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Sleeping naked is the shit when you’re young. Then, one day, you’re middle-aged with a cat who likes sleeping between the sheets and has frigid toes, and you start second guessing everything. Heiferlump, by the way, wasn’t just thawing out her frosted toebeans on my bare ass. She also kept wiping her cold, wet nose on the ticklish spot between my thigh and cheek every time I dozed off. I’m not ashamed to say I committed the unforgivable crime of yeeting the baby off the bed. I’m not sorry. Kid needs some fuzzy socks or something.

Had to order something called a “happy hoodie” for the old lady Siamew. She has an ear infection, is being treated for it, yet is now scratching furrows in her right ear. So, hopefully this will protect her ears from herself.

Aside from my paranoia as an adult, my parents’ homophobia is likely the only reason they haven’t figured out I’m bi. Hearing your teenage girl singing the chorus of Spill the Wine as “Do I dig that girl? Heh!” probably should have made them question things. Fortunately, Heiferlump just thinks I’m embarrassing; her reaction to me singing is to roll over, grunt, fart, and go back to sleep with her paws over her nose. Cats don’t let you get a big head. (Yeah. Almost forty and I just figured out I’ve been singing that wrong all these years. Freud would be clicking his heels with joy over that slip. And almost forty and I only noticed now that autocorrect cut my age the first time. Ugh.)

"will-o'-the-wisp happenstance acclivity" or "brown library movement of good fortune compulsion " or "guesstimate happenstance door " Are these spam bots, or just trying to come up with some old style weekly prompts?

Pro Writing Aid is on such crack. I use actual line-breaks; it doesn’t recognize them as line-breaks and cries about “scenes bleeding into each other” and “mid-scene shifts in POV.” I use extra spaces, ditto, and same with several other ideas. It wasn’t even recognizing transitions, as it tends to. Well, I finally broke down and started writing this... ...every time I change to a new scene, just to hammer it in for the programming. This does not make it onto the finished product; I replace it with a proper line-break before posting because my readers aren’t morons. Well, today, PWA has something new to cry about: Make up your goddamn mind, you worthless pile of code! I can’t psychically implant into your processors that I’m changing the scene, and you can’t recognize that a scene is being changed, so what the hell am I supposed to do? Just let your tantrum drag down my writing score because you can’t find any actual errors that need to be fixed?! I swear. My writing skills have improved since I started using this app for editing, but my blood pressure has worsened. It wouldn’t be such a pain in the ass if any of the errors I’ve reported had ever been addressed instead of just happening time and time again.

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.

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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.

… 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.

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. ...

Is there a way to update a story without sending it to the top of its category? I sometimes go in and correct errors that I find after a story is posted, but the new system treats these stories as though I’d added a chapter or something and sends them to the top. I don’t want to be unfair to the people who have posted new stories or chapters, so I’m wondering whether there’s a way to prevent this.

They actually are linked to now. In addition, if the user doesn’t read it and/or doesn’t understand, then they are directed to the bug tracker

From my perspective as a moderator, it’s a good thing, since I wouldn’t see updates like new chapters otherwise.

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.

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!

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

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

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.

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!!!

There’s no way to make the code differentiate. Any change to a story, whether a chapter edit or a new chapter posting, will bump the story up. Honestly, it’s not like you're tweaking errors just to bump your story up. If we do see that some members are doing just that, however, we will take action.

No, I get that you want stories with new chapters to move to the top. My question is, if I go into one of my old stories just to fix a typo, how do I stop that story from moving to the top?

Poor Melrick slept on that 69! 46170

Suggest updating the age verification popup itself to have those steps listed next to it with “If you get stuck...”? Not sure the effort there, just an idea.

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.

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).

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