Desiderius Price

Good luck on it! Having a plan is an awesome feeling. Which I’ve basically never experienced 

Of course, after thinking over it, couple small points to iron out, but yeah, writing will come.  (I actually got about 4k into it before I came to that realization that I couldn’t wing it like I normally do.)

lol sounds like you write kinda like I do. Twinsies! We can now start wearing matching outfits to the christmas parties. 

For Jefferey, I’ll typically have either a general premise or a key scene to an episode way ahead of time.   Then, when I get to an episode, I’ll flesh it out with a few bullet points to a rough outline, so I kinda know how it’ll go, and start writing it from there. 

For Episode 14, the basic premise is that the group needs Jeff to do something away from camp, so it’s a trip, which wouldn’t be interesting if it didn’t go wrong   I tried it my usual way, just winging it, got 4k in, however, the details started to bug me.  The adversaries trying to make the trip go wrong, they’re competent, I want to write them as competent, so no silly mistakes, and so there’d be contingencies for when it might not go according to plan.  So, I was considering having Jeff’s group send another contingent, to “save the day”, *but* they’d first try to contact Jeff’s party and abort the trip, because the task could easily wait to another day.  Jeff’s party is also competent, so if they suspected anything was amiss, they’d scrub and retreat.  I also need the venue to stay properly scoped, and fitted to those using it.  What I do really like about what I’ve written so far, is I started it from a different POV before I bring Jeff in; then I shift earlier to Jeff’s side for the trip; a mild flashback feel, but not too bad, and it lets me hint at the adversaries setting things up before Jeff shows up. 

With all of what I’m expecting from the Episode, I decided I needed to plan it more intricately.   First, explore it from the adversary POV, figuring out the details to their orders, their plans and contingencies for this, and the operational limits to the actions that they can take [this storyline, this universe, doesn’t have supervillains, nearly everybody thinks they are doing the right thing, even though their definitions to “the right thing” can vary].  Second, add in Jeff’s party and figure it out, how to get him into trouble, and the tough part, getting him out of it without relying on a deus ex (so tempting, so very tempting, it’d solve the issue, *but*….)

So, once I finalize the general layout to the venue, the rest should fall into place.  Or, just use the bullet proof coffin.

One the second day of Christmas, my true love gave to me two broken keyboards, and a spammer’s head in a pear tree.

(For nostalgia’s sake:  http://www2.adult-fanfiction.org/forum/topic/18623-12-days-of-aff/ )

Ouch!  Continuity errors happen, and only the author knows.  It’s happened to almost everyone who writes a story with more than one book.  It looked good for the reader.  I’m sure the “corrected” version will be even better.

Thanks.   Yeah, when I realized I was essentially revisiting the same point, that’s when I knew I had made a screwup.  So one solution is to rehash the several episodes into a multi-part mini-series sort of thing, because some of it would be excellent in fostering some of Jeff’s grumpiness …

“Typical, she didn’t even show up to her funeral on time.”

Or, in reference to a crazy driver “late for their funeral”.

It’s now tanking, Facebook has returned.

The more complete story.   On the way home this evening, heard a “whump” “whump” sound, growing, to the point that I couldn’t ignore it.  Tire blown out, tread separated.  So, after putting on the “doughnut” so-called spare, drove it to the shop and walked home from there.

Well you’ve got a fair amount of time then.
 

Shh!  I was trying to spook everybody else! 

Woo! I have a few ideas.

I’m mulling mine over… did put the rough outline into a file so it’s been at least committed that far.

Shweet. We’ll see if I can get “Night of the Were-Bimbos” finished this time.

Most people I know who’ve had the immunization didn’t have much reaction to their first shot. Reaction to the second shot varied substantially; I felt a little off for a day, my wife had a fever for 3 days.

Part of me wants the strong response, and the sane part of me knows that I don’t get sick days.

My first shot just left me with a sore arm. With relatives dead from covid now I have zero tolerance for the anti-vaxx anti-mask bullshit.

Emb3rSky283 is the penname (id 13561264), joined a year ago.  And this, from their bio, is telling.  “I have written on here under other pennames, but lost access to those accounts, usually by losing the account information“  means they’ve likely been kicked before.

Now, I did actually send FF.net’s support an email advising of this troll in case they try to do something else (ie, flagging stories for abuse in an attempt to get my account deleted).  Maybe it’ll help.  Of course, my best hope is the troll gets tired and moves along.

I’m not seeing that pen name in my archive membership, but I’ll keep an eye out. 

It wasn’t something I could definitively put my finger on, just a sense that something is off, know what that’s like?  Like the episodes needed more focus or clarity, and be able to weave in the extra fluff that I want.

I absolutely know what it’s like. The muddled feeling. More recently I can catch it sometimes before I post, but back in the day I didn’t have an eye for it and would get them ‘wtf’ reviews lol. I guess that’s a mark of skill to be able to say WTF to yourself about your own writing.

Suppose it is.  I did violate a rule I had set for myself ages ago, not to post until after the next episode had a complete first draft.   I’m guessing that for this little bit, I’ll wait until I get it completely drafted before I start posting.  (The *next* little episode after this is already done, with a minor tweak needed due this episode’s material.)

Yup, those are cats, all right.

I think they wanted my bed.

As someone who wrote only a few hundred words last month, I feel like you might have a different definition of “slacker” from the rest of us. 😄

lol… yeah.  After September’s 156.6k, I’ve set my goal to 150k/month.  High, but not impossible.  (October fell short too.)

@BronxWench  Sounds like a better location than the one I’ve gone to.  I mean, yes, the county is next to water, but the restaurant I’m referring to is at a shopping mall, not particularly scenic.

@Desiderius Price This one was right on the beach in Negril, Jamaica. Going out at night in Jamaica is sort of a walk on the wild side, and we mostly stayed at the resort, but we had to go for a sunset burger just to say we’d done it.

@BronxWench  Yeah, need to get a passport…. (my old one’s way past expired)