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Serpent Trials Chapter 9 is up Summary: In order to be with Toni, Cheryl has joined the Serpents but her initiation is incomplete. Like all new members, Cheryl has to go through the Serpent Trials which are different for potential female members than they are for men. Thankfully, Toni is there to help her through it. https://tv.adult-fanfiction.org/story.php?no=600099980&chapter=9

Serpent Trials Chapter 9 is up Summary: In order to be with Toni, Cheryl has joined the Serpents but her initiation is incomplete. Like all new members, Cheryl has to go through the Serpent Trials which are different for potential female members than they are for men. Thankfully, Toni is there to help her through it. https://tv.adult-fanfiction.org/story.php?no=600099980&chapter=9

I’m curious about how much you focus on a story being linear versus non-linear? I have this story I’m playing with where I’m thinking about a story that isn’t necessarily linear in its story telling. For example, I’ve seen most stories involve Chapter 2 being in the future from Chapter 1, and Chapter 3 being in the future of Chapter 2, etc. A direct linear story. However I’m playing with an idea for a character driven story where chapters aren’t told in a linear way. Such as a character driven story where Chapter 3 happens 6 weeks before Chapter 1, and Chapter 2 might happen 3 weeks before Chapter 1, but you still read Chapter 1 first. It’s just that you learn the context for the things which happen in Chapter 1 in later chapters. Why certain characters feel the way they do about other characters and why they acted the way they did. Am I making sense or just saying random stuff?

There is a fairly good chance that the main character would mention them. They do have a canon history of sorts with the character, although I don’t know if within the continuity of the story I’m writing that canon history has happened. The character which would be mentioned is more of a background/secondary character within canon. All of the main story characters I’m working with are the main characters within canon.

Well the more I talk about it, the more I feel like Jane should be included in some form in the sequel. It might actually work well given how the first story is structured. Most chapters include a character from the previous chapter before moving onto a new character. So perhaps I could include Jane in the most relevant character’s chapter before having them leave.

I suppose I could add another but that’s not the plan in any sense. At least within the context of the story, Jane would be involved in between the current story I’m writing and the sequel. But I appreciate the insight on how I could mention it.

I may simply mention Jane in the sequel as someone who just isn’t around in the moment.

Definitely good to know.

Well, it’s less of a way to get rid of them. It’s for AFF, so it’s more like: “When is Jane going to join in on the fun?” But then the sequel doesn’t have Jane in it at all. Even though Jane is mentioned in the last chapter of the story. However in another chapter I do mention Mary and she does appear in the sequel. Since having the idea to mention Jane though, I have considered making her part of the sequel, but that could over complicate the story. Which has been pretty straight forward up until now.

So it wouldn’t necessarily bother you if there was dialogue about certain characters but never show up?

Kinda curious how you feel about mentioning characters who aren’t going to appear in a piece. A story I’m working on is almost finished. I have plans for a sequel but in the final chapter, I’m possibly going to mention characters who don’t appear in the sequel. You could however reasonably conclude based on the way these characters are mentioned that they would be part of the sequel. But I’m concerned that this might give people a false expectation about what the sequel is about. I’ve mentioned other characters in stories but it makes sense for the characters who are in the story to have them brought up. Just for clarity, it’s a story featuring FF pairings and some of the characters have or did have boyfriends at one point. These former boyfriends get mentioned. However in the final chapter, I mention other female characters who aren’t going to appear. This is a slightly different thing. I don’t know if I want to misdirect readers in this way. There is one mention of characters who will appear in the sequel but it’s not in the final chapter. So it may not work. What do you think?

No worries, that’s partly why I asked ahead of time. I can tweak the title and still make it work. My first instinct is just add a “The” where the dash would be. Not exactly the same but close enough.

So it’s probably a good idea to avoid putting any punctuation like a dash in my story’s title?

This is might be more of a preemptive attempt to know what I can and can’t do when creating story titles. I have an upcoming story that has a dash in the title. But I know the archive has had some issues lately with summaries missing apostrophes and periods from time to time. So would this be a problem if I use a dash in a story title, will it cause any issues? What about a colon instead of a dash?

Go Veronica Go Chapter 8 is up Summary: Veronica has recently become the leader of the Vixens after taking it from Cheryl. However she didn’t know all that was involved in becoming head cheerleader… namely taking care of her Vixens in so many ways. https://tv.adult-fanfiction.org/story.php?no=600099980&chapter=8