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GeorgeGlass reacted to a status update:
I’m juggling a lot of stuff in my life right now, from watching shows people want me
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BronxWench reacted to a status update:
I’m juggling a lot of stuff in my life right now, from watching shows people want me
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I’m juggling a lot of stuff in my life right now, from watching shows people want me
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InvidiaRed reacted to a status update:
I’m juggling a lot of stuff in my life right now, from watching shows people want me
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I’m juggling a lot of stuff in my life right now, from watching shows people want me
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I’m juggling a lot of stuff in my life right now, from watching shows people want me to watch (Frieren most recently) to trying to overcome fears about my appearance to sign up for a dating site, but I hope there are still some people around here. I feel bad that I don’t post things as often as I did when I showed up here...six and half years ago now.
I may not be one of the OGs, but I’ve been here a while, haven’t I? 😄
The good news is that I actually have a new story in the works! I’ve finished the first chapter, and will keep working on it. I don’t really want to start posting it until I’m done, but it’s a sci-fi/adventure fanfic and I had a lot of fun with that first chapter.
In broader terms, I hope people here are doing as well as they can. I know I don’t show up as often as I’d like, but I think about you guys a lot! 🙂
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Its always a welcome day when you post. I can’t wait to see what you’ve written lemme know so I don’t miss it. Haha! You might wanna catch up on Duncan and co.
Fear is a natural response but I think you’ll find that this world and its bounty is a daunting but majestic place once you find your place within it.
We all may walk different paths but this hub is a respite intersection.
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New story! Great news indeed!
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InvidiaRed reacted to a post in a topic:
AFF Winter Holiday 2024
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AFF Winter Holiday 2024
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As it is New Year’s Eve, I’ll get a review for one of the holiday party stories up tonight. Unfortunately, I’ll have to delay reviewing InvidiaRed’s story, because as it’s part of the Holiday Canon, I need to go back and look at last year’s Christmas story before I can read this one. It may not be required reading exactly, but it can be kind of hard to read these things out of order.
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GeorgeGlass reacted to a reply to a status update:
Did anyone else want to do Winter 2024? If not I’ll post it ere when I get back from
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InvidiaRed reacted to a reply to a status update:
Did anyone else want to do Winter 2024? If not I’ll post it ere when I get back from
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kagome26isawsome reacted to a reply to a status update:
USA, I am so sorry.
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InBrightestDay reacted to a reply to a status update:
USA, I am so sorry.
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InBrightestDay reacted to a reply to a status update:
USA, I am so sorry.
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InBrightestDay reacted to a reply to a status update:
USA, I am so sorry.
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So I’ve been away for months now, and it was for what might honestly have been a stup
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InBrightestDay reacted to a reply to a status update:
So I’ve been away for months now, and it was for what might honestly have been a stup
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InBrightestDay reacted to a reply to a status update:
So I’ve been away for months now, and it was for what might honestly have been a stup
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InBrightestDay reacted to a reply to a status update:
So I’ve been away for months now, and it was for what might honestly have been a stup
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So I’ve been away for months now, and it was for what might honestly have been a stupid reason. Last Christmas, I’d wanted to submit a story called Meaningful Gifts, and I didn’t finish it on time. I took two weeks off in January, and actually managed to make a lot of progress on it, but I still didn’t finish. If I’d taken three weeks I probably would have finished it, but that didn’t happen.
I was so deeply ashamed of not having anything to contribute that I felt like I couldn’t show my face around here, so I just disappeared.
Recently, I’ve realized that maybe not successfully submitting a story, even if it’s a story people are waiting on, isn’t as bad as I thought, so if it’s ok, I think I’ll be coming by here more often. I’ll finish Meaningful Gifts eventually, but hopefully the fact that I didn’t manage it last year isn’t as bad as I feared.
In the meantime, I’ll work on reviews for a few other people’s stories and just try to be more active here in general.
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Dude, you're a terrific writer, but we're glad to have you around whether you're producing or not.
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Welcome back! I managed not to write anything for Hallowe’en or Christmas myself. It happens, and in my case, more often than I’d like, but life isn’t always as predictable or smooth as we’d like. So, come hang out anyway!
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I am sure the story will be worth the wait when you overcome the writers block.
It my conviction that you cannot easily command story progress. Assigning one extra week to the effort is by no means sure to be able to get the done the job. Sometimes you run into situation were the subconscious is intruding on writing and that is life when working with a creative process. Sometimes you just need some cool-down to make the problem go away and sometimes you realize that you subconsciousness was right and the story need some kind of change.
