Melrick

I think you'll find the spelling is "co-write".

Couldn't agree more. It makes me want to punch them through the monitor.

What annoys me is people deciding to go on a gluten-free diet. This annoys me because there is absolutely nothing whatsoever that is even vaguely unhealthy about gluten!

Gluten is a protein that naturally occurs in wheat, oats and barley. Nothing wrong with it at all. Unless you have coeliac disease. This is an autoimmune condition where sufferers are gluten intolerant, to greater or lesser degrees. Coeliac disease suffers have to eliminate gluten from their diet because it can make them very sick, as well as damage their bowel, and even potentially develop cancer.

Coeliac suffers is the reason why gluten-free foods first started, not because gluten is unhealthy. What’s more, Gluten is what makes cakes and bread soft and springy, so to compensate for that, gluten-free foods are often high in fat to improve their texture and make them a bit more palatable.

So if you’re considering whether or not to go on a gluten-free diet just ask yourself one question: “Do I have coeliac disease?” If the answer is no then you have your answer!

What annoys me is people deciding to go on a gluten-free diet. This annoys me because there is absolutely nothing whatsoever that is even vaguely unhealthy about gluten!

Gluten is a protein that naturally occurs in wheat, oats and barley. Nothing wrong with it at all. Unless you have coeliac disease. This is an autoimmune condition where sufferers are gluten intolerant, to greater or lesser degrees. Coeliac disease suffers have to eliminate gluten from their diet because it can make them very sick, as well as damage their bowel, and even potentially develop cancer.

Coeliac suffers is the reason why gluten-free foods first started, not because gluten is unhealthy. What’s more, Gluten is what makes cakes and bread soft and springy, so to compensate for that, gluten-free foods are often high in fat to improve their texture and make them a bit more palatable.

So if you’re considering whether or not to go on a gluten-free diet just ask yourself one question: “Do I have coeliac disease?” If the answer is no then you have your answer!

I learnt to type on a typewriter, but I learnt to touch type thanks to an early version of Makin' Bacon Teaches Typing. That's how I always thought of her, anyway. It actually did a very good job of teaching me to touch type.

I learnt to type on a typewriter, but I learnt to touch type thanks to an early version of Makin' Bacon Teaches Typing. That's how I always thought of her, anyway. It actually did a very good job of teaching me to touch type.

Readers make no sense, lol. Often the ones who take the time to review, aren't in the majority. It struck me today: frequently what repulses us in reality does indeed attract us in fantasy, i.e. incest. At its root, incest is just - so wrong. But when reading fanfiction, without the "realness" of the characters, even I will openly admit that Wincest or Twincest is quite adequate for heating up a frigid day amid this despicable polar vortex thing.
Write for yourself; what you enjoy. Screw the rest.

So, you’ve come across the word ‘tag’ on AFF or other story sites, in situations such as, ‘Always ensure your story includes the appropriate tags’. If your first response is, “What the hell is a tag, and how does it relate to my story?” then this is the FAQ for you!

A ‘tag’, or ‘story code’, will look like these examples: “M/F, M/M, Oral, Anal.” You can find a more complete list of the tags used on AFF here.

If your next response is something like, “Yeah but I wrote a story with a serious plot, and not just mindless sex, so including information like that might give away an important plot point!” I sympathise with you, since it’s a situation that I myself have encountered. There are good reasons for it, though, and not just because it’s AFF policy that you must include all the appropriate tags or risk having your story hidden until you fix it.

You see, everybody has likes and dislikes. If we’re talking non sexual content, some people only read fantasy stories, while others won’t bother with anything other than horror, for example. Sexual content is just the same, perhaps even more rigidly so for many people. A great many will only read stories that have male/male sex, for example, or only female/female sex, and really have no interest whatsoever in reading a story with any other types of sex in it. In fact, they might even be offended by reading about other types of sex. Some people are positively repelled by rape stories, so that’s a tag that people like that will definitely want to see listed before they think about reading it.

If you don’t list your story with the appropriate tags, then, aside from everything else, you risk getting nasty reviews from people that felt tricked into reading your story, or feel angry that they invested time and effort into reading a part of a story they never would have started if they had known what to expect in advance.

So while you might feel that including the tags compromises your story in some way, they are important. Besides, a well written story is still a well written story, and tags will never change that.

So, you’ve come across the word ‘tag’ on AFF or other story sites, in situations such as, ‘Always ensure your story includes the appropriate tags’. If your first response is, “What the hell is a tag, and how does it relate to my story?” then this is the FAQ for you!

A ‘tag’, or ‘story code’, will look like these examples: “M/F, M/M, Oral, Anal.” You can find a more complete list of the tags used on AFF here.

