LOL Nah, I would never banish Broken to the archive. There's a big difference in quality between Broken (at least by the choppage portion) and everything that came before it. You can see my transformation from teenybopper to adult writer within those 150 chapters, so that's my cutoff.
Good. I don't think you can; it's so quintessential
ly you!
I don't think there's anything from me that really shows my growth as a progression because I made the life choice to adjust it out of PBox. And I don't even think PBox was that teenybopperish, even in its more teenybopper parts. That is why I left my earliest things up on AC, I guess. So you could see how much of a teenybopper I used to be. I miss teenybopper Dee's brevity; she really got to the point. Adult writer Dee likes to spend too much time on what a panic attack feels like for a POV character or thousands of words about Nick's smile. At least teenybopper Dee only had hundreds of words to say about his smile (and several high pitched squees that did not translate well into a written narrative).
I won't lie to you, I really did want to make that "The Sequel to Pandora's Box" tag on PNecklace say "The Squeequel to Pandora's Box" and triumphed over that urge.
Oh, I probably fell off the wagon on April 2! A Heart That Isn't Mine, Heroic Measures, and The Road to Bethlehem alone would have added quite a bit to those lists LOL. I did not realize just how many accidents and TBIs I had written until I started skimming through old stories and making lists LOL. Maybe I do need to add to the database.
My problem is I don't like mundane. A jellyfish sting makes total sense, but a platypus sting is more interesting. Just like a cold is okay for some fluffy hurt-comfort, but bubonic plague is way more fun.
Impressive that you made it up to step eight in one day!
Gotta get Howie and Kevin's counts up. They're a little low!
I mean, a TBI seems like a logical conclusion if you have enough minor head injuries coupled with a major one. I'm willing to bet they've all fallen off a stage at least once, if not at least ten times.
Oh I know, this is just my challenge to you. Mundane once. Just make a Murphy's Law story of only mundane things. When they all add up, they get interesting. Like Nick gets a cold and then falls in a man hole because he sneezes. LMAO
LOL I looked it up. About 67% of the population has herpes simplex virus type 1, which is the cold sore kind. Only 13.2% of the population (aged 15-49) has type 2, which is genital herpes. (Source: https://www.who.int/news/item/01-05-2020-massive-proportion-world-population-living-with-herpes-infection) I was thinking genital herpes is what he would have gotten from Paris, but he definitely could have already had the other kind.
I've had many conversations about why so many people have HSV1, the current conclusion is adults kissing children on the lips.
I meant genital as well (so I was grossly over-inflating the statistic...). He for sure some kind of STD from Paris; poor Nick. If he has HSV1, he's very good at hiding it.
I always used to say I wanted to become an M.D. so I could serve as a medical consultant for a show like ER. That would be my dream job!
I must confess that I subscribed to Hulu again last spring as a pandemic gift to myself and started watching ER on there instead just because I was too lazy to switch the DVDs every four episodes LOL. Streaming is much more convenient.
That would be a fun job! Any kind of consultant for a tv show would be great. I wonder if Ken Jeong does any of that.
Streaming is more convenient. That's part of why I've been fighting the urge to fall into HBO Max. I'd never get anything done again. Whenever they offered Hulu with Spotify, I got it again. Plus Netflix, Amazon Prime, Peacock, HBO Max, ESPN... All in addition to cable; we have a real streaming problem in this house, haha.