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Her sister wasn't a half hour drive away. She would have had to get on a plane.

I mean, I knew in my heart Sarah's mom was a mirror image of my own mother, only her temper was far more under control. But spelling it out like you did hit me in a deep, dark place where I really wasn't expecting such a hit. Not a bad thing, at all. Just surprising. And a further tribute to what an excellent job you've done with this story. In fact, there's literally only one issue that I have, and it's a minor quibble, which is why I've shut up about it. As someone who has experienced a lifetime of back problems due to various and sundry injuries over the years, I find it incredible that someone could have had a spinal injury severe enough to cause nerve damage but not severe enough to have any kind of residual instability in the spine that would trigger fairly frequent and very painful muscle spams long after the initial insult and healing process. Not saying it's impossible, just saying that it seems wildly unlikely that the injury did nerve damage but didn't leave lasting spinal issues, especially when the injury went completely untreated.

While there are writers who tease and never post stories in their entirety, the vast majority simply delay the posting on public sites like this while they post current chapters on their pay sites. And yeah, if Patreon had been a thing back when I was actively writing (while pursuing a disability claim that failed), I may not have had to go back to a "real" job and fallen off the cliff with writing. There is a long list of writers who routinely post here who had their livelihood ripped away from them by Patreon, not to mention a bunch of willing customers who were not allowed to pay for content they wanted to read. Your comment reads like jealousy from someone who apparently can't muster 5 bucks a month to gain full access to an author you like while others can.

This is a response to all the right-wing state governments across the US trying to ban sex outside of procreation by a married couple. Sites are afraid of getting shut down themselves, so they're being paranoid about what they allow. Same exact overreaction as OnlyFans.

I'm highly skeptical of ChatGPT's ability to create dialogue. I've seen more than enough robotic dialogue from human writers to think that a robot could do better.

If there's anything I've learned as a writer about posting serials on a forum like this, it's that some people are just not very articulate. Them taking the trouble to say, "AMAZING!" is them taking time out of their schedule to tell you they liked it. Don't be bummed if that's all you get, especially early on when people are figuring out what they think about it and waiting for you to develop it further. No one's going to write you a novel in response to chapter one unless you really did a terrible job of executing chapter one and they decided to try and help you fix things.

Simple answer is, write the story. Because you want to write it. Not because someone else wants to read it. In the 15 years I've been involved in this community, I've never stopped to ask anyone if they *wanted* me to write a given story. I just wrote it, posted it, and let the chips fall. Don't write for other people. Write for yourself. But if you're aiming to share it publicly, make sure you write the best damn story you're capable of, in terms of plot, character-building, and execution (details: grammar, spelling, punctuation, etc.) so everyone else can enjoy it too. Definitely, definitely, definitely don't ask for permission to write about a given topic, unless that topic has the potential to run afoul of forum rules.

OMG this almost feels like a call-out for lack of updates I know that's not what it is. You and I both have followed Freswith for over a decade, so it's not like you don't have patience. Oh, while I'm here... Brilliant interaction between our intrepid heroine and Lisa about the bedwetting. I love how you didn't let that go, that the incontinent person demanded that the partially continent person admit her problem too, not just leverage Lisa's problem as an excuse not to admit her own. I know that was a chapter ago, but somehow I missed that update and I'm glad to have caught up.

Now that the person who made all those woefully mal-informed references to calendars and dating that sparked this side conversation in the first place has gone back and dirty-deleted them, and DailyDi has confirmed that the original problem is solved, I don't see the harm in folks who are interested in the history of modern calendars and such continuing to discuss them. Or are you suggesting we censor those people because certain folk are uncomfortable with being reminded that they spewed nonsense masquerading as fact?

Noteworthy that it was a clumsy dating, because he never explained his methodology. No one really knows where his "calculations" come from, but there are many who suspect that it was him subtracting 27 from the Anno Passionis (which is wrongheaded, because Jesus wasn't 27 when he died), and folks try to forgive him by claiming that he was referencing the Nativity as AD 1, not Jesus' actual birth.

