Desiderius Price

Well… first, you don’ t have to have sex in the first chapter, especially if it’s got a strong plot. And with how I’m doing this rewrite… frequently scenes that were penned under “clean” tend to not get too smutty even when they go to explicit, might have an odd remark to nipples, pubic hairs, todgers, clits, that sort to remind the audience the characters are starkers. Whereas the differences are more pronounced when I write a scene to be explicit, only to realize I kinda need it in the clean too (thus starts a “clean up” where I mark off the explicit bits). When I view my own stories, the first chapters very rarely have any real sex scenes...nudity or skimpy wear being more common. Actual sex usually comes in later chapters.

How good are you at compiling & running software from source, and using something similar conceptually to LaTeX in usage? I’m serious here, because I am writing two versions of my potter fanfic story within the same set of text files simultaneously, and I manage this with a custom bit of C++ code that I wrote. (The fanfic is on AO3 under two separate “story” entries, and the word counts are almost a 3:1 ratio between them.) As an example of the markup you’d be writing…. {They|Harry's soft todger dripped as they} continued. A sharp bend to the right, they stopped. In this case, the clean (which is the first “slot”) would read (after processing) While the explicit (second “slot”) would read (after processing) And yes, with the right marking, you can do whole sections as one or the other. I’ll typically write multiple chapters of explicit to a single clean chapter a lot of the time. I put my source code up on github a while ago, so it’s available for playing around with.

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