"Dreamteam Calamaties: Wish" published (and fixed)

[elfs]

Wowsers. I woke up this morning to find that the autopublish feature had worked just great, but the AFT engine had messed up on a pair of unbalanced italicization tokens so I had to go into the story source code by hand and fix the error. It should all be good this morning.

And remember, the main thrust (so to speak) of this series was originally to get Shardik laid as much as possible. It didn't work out quite that way, but there's still a lot of smut in this six-episode mini.

Oh, and you can put these next two on your calendar. Note that they start two weeks after the end of Dreamteam Calamaties, and are two weeks apart. These one-a-week mini-series spoil y'all.

• Aug 27: Journal Entry 042 / 1042: A New Home
• Sep 10: Journal Entry 103 / 1175: Nudes Defending a Staircase

Comments

[funos.livejournal.com]

Good story, in all aspects. Thanks.

[kakoukorakos.livejournal.com]

Smut's great, but it's not the be-all, end-all of the Journal Entries from this reader's perspective (I've been a fan since the mid 90s). I think the best thing about JE is that it has a good sci-fi plot that progresses and has twists and turns, PLUS porn. It offers more depth to the characters to see those ways about them that all prudish mainstream authors hide despite working to build sexual tension. Which results in badly-written slash fanfiction.

Even if a few episodes are light on the porn, you can continue to rest assured that you've saved yourself and your characters from the shame of bad slash.

[elfs.livejournal.com]

Heh. The Journal Entries were invented in response to bad slash. I mean, really bad slash. I think my first story, The Kittenin', was written in about four hours as a kind of horrified rejoinder to Brady Bunch parody that, well, wasn't funny. It wasn't just that it's not funny to imagine Marsha banging the dog, but it was so poorly written, with spelling and grammatical errors, that I cringed at it, and then had a response.

Most of my stories are written in response to something; sometimes a reader's request, more often something really f'ing stupid said in the "real world."

A few little issues

[(Anonymous)]

Continuity: "touched a button on the desk that disappeared even as I pressed it", but then there's many actions relative to the desk (shoulder resting, walking around, etc.).

Missing Word?: "I envied P'nyssa than ability."

Re: A few little issues

[elfs.livejournal.com]

"It" refers to the button, not the desk. Sorry that wasn't clear.

The second is a typo: "than" -> that.

Fixed, thanks!

Re: A few little issues

[(Anonymous)]

"It" refers to the button, not the desk. Sorry that wasn't clear

Ah, I should have read closer. The precedent to it was indeed the button.

However, in an age centuries after personal air vehicles that pack themselves into the handlebar when not in use (can't find it now but I'm sure I read it) , a disappearing desk didn't seem that unreasonable :).