Desiderius Price

Go for the trifecta: Watch the Weather Channel while drinking a bottle of Coke with your name on it.

Harness its power somehow? Take over the world? Seems like a good time for a little sorcery. 

We’re bringing back Wicker Man Wednesdays. 

Good.  I could be persuaded to stop off for some hotdogs and marshmallows! 

ooh which one?

It’s on AO3, not here, due to being out-of-TOS here, and trying to fix it to be was a bit more drastic than I’d like.  I’ll PM the link.

And here I am waiting for work to freaking call.

I do enjoy my job, generally, but it’s still work.  So it’s nice to take an extended weekend from time to time, kick back, and do some writing.  Ep 14 would’ve stalled me for a month or two if I hadn’t done an extended weekend, instead, 2-3 days to get the action/plans just right for it.

Hence the aristocracy’s similarity of appearance!

I kinda like how complex it is across the USA

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cousin_marriage_law_in_the_United_States

Like, Utah “ Only if both parties are 65 or older, or both are 55 or older with a district court finding of infertility of either party “

So, does that require bringing the court into the bedroom to prove infertility?

But, yeah, the USA tends to be complex due to the notion of dual-sovereignty, enshrined in the 10^th amendment, as the laws vary from state to state.

Well, they're more than meets the eye. 

Short story is hearing the pow and losing power, there was a squirrel in a frozen dive off the power pole.

What bothers me more is that my parents are here because both sets of my grandparents got frisky… and they had more kids than just my parents… so that’s a lot of frisky grandparents… 

Guess it depends on the age they did it at, but yeah, not letting my imagination go there, plenty to imagine  before that.

A minimum of a billion words is short =p

What’s scary is that there are a couple of 2M+ harry potter fanfics on the other archive, and mine might join them – simple projection of pre-revision word count and the effect of my rewrite on it.  (ie, started with 500k, and my rewrite has transformed 100k into around 900k, so that’s potentially many millions of words, with LOTS of smut baked in).

Et tu?

Can’t ask for a better end, dying surrounded by friends

I don’t know what any of that means, but grats! Show that thing who’s boss!

This morning, I was almost done with replacing my kitchen microwave (over-the-range, so some minor work required), when the plug wouldn’t go into the outlet, despite having test fitted it earlier.  The “tamper-resistant” part is a “safety-feature” to keep kids from putting things into it, supposed to be spring loaded to let in a plug but not a butter knife.  Fortunately, I had a spare outlet laying around w/o this nuisance “feature” and replaced it.  Seems to me that “child-proof” features seem designed to let the kids in and keep the adults out.

They don't call 'em feeder tanks for nuthin'. 

Given how my Potter fanfic is developing, I’m having to lean in heavily onto google maps, which is why I’m picking up on more of these details.

If your MC trusts you, you’re doing it wrong. 

DP: Don’t worry about it, none of my MCs ever like me.  Sometimes I’m worried I’ll get sucked into their worlds a la Pagemaster style and they’ll get their revenge on me…

BW: Glad to know I’m not doing it wrong then.

Honestly, if I thought it would do any good, I’d say to file daily complaints with FFN. Is it being reposted elsewhere? Perhaps you can file complaints with those sites as well.

A google search later, some of the ghost mirrors (mostly), thinking they’re redirects for … countries with more restrictive internet policies.  Plus a (small) blurb on one hacked website. 

But the aggravating part is simply that it drowns out the real readership numbers, because all I now see in the stats is bot after bot after bot slurping up 700k, no humans (about 300k of new material + 400k of the old yet-to-be-revised).   Until now, I had been trying to maintain  “explicit” vs “clean” versions, carefully marking up my story as I rewrite it (only way, TBH), close to a 3:1 word ratio; but if few to nobody is enjoying the clean, if they’re all enjoying the explicit, then it makes sense to not bother with the clean version given the extra hassle it takes.

Not with that attitude you can’t =p

I do like to stay semi-realistic with sizes, so no forty feet (unless there’s a potion/spell involved).  A few inches is average, and this particular character’s still growing, so he’ll be above average when done.

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 …

Victory is sweet no?

Idea came to me last night as I was trying to go to sleep!  (Of course that’s when it’ll come.)

Sometimes when I write a death scene I start with a preface of dear future fbi agent I can tell the difference between IRL and fiction =p

Not sure if that’d matter, if a FBI agent would read it how you’d want it read.  In this case, no google search is needed as it’s a rewrite, I already know the method & effects.

Best of luck on your journey!

I’m definitely splitting up most of the existing chapters.  One of them is 107kwords, about the same as the Prisoner of Azkaban, and that’s a single “chapter”!  I’ve got two other especially long ones coming in at 93k (longer than Chamber of Secrets) and 70k (just under Sorcerer’s Stone); rest are under 50k.

“9/10 dentists recommend our toothpaste for Vagina Dentata. The last one is just rolling around screaming about his penis.”

Scary part is, I *did* read that as a headline yesterday, it mentioned the UK and things potentially rotting off.

Hey, chin up… *hugs*

I will get caught up on it eventually, I swear. 

Good going!

I’m kinda starting to get the itch to go back and finish the story …. may feel a bit rushed, just started writing it in 2003.

It’s ready when it’s ready.  I’m looking forward to reading it whenever it shows up.

Part of the issue with this weekend is I installed a new game … onthe plus side, I beat it (on the easy setting).

Nope… I actually need it to be back in August, so I can still be in Japan  and school not having started back home… So… we’re rewinding back to August, sorry… 

My Halloween story is ready and I’m itching to post!

Where ThanksGiving actually tastes better having marinated overnight!

Thanksgiving. The holiday that just keeps going and going.

*not yet*

While I appreciate the vote of confidence, I’m not that great of a writer to get into the formalities of being published.