If your next response is something like, “Yeah but I wrote a story with a serious plot, and not just mindless sex, so including information like that might give away an important plot point!” I sympathise with you, since it’s a situation that I myself have encountered. There are good reasons for it, though, and not just because it’s AFF policy that you must include all the appropriate tags or risk having your story hidden until you fix it.

You see, everybody has likes and dislikes. If we’re talking non sexual content, some people only read fantasy stories, while others won’t bother with anything other than horror, for example. Sexual content is just the same, perhaps even more rigidly so for many people. A great many will only read stories that have male/male sex, for example, or only female/female sex, and really have no interest whatsoever in reading a story with any other types of sex in it. In fact, they might even be offended by reading about other types of sex. Some people are positively repelled by rape stories, so that’s a tag that people like that will definitely want to see listed before they think about reading it.

If you don’t list your story with the appropriate tags, then, aside from everything else, you risk getting nasty reviews from people that felt tricked into reading your story, or feel angry that they invested time and effort into reading a part of a story they never would have started if they had known what to expect in advance.

So while you might feel that including the tags compromises your story in some way, they are important. Besides, a well written story is still a well written story, and tags will never change that.

You’ve written your story based on a terrific picture you found online, or perhaps you even drew pictures yourself to illustrate your story, and you want to know if you can attach the picture or pictures the story you upload to AFF?

The answer is no, you can’t. It’s not allowed and nor is it possible.

The reason for that comes down to bandwidth. Pictures can use up a sizable chunk of bandwidth, which we have to pay for. Might I remind you that AFF is totally free for you, with the only income resulting from the very small amount of advertising we use, and maybe donations (hint hint ). If we allowed pictures to be attached to stories then that income would fall massively short of the monthly bandwidth bill, and then there’d be no more AFF.
You do have alternatives, though. There’s a part of our forum, called the Art Room where you can upload pictures. There’s also plenty of free websites out there that enable you to upload pictures to their servers. Once you did that then all you’d need to do is include a URL to the picture or pictures in an author’s note in your story. Simple!

So you’ve finished writing your masterpiece (or something you knocked out in half an hour), you’ve proofread it and edited it within an inch of its life (or got somebody else to do that), so now all that’s left is to upload it to the lovely AFF archive.
You’ve looked and noticed that our archives are split up into numerous subcategories – such as male/male, male/female, male/male, etc – and you’re not sure which one to put it in. After all, your story contains mostly male/male sex but it does have a little bit of male/female sex, too. So which one should your story reside in? The answer is simple.
If the bulk of your sex scenes are of the male/male variety then your story would go in the male/male subcategory, even though it does have a bit of male/female sex as well. You would make sure that your story is tagged with all the appropriate tags, though, so that people understand what to expect. Some people will also place the appropriate tags at the head of each chapter. So, for instance, if this particular chapter contains female/female sex then that would go at the start of the chapter. This is particularly handy if your story is predominately male/male, for example, as it gives your reader a heads up as to what to expect in this chapter, giving them a chance to simply skip it if they wish.
If your story is pretty evenly split over two or more sexual flavours then it would go in a more general category. Always remember to tag your stories appropriately, though!

The first thing you should know is that this forum is for promoting your own story that you’ve uploaded to the AFF archive only. That is, no stories that you’ve uploaded to other websites not connected to AdultFanFiction.

With that established, the first thing you need to do is to click on the ‘Start New Topic’ button. In the ‘Topic Title’ area, the simplest thing to put is just the name of your story.

The main body of your post could begin with a brief intro, telling people you’ve posted a new story, or a brand new chapter of your story. That isn’t required, but the following information is:

Author:
Title:
Summary:
Feedback:
Fandom:
Pairing:
Warnings:
Solo story or chaptered story:
URL:
Review Reply thread:

An example of what it should look like is below:

Author: Melrick
Title: An Interesting Story
Summary: A really interesting thing happens, and then something else even more interesting happens! (Here you can write as detailed a blurb as you want to. A catchy summary to entice the reader.) 
Feedback: Feedback and constructive criticism much appreciated.
Fandom: Original
Pairing: N/A
Warnings: M/F, Oral, Anal
Solo story or chaptered story: Solo story
URL: http://original.adul...ion.net/FakeURL
Review Reply thread: Link to review reply thread in the appropriate forum, if and when you make one.

You could, if you like, finish your post by thanking people for reading, or that you hope they enjoy it. And you really should make sure that your spelling and grammar is good, otherwise it won’t exactly leave a good impression about your writing skills!

And that’s all there is to it!

