Desiderius Price

I’ve been thinking about a story I’ve been working on and it wasn’t originally intended to involve a lot of sex. However, I’ve since decided to do a second version of the story which has more sex.

But I want to post the first couple chapters together as the first chapter for context. Would you read it if they only had sex in the second chapter?

There’s a version of it where the end of the first chapter could have some sex in it. Not sure if I want to do this though.
 

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So the question sorta points out the whole thing.

I’ve been thinking about the idea of a tramp stamp tattoo but I’m wondering where does it actually go?

I don’t know that much about tattoos and don’t have anything myself. My understanding is that it usually goes on the lower back. But if it goes elsewhere on the body, is it not a tramp stamp?

I have a character who is focused on certain parts of the body and I’m wondering if the tramp stamp is on a particular body part, is it still a tramp stamp?

 

You can view stats (views & reviews) under your profile too… “Stories Written” though it’s category by category.

Should say that on the flip side, I think my sending hits spam filters too, because I’ll send w/o replies.  Depends on whatever “features” the mail provider’s got enabled (and maybe you can’t disable).
(Basically, I co-run the family mail server, so that’s why I know I don’t have spam filters.  But it also leads to gmail or other providers liking to mark us “spam” because we didn’t pay the latest “please we’re not spam” extortion racket.)

Should say that on the flip side, I think my sending hits spam filters too, because I’ll send w/o replies.  Depends on whatever “features” the mail provider’s got enabled (and maybe you can’t disable).
(Basically, I co-run the family mail server, so that’s why I know I don’t have spam filters.  But it also leads to gmail or other providers liking to mark us “spam” because we didn’t pay the latest “please we’re not spam” extortion racket.)

Well that’s good. What’s weird is that I literally get no emails whatsoever from certain fanfic sites. Usually when it goes to spam, it shows up in spam. But these days it doesn’t even go there. It’s just a non-existent email that the site says they’re sending and it gets bounced back.

No spam filters for me!  (Surprisingly, spam’s not a huge problem either.)

I’ll redirect your attention to the fact you got a review! 

Me too.  (I tend to not get reviews much, so I was trying to focus on the positive side.)

Yes, I’m well aware. But as I mentioned, I love getting emails because I can check them when my internet sucks.
 

I’ll redirect your attention to the fact you got a review! 

I’ll redirect your attention to the fact you got a review! 

I’ll redirect your attention to the fact you got a review! 

Yeah, this is why I don’t post before I actually write it out or am very long way into it.

I’m not yet writing it because I’m focused on other stories. This one I’m talking about may or may not end up on AFF. It could go either way. Basically, I’ve just written down a bunch of plot points. I think I’ve outlined the overall story. Now it’s about filling in the little details. But how the first chapter ends will affect how the characters will act and how the audience might view the characters.
 

I know how it is, trying to figure out a key point to the story, and how that can stall writing until figured out.  Best advice is to pick an approach, write it, and if you don’t like it, change the approach and try again.  If you can, focus on a few key scenes so you don’t have to write the epic novel only to trash it. 
I had a similar dilemma stall my potter fanfic for well over a decade, still gives a bit of nerves when I think about it.  Consider “A” as a small party, “B” is everybody else.  I segregate off “A” from “B”, to the point that “B” considers “A” as totally dead.  (I’ve already added some foreshadowing for this bit… still coming.)
What I had wanted to do was to show everything purely from B’s POV, because that’d be maximum mystery, also read as a horror as plans keep failing and Voldemort keeps advancing.  However, it’d also make the climax/resolution read like the biggest deus ex ever, it’d rob the reader of the schism and conflict that’s brewing in A, the actions of “A”. 
If I went full “B” first to climax, “A” to climax, every scene has to be built up whenever there’s B/A crossover.   Not to mention the head-scratching by the reader to keep things sorted in a multi-million word story.
As I’m not writing a mystery, this time around, I’m going to mix the POVs together, like I’ve been generally doing for most of the story anyways.  True, while it’ll still seem dire to B, the reader will see A’s side … less mystery, horror aspect still there, but at least I’ll get it written (plan to anyways)
Nothing more horrifying than an unfinished WIP!

Okay, I just want to make sure I don’t do anything I’m not supposed to. Do you use a specific part of the forum?

I’ve seen a few people posting on here with the title “Review Replies” along with the title. But I think it’s supposed to go in a specific forum place.
 

So, I’m still sorta figuring out things on the archive and the forum. My understanding is that review replies is a thing and I think that I created one for my stuff posted.

But is there things I shouldn’t do? Should I take a screenshot and put it on the forum so people know who I’m responding to? Copy and paste the review? Mention the person or not?

Like I said, still trying to figure things out but I had a few reviews that I thought about responding to but couldn’t figure out what the right way to do it is.
 

My personal preference is to copy and paste the body of the review, and lead off with the title of the story being reviewed, and the name left by the reviewer so they know I’m acknowledging their review. The I paste the review text and frame it as a quote, and then I reply.
I’m not a forum mod, so take this with a grain of salt, but I don’t think it’s an issue if you want to use a screenshot of the review instead of copying and pasting like I do.

Even for the best mystery authors, there’s some readers who’ll likely guess it right in the opening line based on the spent cartoon-themed condom that’s hanging from the ceiling fan.  Thus, the trick is to make sure it’s a good read EVEN once the mystery isn’t no longer a real mystery.   You’ll want some red herrings, of course, along with some irrelevant details – for the lazy writer, the red herrings can be from changing the plot half-way through

Even for the best mystery authors, there’s some readers who’ll likely guess it right in the opening line based on the spent cartoon-themed condom that’s hanging from the ceiling fan.  Thus, the trick is to make sure it’s a good read EVEN once the mystery isn’t no longer a real mystery.   You’ll want some red herrings, of course, along with some irrelevant details – for the lazy writer, the red herrings can be from changing the plot half-way through

For sure, I do a lot of stuff. But for mysteries in particular, it’s a good idea to know what you’re doing before going into it. Because you have to think it through to make sure your audience wants to know what the ending is.
 

Even with non-mysteries, I find I really fill out the story on the second or third writing of it.

Possibly, yeah. I just completed a general outline and might add more soon. It’s changed part of what the story happens.