Desiderius Price
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Hate it when I find a good article, useful for my writing, locked behind a paywall. It’s like… I’m not making money on my writing here.
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Happy Winter Solstice Everybody!
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My inner devil wants to compliment the selfie. Your inner demon for the upcoming holiday?
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Should we have a Halloween countdown?
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Don’t mind me, chuckling where I had Dumbledore refer to anybody under a hundred twenty as a “youngster” in my potter fanfic.
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As of this morning, my potter fanfic has risen on AO3 in word count, now #16 longest in the category. Got some writing to do!
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Is it bad when I’ve kinda stopped keeping track of my story’s body count?
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If you’re writing fanfiction, I guess it depends on the fictional world you’re writing in. If you’re writing in Elfen Lied or Game of Thrones, it’s understandable. If you’re writing in My Little Pony or Sponge Bob Square Pants, not so much. If you’re writing in Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends, that’s one hell of a way to not run a railroad!
Fun non-factoid one: Post TV series, Sponge Bob tried to get a job as a contraceptive sponge. But, he was too big-headed, and he just didn’t fit in.
Fun non-factoid two: Thomas the Tank Engine and the original Steely Dan were erected in the same British Locomotive Works in the twilight days of the Second World War. William Burroughs and William Audrey have spent vast fortunes to cover this up.
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Mr. Roger’s Neighborhood would be equally disturbing.
Nah, my Harry Potter fanfic is gaining a body count. And on this rewrite, I realize I’m adding to that count.
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And I get to buy a new boiler this week, yippee! (Grrr...money...)
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Grrr…. when the cats decided that I ought to get up early, and I find myself awake, unable to get back to sleep. Thus, I’m up earlier than a workday … on a holiday!
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Yup, those are cats, all right.
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I think they wanted my bed.
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November’s over and I’ve missed my goal for the month
Still, 40k’s not too bad I suppose.
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The hot new series, TBD, TBD II, TBD III, and TBD IV.
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After a short burst of writing, I’ve finished the chapter that’ll let me reach my nano goal. My story will make 200k words on Friday! (Still need to wait, proofread, so that’ll be Friday, the last day of the month. While this will be cutting it close, on time is on time.)
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I posted a chapter, which means, I’ve met my NaNoWriMo goal, with a little extra, several hundred over 200k.
Next month….hmmm, I need a goal. 300k would be a bit much, but 250k seems too small, maybe 275k? Thinking about it.
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The caret is blinking, teasing me into revising. Must resist.
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Like this FB meme going around. “There are literally NO rules saying your New Year’s resolutions can’t be for evil.”
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The inverse is also true.
World Domination can be used for good
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Good vs evil can be in the eye of the beholder too. Ends justify the means sort of thing. Aside from Halloween fics, I tend to write my originals like this, where both sides believe they’re doing good even though it’s interpreted as evil by the other side..
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What sucks is I’m on my second power outage of the day
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YAY! I’ve finally met my NANOWRIMO (November’s) GOAL! Yippee!
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Better late than never.
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The game’s been distracting, so haven’t been sinking quite as much time as I’d like into the story, it was otherwise a semi-reasonable goal. This is also where having a daily morning writing habit helps, because I hadn’t really abandoned that (simply because it’s too unsafe to delve into the game before work), means I’m still plodding along at hundreds if not a 1K per work day.
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And my halloween fic has been finished! Now, the usual week for it to age properly, and I’ll be posting it next weekend.
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From those quotes you’ve likely never heard before: “Quite punctual, even showed up three days early to his execution!”
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“Typical, she didn’t even show up to her funeral on time.”
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Or, in reference to a crazy driver “late for their funeral”.
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Poor Barron, having to watch his family getting evicted today from their home of the last four years.
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Feeling a bit… old when somebody review comments that they were born eight days before I first published the story.
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It’s harsh. But, it’s far better than the alternative.
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Yep, with as long as the story was on hiatus, there was a very strong possibility it’d go abandoned too, until I decided to pick it back up a few years ago. A fast re-read turned into a rewrite, and so it’s now ballooned over that 1.5M word mark.
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Another passing of Dumbledore, the second actor Michael Gambon 1940-2023.
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He was a very good actor in many things. It would have been nice if he’d stuck around healthy for a few more years, but eighty-three isn’t young, even now. All of us who appreciate a well-acted role will miss him.
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