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InBrightestDay reacted to a status update:
Y’all, my husband needs a warning label. I’m sitting here, sucking on a peppermint an
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InBrightestDay reacted to a status update:
My phone doesn't always err on the side of salaciousness. Today, when I dictated the
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InBrightestDay reacted to a status update:
Guess I’m a bit of a slacker this month, only 129k written
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That’s probably what’s going to happen with my story too. I’ve made some progress, but in addition to having a long way to go, the story takes place on Christmas Eve anyway, so it’ll either go up then or on Christmas Day. Super happy to see you joining in! These holiday anthologies are always better the more people are in on them, so the more the merrier. 🙂
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Oooh maybe I do need to read all the other stories in this series to read this one. Well…let’s see how fast I can do that. 😅
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TFW you’re trying to work on one story, and circumstances cause the idea for a completely different one to pop into your head, and now a big chunk of your brain is trying to iron out the kinks, try different variations and make Story 2 work while you need to finish Story 1. 🫠
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I won’t say that that’s happened to all of us, but it’s certainly happened to me! And it only cost the lives of seven “my original fiction universe” characters plus changes in the deaths of four more to stuff my original universe into “Rowling’s Wizarding World/Harry Potter.” And the resulting crossover is now two month ahead of the “my original-original” story. Go figure.
Cheers!
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I mourn the passing of your original characters. Their sacrifice will not be forgotten.
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I’m more equal opportunity, sure I’ll kill original characters, I’ll also kill off canon characters too.
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Alright, now that I have a moment, let me talk a bit here! Well then I think you nailed it. 😁 There’s something I can’t quite describe about the stories, something you can feel about the world of the Hyborian Age, and I got that same feeling from your story. And he actually led with that one! I don’t think he started shit-talking her husbands until after mentioning that he strangled her baby in the womb. That does make me wonder about his goal there. It felt like he was deliberately antagonizing Berta, but I can’t see what that was supposed to accomplish...aside from being the world’s most epic suicide, I suppose. Sorry 😅, I was bad at wording it there. I meant I spent a while trying to work out if it took place in actual Medieval Europe, rather than a fictional equivalent. Aha, so it was a bit of surprise to the author as well as the reader! Writing is kind of an interesting process like that, both creation and discovery, in a way. Apologies for that bit. I actually went back and forth about whether to even put it in the review, as I didn’t want it to sound like I didn’t enjoy the story. Maybe he just didn’t seem that bad compared to other spouses I’ve read in stories like this; I don’t know. I don’t think you did anything wrong as a writer, I promise. Thank you! I’ll do my best!
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I’ll try and start writing soon! I want this to be on time. 🙂
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It is unfortunately way too late at night for me to post another review or respond to Invidia, but I will get to it tomorrow. In the meantime, please enjoy this dramatic reenactment of @GeorgeGlass’s story.
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Dang it… I’m in the middle of something else, and the only thing I have enough of that I could write it quickly isn’t original. I’ll be here for the holiday anthology, though. Meaningful Gifts has waited long enough!
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Well, the admins of AFF are so skilled they scared the crap out of me.
The other day I got an update that I would need to verify my email or something to that effect, since the site was at long last coming out of Read Only mode.
...only problem was, I received this email at an address I didn’t think you all knew.
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Well, now that I’ve said all that, I tried using the links, and neither seems to be valid. I suspect I may have waited too long and they expired. 😅 Would it be possible to resend them, or is that maybe not what happened?
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I can resend them, no problem!
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Thank you!
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Wow. I didn’t even realize this had happened. I guess in a way it’s kind of a good thing I haven’t had anything to publish.😅 -
Like Thundercloud, I may be late. Work at the lab is kind of strained at the moment (sometimes a lot of people call out and those of us who are there end up stretched rather thin). As a result, I haven’t gotten much writing done. I have the 31st off, so I’m going to try and spend most of the day writing, but don’t be surprised if this ends up being one or two days late. I am also struggling a bit with what to include. Don’t want to use all of the kinks, since that’ll make all my sex scenes rather similar. Makes the end result a bit tricky. I try and work around that generally by focusing on the emotional context of a scene like this, which is generally somewhat different from story to story, given what leads up to the sex scene. I do worry, admittedly, that the sex scene in a future story might end up looking familiar, but hopefully the stories as a whole will be distinct enough for audiences.
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It might also be, to be very generous about this, that the reviewer began with the books or films when the characters were like 11 and has a difficult time allowing them all to grow up in his mind. I know I actually struggled with that a bit when I was watching the films. Granted, that was a rather immature response. I had hopes we were kind of past that as a society when it came to internet reviews. ...I say things now that I never really said before. Odd sentences are becoming commonplace.
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I’ve gotten three: two on WitS and one on The Least I Can Do over in Books. I’ve deleted them, and thankfully had the same thought as Bronx when it came to the links. I don’t really want to turn off anonymous reviews, as I’ve gotten several genuine reviews from fans who simply don’t have an account, so I’ll just keep deleting them as they pop up.