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š āGawd as my witness, that man is broken in half.ā Well, next fic wonāt be smut (The Lake House is non-erotic), but hopefully itāll still be a good read!
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InBrightestDay's (Originals) Review Reply & Discussion Thread
InBrightestDay replied to InBrightestDay's topic in General
Meaningful Gifts is my first holiday story in a long time, and my longest by quite a bit at 11,016 words. Itās an entry into a...genre? Kink? Well, āromantic incestā at any rate, whatever one wants to call that, and while one of these stories was my first ever work of erotic fiction, this is the first one Iāve published on AFF. first review comes from @InvidiaRed! š Honestly I didnāt remember if I was quoting something or not. Iād seen coffee referred to as ābean waterā or āscalding bean waterā in a couple places, and this particular variation felt right for the moment. Also Iām glad to see you got the reference to the official corporate sponsor of Christmas-themed brother-sister erotica everywhere, Folgers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMwFWDIFVCU -
As a follow-up, specifically to the @JayDee point I missed in my previous post, I too miss the days when there were tons of entries to these holiday anthologies, but maybe itās cyclical. The other writers are still around, and if I can throw a story into the anthology after being absent from the holiday lineup for years, then you never know when someone else will reappear! š
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I did run into that, but my immediate concern was the fact that I wasnāt sure how many spaces to put between paragraphs to make sure the site would display them. My first attempt resulted in the story being crunched into a single chunk of text, and I donāt think anyone wants to read an 11,000 word paragraph. š
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Well, itās almost a week after the new year...but you know what? Iām posting it anyway! @JayDee, @Thundercloud, @InvidiaRed and all the others who were interested but who I canāt remember right now, Meaningful Gifts has been added to the Winter Holiday 2025 anthology! I thought this was going to be up earlier today, but then I had to spend some time fighting with/learning the secret ways of AFFās formatting, specifically how to keep the site from compressing all the paragraphs together into a single chunk of text. š And donāt worry about me ignoring your stories! I will be reading and posting reviews for the already posted holiday chapters over the next few days. š
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I am getting dangerously close to actually finishing Meaningful Gifts, but Iām probably not going to have enough time to do much more than proof-read. Iāll try and polish it a little, but itās still going to be kind of a first draft, so I hope it goes alright for anyone who reads. š
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BronxWench's Review Replies - Original Fiction
InBrightestDay replied to BronxWench's topic in General
*Bronx opens the door to find two men in suits standing outside* āWe work for the Irish government, and we hear youāve been telling an unhealthy amount of stories about faeries...ā ā...The Irish government reads Adult Fanfiction?ā āDONāT QUESTION OUR METHODS!ā -
Alright, that took longer than Iād expected. Invidia also has my apologies if there are a million notifications for a review, because I kept trying to fix a problem with the review of BWās story, which meant deleting the review and resubmitting it. I put emphasis on ātryingā because ultimately, the site seemed insistent upon crunching the entire review into a single block of text, removing all the spaces between paragraphs. I am sorry for how much of a pain that is to read, as it was not my intention. š
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Well, as you all know, I was able to make progress on The Lake House, but not to finish it by a week after Halloween. This isnāt necessarily a bad thing, though, because I was struggling with how to integrate the theme of the piece into the ending, and it wasnāt until after the deadline had passed that I realized how I might be able to use it. So the extra time will (hopefully) lead to a better end product when itās finally completed. Iāll keep working on The Lake House, and will either post it when itās finished or throw it into the ring next Halloween season (fingers crossed that things are still stable for me next Halloween). In the meantime, Iām working on Meaningful Gifts again and have left reviews for both Invidiaās and Georgeās chapters of the Halloween story. Iāll read BWās chapter on break at work tomorrow!
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Ok, I actually made some progress on The Lake House today before having to leave for work. Letās see how far I get in a week.
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Well, due to work, I havenāt gotten any work done, and weāre down to five days counting today. But if what Invidia and George said is true, and you all are ok with this even if itās a week late or something, letās see what I can get done quickly! *opens word processor*
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There are now precisely three weeks until Halloween. I wonder...can I write The Lake House in that time? No promises, but Iāll see how far I can get! And of course, even if I donāt finish, Iāll review your works. š
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The Depravity Repository [edit - site now defunct]
InBrightestDay replied to JayDee's topic in Great wall of ...
