FYI I just came across a thread on twitter which says that an author shared on google docs an explicit story with a friend for beta reading and google removed the file due to violation of TOS (apparently it has been updated where you are not allowed to share anything with sexual content). Not sure if it’s just this instance or if it’s going to become a widespread thing but if you guys write in google docs MAKE BACK UPS!!
(Instagram link to the screenshots)
Edit: also wanted to add that it seems that Microsoft word has the same language in their TOS so onedrive is not a safe alternative!
I am estimating that chapter 15 of 'But I'm still fond of you' will have 25k words, if I include all I plan. I have 5k right now and that is not even the set up for the first plot point, and it is the raw form, which is usually only 60-70% of the length of the final thing.
But as I want to only have 15 chapters it has to be like that
I updated the first chapter of this fic! Basically re-written it to improve flow and descriptions :) yes this is a way for me to get back into the story and into writing, as we prepare for the final chapter! (which I am also writing on!)
But I'm Still Fond of You
on AO3
Rated: T
Pairing: Ominis Gaunt x MC
Chapters: 14/15
Wordcount: 142.858 (~10k per chapter)
Starting Hogwarts as a fifth year after believing he was a squib for most of his life had been.. well, it had been quite tough, Hermes could certainly not deny that. It wasn’t made particularly easier, by his confusing ability to see a forgotten kind of ancient magic, or by the fact that the most dangerous men in Hogsmeade were now after him.
Gossip started to follow him around from the moment he stepped his foot into the great hall on his first day – the Austrian pureblood boy with the massive scar on his face, and his awkward attempts of making friends.
But how should he go about making friends, if he never had any? And more urgently, how was Hermes supposed to deal with his emergent feelings, that were definitely more than mere friendship, aimed at one of his fellow Slytherins?