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Just a general pop in thread
RokofAges75:
I just realized I missed your whole post at the top of this page LOL. Sorry for asking questions you already answered! I was still catching up on the posts on the previous page of this thread when posted Friday night.
That is so true about the difficult kids rarely/never missing school. Their parents don't want to deal with them at home either! As a specials teacher, I'm sure it was difficult to have to deal with all the kids in the school year after year. I may be stuck with them most of the day, every day for a year, but at least I can send them on to 5th grade when the year's over LOL. Pros and cons of different teaching positions.
I'm glad you've been getting a lot of writing done! Congrats on starting a new story! I usually struggle to come up with titles, too. Like you, I either come up with it really quickly or agonize over it forever. Unlike you, I can't make much progress on the story without having a title I feel good about.
When you go to post the sequel, there's an option to check "This work is part of a series." Then it gives you the option to create and use a new series. You type a name for the series in the box. Then, once you post the sequel, the series will appear in the Series section on your dashboard. You'll also need to edit the first story to check this same option and add it to the series. Then you can go to the Series section to edit and reorder the series so the stories show up in the right order. I hope that makes sense. Let me know if it doesn't!
LOL I keep an eye on my stats the same way. If Invisible Child is already at 4,981, you should hit 5,000 soon. My hits are still going up on My Brother's Keeper, which is the predecessor to the story I'm writing now, just not as quickly as they did when I was actually updating it. I was thrilled just to get to 3,000 hits with those two, so you're doing great to be at almost 5,000! I know the stats are all relative based on fandom, though.
Carter-Orange:
Well done on starting a new story Mare.
Those school kids who disrupt the rest of the class must be hard work. My daughter is a teaching assistant and often comes home with stories of some of the awful kids.
mare:
Oh, no worries. I figured you just missed it. lol
Your directions made sense, I'll let you know if it works when I try it. I'm not going to start posting until October. I want to really give myself a good head start, and I need a title. Succession hits vary on the kind of story it is. Most of them tend to be in the 2 - 3,000 range but some Roman and Gerri's are all the way up past 8,000. Number of chapters have to do with it as well. My story was 22 chapters so 5,000 would be pretty good. However, the sex filled RomGerri fics would hit 5,000 in 5 chapters. People are horndogs!
Thanks, Steph! I can't believe I've already written three novel size Succession fics and about to post number four. I really only saw myself writing maybe two tops.
It really does suck having those kids every single year. Sometimes they start out little sweethearts and then something clicks in them once puberty hits and they become terrors. That happened to one of my little boys. He was a doll until 7th grade and then I don't know what happened to him, but he became intolerable. The best is when it happens the other direction. When they are awful in K-3 and then suddenly you start to see them mature and calm down. Unfortunately, it tends to happen the other way more often. Ironically, it's the behavior problems that always seek me out on FB. It's weird having a good number of former students as my FB friends and seeing them getting married and having babies. It's nice to see so many thriving. A handful going on into music ed or other artistic fields. One of them is running for town council.
Carter-Orange:
Yes it must be good to see the problem kids change and become better behaved, even seeing them grow up and settle down etc. My son was a bit of a handful in school when he was really young, but once he got to year 6 (age 10/11) he finally had a teacher who understood how to treat kids with aspergers/autism and he became a different child in school.
I know that not all kids have that as an excuse and are just generally awful. I think a lot of the time these days is because parents are lazy and can't be bothered. They just sit them in front of the TV or ipad while they themselves are on their phones. My daughter has kids in her class who don't even know basic stuff, and all they want to do is play on ipads!
mare:
I agree with what you said, Steph. A few nights ago, I was scrolling through FB reels, and I came across a bunch of teachers who left their jobs in the middle of the year and most of them sited it was because parents just don't parent their kids anymore, so they spent a really large portion of their day babysitting them and taking care of emotional needs and the teaching became background. Texas seems to be one of the worst places to teach ever! Big surprise! Seems like they don't really do much in the way of training and in-services and instead expect the teachers to train themselves by watching hours of videos on their own time. I didn't know your daughter was a teacher, that's awesome!
The special needs kids I taught, especially the ones on the spectrum were some of my most well-behaved kids. It's those others that are just spoiled brats and feel entitled that are really the worst. Maybe it has to do with patience level. I had more patience for kids with special needs or kids I knew were going through something bad at home than I did for the kids who were just spoiled and not used to hearing the word no.
Speaking of annoying!
That lady finally brought back Chloe's stuff yesterday and she was kind of huffy. The first thing she said to me was "Well I thought it was really nice of me to give you guys a total refund for Puglsey even though I had him for two days and even helped get him to the vet." As if she was expecting applause or something. I countered and said, "Well it's a good thing we got it all worked out otherwise we would have come home to two dead animals, so yeah, thanks." Seriously lady? As it is, the vet actually took down this lady's name and made a mental note of it so if anyone came in and mentioned her as someone they were letting their pet go to, they would make sure they knew what she did. They were more annoyed about it then we were.
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