Desiderius Price

Many sympathies. I’ve got an episode/chapter of one of my stories that took a darker direction because I was starting to draft it when I lost a fur baby… (and I’m the human that discovered the queen cat had kittens).

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Abandoned stories are so frustrating. This was very common when I first delved into the realm of potter fanfic, because of the number that would get dropped whenever a new book was released. I think my current potter fanfic (the sequel) is an exception to that trend. On AFF, it’s quite clear, you’d need explicit permission from the author of that other story relayed to the mods here.

Still, give that other author/fanfic a shout-out for inspiration. Always good to know when one story inspires another.

My first fanfic, the one that got me hooked on writing, isn’t coming to AFF because it was inspired by another fanfiction. My head was full of ideas of where it ought to go—thankfully I didn’t message that author with where their story ought to go. I began to sketch things out, immediately wrestled the narrative into my own story, and I’ve not stopped. Like any other fanfiction, I credited the original (and that other fanfic) for inspiration, cobbled together some badly written prose, kept their names for Mr. & Mrs. Granger, kept the name for what might’ve been a Mary Sue muggle that Harry spent his entire fifth year Christmas Holiday...snogging. It’s sequel is the one I’m still working on, and that’s so different that it’s definitely mine. (Outside of the name for Harry’s GF.)

Or make the training/fight itself a seven book series… (cough, cough… JKR) More seriously, some episodes to the training might be realistic, portray an evolution from that elliptical wanna-be of the local fitness gym to the badass you want them to be. Some mishaps along the way? Is their life at a complete standstill? Perhaps take something like… early on, being unable to open the pickle jar at the family reunion, to smashing the glass to shards toward the completion of their bad-ass training?

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41618 – part number for an 18” traditional decorative ADA grab bar (in chrome)

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If you’re able to, stick ALL tags at the start of the story (ie, top of chapter 1), and update the tags-tags later.

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Unlike Nick & Rose, I took precautions before doing THIS research with my browser It was interesting knocking out all the pegs to keep Rose on the wrong idea until the unavoidable conclusion, thus the need for the alibis to explain away the inevitable kicking she’d feel, and the over-reliance on her pastor for medical advice (common in the era I’m writing). Nick and Rose are otherwise sufficiently responsible that they would’ve coached Lana if they realized the test was a false negative. Now, Toby was slated to be the MC for the Halloween story I had original had in mind, however, that was proving to be more complicated than a oneshot could allow for, hence this story about his birth seemed more interesting. And, I think it’s a nice twist to have a Halloween story come out +1