You: I have a problem, and I’m using Internet Explorer.
Us: Yeah, the problem is that you’re using Internet Explorer!
IE truly is the handiwork of the devil. It’s not just this website that often has problems with things not working properly with IE, it’s a great, great many websites. Any web designer will tell how much trouble they have to go through to make websites IE compatible, and even then not always successfully. Not only is it bad, it frequently has gaping security flaws, as well.
So, you have a problem with something on this website not working properly, or doing something that it shouldn’t be doing? You’ve been given tech support here, without the problem being resolved? And you’re using IE? The solution is almost certainly the crappy browser! But you do have viable alternatives. Here’s a list of the most popular browsers:
Firefox
Google Chrome
Apple Safari
Maxthon
Opera
Comodo Dragon
Puffin
Even if, for some unfathomable reason, you’re too in love with IE to stop using it entirely, it’s still always a good idea to get at least one other browser, because if a website doesn’t look or function properly in one browser, it might work properly in other. A backup in any situation is always a good thing. So go on, do yourself a huge favour and upgrade to a browser that doesn't suck.

I'm glad you enjoy the prompts! I look forward to future stories. I won't be here to post up November's prompts, but I'll leave them with DG and she'll do it for me.

So, you have a story or stories on another website, and you want to add a link to your story on our archive to take people there, and you want to know if that’s allowed?
No, it’s not.
Why? Because the AdultFanFiction website isn’t a place to advertise stories on other people’s websites. If we allowed that then our archives would quickly get filled with people advertising, not just stories, but everything else, thereby completely undermining the whole purpose of our website. If you wish to advertise your stories elsewhere then you’re more than welcome to pay to advertise on our website. You can get more information about advertising on AFF here.
You can include links to character or world wikis for your fandom, or fan art that inspired your story, though. Things like this are there to benefit your readers, in helping them to understand your fandom or story better.
What you need to keep in mind is that AFF is totally free to you. You don’t pay to join, to upload stories or to read stories. But it’s certainly not free for us. There’s still the hundreds of dollars that need to be paid every month for the hosting. That’s why we’re very particular about unauthorised advertising.

So, you have a story or stories on another website, and you want to add a link to your story on our archive to take people there, and you want to know if that’s allowed?
No, it’s not.
Why? Because the AdultFanFiction website isn’t a place to advertise stories on other people’s websites. If we allowed that then our archives would quickly get filled with people advertising, not just stories, but everything else, thereby completely undermining the whole purpose of our website. If you wish to advertise your stories elsewhere then you’re more than welcome to pay to advertise on our website. You can get more information about advertising on AFF here.
You can include links to character or world wikis for your fandom, or fan art that inspired your story, though. Things like this are there to benefit your readers, in helping them to understand your fandom or story better.
What you need to keep in mind is that AFF is totally free to you. You don’t pay to join, to upload stories or to read stories. But it’s certainly not free for us. There’s still the hundreds of dollars that need to be paid every month for the hosting. That’s why we’re very particular about unauthorised advertising.

So, you have a story or stories on another website, and you want to add a link to your story on our archive to take people there, and you want to know if that’s allowed?
No, it’s not.
Why? Because the AdultFanFiction website isn’t a place to advertise stories on other people’s websites. If we allowed that then our archives would quickly get filled with people advertising, not just stories, but everything else, thereby completely undermining the whole purpose of our website. If you wish to advertise your stories elsewhere then you’re more than welcome to pay to advertise on our website. You can get more information about advertising on AFF here.
You can include links to character or world wikis for your fandom, or fan art that inspired your story, though. Things like this are there to benefit your readers, in helping them to understand your fandom or story better.
What you need to keep in mind is that AFF is totally free to you. You don’t pay to join, to upload stories or to read stories. But it’s certainly not free for us. There’s still the hundreds of dollars that need to be paid every month for the hosting. That’s why we’re very particular about unauthorised advertising.

You: I have a problem, and I’m using Internet Explorer.
Us: Yeah, the problem is that you’re using Internet Explorer!
IE truly is the handiwork of the devil. It’s not just this website that often has problems with things not working properly with IE, it’s a great, great many websites. Any web designer will tell how much trouble they have to go through to make websites IE compatible, and even then not always successfully. Not only is it bad, it frequently has gaping security flaws, as well.
So, you have a problem with something on this website not working properly, or doing something that it shouldn’t be doing? You’ve been given tech support here, without the problem being resolved? And you’re using IE? The solution is almost certainly the crappy browser! But you do have viable alternatives. Here’s a list of the most popular browsers:
Firefox
Google Chrome
Apple Safari
Maxthon
Opera
Comodo Dragon
Puffin
Even if, for some unfathomable reason, you’re too in love with IE to stop using it entirely, it’s still always a good idea to get at least one other browser, because if a website doesn’t look or function properly in one browser, it might work properly in other. A backup in any situation is always a good thing. So go on, do yourself a huge favour and upgrade to a browser that doesn't suck.