I was part of a cooperative writing project there for a bit (I swear, my life is a wild sequence of āthis is going to take a while to explain,ā events), so I peeked back in from time to time. Itās been a few months, so I donāt remember precisely, but I believe what happened was that the lease on the site/server/what have you ran out, and the person funding it simply decided not to renew it. -
And theyāre rude enough to only get it on when youāre in the bed right above them. *shakes head* No class at allā¦ As for me, depending on what you consider āwrong,ā I may have never written a right pairing. š My established pairings have an extreme age difference, to put it mildly (18-20 year old man and immortal women centuries to eons old), and Iām working on a brother/sister incest pairing. As for why, itās a bit difficult to explain. When it comes to the extreme age differences between human/nonhuman characters, there are published authors who write stuff like that (see the popular A Court of Thorns and Roses series), but to get down to why it appeals to me, I think itās a fantasy I have as a man whoās always been unsure of himself, especially with women, and there is a fantasy of a shy, nervous young man being introduced to sex by a knowledgeable older woman. Kevin/Luzurial doesnāt exactly fit that mold since theyāre both inexperienced regardless of age, but the other examples do, including the incest story (older sister/younger brother). The āwhyā on the incest pairings is somewhat more complex; Iāll return to that when I have time.
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Iām juggling a lot of stuff in my life right now, from watching shows people want me to watch (FrierenĀ 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.Ā I feel bad that I donāt 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 Iāve been here a while, havenāt I?Ā š
The good news is that I actually have a new story in the works!Ā Iāve finished the first chapter, and will keep working on it.Ā I donāt really want to start posting it until Iām done, but itās 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.Ā I know I donāt show up as often as Iād like, but I think about you guys a lot!Ā š
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Its always a welcome day when you post. I canāt wait to see what youāve written lemme know so I donāt miss it. Haha! You might wanna catch up on Duncan and co.
Fear is a natural response but I think youāll find that this world and its bounty is a daunting but majestic place once you find your place within it.
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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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As it is New Yearās Eve, Iāll get a review for one of the holiday party stories up tonight. Unfortunately, Iāll have to delay reviewing InvidiaRedās story, because as itās part of the Holiday Canon, I need to go back and look at last yearās 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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So Iāve been away for months now, and it was for what might honestly have been a stupid reason.Ā Last Christmas, Iād wanted to submit a story calledĀ Meaningful Gifts, and I didnāt finish it on time.Ā I took two weeks off in January, and actually managed to make a lot of progress on it, but I still didnāt finish.Ā If Iād takenĀ threeĀ weeks I probably would have finished it, but that didnāt happen.
I was so deeply ashamed of not having anything to contribute that I felt like I couldnāt show my face around here, so I just disappeared.
Recently, Iāve realized that maybe not successfully submitting a story, even if itās a story people are waiting on, isnāt as bad as I thought, so if itās ok, I think Iāll be coming by here more often.Ā Iāll finishĀ Meaningful GiftsĀ eventually, but hopefully the fact that I didnāt manage it last year isnāt as bad as I feared.
In the meantime, Iāll work on reviews for a few other peopleās 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 Halloweāen or Christmas myself. It happens, and in my case, more often than Iād like, but life isnāt always as predictable or smooth as weād like. So, come hang out anyway!Ā
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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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Thatās probably whatās going to happen with my story too. Iāve made some progress, but in addition to having a long way to go, the story takes place on Christmas Eve anyway, so itāll 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. š
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Oooh maybe I do need to read all the other stories in this series to read this one. Wellā¦letās see how fast I can do that. š
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TFW youāre trying to work on one story, and circumstances cause the idea for aĀ completely different oneĀ 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.Ā š«
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I wonāt say that thatās happened to all of us, but itās certainly happened to me!Ā And it only cost the lives of seven āmy original fiction universeā characters plus changes in the deaths of four more to stuff my original universe into āRowlingās Wizarding World/Harry Potter.āĀ And the resulting crossover is now two month ahead of the āmy original-originalā story.Ā Go figure.
Cheers!
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I mourn the passing of your original characters.Ā Their sacrifice will not be forgotten.
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Iām more equal opportunity, sure Iāll kill original characters, Iāll 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. š Thereās something I canāt 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 donāt 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 canāt see what that was supposed to accomplish...aside from being the worldās most epic suicide, I suppose. Sorry š , 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 didnāt want it to sound like I didnāt enjoy the story. Maybe he just didnāt seem that bad compared to other spouses Iāve read in stories like this; I donāt know. I donāt think you did anything wrong as a writer, I promise. Thank you! Iāll do my best!
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Iāll try and start writing soon! I want this to be on time. š
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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 @GeorgeGlassās story.
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Dang itā¦ Iām in the middle of something else, and the only thing I have enough of that I could write it quickly isnāt original. Iāll be here for the holiday anthology, though. Meaningful Gifts has waited long enough!
