CloverReef

On October 20th, I’ll start the anthology and then participants can click the ‘add chapter’ to put their entry up. 
If you’re curious what it’ll look like, here’s last year’s anthology, hosted by @Tahn http://original.adult-fanfiction.org/story.php?no=600108780
It’ll look something like that. I will make an announcement here in the forums as soon as it’s up. Grats on finishing your story  

Excellant,
Its got prideful elves conducting genocide. Dragons being subject bullet hell.
A creation that fights back
fun for the whole family.   Wooo! Now i’ll edit it and slowly drive myself insane in the meantime.

I’m part of one, and I’d suggest to allow people to post anonymously if you do want comments. Might be a bit more work to prevent spam stuff, but the site I’m a part of requires someone to have an account and to comment once and get it accepted before they can freely comment. This has resulted in very much a lack of feedback/commentary on our work.

If you read my first, you’ll see the evolution in my writing, heck, some reviewers commented to the same effect.  Though it wasn’t until the sequel that I dropped that blasted present tense…

I think different people evolve differently. I’m a fickle bitch, and tend to obsess over small techniques and details so my style changes rapidly. I’ve been writing 2/3rds of my life and yet if I look back at something I wrote six months ago, I’ll still find something to cringe about like “omg I was such an amateur back then!” But I can see how someone who starts writing late that spent their life reading  and subconsciously forming their individual style in their head, might be good right out of the gate. Wordsmithing even comes more naturally to some people where others have to practice and work a lot harder at it. 

If I wanted to maximize my readership, and if AFF allowed it, I would probably have multiple user names that I would use as “brands” for different types of stories – fanfics, Minor1 stuff, offbeat adult originals, etc. I think readers like it when they can count on authors to be consistent about the subject matter, sort of the way they can count on getting something foamy and vanilla-flavored at any Starbucks. Conversely, I’m certain there are readers who loved a couple of my stories and then never read my stuff again after seeing some completely different kind of story that I posted – not just fans of my Frozen fanfic who then ran screaming from a Minor1 story but also the other way around.

I named the file I store my works in on my pen drive ‘The Torture Vault’ in anticipation of exactly this effect.  Most of my early works were either lost or were complete non starts until I began uploading.  I guess that’s a perk of starting comparatively late as well, my first fic doesn’t read any different from my more recent fics.  Which is actually something that bothers me, I feel like there should be some discernible evolution there.  

Man oh man. My first fan fic was written… in like the year 1998-1999. I don’t remember what it was. I imagine it was on pen and paper and about the show Breaker High with a lot of pregnancies happening. Most likely in script format. I think the oldest one I submitted on this site in particular – is probably Crossfire. I’ve always kinda wanted to go back and touch it up, because it is the pride and joy of my fanfiction era fics, and it is completed. I probably won’t, but I like to think about it. Maybe I should take this challenge on one of the easy ones. Like a oneshot or something. Does going the easy route defeat the purpose of it being a challenge?

I’m glad you asked. It does not have to be directly related to Halloween. I suspect most entries won’t be, or at least they’ll be fairly mixed like they were last year. As long as it’s dark or scary, you’re good to go. My entry isn’t directly connected to Halloween either. It’s in the 17th century lol. Just pirates and ghosty things. Go wherever your twisted imagination takes you. 

I challenged myself by centering my second one around Christmas…

Awesome! I was waiting to see what you were working on!

You have nooo idea how much I love this answer. 

And thank you for being this year’s host!

Awesome! I was waiting to see what you were working on!

The reason fan-fiction makes such a great writing exercise for many is that the characters are already done up for you. You know the characters, you know the world, you know the possibilities of both so all you have to do is come up with an interesting arrangement of events.. It’s good practice for when you start doing original works with original characters because believe it or not, once you’ve defined a character you’ll have just as much of a constraint as if you were writing with someone else’s character. that is, there is a limited set of actions that will ‘feel’ right for any character.
Embrace the box.
It’s a common thing , even among pro authors to simply have a character be whatever they need the character to be to make a scene work and this can create some  narrative dissonan ce. Have you ever seen a story where a character just does something that doesn’t fit well with how they’ve been characterized Or their actuions over the course of the book don’t seem to flow from one to the other in any logical pattern? Yeah That’s what hapopenbs when a character is bent to fit the story.
The reall question is. How many OC’s do you need to add to tell an interesting story?  Or to quote a piece of whriting advice. Try to tell the story with as few characters as possible,

Scare everybody and post Holiday fics

Gotta love a lore bomb. Is ‘Synth’ The title?

@InvidiaRed Now I’m excited. I loooove synth stories. I can’t wait!

Yep

Got an idea too. Will start writing when I get home from my double shift.

Oooooh.
This sounds fun.
 
Alas, what lies we weave with masks. For which is the true face?

I’m in, have something of an idea, but may change. Pretty much everything TBD at the moment.

Hahaha Saiyuki has PLENTY of fodder to craft M/M.  oh, the fodder. 

If I was an M/F writer in the Saiyuki fandom, yeah I’d have to do the whole OC thing too. The few female characters who make infrequent, repeat appearances, from what I recall (It’s been years since I dipped into my Saiyuki DVD collection) weren’t all that interesting to me. Saiyuki was a great place to write M/M though, lol. 

We’re up and running now! Read the stories here: http://original.adult-fanfiction.org/story.php?no=600109141 
Review reply thread can be found here:
if you want to add one of your own, you can find the details below. 
 
Every year on AFF, we do an anthology of original short stories. Everyone is welcome to participate! The rules are simple:
Oneshots (Under 50k words)  Original fiction  Halloween or Horror theme Of course, include all the appropriate warnings at the beginning of your story If you have any questions, feel free to ask them here or send me a PM. 
If you want to participate, but don’t have an idea, there are a ton of sites online with horror prompts. Here’s one! https://screencraft.org/2017/10/19/101-terrifying-horror-story-prompts/
If you’ve already decided to participate, please say so - here or PM me - with your story title and summary. Happy Halloween! 
Confirmed Participants: 
@Desiderius Price
Title: Adam the Altar Boy  – Warnings: Abuse, Anal, Contro, Exhib, Fet, Horror, Inc, Minor1, Minor2, MCD, MiCD, MM, Oral, Pedo, Rape, Violence, WS
Summary: Adam, the altar boy, at Christmas. @BronxWench
Title: TBD  – Warnings: TBD
Summary: TBD @CloverReef (PlagueClover on the Archive)
Title: Scent of Brine  – Warnings: F/F, MiCD, rape, M/F
Summary: Concepcion is stuck at sea, pregnant and with her English brute of a husband. She’s resigned herself to her life of abuse and popping out babies, but one fateful night, a phantom appears and gives her another option…   @Sinfulwolf 
Title: TBD  – Warnings: TBD
Summary: TBD @InvidiaRed
Title: Synth  – Warnings: TBD
Summary: A creation witnesses the breaking of its creators. @Tcr
Title: Creeper Part 2  – Warnings: FF, Violence, NoSex, 
Summary: A year has passed since Grace’s parents were murdered and she has tried to live a normal life at university. But a promise was made that day and promises should be kept, right? @GeorgeGlass
Title: Apprentice  – Warnings: Hum, MCD, MF, Oral
Summary: Three sisters on their way to a ball must travel through the pine woods. What could go wrong? (If you have a forum theme on and can’t see the post, try highlighting it.)