Desiderius Price

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What? That’s limiting… More seriously, I learned by doing it wrong in my first original story (now deleted). I crammed it with so much backstory/flashback that I confused my readers and myself. On reflection, I realized I basically had multiple stories in one. So, I spun one backstory off as a regular chaptered story (complete), and the other off as an episodic serial (still WIP). And working on a second episodic to explain where the main protagonist’s swimming instructor came from, so yeah, gotta cut backstory off at a point or it’ll explode with plot bunnies and you’ll never get back around to writing the story you intended to write in the first place.

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When I write, I generally prefer “showing” over “telling”. Thus, don’t tell them a character is angry, show them slamming a door, raising their voice as they shout back, etc. Obviously there’s extremes to either end, 100% showing winds up with a 1M+ Harry Potter fanfic… I typically don’t like being told what to think, I prefer judging for myself, which is why I prefer showing over telling as I read and as I write. An internal monologue…sounds like either a good start to summary/outline or a wall of text doing info-dumping (use sparingly). However, a short monologue/dialogue is a decent way to introduce facts you want to de-emphasize to some degree, maybe soften/de-gory some bit of it (ie, a rape, an abortion). Overall, you can tell I favor character/story development over recapping, and it’s spun off stories as “character development”

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Was thing more venus fly trap style… anyways, requires a lot of thought

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Hmm….Halloween story, where the happy ending is the tragic ending. Not sure how to pull that off in the original universe I tend to write in.

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Why did my mind jump to R/C dildo being used as a torture device?

Innocence? Not typically found on this website

Explicit version does trample large swaths of “non-conformity” type of encounters (ie, not simply M/F). Though, ironically, did write a M/F scene this morning.

Got an alternate ending to my potter fanfic that’ll tie into one of my originals… in this same theme would be a “send-off” of sorts.

Smutty version version only, and not guaranteed there’s anybody on the receiving end of it. Sometimes it’s slipping it into somebody’s food, and next thing the person knows, Snape can’t wipe the grin from their face as it gets rather sticky beneath the workbench in Potions.

Well, I’ll caveat that it’s the characters I’ve grown to love that I’ll do that to. Others… toss ‘em in the woodchipper.

IIRC, that capability is still disabled. For tag changes, stick them at the top of your story, that’ll cover you until they re-enable it.