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  1. As someone who is trying like hell to break the rust off and get back in the game, this is super-useful information.  I have a rep for high-quality material, but that rep is mostly from material I produced a decade ago or longer, and it competes with a rep I've gained lately of being unable to finish what I started, which is primarily because I hold myself to such a high standard that I can't just relax and have a chapter where I advance the plot without a bunch of fireworks. :D

    Either way, it's good that someone went through the trouble of figuring out how best to monetize, because back when I was churning out 5K or more per day (especially if my muse caught fire), it was all for free.  I made zilch off any of it.  And the gods know damn well I could have used it at that point in my life. 

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  2. On 3/7/2024 at 8:50 AM, Ishigreensa said:

    Do you have your old rewrite of my Yukari story with Mrs. Brown, and Frank, and the bratty high school girl that mistreated her encouraged by the way the mom did, and they had a boy younger than Yukari who liked her and they became pretty good friends?

    I'm sure it's in my backups somewhere.  That was "The Pariah", which might be difficult to find online, though if it's out there I'm sure the google sleuths on this thread will dig it up. 

     

  3. On 2/15/2024 at 1:43 PM, LessThanSavory said:

    If it's all one story, I imagine 5k is fine since it's everything at once, which people probably like more than having a short story broken up anyway.

    Even if it wasn't a whole story, as long as it has a starting and ending point that make sense as one unit and is well written, I don't think there's any problem with a 5k word chapter.

    Agree on the chapter. Disagree on the chopping up a vignette. I posted something here a while back that, had I given everything at once, it would have ruined the mood, and that particular piece was 100% mood, because it was a wistful tale of a beautiful relationship ended by one person passing.  

  4. 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. 

  5. On 11/29/2023 at 8:45 AM, zackdoorie said:

    I'm delighted to see these authors knocked down a notch or two. It irritates me much how many of these writers shill and spam their Patreon accounts everywhere or put one-page stories on free story websites and ask readers to pay for the rest on a different site.

     

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    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.

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  6. 1 hour ago, Kingdark said:

    Because if the only thing you can be bothered to write as a reply is 'good' or 'amazing' or other single word replies, then you clearly did not enjoy the story. At least, that's the way I see it.

    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. 

  7. 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. 

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  8. 1 hour ago, spark said:

    At the beginning of the story, Sarah was a freshman in high school, and it was in the fall semester.  She was basically a brand-new freshman.   MW started the story in March 2020 (an interesting month for all of us), which could be considered Sarah's spring semester.   That would make Sarah a sophomore in 20-21 a junior in 21-22, and she would have graduated last spring.   She would be a freshman in college now.

    OMG this almost feels like a call-out for lack of updates :D 

    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. 

     

  9. 11 hours ago, babykeiff said:

    Let me be the first to thank and offer congratulations to the group of people for sucessfully derailing this topic from discussing censorship of the word fuck to focusing on the errors of history in how dates might have been recorded.

    In my humble opinion, that type of behaviour is obsesssive and/or narcissistic since these people pedantically focus on a irrelavant detail that may or may not be correct depending on which version of history one reads.

    Even the site owner answered this:-

    ... which should have been the last post on the topic, but it seems, to me, that in agreement with

    I am not going to add to this as then I might be guilty of what @Gummybear is saying.

    Simply - @DailyDi post should have been the last here.

    For houskeeping, I will delete this post within 48 hours., and I suggest similar actions occur with the rest of the posts past @DailyDi where it doesn't directly discuss censorship of words

    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?

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  10. 8 minutes ago, ValentinesStuff said:

    This dating system was devised in 525 by Dionysius Exiguus but was not widely used until the 9th century.

    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. 

  11. 11 hours ago, babykeiff said:

    4AD is roughly 4+ years after the mortal life of Our Lord. After the mortal death of Our Lord, a lot of changes were taking place - and the split occured in some people of Jewish faith to create Catholism. The term AD refers to Annos Domini, but is incorrectly read as Anno Domini due to the way the 's' was wrote. The letter 's' resembles todays scroll, seperator or an elongated 'f'. See Vicar of Dibley episode, location 2.00, where Alice is reading from a Bible where every 's', she pronounces as 'f' until Geraldine talks over her at the last word 'sucker'. Although that chapter referred to in the comedy doesn't exist, it shows how easy it is to misread / misunderstand and mistranslate what was orignally in Scrolls and Scriptures all based on limited / restricted knowledge base.

     

    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. 

  12. 1 minute ago, Personalias said:

    Also not important to the discussion but:  Rome adopting Christianity in 4AD?  Um...no?  Just no.  Hahaha.   

    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. 

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  13. 1 hour ago, babykeiff said:

    You seem to think that you can bully me with petty insults,

    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. 

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  14. 7 hours ago, babykeiff said:

    Controlling whether one is gay / male / female / MTF / FTM etc IS NOT POSSIBLE. That is Catholic Church teaching and discrimination - training the 'gay' out of them.... - 1884 Pears soap commercial where the soap is washing the 'black' from a dark skinned individual!

    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.
     

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    7 hours ago, babykeiff said:

    OK - just for you, every one that is openly different will hide behing doors - after all being GAY and wearing bright colours is an obsession. As is being a member of L.B.G.T. group.... or any group that doesn't fit into YOUR concept!

    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. 

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  15. On 9/23/2023 at 1:40 PM, Draventhedark said:

    So what your saying is all of us can just give up wearing diapers whenever we want and never look back? Never have the urge to wear again that we can't control? Many felt that way, many went through binge and purge cycles and trust me many would of gave up this fetish if they had the choice to. We don't get to choose our fetishes they are ingrained in us. Everyone has them in one way shape or form. That's what I mean about not being able to control it. What we can control is our actions and what we do with the fetish. Even with seeing a shrink I wasn't able to stop the strong urges and was told to accept who I am after boughts of depression. I am not a freak I don't go out and force my life on others, I don't parade around making sick videos showing how sick I can be in public. If you wanna do crap like this person did you do it where this behavior is accepted and not like they are  in a public place.

    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. 

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  16. 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. 

     

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