AD 1 = the year Jesus was born. AD 4 = he was 3 years old. AD 380 (roughly) = Rome formally makes Christianity its state religion. So sorry, but there was no Catholicism in AD 4, nor any split between Judaism and anything but Zoroastrianism, which was still hanging around in Judea when Jesus was born. There wasn't even any Christianity yet, because Jesus was still a toddler. Even if I give you the very WRONG assertion that AD = after his death (that's actually Anno Passionis, another, competing dating system around that same time) Rome did not even legalize Christianity in its empire until 313 AD, shortly before the Council of Nicaea in 325.

Right? Here's this kid who's 7 years old (because dating being off) and we're gonna make worshipping him the state religion and then turn around and murder him in a few decades. Also kill his followers for a few decades after that for some reason.

I'm not the one throwing insults around here. I'm also not the one tilting at straw men. But do you, man. Clearly you're still salty about the writer's discussion thread and wish to try and rekindle a flame war here, but I'll not be participating in any of that. I didn't address you when I came to the thread, I won't continue addressing you, because I don't interact with people who are intellectually dishonest and engage in goalpost-moving and strawmanning just to "win" internet arguments about nothing. Goodbye.

1) None of those things are fetishes. 2) I was already asked and clarified what I meant when I said "controlling your fetish", which you conveniently omitted in your attack. Finally Again, being gay is not a fetish. Maybe you've fetishized gay people in your mind, but them being gay isn't a fetish, it's who they are. ABDL is not the same as LGBTQ, and I find it laughable that you're trying to drag one into a discussion about the other. Any fetish, be it diapers or spanking or blood play or watersports or scat, has no business involving people who did not consent to be involved. That means you don't flaunt your fetish in public, because the public did not consent to you scratching your exhibitionist itch or humiliation kink at their expense. It's simple etiquette, and it's a cardinal rule of BDSM. Meanwhile, you might want to apologize to everyone for accusing LGBTQ+ people of their sexual orientations being fetishes. Or you can take your lumps for being such a bigot. I don't care which.

Personally, I have a working title while I'm writing it. Then when the whole thing is out there, I think about the most potent scene in the story and derive my title from that somehow, usually in allegory, as in The Panda's Ashes. That's the preferred methodology, anyway. Not saying I always live up to it.

No, that's not what I'm saying. Controlling your fetish means having the self-restraint to not do things like involving people who did not consent to being involved in your fetish. Things like "parad[ing] around making sick videos" is an example of not controlling your fetish. Being a DL, an AB, or anything else on this little spectrum we have here, is fine and dandy, as long as you control it and don't let it become an obsession that drives your actions against your higher-order reasoning.

If they can't control their fetishes, they are freaks. Bigger problem is they make the rest of us who can control our fetishes look bad.

The most important books to read are non-ABDL fiction, preferably the giants of the field. Why? Because finding a favorite author is a great way to learn how to write your own stuff. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, but it also engages you to subconsciously learn style from someone with a well-established style, and along the way pick up the mechanics we all get tripped up on as we're learning how to write a story that clearly communicates the ideas we want to present, because well-established fiction authors already know those mechanics (or at least their editors do). Aping them helps us get better at fundamentals while also finding our own literary voice.

IDK, I would have to imagine that Isabelle would have kept the slippers if she decided to stay little. But to me, the ambiguity was the sell point for the closing. Had you not added the epilogue, I would have been perfectly content making the decision for her in my head.

Epilogue makes it crystal clear what she decided.

I love the fact that this story is so wildly engaging despite being a fanfic of books I've never read. And STFU about how much diaper content is involved. A great story is a great story is a great story. You've never been much for leaning in on the diaper content anyway, because you're writing stories, not kink service.

Even if this was the end of the story it'd be amazing. As usual, Mee, you have such a knack for suspense and emotion in your narratives. You remind me of me at the peak of my (now rusty from disuse) powers. Only better.

I mean, not gonna lie, but there have been some things posted here that I think back on and go, "Yeah, ChatGPT probably could have done that better." That's not an endorsement of ChatGPT, just for the record.

I'm duly corrected, good sir.

Look, a lot of people are using AI as a tool to help them write, but you can't expect AI to write the story for you. It just doesn't work, because it doesn't understand the purpose of the story.