Praetor

If I wanted to maximize my readership, and if AFF allowed it, I would probably have multiple user names that I would use as “brands” for different types of stories – fanfics, Minor1 stuff, offbeat adult originals, etc. I think readers like it when they can count on authors to be consistent about the subject matter, sort of the way they can count on getting something foamy and vanilla-flavored at any Starbucks. Conversely, I’m certain there are readers who loved a couple of my stories and then never read my stuff again after seeing some completely different kind of story that I posted – not just fans of my Frozen fanfic who then ran screaming from a Minor1 story but also the other way around.

I dunno, I feel like the entire neighbourhood can claim the coffee is theirs with reasonable doubt.  My name in real life is hard to spell and been said to be painful to pronounce, so that won’t do.  I had another name for regular diet off brand FanFiction.net but have since forgotten what it was since I never used it.  I’ll likely have a more real sounding pen name by the time I become a real published author [weeps in dark corner].  For this sight, I was logging in a guest at the time and happened to be playing Rome Total War 2 in the background at the time and chose a Roman title at random.  I just kind of stuck with it.

I dunno, I feel like the entire neighbourhood can claim the coffee is theirs with reasonable doubt.  My name in real life is hard to spell and been said to be painful to pronounce, so that won’t do.  I had another name for regular diet off brand FanFiction.net but have since forgotten what it was since I never used it.  I’ll likely have a more real sounding pen name by the time I become a real published author [weeps in dark corner].  For this sight, I was logging in a guest at the time and happened to be playing Rome Total War 2 in the background at the time and chose a Roman title at random.  I just kind of stuck with it.

I am lazy and would like the ability to bestow upon others superpowers.  I’d go around and find wounded warriors, upstanding citizens and other downtrodden champions I suspect would make good heroes and give them powers, making a super powered vigilante team that could do good in the world and double as a personal Praetorian Guard/hit squad.  and because I am a jerk, maybe also deliberately make villains for my own amusement.  I dunno.

I wrote fanfiction before I even knew it was a thing.  I was huge into the Star Wars novels and, naturally, as all kids do at some point, wrote Mary Sue self insert stories.  Mostly in the Young Jedi Knights era and Old Republic when that game came out.  But in the beginning, when the world was unformed, before cell phones could go on the internet but after Personal Computers became primarily for web browsing (so 2006ish) I found that there were whole communities of people who also indulged in this hobby.  I actually found AFF before regular FanFiction, but I considered quality on this sight substantially superior to FF, which I don’t suspect is moderated.  Harry Potter dominated the fan fiction circuit at the time and I found an OG known as Ms Figg (RIP) who wrote amazing stories that made me realize how good fanfiction could actually be.  It helped that AFF has an easy to navigate and well maintained forum, which I would visit from time to time.  I didn’t sign up and start creating content until a few years ago when I saw all the challenges that weren’t getting taken and decided to try my hand at writing, figuring it would be good practice for becoming an actual novelist.  Turns out smut fics are a lot easier to write than cleaner stories because they typically have a lemon that is the meat and potatoes of the story and everything is support, so there’s not really a holistic outlook in reading or writing them and they can be serialized easily.

I wrote fanfiction before I even knew it was a thing.  I was huge into the Star Wars novels and, naturally, as all kids do at some point, wrote Mary Sue self insert stories.  Mostly in the Young Jedi Knights era and Old Republic when that game came out.  But in the beginning, when the world was unformed, before cell phones could go on the internet but after Personal Computers became primarily for web browsing (so 2006ish) I found that there were whole communities of people who also indulged in this hobby.  I actually found AFF before regular FanFiction, but I considered quality on this sight substantially superior to FF, which I don’t suspect is moderated.  Harry Potter dominated the fan fiction circuit at the time and I found an OG known as Ms Figg (RIP) who wrote amazing stories that made me realize how good fanfiction could actually be.  It helped that AFF has an easy to navigate and well maintained forum, which I would visit from time to time.  I didn’t sign up and start creating content until a few years ago when I saw all the challenges that weren’t getting taken and decided to try my hand at writing, figuring it would be good practice for becoming an actual novelist.  Turns out smut fics are a lot easier to write than cleaner stories because they typically have a lemon that is the meat and potatoes of the story and everything is support, so there’s not really a holistic outlook in reading or writing them and they can be serialized easily.

