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Too much exposition alienates readers. If you've already explained the nature of his energy, and what is needed to "cure" the women, then I'd advise you to just make a brief mention to remind readers. They will remember what was already explained.

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oraldeviant pulled all stories from the site. I really have no idea why, sorry!

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Madcow appears to have removed all stories. I'm sorry!

What that means, Slayer, is that you need to have gone through the process outlined in the Adopt a Story thread. I see you have asked to adopt a few stories, but you need that original author to accept and agree, and DG needs to hear from you both in that story thread that you agree to the adoption. Just saying you want to adopt the story doesn't mean you've adopted it. You should also start a separate thread when you ask a question here, rather than add onto an unrelated thread. You're asking about story adoption on a thread a user made to ask about his archive profile. NOT at all related. Now, if you'd lost your author profile, I could see adding on here, but this did need its own thread. Normally, I'd just have deleted the query as misplaced, since I can't move only a part of a thread.

Right now, we do not have that capability. What we suggest is that you add the author and/or story to your own author profile. Open the Control Panel, and you can add to the Recommended Reading and Recommended Author sections. This will at least give you a fast link to get back to the story or the author profile.

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Links for above: Punish Me by Lyran

And from a couple of the boys from Pentatonix: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcwRLoszsOA&list=UU9yXFuNnghsUHU6OpGg_MGA

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I'm going to go out on a limb here and hazard a guess that you're not a writer. The thing is, we learn from our mistakes. As a writer, I get more from well thought out constructive criticism such as Anonymous offered than I do from being told how awesome I am. I'm good enough to have gotten a couple of things picked up by a publisher, but it was listening to readers telling me what I got wrong that helped me improve. My editor doesn't care about my delicate feelings. Editors are brutal, but if I listen to them, and keep my whining to a minimum, I wind up with a truly outstanding book. That's because there's no room for the thin-skinned when it comes to writing. And if Jashley13 isn't complaining to me about being flamed, then I think you can rest easy and not castigate Anonymous for doing what every writer hopes for.

I second DG on that sentiment.

JayDee is right on the money, and we also have subcats for a couple of bands, as well as a subcat specifically for Jrock/Jpop/Kpop fics. We have a specific form of disclaimer that must be used for any story involving real persons, and all celebrities MUST be 18 years of age or older. We delete any stories involving real persons under that age of 18 with no warning. Now, the burning question... what do people think of them? Well. People are writing them, so I expect they do like them. The site permits them, and as an archive moderator, I will read them to ensure compliance with site rules, and leave my opinion at the door. But since you asked... I keep thinking about these real people, and their very real families and friends, and how all of those real people would feel if they read some of what's been written about them. My personal opinion, which in no way reflects site policy, is that it's a Very Bad Idea to write about real people. No matter how much I turn this one around in my head, I just find it nearly impossible to equate "I adore Famous Guy" with what was just done to the poor bastard by the adoring fan/author. À chacun son goût, however.

There's no private messaging system for the archive, although we do have one for registered forum members. However, as DemonGoddess noted above, unless the author has put the story up for adoption, we'd need the author's permission sent to us by the author directly. We've had people trying to adopt stories that haven't been updated in years, but without author consent, we can't allow that. If this is an AFF author, we can forward a request and give them your contact information, depending on whether or not we can reach the author, of course. You can email us at tos_team@adult-fanfiction.org with the author's pen name, the story title, and your request, and I'd be happy to try to forward that for you.

However, if you DON'T skin certain characters alive, you're equally pilloried.

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I'm not sure when that will be rolled out. Once we have a better idea of timing, we'll be sure to let everyone know.

http://www.superheronation.com/2009/10/01/sharpening-your-concept-with-a-two-sentence-synopsis/ http://blog.nathanbransford.com/2010/05/one-sentence-one-paragraph-and-two.html