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  1. Hmm…. what should I do when there’s a tropical storm with my name on it?

    1. GeorgeGlass

      GeorgeGlass

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

    2. CloverReef

      CloverReef

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

  2. Hmmm… I can move this scene from #8 back to #7….. Keeping it in #8 makes for a better cliffhanger, but moving it to #7 makes #7 a tad more complete.  Oh, the debate I’m having with myself.

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    2. Desiderius Price

      Desiderius Price

      @Wilde_Guess  Yep, that’s why I’m debating now, before I post.  I’ll need to resolve this before I post either 7 or 8.  Yesterday, I had moved it to #7, however, based on tone it belongs in #8.  So, this morning, I moved it back.  After all, a cliffhanger is typically an incomplete scene.

    3. Wilde_Guess

      Wilde_Guess

      True, that.  Also, the move can “require” another 4k of writing to more fully develop an idea.  That’s not a bad thing, but can confuse the reader if you do it after the chapter(s) were originally posted.

    4. Desiderius Price

      Desiderius Price

      That was the #5 debacle, about 2.5k but same thing.  I try to adhere to the principle that a reader shouldn’t have to re-read an episode to understand things, though, of course, that can be unavoidable at times with a work-in-progress.  Thus, I basically want  to be confident in the episode/chapter before I post. 

      Cross my fingers, I’ll get #8 drafted tonight.  (If so, I’d expect #7 to go up next weekend.)

       

  3. Horror headline that’ll get you below the belt … “Flesh Eating STD”

    1. JayDee

      JayDee

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

    2. Desiderius Price

      Desiderius Price

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

  4. How thoughtful that spammers are self-reporting themselves in the “Trolls/Flamers/Spammers” section of the forums… sigh.  Can we hang/draw/quarter them?

    1. BronxWench

      BronxWench

      We’re bringing back Wicker Man Wednesdays. :fthrower:

    2. Desiderius Price

      Desiderius Price

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

  5. Hurricane passing through, just a bit of rain right now.

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    2. InvidiaRed

      InvidiaRed

      Waterproof lining. Desiderius price is just fine if a bit wet. 

    3. Desiderius Price

      Desiderius Price

      Sounds like it’s passed, the wind’s calmed back down.  That’d be the biggest concern for me, trees falling, taking out power/internet.  (With a chance to the house, of course)

    4. Desiderius Price

      Desiderius Price

      As a whole, my general area came out relatively unscathed.  (I also think it was technically downgraded to tropical-storm instead of hurricane by the time it passed.)

  6. I finally made a (small) bit of progress on Jefferey, so hopefully I’ve broken the logjam on it.  Time will tell, as always.

  7. I hate it when I get soda into my computer, this sucks.

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    2. Desiderius Price

      Desiderius Price

      Still assessing it, got most non-essentials stripped out, trying to bring it back bit by bit.  If successful, great, if not, I’ll consider my options.

    3. Desiderius Price

      Desiderius Price

      Phew!  Dodged a bullet.  After a disassembly/reassembly, it seems operational.

    4. BronxWench
  8. I have to see exactly where i want to take it, but my gut feeling is that Episode #15 will be on the shorter side.  (Includes a small challenge prompted by @CloverReef )

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    2. Desiderius Price

      Desiderius Price

      @CloverReef I think it was more of the latter… as to which one, I’m not saying!  :devil:   I think the tags will give it away.

       

    3. CloverReef

      CloverReef

      Gaah! I have to wait?! Waiting is a thing still?! I thought the internet eradicated that shit! 

    4. Desiderius Price

      Desiderius Price

      Well, #14 has to be released, and that’s most likely in two weeks.  After that, episode #15 can be posted, I’m guessing three weeks, depends on how #16/#17 go.  And #15 is indeed short.  What I intended as an opening scene, I realized did justice to what I wanted to portray, anything else detracted, so it’ll be short.

  9. I know some people dis on the daily writing habit, however, I’m finding it quite useful.  In my case, this has become my most overall productive time of the day, squeezed in between when I wake up and when I have to punch into work.  This morning, it was 1.2k, so not too shabby for a work day.

  10. I know your birthday’s coming up, Jan 2nd, IIRC?

  11. I know, nearly that freaky time of the year, only 310 days to Halloween.

  12. I like three day weekends, good chance to get some Jefferey episodes finished!  I do have to be careful, some of these episodes are becoming a wee bit penis centric…

  13. I love 9-day weekends, but they always seem to go by too fast.

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    2. Desiderius Price

      Desiderius Price

      I got about 1kwords today, but then ark survival….

