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On Girl Under Glass:

posted about 1 month ago

Then why don’t you look it up? This is the Internet…
On Down to Me, the Change Has Come:

posted about 1 month ago

Geez, everyone’s all “sequel, sequel.” Make me do all the work, why don’t you? :)
On And the Kitties Danced the Night Away:

posted about 1 month ago

There is no “quite what it means.” An Inspiration is just words. It’s what you do with those words that makes the meaning.
On Golden Duet:

posted about 1 month ago

(Nrgh. The lyrics site was incorrect, it’s you sisters. And it’s technically Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe, not Yes. Oh well.)
On Golden Duet:

posted about 1 month ago

Sing out your sisters
All the dreams of the world
Nothing can come between us
We are the travellers of time
—Yes, “Brother of Mine”
On Titles( Non-Fiction)- { More of a Rant than a Story}:

posted about 1 month ago

(I should know, given that I do most of my own posts as Mature.)
On Titles( Non-Fiction)- { More of a Rant than a Story}:

posted about 1 month ago

There’s no excuse for using obscenities in the subject line of your post. None.

You’ve got a whole post to do that sort of thing in, as long as you mark it mature. (Which you should if you use harsh language.)

Hm, perhaps I’ll do a Best Practices post about the Mature marker…
On Cindy Lou Dresses for Success:

posted about 1 month ago

Well, I’ll tell you. I’ve left it neutral this far just so people would have an easier time identifying with the character, just like in choose your own adventure books. (And also, once I get in a habit, I find myself loath to break it. I’m funny that way.)

To my mind he is male, but if someone else wants to imagine herself as the protagonist, she can be my guest. :)
On Cindy Lou Dresses for Success:

posted about 1 month ago

(Not that I’ve ever actually come out and said whether the protagonist is male or female, however…)
On Cindy Lou Dresses for Success:

posted about 1 month ago

Yep. Many guys only date someone that sticks out of them. He’s just gone a step further. :)
On Cindy Lou Dresses for Success:

posted about 1 month ago

Well, the mystery about it is actually intentional. When you get right down to it, I don’t say where the comb came from either. :) It’s meant to be puzzling, she’s supposed to have a touch of mystery about her.

(I originally had “he had no idea where she’d gotten them” or words to that effect in there to make it more explicit, but they had to go for the sake of the word count. Maybe they shouldn’t have.)
On And Then You Had Dinner:

posted about 1 month ago

All right, I’ll confess.

When I was writing the original sequel, and all its followons, I somehow missed the line about ”’rents” in the original. In fact I only noticed it a couple of days ago. Oops.

If necessary, I suppose I could simply write another prequel ficlet in which he’s a young adult stockbroker, and confuse everyone even more. But I decided to just play it as it lay.
On You Had Me as Appetizer:

posted about 1 month ago

In case folks haven’t yet guessed, this story was born from my misreading the title of the original ficlet, then double-taking…then deciding what I had originally misread the title as would make an amusing title for a follow-up ficlet. The whole thing kind of went on from there.
On Cindy Lou Dresses for Success:

posted about 1 month ago

Did he? ;)
On The Tower of Esimed:

posted about 1 month ago

They weren’t when I originally posted about it.
On A Book Between Friends:

posted about 1 month ago

Great post, but would you please separate your paragraphs. They’re painful to read when they’re all mushed together like that. It only costs 1 extra character per paragraph to put another return in there, you can make it up by removing an unnecessary adjective or adverb if you have to.
On The Tower of Esimed:

posted about 1 month ago

A good start. But please please please leave a blank space between paragraphs. It’s much easier to read and only costs 1 extra character.
On And Then You Had Dinner:

posted about 1 month ago

Because I didn’t proofread well enough. Fixed.
On Golden Amnesia:

posted 4 months ago

My philosophy is that if any part of the story is, it might as well all be.
On Check Mate:

posted 4 months ago

It’s “ping” as in “sonar ping.” What it is, not what it sounds like.
On Lead Dirigible:

posted 4 months ago

Cute. Of course, I don’t think any ordinary fireworks would go quite as high as she was, but that can be glossed over for the sake of the story. (Excuse me, I just realized I’m nitpicking about realism in an story about inflation with a magical bicycle pump. I’m going to go drown myself now.)
On And Then You Had Dinner:

posted 4 months ago

Who says I have anything planned? Maybe I’m just leaving a good hook for someone else to continue it.

(Geez, I can’t write everything by myself here. If I were going to do that I’d go somewhere like writing.com where I didn’t have the length limitations.)

As to the gender of the narrator, well, there’s certainly room for people to take it either way. :)
On Anara's Fear(other half):

posted 4 months ago

You may want to use an emdash instead of the double hyphen. Hyphens are the undocumented text emphasis tag, ~~strikethrough~~, so if you put double hyphens around words, it just looks ~~-like this~~-. (Also, emdashes are single characters instead of pairs, so they take up two fewer characters for your total.)

To use the emdash, on Windows, hold down the Alt key and hit 0 1 5 1 on your keypad.

You can also use ellipses with Alt + 0 1 3 3: … Three dots, single space.
On If Wishes Were Horses:

posted 4 months ago

Fabulous use of an Inspiration that always brings fascinating results. Top notch.
On In High Places:

posted 4 months ago

Just FYI, as far as I’m concerned this is a good place for me to end the story. I don’t have anywhere particular in mind to take it from here. If anyone wants to take a shot, be my guest. :)
On Hydraulic:

posted 4 months ago

Wow. Thanks. That is seriously high praise for any writer. To know that I’ve managed to affect a reader so viscerally in such a relatively short length of text is serious egoboo.
On The Miraculous One-Week Pregnancy:

posted 6 months ago

Thanks all!

Remember, you can always contribute your own sequel if you’d like to try to affect how it goes. (Though don’t be offended if I continue with my own if I can’t use yours; I do have plans for where this story is going.) And that goes for any of my other stories, many of which are just as weird but most of which have never been followed up. It’s not as much fun doing it all on your own…
On A Vegetarian Complication:

posted about 1 year ago

I like it. Only–how could the duke have started the whole thing six months ago when the artifact hadn’t been stolen from him yet and he had no way of knowing the dragon would want chili dogs?
On A Pragmatic Solution in Lake Derry:

posted about 1 year ago

I really need to lobby John and Kevin to add a sixth star to the ratings, just for this story thread.
On OOPS:

posted about 1 year ago

Edit it and check the “Draft” box. Then it won’t be visible. You can send feedback to ask if they’ll delete it for you.
On Sushi Suckered:

posted about 1 year ago

Oh, bra-VO. That ends so well that I don’t know whether I should write the sequel I had originally planned or not. It would almost be anticlimactic at this point to reveal why the girl was really so hot to get eaten.
On Really Delicious New Dragon Dishes:

posted about 1 year ago

Also, I find the image of the dragon picking up a huge bed of sushi rice with the girl tied to it on her back by a couple of big sheets of seaweed terribly amusing…
On The Firefox, alternate 2:

posted about 1 year ago

Personally, I thought this was so far into the future that Mozilla had already assimilated Opera, but as you will. :)
On Golden Throat:

posted about 1 year ago

Heh heh.

For vore afficionados, this is only the beginning. :)
On In the Belly of the Whale:

posted about 1 year ago

But it can’t possibly be over. If he died, having the story be narrated in past tense would not be possible.

So see if you can find a way to continue it. And waking up in bed after an awful dream doesn’t count. :)

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