JayDee

I think it may have to do with the way other people look at you afterward.  Personal data mined from Equifax?  You’re a victim of malicious hackers and you have everyone’s sympathy.  Family and personal acquaintances find out you wrote stories featuring incest or rape?  Suddenly the fact that your data was hacked matters way less than the stuff you wrote.
Again, I think the worry is less about the stuff you read and more about the stuff you write.  Explaining The Woman in the Statue to my parents would be awkward, but if they found out I wrote Little Brother’s Lesson over on Literotica, I guarantee you there would be a very painful conversation about why I wrote a romantic incest story.
I...suppose I could leave, delete my accounts here and on Lit and delete the stories from my computer.  The conflict there is that I am actually enjoying writing WitS and happy about the fact that other people are apparently enjoying reading it.  In addition to that, everyone here has been really nice to me, and I can’t accurately communicate how much that means to me.
I don’t know.  Maybe I’m just rolling the dice and hoping that hackers figure I’m not significant enough to screw with.

Those bad actors were no joke, either. Hugh Grant rang me up and mocked my credit score.
 

Those bad actors were no joke, either. Hugh Grant rang me up and mocked my credit score.
 

Those bad actors were no joke, either. Hugh Grant rang me up and mocked my credit score.
 

Those bad actors were no joke, either. Hugh Grant rang me up and mocked my credit score.
 

The thing is, people make a bigger issue out of a breach here at AFF than a breach at Equifax, which exposed highly detailed personal information and financial accounts to bad actors. They wouldn’t have given a free year of credit monitoring to anyone whose data was exposed otherwise—Equifax hates to give anything away. 
Here, you’re just going to be embarrassed when your friends and family find out you read dubious porn about mainly fictional characters.
(And frankly, if you’re that conflicted about your taste in reading materials, maybe you shouldn’t be reading things on AFF in the first place. Just sayin’… )

I haven’t had one on twitter at least, haven’t been to the others tho’. As you can see by my still being here it hasn’t deterred me!

I haven’t had one on twitter at least, haven’t been to the others tho’. As you can see by my still being here it hasn’t deterred me!

I wonder if that pops up if you visit Equifax, Bank of America, Target, Facebook, Twitter, and the thousands of other sites which had data breaches...

You won’t lose me! AFF is one of a the few places I feel comfortable writing my adult stories. Unlike some writers I refuse to post any adult content on fanfiction.net because of its under-aged audience. A03 is wonderful too, but it has a very generalized audience – still use it tho. But AFF has a specific audience which I am comfortable sharing adult content with. Besides, winks, I use chrome.   

Oh, man, that poor woman. She has all the horror of losing her baby and getting over that, and then they arrest her. Some real animals walking around calling themselves lawmakers out there.
I have the ideas, I know what I want to do, I just can’t seem to get it written down. But thanks, I guess I did do some good stuff this year, maybe it’s not so bad having another break!
I hope that trip goes well for the family there – I’m off on a bit of one myself for a few days the week after next and will be short of internet connection too!

“LOL I SUCK AT SUMMARIES JUST READ AND REVIEW.”

“LOL I SUCK AT SUMMARIES JUST READ AND REVIEW.”

And did you decide on… *musical sting, evil laughter* a title yet?

“LOL I SUCK AT SUMMARIES JUST READ AND REVIEW.”

Ha! I did decide on a title, thanks to Melrick. 
But yeah, summaries. Who needs em? From now on I’m just going to load the summary field with top secret mind control words that force everyone who’d enjoy the story to read it and review. Those words exist! I’m sure of it! We just gotta make them harry potter writers tell us what they are! 

It’s always good to have a line like that.
I know how you feel.  It’s a surprisingly tricky thing to do.

And did you decide on… *musical sting, evil laughter* a title yet?

Oh crap I gotta write the summary. 

Breaks my heart more than a little bit. I have… conflicting feelings about hunting in general, and though whales are my favourite animals in the universe, I can be convinced hunting them isn’t a total outrage, provided it’s regulated, sustainable and obviously doesn’t touch the species with waning populations, but greedy people be dicks and almost always take shit too far. So no. Don’t touch my whales, dudes! 

Oh, man, that poor woman. She has all the horror of losing her baby and getting over that, and then they arrest her. Some real animals walking around calling themselves lawmakers out there.
I have the ideas, I know what I want to do, I just can’t seem to get it written down. But thanks, I guess I did do some good stuff this year, maybe it’s not so bad having another break!
I hope that trip goes well for the family there – I’m off on a bit of one myself for a few days the week after next and will be short of internet connection too!

Considering the news about the woman charged with murder after getting shot in the belly it is clear your Pregnant in Alabama was not scary enough compared to reality…

Actually I think you should worry less about lack of progress now and instead feel proud about the remarkable many good stories you have finished so far this year. You have delivered lots of quality stuff and it is given that you cannot keep that pace forever. Keep looking for inspiration and things will start to fit together again.

I would love chatting about story ideas if it helps your story muse going again, but it will probably need to be a bit later. Currently the family is packing for the two week trip and I will have limited internet and less private space than normal for a while.

Thank you for the offer! I won’t risk the wrath of SWP1 by delaying you from your own work though :p
I’m sure I’ll get back into it at some point. I have done in the past!

Thank you for the offer! I won’t risk the wrath of SWP1 by delaying you from your own work though :p
I’m sure I’ll get back into it at some point. I have done in the past!

Finishing stuff is overrated. That's why there are no more finishing schools.
Seriously, if I can provide any feedback that would help you with your logjam, feel free to send me something.