Desiderius Price

I’ll ignore that link in your signature….. I had the rate bomber attack one of my earlier stories, Alaska Trekkers, before the feature went away. At the time, I was rather new to AFF, and it nearly discouraged me away; to get that downvote seconds after uploading a new chapter … in hindsight, that sort of response time hints at a bot to me. As they never said anything, all I could do is guess, and the tags are a likely culprit – but that’s the way my main characters are, I like ‘em naked.

My stuff varies on the main characters, sometimes they’re gay or bi, sometimes not, depends on the story. Though, my Dale’s Game does have the main characters as gay (in a homophobic world), so if you’ve not read it @CloverReef, feel free to read and review it I am planning a sequel and it does have a short prequel in the 2016 holiday stories. For me, by relaxing the requirement for perfection, it lets me actually post, and posted material is much better than holding out for “perfect”. When I wrote The Repair Guy, I deliberately experimented by going for short chapters and one-pass proofreading; the result was, I finished that story in a couple of months, not years, and I’m overall happy with how it turned out.

I just noticed I overlooked a review to my oneshot in the Chatbox Holiday Cheer 2016 (This was right after my cat passed, so I was definitely stressed). Read Dale’s Game if you haven’t already And thanks for the review.

Fortunately, I’ve got next week off With what you described of the real person stories, I’d probably be pulling them too. I too, have some perfectionist tendencies, but I’ve learned to temper those with practicality and pragmatism, recognizing the desire to get something written; a slightly imperfect story is better than no story at all!

Full listing? I’m in…. Originals (ignoring holiday/halloween) The Repair Guy: 3516/2 Dale’s Game: 2605/9 (DA was an active reviewer until she went off grid0 Jefferey: 9241/2 Fiends: 1481/0 Dolbourne Chronicles: 1721/0 Alaska Trekkers: 2783/2 Harry Potter (another site, can’t bring ‘em here) Red and Green Patches: 14188/24 In the Crosshairs: 10161/175 So yeah, genre makes a difference.

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In my case, a smart reader would see the post/updated dates … fifteen years ago for that first fanfic, and read my comments about it being my FIRST, and understand. It’s on that *other* fanfic website, so it gets plenty of traffic there, its last review being about five years ago (a decade after posting it).

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Yep, minor1 is one of those tags. And I find that for every line I attempt to draw in the sand, I’ll eventually cross. I will qualify tags, if appropriate, because I do tend to overtag (ie, minor1 even if it’s just nudity w/o sexual activity, or, alternatively, exposure to adults doing the deed). Since I record the dragon prints, I know Jefferey’s count goes up several hundred between episode posts, so I suspect I’ve got some readers despite just having two reviews. Generally, I try to refrain from pulling, even earlier works. There are fanfics I’ll go back and re-read from time to time, and even though I do start to realize how...well, with experience, quality, I do appreciate being able to re-read them. I’ve considered going back and rewriting my first potter fanfic, because I’m sure I could do a better job today, but I think it’d lose some of the charm for it having been my first, so I plan to leave as it is, warts and all. And thanks for that endorsement… reviews are always appreciated

Congratulations, that’s definitely not shabby, keep it up!

I’ve got nothing above single digits. Two are unreviewed: Originals > Fiends Originals > Dolbourne Chronicles Both are WIP, haven’t been updated in a while, so that’s understandable, and flooded with tags. I’ve been moving insignificant tags into the story itself so it’s less daunting to the prospective reader (they still get full disclosure at the top of the story). And yeah, some of mine have minor1, so that’s a detractor too. What I have been doing is recording my dragon prints, so I use that as a proxy for interest in the stories.

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Fielding teams of kangaroos, that’d be interesting too.

As one whose first fanfic had a non-canon character, I can’t go against that In the end, I’ve kinda sidelined that non-canon character, making her a refuge for Harry from the wizarding world, good girlfriend (+wife) with benefits. On the pragmatic side, writing an OC can be a good spot to build confidence to start into full originals too.