Desiderius Price
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The mods definitely appreciate you fixing it before they notice it. I’ve been mulling over the best way to balance disclosure vs advertising vs not-spoiling the story for ages on this, because the reader must be warned before they encounter (say [xeno]). If, for instance, a small section, one scene for a 500+kword story, well that [xeno] tag might be disappointing to a reader expecting it, and it’s a bit of a spoiler if you weren’t wanting to disclose that there were indeed aliens showing up in the story. But the good rule of thumb, around here, is when in doubt, tag it in, because they are first and foremost, a warning. At the top of my stories, I will qualify if the tag is an incidental or questionable (ie, I’ll list minor1 if an underage kid is merely naked, regardless of whether he/she is sexual or not, it’s enough of a trigger).
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Hmmm… sounds like a challenge, might do that if I get a chance to look at the site code… Though I’d probably conclude that there is no real correlation. And sometimes, it’s a round robin halloween/holiday stories, and I will try to review each one of those. Rape is one of those trigger tags, stands out like Minor1. Having a shit ton of tags can be a detractor, so I’ve been shifting most of my tags into the top of the story, keeping the major/advertising types (+other) in the summary. The distinction helps those searching for tags they want to read vs those they just need to know are incidentals (ie isolated handjobs), I’ll even qualify those incidentals if warranted (ie, why a tag is being applied if its kinda iffy or even “maybe/anticipated”).
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Why do I keep envisioning the topic title to be “How long do you prefer c***s?” In the end, it just comes down to preference, I think. Shorter for a faster pace, longer to get more into it, and sometimes, the material calls out the length when a scene makes you feel the chapter’s “just right.” For Jefferey, this means ep. 15 will be just over 1kwords, because though I wanted it longer, the scene was such that any longer would detract from the point of the episode. I could go back, embellish that scene, but it’d be overdoing it.
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Tip for the day, write down those voices in your head, that way you go from being “Crazy” to “Crazy Author”.
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Yes. Great advice. Best to go the respectable author route with your crazy. Or the catlady/catman route. Or both!
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Episode #13 is posted.
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If I’m writing chaptered based, then yeah, I’m all for the cliffhanger, but if I’m doing it as an episodic serial, essentially as a series of oneshots around the same set of characters, I tend to wrap up at the end of the episode (though I still like to toss in that cliffhanger when I can ) This is one reason I try to push for shorter chapters, the “chunking” it up forthe reader. If I hit 10k, I look to split, but that’s my rule of thumb. Of course, it’s not a hard rule, if there’s reason for it to go a bit higher, I’ll let it, but it will most definitely be split if it goes much higher (I’ll find a spot to break it). Have I mentioned my story database for details? The other reason for shorter chapters is the author side. For the Repair Guy I experimented with shorter chapters (~2k), and I was pumping out chapters every day or two, which was most definitely fun. With Jefferey and it’s 7kword (average) episodes, it’s more like once every two weeks for new material. Another thing is that if I find that it takes 10kwords “just to get started” on an episode/chapter, it likely means I’m trying to do too much with the chapter/episode, so it’s better to break it up and focus on the different elements one at a time. It’s better for the readers, better for me.
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I have to see exactly where i want to take it, but my gut feeling is that Episode #15 will be on the shorter side. (Includes a small challenge prompted by @CloverReef )
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@CloverReef I think it was more of the latter… as to which one, I’m not saying!
I think the tags will give it away.
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Gaah! I have to wait?! Waiting is a thing still?! I thought the internet eradicated that shit!
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Well, #14 has to be released, and that’s most likely in two weeks. After that, episode #15 can be posted, I’m guessing three weeks, depends on how #16/#17 go. And #15 is indeed short. What I intended as an opening scene, I realized did justice to what I wanted to portray, anything else detracted, so it’ll be short.
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Yippee! Ep #14 has been written! (Now, the usual wait, well, 13 has to be posted first).
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I track mine via a spreadsheet. Normally, I do it daily unless I just posted, at which point, I’ll do it a bit more often. (And refresh a lot in between to see how it changes.) I also try to avoid clicking *into* my own story because I know it’ll disturb the counts. I do put a lot of time into my stories as I don’t have that natural talent to sit at the computer and have a new story done over the weekend. I like my stories to be consistent, well reasoned, and plausible; that takes effort, I’ll even burn some vacation time to write, because I do enjoy it. So it’s nice to know that it’s appreciated by the readers, because I’m definitely not doing this to get rich (that’d be nice, have movie made of one of my stories, or something, but that’s a lottery type payoff). And we do like to drone on in the forums
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Finally, after a couple days of fretting over this, got a reasonable outline to the critical part to Ep 14…. had to sort out the full picture before I could restrict it to just the MC’s point of view.
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Of course, after thinking over it, couple small points to iron out, but yeah, writing will come. (I actually got about 4k into it before I came to that realization that I couldn’t wing it like I normally do.)
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lol sounds like you write kinda like I do. Twinsies! We can now start wearing matching outfits to the christmas parties.
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For Jefferey, I’ll typically have either a general premise or a key scene to an episode way ahead of time. Then, when I get to an episode, I’ll flesh it out with a few bullet points to a rough outline, so I kinda know how it’ll go, and start writing it from there.
For Episode 14, the basic premise is that the group needs Jeff to do something away from camp, so it’s a trip, which wouldn’t be interesting if it didn’t go wrong
I tried it my usual way, just winging it, got 4k in, however, the details started to bug me. The adversaries trying to make the trip go wrong, they’re competent, I want to write them as competent, so no silly mistakes, and so there’d be contingencies for when it might not go according to plan. So, I was considering having Jeff’s group send another contingent, to “save the day”, *but* they’d first try to contact Jeff’s party and abort the trip, because the task could easily wait to another day. Jeff’s party is also competent, so if they suspected anything was amiss, they’d scrub and retreat. I also need the venue to stay properly scoped, and fitted to those using it. What I do really like about what I’ve written so far, is I started it from a different POV before I bring Jeff in; then I shift earlier to Jeff’s side for the trip; a mild flashback feel, but not too bad, and it lets me hint at the adversaries setting things up before Jeff shows up.
With all of what I’m expecting from the Episode, I decided I needed to plan it more intricately. First, explore it from the adversary POV, figuring out the details to their orders, their plans and contingencies for this, and the operational limits to the actions that they can take [this storyline, this universe, doesn’t have supervillains, nearly everybody thinks they are doing the right thing, even though their definitions to “the right thing” can vary]. Second, add in Jeff’s party and figure it out, how to get him into trouble, and the tough part, getting him out of it without relying on a deus ex (so tempting, so very tempting, it’d solve the issue, *but*….)
So, once I finalize the general layout to the venue, the rest should fall into place. Or, just use the bullet proof coffin.
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It comes down to those self-doubts one can have about their own stories. Are they any good? Do people like reading them? Is it worth my effort to take these from an outline/rough to a more polished form for posting? Is this suitable to actually be published (for originals)? In the absence of reviews, I can’t answer these, not really. So, having the dragon prints going up consistency after posting/promoting at least hints that some people are reading it, and coming back to read with each installment – it’s not guaranteed, it could be a different group of suckers each time, or, it could be some habitual readers; my assumption is that it’s a bit of both.
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Why, oh why, am I researching bullet-proof caskets?
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Obviously because you're planning your funeral and anticipate some less-than-happy relatives paying their respects.
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Yep…. “Turned Gay By The Existential Dread That I May Actually Be A Character In A Chuck Tingle Book “
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At least no useful words between the covers?
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Getting my character into situations is easy. It’s getting him out in a plausible fashion, that’s tough.
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