Wilde_Guess

Aw, I take it you’re trying to abandon the pantser way?

Nothing wrong with splitting up an overstuffed chapter, especially if there’s an obvious place to split it. 

Yes, I’ve had this experience quite a bit. Though more for my series of one shots. I was just going through the upcoming chapters of Scooby Gang Time and one chapter has 16 pages, whereas another one has 28 pages. Many times it goes back and forth like that between chapters.

I keep feeling like I should add more to the shorter chapters.

 

Oh, the potter fanfic’s doing anything but trimming… it’s 1.2M words and counting … though I *am* breaking up the 100k chapter of the previous draft.. though that chapter’s likely going to span a million words across over a hundred chapters by the time I’m finished.  (Not totally sure, haven’t fully plotted/planned out that split.
Jefferey’s a more recent creation, so less work, fewer problems to fix.  Still, some episodes are a bit big, and were better suited to split & padding in.  Also adding in more episodes & content as I go as the first pass really underdeveloped it.  (At least for its first act.)

In my case, as will become ‘visible’ once Chapters 36 and 37 get posted, it’s a matter of things not ‘shrinking,’ combined with a self-imposed goal of keeping individual chapters under 20,000 words.
In Chapter 36 now, the ‘kids’ are waking up the morning after their wedding reception concert and ‘talking out issues.’  Chapter 37 is where other family members come over to their house, with only some of those family members being expected or invited, to ‘talk out’ more family issues.  And this extended family does have its issues.

Yep, happens all the time when rewriting.  My Alaska Trekkers story went from 15 to 47.  My potter fanfic… I’m running around 4x of the early-early draft, 45x the previous one.  Now that I’m revising the Jefferey story, same thing though not to that extreme!  Usually it’s because I’m adding in a bit more detail, breaking up walls of text/dialogue.  For the potter fanfic, it’s whole new sub-plot-threads and new characters.

Better an oral surgeon than a doorknob and a piece of string.

I wish, to this day I can’t stand cloves. The dentist pavlov’ed me pretty good.

*Shudders from Wisdom Teeth Flashbacks*
Hopefully they won’t pack the hole with clove oil soaked cotton balls

Good luck, and I hope it goes quickly and as painlessly as is possible!

hopefully i wont need a triple shot of novocaine. I hope they knock me out! 

I had one ages ago coming in impacted, only one.  Dentist did it as a normal tooth pull (needed a triple shot of novocaine IIRC)

Thank you, kindly. 

Happy birthday, @Melrick  Hope you had a fantastic day. 

Happy birthday, Mel! And many more.

Mmm key lime pie… 
And thanks, everyone, I appreciate it 

“She’s not fat, she’s pregnant...and having kittens” is not a line I expect to be using again in my lifetime, but I doubt I’ll forget the day they were born.

Human doesn’t drink.  However, the human spiked the canned food with tuna.

In some places old enough to alcohol too. =^.^=

Ditto, mine are rapidly reaching the age their folks were at passing, I hope they push beyond, maybe their “better” vegan diet will help?

@Wilde_Guess You are very right. I am so lucky to still have them both. They’ve both had to bury their parents already, only one of whom passed from old age. And my parents are still relatively healthy so I am selfish and hope they’ll stick around for a while longer. 

Whatever you do, don’t look at their subscriber list either.

@Desiderius Price, finding out that both of your still-living parents have an Onlyfans page with more than two subscribers is cool.  Accidentally stumbling across those videos is where the power-barfing comes in to play.  😉
 

It’s a sign of both, actually.  You look at them and think, “I couldn’t get up from that crap, will I be able to help them get up?”  It’s also a sign that all of you are still on the same side of the sod, which is really a nice thing to have.

@Desiderius Price, finding out that both of your still-living parents have an Onlyfans page with more than two subscribers is cool.  Accidentally stumbling across those videos is where the power-barfing comes in to play.  😉