Desiderius Price

Or work on the harry potter fanfic.  Though I’ll likely switch to that shortly.  I’ve got something in mind.

Whats the pairing?

Harry/Muggle and Ron/Hermione.   In the “adult” version that I’m working on as I re-read/revise, I cross the streams, add a touch of a more polygamous four-way, Harry/Ron/Hermione/Muggle, while keeping Ron/Hermione and Harry/Muggle as the primaries.   It’s AU, post-GoF, but a 6^th/7^th year story, sequel to the 5^th year story… and that 5^th year was inspired by another fanfic, which is why I haven’t posted them here.   After years in “hiatus”, I do kinda wonder what the fans would think by a sudden revival

“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.

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.

I don’t think so, but I didn’t climb up myself to check, just relied on the repair crew for that info.

Maybe if you climb up there, you’ll find super squirrel harnessing the power of lightning to defeat its foes. 

Maybe, but I don’t have the super powers of the squirrel, I’d get electrocuted, and that’d bring Jeff’s adventures to a fast halt.

That plot bunny involved Forrest, actually, like he’s demanding his own story…. it goes onto the todo/possible list.

Welp. Good luck.

And the plot bunny isn’t the only thing distracting me, I’m starting to look at picking my potter fanfics back up. 

Because every deer is at least a 5^th level thief, if the ones that get into my sister’s garden are any indication.

I did find a dent repair service, which, according to the google reviews, seems good.  I’ll have to give them a call.

And just to push it to the other side of the credit card bill… it’ll be next week before I can get the dents out.

Tis the season for naked sports...it's always in season for nude sports!  Thogh, gotta be careful, plot bunnies might lock on and swing on by.

This adds a new dimension to bowling for the wickets.

With a little bit of hyperbole, guess what they could be using for bats?  I mean, it’s just a small typical fangirl exaggeration of (insert-favorite-male-canon-character-here).

After four years on AFF, it’s nice to finally see a story breach the 10k mark.  Next goal, maybe 20k?  50?  100k?  

Glad I decided to return to this story, breathe life back into it.  (It was at 5k at the start of the year.)

Four years? Jesus, I’ve been here since the Mesozoic era and yet for some reason I don’t remember AFF without @Desiderius Price. Good luck on that 100k mark! 

I didn’t register until I wanted to post my stories.   And while I might have heard of AFF many, many, years ago, it took a google search to find.  But, yeah, thanks.  I’m finding that hanging out on AFF kinda fills a niche in life … better than other “social media”.

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.

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. 

Yes. Great advice. Best to go the respectable author route with your crazy. Or the catlady/catman route. Or both! 

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

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

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.

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.

Obviously because you're planning your funeral and anticipate some less-than-happy relatives paying their respects. 

It’s always a balancing act, because a large chapter/episode makes each scene less significant to the overall chapter/episode, however, a short chapter/episode might not get much done or be fulfilling.  Also, there’s the take-a-break-and-come-back, easier with smaller chapters/episodes, tougher with longer.

Also, whether I’m doing a story as “episodes” vs “chapters” matters too.  In a chaptered story, where it’s one overarching main plot, I’m more likely to do cliffhangers, stretch it out; whereas in a serial/episodic story like Jefferey is, I kinda need to wrap up plot points in an episode, because that’s the episode allotted to it.

Yes when you were saying ‘episodes’, I thought maybe you were doing it kinda like a semi-self-contained mini plot in a larger overarching plot. I’ve tried to do similar things in collab fics. Makes sense that those would be a bit longer than chapters. 

Jefferey was intended as backstory whose story-wide overarching plot was just Jeff living his life.  So, it’ll explain why he’s okay with Jaimie preferring to be naked when brought on as a swimming instructor.   (I seem to like my main characters doing that, regardless of age.)  As the Jefferey story has evolved, it’s become a good way to portray the workings of a group that’s more “shadowy” and “implied” in the other stories; at least in the first part.  The second part… releasing a clothes-hating Jeff into the general student population of a typical high school   And on the plus side, he’ll be able to make a decent wage with bachelorette parties (not strictly legal, but common enough), supplementing his “college fund”. 

So, yep, Jefferey along with Dolbourne Chronicles are both episodic, which eases me from requiring that mega-plot.  Instead, they’re both about life, in general, in this universe that I’ve created.  I do have some very recurring themes, and some plot threads that are strung out between episodes.  I’ve even taken to doing some “mini-arcs” that are similarly related by a common plot that’s resolved toward the end of them.  Episodes 5-8 for Jefferey is a mini-arc and right now 11-[redacted] is the second of the mini-arcs.  And once Jeff hits high school, that’ll be another mini-arc (which is where I had stalled on the first attempt to write this story, simply from burnout).  I expect the same will be true when I really get going on Dolbourne Chronicles again, some mini-arcs, and parts – a rather complex structure for a story!

Added the rice krispies, and they’ll be edible once they cool down!