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As a PWP writer, I say stretch that fucker 'til it snaps.
But I may be a minority.

One of the things lists like that don't take into account is author voice. For creative writing, as opposed to blogging or writing textbooks/technical manuals, every author has a voice, a personal style. Stephen King abhors adverbs. George RR Martin takes delight in killing off as many characters as possible in as short a span as can be managed. Ray Bradbury strings together words until they become music. But all of those differences are why readers love them. It's their voice.
I think a writer needs to care about good grammar in the narrative portions of a story, while dialogue can be looser. I think worrying about repetitive use of certain phrases is fine, and looking for alternatives to the more common action phrases (he looked, she smiled) is wonderful. But I also think that worrying too much about conforming to a checklist runs the risk of ruining that voice. If you've ever done that little test to see who you write like, it's our quirks that make us sound like one of the "name" authors, not how well we pare out the forbidden words of the moment.

I have a fanfic that I had posted on other sites but that I had never posted here because I thought it was too twisted for AFF. Reading this thread made me realize that there's no such thing, so I posted the story last night. Thank you for the inspiration.

Small in Ditch-Delivered Drabbles

Thank you! I thought it was maybe a little predictable of me to go for a dick reference, but then I figured what the hell. Folks like consistency. Plus, the man knows his wands!
It'd be nice if I could do some drabbles for these challenget words that didn't make Lucius a buttmonkey. Maybe after the next one

Succulent in Ditch-Delivered Drabbles

And thank you! I thought from the codes you might want to give this one a miss, but once I had it in my head I sadly couldn't shift it. I kept saying to myself, c'mon, BW'd rather see some M/M.... but nothing. And now I kind've want some lasagne.
re: The log in - I saw your post in the other thread also, I wonder if it is a symptom of a bigger issue? There's a user trying and failing to log in and review over in the help threads at the moment?

So it turns out your user account is a hidden Horcrux?
Eeep.

I'm having issues with an overly attached account, so don't mind my review in "work clothes." I've cleared my cache and closed and restarted my browser a dozen times, but the HP subdomain has decided I can't be BronxWench today. It's a strange place, HP...

Thank you all!
This ought to be an interesting set of drabbles.
DVP though, is three words even in initialism form so I feel I ought to be anal and disregard it as part of this challenge, but I will maybe try and do a sixth drabble with it anyway. Because, fuck it, it shows willing.
Hope to do the first one today
Thanks again!

If the first has x-ray vision and the second magic, you could give the third a technology explanation, like a device that detects sperm cells and teleports them from one place to another, possibly with a Star Trek sound effect.
He looked up, eyes wide with surprise, as his cheeks bulged.
"I had it set on mouth, not uterus," she laughed, before suddenly turning serious, "now swallow and see how you like it."

[Off topic]
I just clicked on new content, threads showing were:
"how far can it but pushed? in Writers' Corner"
and
"Until It Hurts in Slash"
Seems like some kind of sign!

This is a job... for COSMO:
http://www.cosmopolitan.com/sex-love/advice/a6896/cervical-orgasm-guide/
Anything beyond that is gonna be, from your male perspective, like putting your balls in a mincer and slowly turning the handle while listening to a deaf guy whistle.
As for the horror story, fuck it, just shove it right through there and make a point of noting the blood and agony and pissing self with excruciating pain. It's all good.
...What? I'm JayDee, damn it...

This is a job... for COSMO:
http://www.cosmopolitan.com/sex-love/advice/a6896/cervical-orgasm-guide/
Anything beyond that is gonna be, from your male perspective, like putting your balls in a mincer and slowly turning the handle while listening to a deaf guy whistle.
As for the horror story, fuck it, just shove it right through there and make a point of noting the blood and agony and pissing self with excruciating pain. It's all good.
...What? I'm JayDee, damn it...

Can I vote for this one?

It's way in the future, right?
"The JayDee Memorial Planetary Research Center"

It's way in the future, right?
"The JayDee Memorial Planetary Research Center"

It's way in the future, right?
"The JayDee Memorial Planetary Research Center"

Change from fanfic to original to reach a wider audience?
Well, it worked for E L James!

I registered 2003.

My profile says 2006 but I'm sure I was reading well before I registered. Time sure flies when we're having fun!

I didn't find AFF until around 2009, and didn't register right away, although I was reading happily before then. Funny how fast this became "home," though...

Been a long, long time, yes?

I was gonna say I miss getting more reviews, but since the last story I wrote was my most reviewed by some way I guess I'll forget that one.
As I said, compared to some folks I'm still way new, but the point is that to me it feels like ages and ages. It's just under a third of my life!
I'm pretty sure I found this place through a fic sporking site, too. But at least those guys were funny and only quoted snippets (fair use!) rather than stealing whole fics. That site's long dead anyhow, while AFF is still here.

I know, I know, my current user account wasn't registered until 2005-07-30, but I started coming to AFF regularly on December 21st 2004. There wasn't a forum back then! Just the wossnames, yahoo groups. Remember yahoo groups? Ewwww....
It seems a fuck of a long time, to be honest. I was only 22 when I started reading here, and a whole heck of a lot of the stuff I used to do online I just don't anymore. I've tried to think of a few bigger fandom changes over the decade:
1) Livejournal! I used to spend an assload of time on LJ, it was great for fandom stuff, great for discussions, great for pointing and laughing at drama.
2) Trolls used to be fun! These days, they pretty much all appear to be psychopaths. Not even funny psychopaths. Old days trolls could wind users up, have a laugh, move on. Now they ring people up and threaten to rape them to death over video games. What the fuck, assholes?
3) Harmonians still believed there was a chance Harry would end up plowing Hermione. And old school trolls could wind them up.
4) Fanfiction.net didn't enforce any of their ru... nevermind. That one's still good.
5) I could have done one of these lists for hours and made it entertaining. Now I'm, like, old and my mind's going and frankly I probably did too much weed back then.
6) I guess I just miss the most amusing of the old users. Sometimes I stop and wonder what they're up to.
10 fucking years. This isn't some "Hey, I'm old school! I'm a fucking old user look at me" bullshit, because nobody cares about that crap, and anyway, compared to some I'm still a noob!
It's much more of a "holy fuck where did the time go?"

I know, I know, my current user account wasn't registered until 2005-07-30, but I started coming to AFF regularly on December 21st 2004. There wasn't a forum back then! Just the wossnames, yahoo groups. Remember yahoo groups? Ewwww....
It seems a fuck of a long time, to be honest. I was only 22 when I started reading here, and a whole heck of a lot of the stuff I used to do online I just don't anymore. I've tried to think of a few bigger fandom changes over the decade:
1) Livejournal! I used to spend an assload of time on LJ, it was great for fandom stuff, great for discussions, great for pointing and laughing at drama.
2) Trolls used to be fun! These days, they pretty much all appear to be psychopaths. Not even funny psychopaths. Old days trolls could wind users up, have a laugh, move on. Now they ring people up and threaten to rape them to death over video games. What the fuck, assholes?
3) Harmonians still believed there was a chance Harry would end up plowing Hermione. And old school trolls could wind them up.
4) Fanfiction.net didn't enforce any of their ru... nevermind. That one's still good.
5) I could have done one of these lists for hours and made it entertaining. Now I'm, like, old and my mind's going and frankly I probably did too much weed back then.
6) I guess I just miss the most amusing of the old users. Sometimes I stop and wonder what they're up to.
10 fucking years. This isn't some "Hey, I'm old school! I'm a fucking old user look at me" bullshit, because nobody cares about that crap, and anyway, compared to some I'm still a noob!
It's much more of a "holy fuck where did the time go?"