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Desiderius Price

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  1. Sunburns are good things, happy things, ought to make you feel good.

    :Lies:

    So, no, positive thinking can’t overcome everything.

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    2. InvidiaRed

      InvidiaRed

      … What cream if I may ask? I’m not allergic to aloe but I’d rather have a backup option.

       

       

    3. Desiderius Price

      Desiderius Price

      Vaseline’s “Advance Repair” for skin, sort of helps, for a couple of hours.   (It’s what I had in the cabinet w/o having to go anywhere.)

    4. Sparrow

      Sparrow

      Yeah, that summer I went windsurfing, every day afterwards I had sunburn in places I didn’t know the sun could even fall. Once I got home I’d just cover myself in whatever aloe vera or skin-care remedies were to hand and then flop down onto my bed for an hour or so until I stopped feeling like I’d been in the oven for too long.

  2. Oh, MC and them are coworkers? And, he’s ogling them? That’s a HR nightmare waiting to happen. So, is this annual-review-time and he needs to write something flattering about his coworkers? Is he a pervert and makes a habit of gawking at them (& their reactions)? An idea is to have a customer make that out-of-line remark (see previous posts), and MC remarking how restrained Janina is being this time? As to verb tense, I recommend past tense. I’ve tried present tense and it’s… a beast all to itself.
  3. I started writing with fanfiction myself, wanting to explore how another story could go, and *poof* a story appeared, which I decided to post, warts and all. And never fear, your writing will get better with time. Welcome to the club of fanfic writers!
  4. (whistles you away from my potter fanfic...948k and nowhere near done...) BW is trying to lead you down the path of better character building, less “smut-only” story, which is definitely one I try to pursue myself. Obviously, the shorter the story, the less of that character buildup will be in the actual prose, however, it’s useful for guiding how the character responds to situations, especially when it’s out-of-ordinary responses (ie, I had a grown man breakdown & cry when he saw my teenage MC naked because it reminded him of discovering his own son dead from carbon monoxide poisoning – same MC who loved oysters but had the allergic effect of giving him a bad case of the runs). As to introducing those characters, I’ll typically give a distinguishing physical feature or two (ie. hair color) though sometimes it’ll simply be “the waiter” even if I know they’ve got magical birthmarks on their tosh. Having a warstory or three in their bio-sheet is good too, but don’t forget to actually write the story you intended to write!
  5. “Hi, I’m Janina,” the busty lady said, “Don’t even think it, because the last man who dared, she’s working in the cellar. Now, what can I get you?”
  6. Breasts so large they’ve crushed fifty men?
  7. That moment you’re rewriting a death scene and realize you should remove all sugar bowls from the house, just in case the perp drops by for a visit…..

    1. InvidiaRed

      InvidiaRed

      Sometimes when I write a death scene I start with a preface of dear future fbi agent I can tell the difference between IRL and fiction =p

    2. Desiderius Price

      Desiderius Price

      Not sure if that’d matter, if a FBI agent would read it how you’d want it read.  In this case, no google search is needed as it’s a rewrite, I already know the method & effects.

  8. This summarizes up today, though it omits the gaming distraction….

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  9. It’s bad when you don’t remember why you’re in jail. Parking violation, perhaps?
  10. First word, first sentence, first paragraph, first page, first scene, and first chapter are definitely important and worthy of focus as a writer. Obviously, there’s some leeway at the start of the story, but I’ve been turned off by walls of info-dumping/text before, so that’s why I try to avoid writing large blobs of them. So that’s why you’ll typically see my stories starting off with some level of action, be it dialog, a sound, a movement – don’t want it to be a super-involved action scene, but something to get the story moving. Now, an epigraph might be a consideration. An epigraph is a short quote/conversation, etc, that’s relevant to the whole story. In one of mine, I quoted a bit of (fictitious) legal code that applied to the situation. Other examples are quotes that are from a future historian’s POV (Andromeda, the TV series, did this), or a bit of the adults’ conversation about Ender Wiggum in Ender’s Game. Another trick is a scene from near the climax, where everything appears to be going horrid/tense, with a “some time earlier….”
  11. If you’re after fun, turn it into a bucket list, challenge yourself to writing stories featuring tags you don’t normally explore.
  12. That’s how you could introduce Janina, from the MC’s POV (male, right)? He could remember his *last* time there, an insult that pissed her off, and how he doesn’t want to repeat his mistake again. In doing so, add in details to her cleavage/clothes every other paragraph or so.
  13. Grr… I hate getting flame/troll reviews (on FF.net, not here)…

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    2. Desiderius Price

      Desiderius Price

      Emb3rSky283 is the penname (id 13561264), joined a year ago.  And this, from their bio, is telling.  “I have written on here under other pennames, but lost access to those accounts, usually by losing the account information“  means they’ve likely been kicked before.

    3. Desiderius Price

      Desiderius Price

      Now, I did actually send FF.net’s support an email advising of this troll in case they try to do something else (ie, flagging stories for abuse in an attempt to get my account deleted).  Maybe it’ll help.  Of course, my best hope is the troll gets tired and moves along.

    4. BronxWench

      BronxWench

      I’m not seeing that pen name in my archive membership, but I’ll keep an eye out. 

  14. “A” in AFF stands for “adult”, which free-speech means you’re free to write a wanker aid, if that wanks your noggin, which is fine. We’re here to help with improving the writing, and stereotypes are something we’re all susceptible to writing in without realizing it, perhaps we’re writing faster than we’re thinking. (Felt we needed the reminder.) My take, of course, is that you could turn your info-dump into some wonderful scenes. Now, I think you’re going to write this from Janina’s POV, at which point, she’s not going to describe herself in that level of detail – how many women will envy another woman’s breasts? Now, if you change the POV to be from a male’s (or lesbian’s) perspective, then having him/her lust over her breasts gives you an opportunity to describe them in more detail and be relevant to the story. If this is an investigator’s POV, investigating the blood stain on the wall post-insult, then measurements of Janina’s breasts might be relevant to the rap-sheet. From Janina’s POV, you can still hint, having her complain about back-pain from the stress, she doesn’t know the magic, can’t afford the potion, etc, and is saving up for a reduction procedure? As to clothes from Janina’s POV, could have her deciding what to wear in the morning, perhaps in front of a mirror, give a chance to describe all of her trousers as being green, or whatever. Using makeup to hide a mole, etc. Or even grumble when red wine is spilled and staining her clothes. And the hair, well, the band could slip so she has to redo it. All ideas…
  15. I bookmarked it ages ago, refer to it from time to time, cause it’s handy!
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