BronxWench

If you can't remember the title or author, then posting to the search threads is often the best beginning. Someone might remember a partial title, or think they know the author. If you want to search yourself, at the top of each subdomain is a menu. The Member Tools menu includes a link for "Search" where you can look by author, title or summary. If you are including words under four letters long, enclose them in quotes to make them searchable. We have a FAQ for the Search function here: http://www2.adult-fanfiction.org/forum/index.php/topic/33784-how-to-use-search/ As far as marking a story as a favorite, we do not have that specific feature. What we do have is the Currently Reading and Recommended Reading portions of your archive profile, which you can edit in the control panel. You can add stories to those sections, and it creates a link to the story, making it faster to find. The FAQs are here: http://www2.adult-fanfiction.org/forum/index.php/forum/790-profile-how-tos/ If this is an Original work, please keep in mind that many of our authors take stories down when they are about to publish them. If that's the case, it might have been noted in the author profile. Obviously, without more details, I can't check on my end.

Love, Lies and Lipstick by maggiemay

It helps if you post links, and follow the format a lot of our other authors use: http://www2.adult-fanfiction.org/forum/index.php/topic/26064-things-to-know-before-you-promote-your-story/ Melrick has some clear examples. It'll give potential readers an idea of what to expect, and make it easier for them to find your story. If they have to work at it, they won't want to read it.

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Glad to help!

You need to log out, and then log back in using the fields in the upper right corner. That should clear this up. The center login fields work only once, when you're activating the account for the first time. After that, you MUST use the uppr right corner fields.

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Good God, man, we're British!

As long as the mention or link is to a site where the author has published the story, and not to a download site, it's fine for members to share information. What we ask is that members not ask for or offer hard copies, or share links to plagiarized works. And of course, staff will only ever share AFF links.

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::points to DG:: We have a very wise administrator overseeing all of this.

That I wish I could promise you, but I'm not sure that can be included in the scope of the rewrite. What we will try for is having the tags as a searchable field.

That's slated for the code rewrite project we're engaged in at present. We'd like to have the tags in a field of their own, and give the summary the full 240 characters. That's tight enough without sharing!

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At this point, we don't have that capability. I do believe that we're looking at making tags searchable as we progress with the code rewrite, but I'm not certain we've gotten a definitive answer from the coder yet.

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Fie, George! Shirley Jackson was a superb writer of horror fiction. There's also Sarah Langan, and Tanith Lee writes horror as well. And what about Chelsea Quinn Yarbro?

I'm going to offer a completely unscientific opinion, and say that it depends on your target audience. We have readers who come here to be titillated, who are interested in the sex, and the kinkier the better. Stories are no more than wank fodder for these readers, and that's fine. They are the readers who look for tags that suit their interests, and will click on and read anything with the appropriate tags. Then we have readers who want plot, and they are willing to wait for the sex as long as they're engaged by the author, and feel like the characters and plot are compelling. These readers might offer reviews that suggest plot developments or pairings, but they aren't motivated solely by the sex. They might even read a story tagged No-sex if the summary is compelling enough. The tags I think are crucial in a summary are the pairing tags (M/F; M/M; F/F; 3Plus) because some readers are not fond of certain gender pairings, and get irritable if they encounter slash when they expected het, and the trigger tags (Minor1/Minor2; Incest; Rape) because these particular content markers are the ones we'll hear about fastest if they're missing. My suggestion is to write a short (150 words or less) blurb about your story. Then distill that to one strong sentence of Twitter length. That sentence is your summary, and leaves you enough space for the most crucial codes. Use the longer summary as the AN in the first chapter. We allow up to 600 words, but 150 is a good length without becoming boring. If you have oral sex cropping up in chapter 3, you can add a line at the top: "Additional Warnings: Oral" and no one can say they were not warned. That's entirely within the guidelines here, and in fact, it works well for many of our authors who hate giving away too much with tags.