Desiderius Price

Aw, well, more opportunities to get the wares/inventory mixed up Maybe it starts with a kid finding something they shouldn’t have found? “Mommy! Mommy! What’s this?” followed by shrieks? If I were writing, I’d more likely start on the kid friendly side TBH. Unless it’s horror, and start with an employee getting an anonymous threatening letter “I know where you work, you defiler.” If you’re still undecided -- create two files, write one from the kid-friendly side to start, the other from the adult-orientated side to start. See which one you like better as an opener. (And you’ll have some seed material for the second chapter too.)

I’ve heard of “bookstores” where the upstairs is a bland selection of books, but you go downstairs for the “adult” material. Guess the question is how is the owner (or owners) want to be perceived? Do you even start at the stores? Or, is it from the perspective of a customer? Which side do you want to emphasize? Kinda a bunch of questions for how you want the story to go.

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44018 I’ve broken 20k words this month, so that’s “thawing” IMO. Not quite the 100k+ I was managing in the fall, but yeah, good to get words pumping again.

44016 After a couple of months of nothing, I’ve finally had some luck this past week, a bit of wind again in my story.

44014 A simple text editor (with spell check) is what I write in. Simplicity tends to win IMO.

44012 I’m running Firefox v126.0.1 (64-bit), on Gentoo which means the kernel isn’t too old either. For office stuff, I’d use Libreoffice, however, that’s not what I’m writing stories with (that’d be pluma).

44010 I’m using Linux/Firefox (had to “trust” AFF in no script)

44008 Chatbox seems to work for me.

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