I wrote fanfiction before I even knew it was a thing.  I was huge into the Star Wars novels and, naturally, as all kids do at some point, wrote Mary Sue self insert stories.  Mostly in the Young Jedi Knights era and Old Republic when that game came out.  But in the beginning, when the world was unformed, before cell phones could go on the internet but after Personal Computers became primarily for web browsing (so 2006ish) I found that there were whole communities of people who also indulged in this hobby.  I actually found AFF before regular FanFiction, but I considered quality on this sight substantially superior to FF, which I don’t suspect is moderated.  Harry Potter dominated the fan fiction circuit at the time and I found an OG known as Ms Figg (RIP) who wrote amazing stories that made me realize how good fanfiction could actually be.  It helped that AFF has an easy to navigate and well maintained forum, which I would visit from time to time.  I didn’t sign up and start creating content until a few years ago when I saw all the challenges that weren’t getting taken and decided to try my hand at writing, figuring it would be good practice for becoming an actual novelist.  Turns out smut fics are a lot easier to write than cleaner stories because they typically have a lemon that is the meat and potatoes of the story and everything is support, so there’s not really a holistic outlook in reading or writing them and they can be serialized easily.

I wrote fanfiction before I even knew it was a thing.  I was huge into the Star Wars novels and, naturally, as all kids do at some point, wrote Mary Sue self insert stories.  Mostly in the Young Jedi Knights era and Old Republic when that game came out.  But in the beginning, when the world was unformed, before cell phones could go on the internet but after Personal Computers became primarily for web browsing (so 2006ish) I found that there were whole communities of people who also indulged in this hobby.  I actually found AFF before regular FanFiction, but I considered quality on this sight substantially superior to FF, which I don’t suspect is moderated.  Harry Potter dominated the fan fiction circuit at the time and I found an OG known as Ms Figg (RIP) who wrote amazing stories that made me realize how good fanfiction could actually be.  It helped that AFF has an easy to navigate and well maintained forum, which I would visit from time to time.  I didn’t sign up and start creating content until a few years ago when I saw all the challenges that weren’t getting taken and decided to try my hand at writing, figuring it would be good practice for becoming an actual novelist.  Turns out smut fics are a lot easier to write than cleaner stories because they typically have a lemon that is the meat and potatoes of the story and everything is support, so there’s not really a holistic outlook in reading or writing them and they can be serialized easily.

Haven’t really figured out a how yet.  They will be in his Great Dragon Army but weather he beds them, adds them to his harem, creates a mini harem of occasional bed warmers or starts a camp following for the men (and inclined women) in his army, I haven’t decided.  They may just be added to his army and their hooking up within the force implied or referenced.  Argent will be in the harem later, I am also thinking of having Raven join the fun with a dark magic strap on.

It’s poor form only if there isn’t a reason to be slamming doors.  Teenagers do it all the time but I once saw a guy slam a door so hard it dented the frame and deafened the dude sitting just outside it.  Cliches exist because they are common and are not intrinsically bad, in fact they can be very good if the writer uses them correctly or plays with them.  In the above scenario, it was a very dramatic moment to all who witnessed it, but then it became funny when we found out the door got busted and a guy had ringing in his ear.  TV tropes has things like playing it straight, exaggerated, zig zagged, parodied, deconstructed, reconstructed etc.  How is balling fists less cliched than slamming doors anyways?

