Desiderius Price

And some rather interesting debates can be had. Welcome to AFF, and start a few more fires

It’s the example I point to as where my database helps, so I can track these things, because I had ages ago, listed a more generic shellfish allergy. This was after cursing Google for pushing diarrhea cures when I wanted to trigger it… go figure. When I do want to bring some significance to a character, I’ll roll the dice, effectively, and run a utility I have that picks random lines out of a file. I’ve got files for personality traits, hobbies, allergies, occupations, and phobias. So, I’ll pick, say 10, and see what makes sense, and create a character for that. I use the random thing, since although it’s easy to say “I want the character to have flaws”, trying to pick those traits while also not overusing a few favourites, that’s tougher.

Nothing that dramatic… just more than enough unpleasantness to ruin a date though [and it was way better than my first idea of food poisoning because it was more targeted, and added to his character.]

If it’s “Butt ::slap:: sir ::slap:: the ::slap:: Pizza ::slap:: ….”, isn’t that technically two speakers? Unless this person was slapping themself, I’d say that it be broken into paragraphs. (I’m counting the slapping as speech here.

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Yeah, I had recently a good 5k toward ironing out some of my character’s flaws, but it was kinda overboard, so I killed it. So, I left them at that point where they can jump further by tripping over their shoelaces. Made a subsequent section more challenging, but I think I managed.

An allergy to oysters, but eats them anyways because they’re so delicious, that comes to mind.

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Chapter 12, “March” is now posted, enjoy. - DP

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Pay no attention to the significance of it being painted grass green, not to be confused with forest green.

PWP – porn without plot, or as I prefer, “Plot, what Plot?” I suggested that as a PWP has no plot, it would have no skeleton to seen

Dunno, it’s more fun playing with my gun. I like to strike a balance, I don’t every detail to be unimportant, but I don’t want every detail to be important either. So, a blue herring in a bunch of red herrings might be very significant, or it might just be that the packer is color blind.

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Aw, so you’re a PWP type of person …

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All of my original stories on here, including the halloween/holiday oneshots, are from the same universe, most characters are connected in some fashion. So, for me, writing down a plot bunny has a good chance of being usable, even if it’s a spinoff story. But yep, recording them helps retain them and you can go back, even with a fickle muse … may be a challenge. And sometimes, those ideas are rejected, not because they’re lousy, but because it’ll distract too much from the major thrust to the story, or simply overwhelm it. (I recently pruned what would’ve been chapter 16 from Dale’s Game because it was too much, even though the underlying premise was sound in terms of what the characters needed in skill improvements. Sad to remove 5kwords and start the chapter over….not really removed, I do save them off into a separate file, just in case.)

I’ve gotten disciplined enough to jot the idea down, or put it into my database. (Which is useful, came in handy for Dale’s game, turning the situation from food poisoning into an allergy, allowing me to create an interesting trait for his character.) Even with original, if you’re developing a universe/world-building, after a while, you’ve got the same level of constraints; again, I ran into that with Dale’s Game, where the end point of the story is fixed, very fixed, within the universe, and the story was developing fast, so it was easier to make it a year later than to completely rewrite and slow it down w/o any benefit.

The Winter Sky, Jip Van Kakerken (it’s a song from the Endreal mod to Skyrim…)

Ron/Hermione, Harry/OC-muggle (and I can’t bring the fics to AFF due to the OC… ) Warning, my portrayal of their sixth year makes canon look like a street festival.