Desiderius Price

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Children become minor1 or minor2 tags…. just saying.

You're only scaring away the weak-stomached. I'm all for more maturely rated stories. ;3 I'm all for gore mostly. Fuu~ It’s more if the weak-stomached complain, then an adult++ with a butt load of tags generally means they ignored the warnings.

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I tend to play it safe, rate mine adult++ and not worry about it…. hopefully it’s not scaring too many readers away. I tend not to pay attention to it on that occasion when I go reading.

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I try to keep a notebook on hand so that I can jot the good ones down when I have them.

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I find it helps, especially on making them different, otherwise, I’d likely make them all the same. (Though main characters in my stories develop a common liking to go around naked, maybe that says something about … me? )

It comes down to the whole character creation process. I’ve got trouble with blank bits of paper or blank documents, so I’ll create lists of randomized traits/dates/names/etc, and use those to jumpstart my shaping of the character.

More extensive than that, I’ve got a bunch of XML files, one per character/group/event, and a bit of custom software that spits out browseable HTML with links and each character’s family tree. That, and I’ve got a random date generator to come up with birthdays

And I’ve made a database of characters/key-events/groups, so that what helps me keep track of things. Not perfect, but it helps.

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All of my originals, including the halloween/holiday oneshots, are interconnected in some fashion. Of course, I try to make each one enjoyable w/o having to read the entire collected works

There was the original story, I pulled because I was trying to do too much and realized I had multiple stories! I split them to become Fiends/Dolbourne/Alaska. Overall, it’s better and fairer to each story. And then, backstory + holiday oneshots cause even more stories!

An example of plot bunnies grabbing my attention… it started because I needed a swimming instructor for a different story …. backstory can be dangerous

Actually, more like 10+ years since I got stuck, tried a revision/rewrite, and that’s six years ago when I finished the revision. Given most potter stories, they likely figure it’s abandoned… not so, but I’ve kinda been keeping my mind on my original works instead.