It’s poor form only if there isn’t a reason to be slamming doors.  Teenagers do it all the time but I once saw a guy slam a door so hard it dented the frame and deafened the dude sitting just outside it.  Cliches exist because they are common and are not intrinsically bad, in fact they can be very good if the writer uses them correctly or plays with them.  In the above scenario, it was a very dramatic moment to all who witnessed it, but then it became funny when we found out the door got busted and a guy had ringing in his ear.  TV tropes has things like playing it straight, exaggerated, zig zagged, parodied, deconstructed, reconstructed etc.  How is balling fists less cliched than slamming doors anyways?

Well that’s unfortunate, unrealistic and highly improbable are my forte.  The rules of writing are more like stable observations, everything is ultimately circumstantial.  I guess my biggest personal peeve is lack of detail.  A lot of internet fiction I’ve read take place in a vacuum, with the setting only vaguely described and characters who lack motivations or identities.  Fan fiction tends to be especially guilty of this because novice or lazy authors may just assume we know the characters and setting.  Failing to fill in the blanks makes immersing the reader into the story difficult.  This makes the story inaccessible to newer readers, doesn’t convey what the author has in mind, and ultimately doesn’t build upon the established lore.  Which I think is the whole point of fan fiction, never mind original works that need to be engrossing right out of the gate.  Other than that, basic literacy errors that should have been corrected in grade school will turn me away.  Such as spelling mistaiks, poorer grammar, missplaced!punctuation, verbing, run on sentances that go on and on and on, and sentences that end before they.

I treat the sex scenes like any other action scene, which can be a short skirmish or a multichapter long battle depending on the circumstances.  My chapters run a little long, averaging around 10k words with the sex usually making up 3 to 5 thousand of those words.  As mentioned earlier, redundancy can become a problem if there is too much sex (relatively anyways) and this is something I actually fear becoming in my works.  Which is why I focus a lot on setting, plot and characters to diversify the scenes.  It also depends on what you’re writing, my works are just fap materiel and I know it, so that’s what I provide.  Were I to write a high fantasy adventure literotica story, the style would be a lot different.  I am writing mostly harem anthologies, which are merely a compendium of sex scenes.  In a more traditional story with arcs and such that just so happens to be literotica, the scenes should be stretched out a little better with more time and attention given to the finer points of a story.  Ms. Figg was eerily good at having no sex chapters that were still entertaining and fulfilling.  I do not yet possess the same finesse with dialogue, pacing and conservation of detail so I stick with smut fests loosely connected with narrative for now.

It’s poor form only if there isn’t a reason to be slamming doors.  Teenagers do it all the time but I once saw a guy slam a door so hard it dented the frame and deafened the dude sitting just outside it.  Cliches exist because they are common and are not intrinsically bad, in fact they can be very good if the writer uses them correctly or plays with them.  In the above scenario, it was a very dramatic moment to all who witnessed it, but then it became funny when we found out the door got busted and a guy had ringing in his ear.  TV tropes has things like playing it straight, exaggerated, zig zagged, parodied, deconstructed, reconstructed etc.  How is balling fists less cliched than slamming doors anyways?

It’s poor form only if there isn’t a reason to be slamming doors.  Teenagers do it all the time but I once saw a guy slam a door so hard it dented the frame and deafened the dude sitting just outside it.  Cliches exist because they are common and are not intrinsically bad, in fact they can be very good if the writer uses them correctly or plays with them.  In the above scenario, it was a very dramatic moment to all who witnessed it, but then it became funny when we found out the door got busted and a guy had ringing in his ear.  TV tropes has things like playing it straight, exaggerated, zig zagged, parodied, deconstructed, reconstructed etc.  How is balling fists less cliched than slamming doors anyways?

Well that’s unfortunate, unrealistic and highly improbable are my forte.  The rules of writing are more like stable observations, everything is ultimately circumstantial.  I guess my biggest personal peeve is lack of detail.  A lot of internet fiction I’ve read take place in a vacuum, with the setting only vaguely described and characters who lack motivations or identities.  Fan fiction tends to be especially guilty of this because novice or lazy authors may just assume we know the characters and setting.  Failing to fill in the blanks makes immersing the reader into the story difficult.  This makes the story inaccessible to newer readers, doesn’t convey what the author has in mind, and ultimately doesn’t build upon the established lore.  Which I think is the whole point of fan fiction, never mind original works that need to be engrossing right out of the gate.  Other than that, basic literacy errors that should have been corrected in grade school will turn me away.  Such as spelling mistaiks, poorer grammar, missplaced!punctuation, verbing, run on sentances that go on and on and on, and sentences that end before they.

