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… Both of them. Due to depression over current events and illness I have not even completed the first draft of the next installment in my Avatar Tales series. To show I’m still alive I did dust off and polish an original work I wrote long ago then posted it in the Originals section of the archives. The Virgin and the Unicorn https://original.adult-fanfiction.org/story.php?no=600110700 I have not dropped the series, just not been able to make the creative narrative flow. In it Suki utilizes Ty Lee to prove to Sokka she’s okay if he pokes another pussy.

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I got a message like this a few months back, something like “I’m an artist who read your stories and would love to do a few pieces based on them!” I was legit kind of hyped at first, but then I noticed how suspiciously non-specific the wording had been, like they were excited about stuff in the stories but didn’t say what in the stories they were excited about, and didn’t name any of the stories they’d been reading. I’m sort of glad to know my instinct not to reply was probably correct.

As a follow on, yes, I did manage to finally write past that 105k/107k (depends on using FFN vs the libreoffice’s word counter) old chapter on the rewrite… became like 126 chapters or something like that. Now tackling that 91k old chapter and wondering how long that’ll end up For Repair Guy, I did experiment, overall successfully with deliberately keeping them short (around 2k) … though it’s rewrite has stalled.

Hi, Deadman and all. I’m a little bit late to the game here. Just the same, I agree with everyone else here that 20k words in a multi-chapter story is a bit excessive. Sometimes, the story flow just won’t let you cut it any shorter. However, if that’s the case, then you had better have some very exciting and readable stuff. An alternative is to put more content in to the chapter, allowing you to split the now 24k chunk of prose into two 9k chapters and a 6k chapter while maintaining both story pacing and reader interest. When looking at stories as a reader, I tend to look for longer, but not “too long” chapters. As a rule of thumb, a 2k chapter is a “Reader’s Digest story of a story,” and more than 20k has me wondering if the writer has any clue about what they’re writing. In “published life,” Theodore Dreiser’s An American Tragedy has a chapter that’s barely two pages, plus multiple chapters that are practically novellas or at least novella length in their own right. Cheers!

I definitely had very similar reviews on my two ff net stories years ago, the scam’s gonna be getting old enough to drink soon.

Could’ve been a legit account that got hacked. AFAIK, Discord’s pretty responsive to complaints. As to art, find a real artist (there’s likely websites for that), or figure out chat GPT yourself.

TBH, the flattery can be nice. The last one I got on AO3… the spammer took a moment to read the chapter (or had AI do it), And according to what I’ve read, the request to other websites for comms, will eventually lead to $$ demands. Not sure if they *actually* produce AI generated art or not, but $$ and fanfiction mix as well as gasoline/matches .

They just spam that crap all over. I feel bad for vulnerable users who might think it is genuine and get scammed :(

The net got so much smaller since I was a kid. It makes me sad.

First of all let me say I like the new interface. Despite the trouble above it is more intuitive than the old one is and now that I have done it once I know what to expect on posting a new story I should have no further trouble. I also like being able to fix the story info myself. I’m sure you’re glad of that. One complaint I have is the timeout in the story editing screen. I’m fixing a bunch of stuff I’ve spotted and really get into it, an hour has passed, and when I click to save it, I’ve been logged out and all the work is lost. 😕 When I remember I get all paranoid and save every fifteen minutes but I don’t always remember.

I’m sorry you’ve had it rough this last little while.

Don’t worry about that; it’s definitely not just a you thing. There have been plenty of days I decide I’ll sit down to write, and then just stare at a blank word processor, nervously poking at it with a stick. In my experience, inspiration likes to arrive unannounced. There have been several times when, after nights of writing a few sentences at a time, one night I sit down and just suddenly write over 1,000 words. I think there’s a good chance it will just suddenly happen like that for you. 😄

So, I ran into kind of a wall again with writing, but I think it was just pushing myself too much and if I give it a bit it’ll come back again, and I won’t just be staring at a blank page. It kind of knocked my confidence a lot, but I’m hopefully to get more done and finish the Buffy story especially, I’ve got so many notes and @julpups was so supportive with it all and I feel I’ve let them down with this break off. Ah well. On a brigher note, review! The Man on the Clapham Omnivorebus Thank you for the review! I want to say I really appreciated getting it, it brightened up my weekend. I have to say that while not intentionally inspired by Clive Barker, I’ve read a lot of his stuff over the years and I would imagine anything where I try to write a more supernatural gore type setting will show influence from him on me. He’s a hell of a writer! I’m glad you liked those elements, it was ages since I’d written/finished something and I really didn’t know how well it kind of fit together, whether I didn’t get it to make sense as it progressed. Thank you again, It was very kind of you. ...

That’s the part that had me on my recent AO³ one. They made a more specific comment, like they did read (or more likely skim) the chapter. Thus, if I could redact the scam/contact info out of the comment, I would’ve preferred keeping the first bit.

As a further explanation, for section separation, I had been using a trio of special characters center-justified. This almost never translates over correctly from Word to the site when uploading. I use the text editor on the archive side to adjust things like spacing and alignment once the text itself is uploaded. Thanks again in advance either way.

I am definitely looking at and probably will split up the chapters into smaller pieces. Right now I’m looking at around 10 pages for each chapter just based on what makes sense for the story.

Hi, @DemonGoddess All of them, or at least the Harry Potter and the Originals archives. The image below is what I get. Thanks in advance.

