Desiderius Price

Personally, I wouldn’t call it “complete” until all chapters have been posted. It’d be from the readers’ perspective.

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Given the hacker woes, all accounts required re-activation and new password resets back in February, and these need to be sent out by the moderators (so that link for you to click is currently useless). Talk to @BronxWench about getting this restarted for your account. While you’re waiting, archive passwords are now required to be 12-18 characters, (no special characters), so start dreaming one up.

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In some fandoms, tagging the relationship’s crucial too. So, maybe add that new warning in (quietly) for the entire story? Hopefully the readers forgot about it until the scene/chapter?

On this archive (or AO3), always, always list trigger tags. While yes it’s technically a spoiler, you don’t want to surprise your readers with a “surprise” rape scene or something.

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Aw, was assuming a single story. Summaries for oneshots is appropriate, obviously don’t spoil the entire oneshot in the summary. Nothing irks me more than youtube demanding to spoil a show’s season I’ve yet to watch

It varies on how I write… but it’s more adhoc than Harry joining a nudist club. Jeff (original) is closer. I’d presume it’s reflect regular society… some shave below, some prefer it short on top, some do both, and some leave it natural.

TBH… I usually don’t do much for chapter descriptions. There’s the story summary… and maybe a good cliffhanger.

Not sure, haven’t really taken a comprehensive survey. A quick google search… lots of “data points” to “sift” through Nah, it’s more about having a tendency to mention the pubic hair as it’s a fast reminder that the character is, indeed, naked without dropping the word. Though now that we’re talking about it, going to have to make sure I describe pubic hair in the next paragraph I write in my story

I refrain from spoilers… let the readers discover it as they read. Now, you can lay down a hint for the more clever folks, but I’d be annoyed if the author “spoiled” the plot TBH.

A number of my characters are nudists, so it comes up more frequently.

Hmm… I might be describing pubic hair more than the stuff on top of my character’s heads. Anyways, searching for the word “hair”, I seem to have 4-6 paragraphs per chapter describing hair (not counting paragraphs with “chair” or “pubic” in their words) in the last hundred chapters or so of my potter fanfic.

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For potter fanfic, there’s plenty of online things for Hogsmeade, Diagon Alley & Hogwarts… outside of that, I do the same thing I do with originals. Select a real place, permute the name so it’s fictional, and that typically gives me close enough so I can add things as necessary. (Also, on the odd chance my story hits success with TV/films, keeps fans from flooding a real person’s house/business). Of course, originals and the potter basically take place in modern society, so that’s why my trick works. If it’s fictional-fictional, like game of thrones, well, all bets are off, but that’s not what I’m typically writing outside of dream-like sequences (or inside fictional video games).

Google maps has me beat for details. And in the originals, I now tend to cruise for online blueprints of something close to what I want, make a couple of “alterations” notes wise, and use that. (That’s what I did for my demon story.) Still, having a rough idea of the house/building helps me keep the details consistent, so a bit of time sketching is usually a good investment. That’s my chaotic process.