    3. CloverReef

      CloverReef

      Look at you Mr. Productive. That’s awesome. I think of gaming breaks as training coordination, map reading skills, and problem solving skills. Soooo it’s indirectly aiding your writing stuffs. 

    4. Desiderius Price

      Desiderius Price

      lol.  No, it’s more of a distraction….  I’ll see if I can’t focus more on the writing for the next eight days.  I do want to make progress on this mini-arc of Jefferey episodes.

  14. I may have found this website’s theme song….

     

     

  15. I mean, sure, I expect Kent to be mad that I’m going to sprain his ankle.  But he ought to count his blessings that I decided to not break his leg as I had originally planned on doing.

  16. I meant “ice skating”, not “ice scatting” in my notes of ideas …. should I dare to think about what ice scatting would entail?  Hmm… sounds dangerous.  Suppose Frosty the snowman could be involved with this.

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    2. Desiderius Price

      Desiderius Price

      @Wilde_Guess  Yep, it happens  … it was funny enough to post  :)

       

    3. GeorgeGlass

      GeorgeGlass

      Scootely dooteley doo waaaAAAAAAH! *slides into tree*

    4. JayDee

      JayDee

      When the Ice Queen regrets having that King Prawn Bhuna and eight pints of spesh.

  17. I must apologize, a deus ex slipped in.  It’s mild though, so hopefully not too bad..

    1. CloverReef

      CloverReef

      I hope it’s an awesome one! Dragons! 

    2. Desiderius Price

      Desiderius Price

      It’s mild, just needed something to pull the characters out of what they were about to do (and would later regret if they had followed through).  It also helped me consolidate these two episodes together, it’s stronger by having done so.

  18. I wonder what a “razor clam death test” is all about?

  19. I work on a rewrite, suddenly, a new character forms, latches on, and won’t let go, demands to be included in the rest of the story.

    1. InvidiaRed
    2. Desiderius Price

      Desiderius Price

      And It’d earn the story a minor1 tag (which, for the most part, isn’t the focus of the story).

    3. swirlingdoubt
  20. I’ll take alternative facts so long as I can have alternative politicians too.

  21. I’m annoyed because it feels like the only thing visiting my “clean” version of my fanfic on FF.net are bots stealing it – I post, and a half dozen bots lift it inside a day or two; at least one a day after that.  Feeling like I should simply abandon the clean version, and only pursue the explicit version on AO3.  That’d make writing easier, but also jerks around anybody still reading the clean.

    1. BronxWench

      BronxWench

      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.

    2. Desiderius Price

      Desiderius Price

      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.

  22. I’m annoyed, graphics giving me issues on my computer.  ☹️

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    2. Desiderius Price

      Desiderius Price

      Overall, this machine has been very stable, rock solid, to the point that I’d only have to reboot due to power outages (ie not on battery backup) or kernel/driver updates.  That’s why it was odd to be in a position to have to reboot daily/hourly when I was used to 60/90 days.  Fingers crossed the driver downgrade works, lets me defer pricey upgrades.

    3. Wilde_Guess

      Wilde_Guess

      If your computer started acting up without you doing some other change to it first, I wouldn’t have my hopes raised too high.  And if the problem stuck around on your main computer after a card swap, especially if the removed card worked on your other machine (you never said,) then I would be looking at something on the main system board.

      If you did a software patch or driver update to the O/S recently, rolling that back will hopefully roll the problem away.  Otherwise, hope for something “cheap and stupid,” like a memory module or different accessory card starting to go bad and impinging on system resources needed by the video card for the video to work correctly.

      Good luck, whatever it turns out to be.

    4. Desiderius Price

      Desiderius Price

      Luckily, it did start acting up after an update (which IIRC included video drivers).  As the notes mentioned g-sync, and my issues had sync issues in them when piped through my KVM, my shrewd guess is that it was a bad driver (or something not properly configured).  So, downgrading the drivers back to the old ones will likely fix it (at least for now).

  23. I’m definitely into the “revision” portion of the story, ep 17 and 18 are ready for posting, so that’s why I went ahead and posted #14 earlier today.

  24. I’m guessing that I’ll be posting episode six next weekend, but no promises.  (This is to Jefferey.)

    1. Wilde_Guess

      Wilde_Guess

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

    2. Desiderius Price

      Desiderius Price

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

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