Desiderius Price
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While I’m not going to sign up for NaNo, I’ll make a goal. Add 70k to my adult version of my potter fanfic. We’ll see how well this fares at the end of the month.
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They do allow fan fiction, and anything you submit is encrypted and scrambled. They just want word count, and not manuscripts per se, so the verification process doesn’t even save the encrypted file.
But do your own unofficial NaNa if you like, and get those 70k words out by November 30!
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Let’s go with posted, start of the month is 126.8k, and I’m effectively trying to get it to 200k. (It’s on AO3 as I was more confident posting it there, and luckily, they’ve got word counts.) And boy, is the word count ballooning with this revision.
So, I can measure the word count to a very specific plot point that’s shared among the drafts, pretty early into the story. The old-old draft came to 60k to that point, the old-draft (now being replaced) came to 23.6k; the “clean” new version marked 50k; while the “adult” version clocked 115k to reach that same plot point. A little arithmetic on the word counts to those old drafts, and I won’t be surprised if I’m talking millions of words before the story is truly finished.
Thus, that 70k goal might move me 5% of the way through the story, maybe….
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What will help this month is every weekend is either 3 or 4 days due to my work schedule.
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If I don’t get writing done tonight, I might have to try to finish reading them myself.
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Minor tags are fine to have… especially if you’ve got that sort of material (cough, cough, like my stories do).
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I can bring headphones.
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I’m behind on my reading too.
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I felt a bit … disturbed too by what my mind came up with, but definitely a dark story (and technically, that entire universe of mine is set a short ways in the future, so it could definitely happen depending on politics). Now that I’ve situated a Halloween story around Christmas, next challenge it fit a Holiday story around Halloween
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Oh, thanks for asking about the method. It comes from an interview I heard on the radio a few months ago, about slaughtering pigs in the most humane way (that we know of) which used earmuffs with electrodes in them, the jolt of electricity is supposed to fry the brain stem and render them unconscious so the blood can be then drained -- I altered it to headphones, but still, same idea, because the father needs it to be relatively mark-free and quick. As to processing, I was thinking along the lines of plastination (google that one up) to convert the body into the final product, where fats are replaced with a flexible polymers. Oliver’s a smart kid, so while he doesn’t know the method, he sees through the BS that’s littered about him – I’ve got plans for him in other stories. And definitely, thank you for reviewing!!!!!