Well that’s unfortunate, unrealistic and highly improbable are my forte.  The rules of writing are more like stable observations, everything is ultimately circumstantial.  I guess my biggest personal peeve is lack of detail.  A lot of internet fiction I’ve read take place in a vacuum, with the setting only vaguely described and characters who lack motivations or identities.  Fan fiction tends to be especially guilty of this because novice or lazy authors may just assume we know the characters and setting.  Failing to fill in the blanks makes immersing the reader into the story difficult.  This makes the story inaccessible to newer readers, doesn’t convey what the author has in mind, and ultimately doesn’t build upon the established lore.  Which I think is the whole point of fan fiction, never mind original works that need to be engrossing right out of the gate.  Other than that, basic literacy errors that should have been corrected in grade school will turn me away.  Such as spelling mistaiks, poorer grammar, missplaced!punctuation, verbing, run on sentances that go on and on and on, and sentences that end before they.

Well that’s unfortunate, unrealistic and highly improbable are my forte.  The rules of writing are more like stable observations, everything is ultimately circumstantial.  I guess my biggest personal peeve is lack of detail.  A lot of internet fiction I’ve read take place in a vacuum, with the setting only vaguely described and characters who lack motivations or identities.  Fan fiction tends to be especially guilty of this because novice or lazy authors may just assume we know the characters and setting.  Failing to fill in the blanks makes immersing the reader into the story difficult.  This makes the story inaccessible to newer readers, doesn’t convey what the author has in mind, and ultimately doesn’t build upon the established lore.  Which I think is the whole point of fan fiction, never mind original works that need to be engrossing right out of the gate.  Other than that, basic literacy errors that should have been corrected in grade school will turn me away.  Such as spelling mistaiks, poorer grammar, missplaced!punctuation, verbing, run on sentances that go on and on and on, and sentences that end before they.

Another thing you should do is more cardio.  No, really.  Not just as a holistic approach to wellness, though being fit is something we should all strive for and in the 1st world don’t often prioritize but because physicality is a key part of being a Renaissance Wo/Man.  Something I think we, as aspiring authors, should try to be.  Also because of what cardio does for the mind.  Something about oxygen deprivation in the brain as blood is diverted for the aerobic functions and endorphin rushes or chemical imbalances in the brain during peak exertion.  I don’t know the science but it can really get the gears turning, especially during slumps.  Most of my ideas occur during runs, but swimming is also great.  Sports are good but you tend to focus on the game more than when running, biking or swimming; where the mind is free to wander as your body is at work.  I don’t just have an inspiration window when running, it’s a full on inspiration breach of muses and plot bunnies storming in with riot shields, battering rams and those breaching charges that blast through walls.  Also, once you get your exercise done for the day, you have the rest of it to relax, recover and write while still feeling productive.

Huh, looks like I have 8 posted to the archive.  I really should finish those.  Most of them are anthology type works that are only loosely connected between chapters, so in theory I could stop at any time and declare them finished or add chapters later on.  I have 5 unposted works in progress, a short list of plot bunnies, an original fantasy erotica I am developing to the side, a for fun sci fi series I may try to self publish one day, and an actual novel I want to traditionally publish in a couple decades when I finish it.  Running multiple stories at once, I think, can actually be a good thing because it prevents you from getting bored or numb to a particular work.  On the other hand, works written in proximity may end up being too similar.  Which is where I am at now, trying to distinguish one work from the next.  It doesn’t help that they are mostly challenges in the same format.  My main issue its that writing for me is ultimately a hobby and I have other things I need to do.  I’m also dissatisfied with my current level of work and feel like I am not improving enough, which doesn’t help my enthusiasm.