You: I have a problem, and I’m using Internet Explorer.
Us: Yeah, the problem is that you’re using Internet Explorer!
IE truly is the handiwork of the devil. It’s not just this website that often has problems with things not working properly with IE, it’s a great, great many websites. Any web designer will tell how much trouble they have to go through to make websites IE compatible, and even then not always successfully. Not only is it bad, it frequently has gaping security flaws, as well.
So, you have a problem with something on this website not working properly, or doing something that it shouldn’t be doing? You’ve been given tech support here, without the problem being resolved? And you’re using IE? The solution is almost certainly the crappy browser! But you do have viable alternatives. Here’s a list of the most popular browsers:
Firefox
Google Chrome
Apple Safari
Maxthon
Opera
Comodo Dragon
Puffin
Even if, for some unfathomable reason, you’re too in love with IE to stop using it entirely, it’s still always a good idea to get at least one other browser, because if a website doesn’t look or function properly in one browser, it might work properly in other. A backup in any situation is always a good thing. So go on, do yourself a huge favour and upgrade to a browser that doesn't suck.

You: I have a problem, and I’m using Internet Explorer.
Us: Yeah, the problem is that you’re using Internet Explorer!
IE truly is the handiwork of the devil. It’s not just this website that often has problems with things not working properly with IE, it’s a great, great many websites. Any web designer will tell how much trouble they have to go through to make websites IE compatible, and even then not always successfully. Not only is it bad, it frequently has gaping security flaws, as well.
So, you have a problem with something on this website not working properly, or doing something that it shouldn’t be doing? You’ve been given tech support here, without the problem being resolved? And you’re using IE? The solution is almost certainly the crappy browser! But you do have viable alternatives. Here’s a list of the most popular browsers:
Firefox
Google Chrome
Apple Safari
Maxthon
Opera
Comodo Dragon
Puffin
Even if, for some unfathomable reason, you’re too in love with IE to stop using it entirely, it’s still always a good idea to get at least one other browser, because if a website doesn’t look or function properly in one browser, it might work properly in other. A backup in any situation is always a good thing. So go on, do yourself a huge favour and upgrade to a browser that doesn't suck.

Why I hate the star/plus rating system:
Friends will up-vote their friends' stories. No matter how atrocious the writing. Pairings are down-voted just because someone doesn't like them, regardless of how good the story was. Drabbles and Twitfics are down-voted simply because of what they are, regardless of their content. It is utilized as a form of retribution for any number of things. Users will leave a "rating" rather than a review. The last one doesn't bother me so much because I thrive on praise, but because if it sucked, tell me why. I can't get better at writing if you don't tell me what I did wrong.
(Having said that, please, by all means, tell me what I did right as well so I don't keep trying to improve something that is in an acceptable place, but neglect something that is in vast need of improvement.)



Case in point of that:

That review meant the world to me. It told me one thing I needed to know: did I convey what I intended?

And, Daye, I can honestly say that I didn't get a "more" review on any of my stories until 2013-09-05. The story was Published [2013-05-11]. Even then, there was a bit more to it, and it was spelled correctly as well as being a complete sentence.

I will say this - I generally won't 'vote' on a story in the archive (can't say I never have). I will, however, leave a review that will offset the "MOAR" reviews by leaving actual concrit. Anyone who is looking for a solid review would hopefully see that and consider it before simply clicking on the link and being disappointed by a five-star rating.

I think I'd rather staple my scrotum to the bottom lip of a rabid, starving tiger than to watch a 50 Shades of Gray movie. That's what I think.

It sure is! These are our homes there:
Facebook
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If you have either of those accounts then I'd strongly recommend 'liking' us or 'following' us there, because we post announcements there concerning AFF. So, for example, if the website goes down for whatever reason then it gets posted to those two locations to let you know, as well as when it's back up. And don't worry, we don't post useless rubbish, only stuff that is related to AFF!
Please keep in mind, though, that if you have problems of some kind then there are forums right here to post that, not on Facebook or Twitter.

So if people possibly needed a reason to switch browsers to a better one than IE (meaning, any other browser) then switch now! IE is the devil's handiwork.

So if people possibly needed a reason to switch browsers to a better one than IE (meaning, any other browser) then switch now! IE is the devil's handiwork.