken over. And is about to make a play for Azkaban.

@Desiderius Price Slowly catching up

Nice thing with where I branched off, I don’t have to mess around with horcruxes! 

Seeing the cover for the first time is just… well, there’s aren’t words for it. It’s just like nothing else in the world. 

Yeah. I’m trying not to be blubbering.

Didn’t know that. But for right now going to focus on Ebook first.

Before I try for print…

Print is usually much more expensive, and has a lower rate of return for a self-published author. You have to pay the costs of printing, and even when books are only printed after they are ordered. you need to price them in order to recover your costs. My novella doesn’t offer print copies, but my novel sells on Amazon for $5.99 for a Kindle ebook, and $15.95 for the paperback. I don’t sell a lot of print copies…  

Oh good I feel like I made a good decision by going for E first

I haven’t used them, but they look pretty damned good from what I’m reading. The prices for editing are fair, and so are the cover prices. If I were to self-publish, I think I’d give them a shot myself.

Okay I decided to give them a shot they look and feel legit.

I did notice they don’t have developmental edit services, so you’d have to budget elsewhere for that.

*touches fingers together self-consciously* yeah…. I tend to delete stories

I’ll get it read and reviewed as soon as I can – thursday maybe!

Ok, I’ve been drowining in shit due to a sick relative. Next week looking more likely. Sorry for the delay! Want to see how it goes.

“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”.

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.

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.

The Return of the King also had a bunch of appendices too, histories, family trees, etc – clever way to info-dump without over-burdening the prose.

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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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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You guys are making it to the end of things?

I do actually make it to the end of things. I just never seem to get around to actually posting them.  

One more chapter… one more chapter… words seduce, and you’ll have that million in no time! 

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

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.

Lemme proofread… “12M words left” right? 

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.

@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! “

Suddenly, the thought came to my head… “The Zombie Dating GAME SHOW!”  I must be very disturbed.

I kinda want to write a zombie apoclypse that happens during a dating game show. hahaha

IANAL, however, I think trademark applies to pen names.

I never copyrighted my pen name, actually, but no one else has had the urge to use it as far as I know.  

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.

And a grouping of crows is murder. 

A grouping of raven is an unkindness- I love how the naming are so amazing.

Bears- Sleuthe

Tigers- Streak

Hippos- Pod

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”.

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.

True, sometimes it simply takes a divorce to bring out the worst in people.  Have fun writing whatever the heck you want to write!

http://original.adult-fanfiction.org/story.php?no=600109824

A source of userpics for the pen names:

https://thispersondoesnotexist.com/

Well, suppose you could torture them with a brick by brick description, along with blueprints, see how long it lasts until they’re throwing stones…

I’ll second @BronxWench with her method, similar to how I do it.  Describe the basics, leave the rest to their imagination, unless there’s something important, like a loose brick.