Another thing you should do is more cardio.  No, really.  Not just as a holistic approach to wellness, though being fit is something we should all strive for and in the 1st world don’t often prioritize but because physicality is a key part of being a Renaissance Wo/Man.  Something I think we, as aspiring authors, should try to be.  Also because of what cardio does for the mind.  Something about oxygen deprivation in the brain as blood is diverted for the aerobic functions and endorphin rushes or chemical imbalances in the brain during peak exertion.  I don’t know the science but it can really get the gears turning, especially during slumps.  Most of my ideas occur during runs, but swimming is also great.  Sports are good but you tend to focus on the game more than when running, biking or swimming; where the mind is free to wander as your body is at work.  I don’t just have an inspiration window when running, it’s a full on inspiration breach of muses and plot bunnies storming in with riot shields, battering rams and those breaching charges that blast through walls.  Also, once you get your exercise done for the day, you have the rest of it to relax, recover and write while still feeling productive.

Another thing you should do is more cardio.  No, really.  Not just as a holistic approach to wellness, though being fit is something we should all strive for and in the 1st world don’t often prioritize but because physicality is a key part of being a Renaissance Wo/Man.  Something I think we, as aspiring authors, should try to be.  Also because of what cardio does for the mind.  Something about oxygen deprivation in the brain as blood is diverted for the aerobic functions and endorphin rushes or chemical imbalances in the brain during peak exertion.  I don’t know the science but it can really get the gears turning, especially during slumps.  Most of my ideas occur during runs, but swimming is also great.  Sports are good but you tend to focus on the game more than when running, biking or swimming; where the mind is free to wander as your body is at work.  I don’t just have an inspiration window when running, it’s a full on inspiration breach of muses and plot bunnies storming in with riot shields, battering rams and those breaching charges that blast through walls.  Also, once you get your exercise done for the day, you have the rest of it to relax, recover and write while still feeling productive.

Huh, looks like I have 8 posted to the archive.  I really should finish those.  Most of them are anthology type works that are only loosely connected between chapters, so in theory I could stop at any time and declare them finished or add chapters later on.  I have 5 unposted works in progress, a short list of plot bunnies, an original fantasy erotica I am developing to the side, a for fun sci fi series I may try to self publish one day, and an actual novel I want to traditionally publish in a couple decades when I finish it.  Running multiple stories at once, I think, can actually be a good thing because it prevents you from getting bored or numb to a particular work.  On the other hand, works written in proximity may end up being too similar.  Which is where I am at now, trying to distinguish one work from the next.  It doesn’t help that they are mostly challenges in the same format.  My main issue its that writing for me is ultimately a hobby and I have other things I need to do.  I’m also dissatisfied with my current level of work and feel like I am not improving enough, which doesn’t help my enthusiasm.

Huh, looks like I have 8 posted to the archive.  I really should finish those.  Most of them are anthology type works that are only loosely connected between chapters, so in theory I could stop at any time and declare them finished or add chapters later on.  I have 5 unposted works in progress, a short list of plot bunnies, an original fantasy erotica I am developing to the side, a for fun sci fi series I may try to self publish one day, and an actual novel I want to traditionally publish in a couple decades when I finish it.  Running multiple stories at once, I think, can actually be a good thing because it prevents you from getting bored or numb to a particular work.  On the other hand, works written in proximity may end up being too similar.  Which is where I am at now, trying to distinguish one work from the next.  It doesn’t help that they are mostly challenges in the same format.  My main issue its that writing for me is ultimately a hobby and I have other things I need to do.  I’m also dissatisfied with my current level of work and feel like I am not improving enough, which doesn’t help my enthusiasm.

Next chapter of Omniharem is up.  One of my shorter and less elaborate chapters, featuring my first attempt at any kind of handicap sex.  Awkward to write, but here it is.  Please read, review and discuss.