Thanks, @BronxWench. It works as advertised, and I uploaded a chapter.

I’ve activated the account. It should work for you now.

nothing yet I haven’t even been able to finish a oneshot that was almost frickin’ finished. The Man on the Clapham Omnivorebus Thank you for the review! I still like to think there’s slightly less horror than on some actual London nightbuses. They say the people who get off the N15 at Romford are well past Barking… Luckily, because it’s a smut fuck the answer is applied metaphyics! I mean uh, blowin’ a load. Thank you again! Just finding a bus to get on feels like more of a struggle sometime tbh. Not the best public transport system in the world. Heh, the main difference is that before Sarsa was crazy, with her mind fractured, where as this is sane and repentent Sarsa. Still writing terrible fanfic though, I suspect. Kizzy has likely become resigned to many events that surround her involving mortals getting sticky and out of breath. What happened to the days when you just smote things she wants to know… I absolutely get where you’re coming from. It could definitely have been a whole thing of tranforming, screwing more, exploring the new form… but I guess I was kind of written out by that point If I’d have pushed it more I might not have finished. At least Dylan and Sarsa got to! Thank you again, it was a pleasant suprise to get another review here!

After poking around a bit, this is a big issue on some other archives as well. I did check Discord for that person’s handle, and got nothing, which should be the first red flag for anyone thinking about an offer like that. The only thing we can do is to remind everyone to be ever so paranoid about offers that sound too good to be true. Real artists will never spam review boards looking for work.

My pleasure!

Mischief managed. https://original.adult-fanfiction.org/story.php?no=600110700

https://books.adult-fanfiction.org/index.php?cat=565 its in the books section under forgotten realms series! hope this helps!!!

I never even heard of writing.com says here it’s been operating since 2000! Huh, I guess back then I was more fanfiction net (it was before the fictionpress split off and the adult content purges!) as well as livejournal, greyarchive and so on… Must have missed me by completely.

That is on purpose, to reward authors and encourage them to go back and update older stories to use new site features.

Using my prior example, the book most often hijacked by AI for those videos is Starship Troopers. Can’t tell you how many times I read that as a kid. Then, when they start going into robotics and whatnot, they start lifting from Asimov.

I was part of a cooperative writing project there for a bit (I swear, my life is a wild sequence of “this is going to take a while to explain,” events), so I peeked back in from time to time. It’s been a few months, so I don’t remember precisely, but I believe what happened was that the lease on the site/server/what have you ran out, and the person funding it simply decided not to renew it.

For the most part, yes. There are a few places where things transition from one room to another or other things. So in theory it works as a transition point.

As far as I know there is not a limit, at least not a low or mid range one. However, if you do have transition points as you mentioned, I expect those would make good chapter breaks.

Well my story is not getting that close at the moment. Right now it’s about 25k words for this chapter and probably won’t top 30k words at most based on where I’m at in the story structure. But it’s the same story I was asking about regarding “Character driven non-linear” stories. Because it’s all one character’s journey, it feels right to create the story in a single chapter. I’m noticing though that I could probably break it up into about 10 pages a chapter. It’s going to make the story have a lot more. Almost every 10-15 pages there’s a transition of sorts into something new. That wasn’t necessarily intentional on my part but it seems to have worked out that way.

That makes a certain amount of sense. Especially the moderators reactions. This is definitely not that. The story is each chapter represents for the most part a single night experience. A bunch of stuff happens in that one night so I’m writing it as a single chapter. I thought it would be a much shorter chapter but I’m having too much fun with the story. I’m on the last part of the evening but it’s looking like at least 45 pages long if not closer to 50. Which is why I asked.

On the practical side, I’d suggest against super long chapters too. I’ve tried that on my potter fanfic years ago, reorganized/rewrote thinking it was a “good thing” with my highest being like 107k… nope! Not only did I lose some details in that consolidation, I also lost focus to the chapter too. Small details/scenes were now one/two sentences in basically a wall of text. (Which it became as FFN.net somehow seemingly lost all my carriage returns, so it was one big “blob”; and a fast re-insert of them is how I uncovered FFN’s new 65k max per chapter limit.) I’m still pulling that 107k old chapter apart right now with my “rewrite” … though I’ve now got at least 121 in its place, which is probably close to 1M words itself as I now hover around the 6-7k words per chapter average, and if the chapter nears the 10kword mark, I seek to break it up. Even in my Jefferey episodic story, I’ll effectively do “part 1” and “part 2”.

I think most of the very long “chapters” in the archive are actually entire multi-chapter stories posted on AFF after another site changed its policies regarding certain types of content (think Hentai Foundry and FFN here). The posters uploaded entire stories as one chapter, and moderators who had to review the new postings for ToS issues were heard to whimper in the corners.

The technical limit would be a @manta2g or @DemonGoddess type of question, and it’d be in bytes, not words. I know we’ve had some of the annual halloween/holiday round-robin submissions where it’s 50k max for the rules, but that’s more of a reader tolerance limit IMO. In comparison, AO3 limits it to 500k characters, and FFN limits your documents to 5MB (and will stop adding to the word count at 65k words).

We’ll do that when you join the staff as Review Moderator.

Ah, the early morning poking of the undercaffeinated dragon… If I believe reviews are being spammed, the reviewer is subject to being banned. At the moment, no anonymous reviews are permitted, as a security measure, so in order to spam those reviews, you will need an archive account. I would be very happy to have that last another year or so.