BronxWench

It's particularly disheartening when people you thought were intelligent enough to know better seem to be sucked in my these irrational crazies. I could rant for hours, but suffice to say, I was raised by my father to ask questions, and take nothing on faith. If you want me to believe what you are spouting, you'd better have verifiable facts backed up by more than some right-wing, kiss-ass pundit or corner-store preacher. I've no patience with snake oil or fear-mongerers.

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Be warned -- the guard marmots are FEROCIOUS! ::nurses chewed ankles::

Actually, I disagree to an extent. Even a "Good story, keep it up!" review can provide a lot of motivation for a writer. It's certainly easier to garner hoards of reviews if you write in one of the more popular fandoms, or if you follow the more popular trends in Original fiction. For me, that just makes my few reviews the more wonderful. Some of my most cherished reviews are the wonderful concrit my dear friend Shadowknight left for me. Sadly, real life has him far too busy to come and play with the deviants here, but he was a treasure as a reader and reviewer. However, the reaction from some authors, who delete reviews they think are unfavorable or reflect a lack of understanding on the part of a reader, will cause reviewers to stop reviewing. If you take the time to leave a review, it means the author got a response from you. As an author, that's what I want. I want to know I got to you, good or bad. I also want to grow as a writer, and knowing what I did wrong is as valuable as knowing what I did right. To touch on what LockedBox said, creating a thread to communicate with readers is a great way to build a loyal base of readers who'll review you. Readers love getting to know an author, and they might be more candid in a discussion thread than on a public review board as well. Scribophile is a good workshop/writing group, but it's not really an archive, since non-paying members can only have two works at a time posted there. However, if you want to improve as a writer, it's a great place to belong. You actually need to review/critique to obtain points before you can post, so the entire site is involved in the review and critique of the submitted works. It's plentiful feedback, but again, it's not an archive. At some point, you'll need to either pay for membership, or move your reviewed, critiqued and polished works to an archive.

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Yes, it can be demotivating, since it seems that only very specific fandoms or pairings garner any attention at all. However, I encourage you not to give up. You can feel free to ask for reviews in an author's note (as long as you don't suggest that future chapters will be withheld or delayed without reviews). I believe that at the moment, while we're rolling out new code in stages, the default is for anonymous reviews to be allowed, which also helps. I try to review anything I read for pleasure. As an author, I know how much I like reviews, and I want to pass that on. I read in fandoms I might not write in, and sometimes I think that makes it harder for a fellow author to return the favor, but if they pay it up, and review another author, that's brilliant.

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My pleasure!

Nefarious is always good!

We have many authors, myself included, who've posted oneshots set in the same fandom or 'verse. If the stories are not related to each other, even if they occur in the same 'verse or fandom, then it's fine to post them as separate oneshot stories. In fact, it's probably wiser, because if you post them as chapters of a single work, you're liable to get readers complaining about how the "chapters" don't relate to each other.

My pleasure!

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Honestly, I'd put it in the pairing of the original relationship, since the infidelity is one-sided and will form an important plot point, I'm sure, if Person B finds out about Person C. A threesome would be three people having sex together, so that's definitely not the case here.

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