Kurahieiritr

I noticed that this post was up. Another member turned me onto this trick for rapid uploading of my completed stories, so I figured I would pass it along to anyone else who reads this post. Hope it is not a violation of rules to share this info since it does make uploading so much easier without extra, unexpected mistakes. LAst thing I wish to do is annoy anyone. I was told about this shortcut that fixes the problems with formatting here on AFFnet that works like a charm. Upload the chapters to poste here in FF net's doc manager first. It accepts a lot of different writing program formats. All the writer has to do is use Author panel here at AFFnet and do a copy and paste of the text from the doc manager with the chapter in question shown by view edit mode at ffnet. By having AFFnet Author panel open and hitting the add chapter button for the story you want to add, anyone can switch between the two sites and do a rapid upload of a basically formatted chapter. The story has to be set up as a text style upload though. So long as the AFF net story is set up as text type, the chapter name heading and the pasting in of the actual chapter goes quickly. FFnet doc manager copied text comes in handy to preserve formatting when you paste it into the add chapter for AFFNet. Not sure if it works when it comes to going the story view chapter type of additions, but it does work from Author's panel specifically. The other benefit is I don't have to add captcha to add each chapter to the story I am working on at any given moment. With Story view chapter addition you do have to add captcha every time, and I have horrid eye sight. This way I can continue adding chapters to competed fics I am moving, and have a lot less time required for revision of font styles etc. The AFFnet site maintains the fonts and all the formatting I have found when I take the copied text and paste it into the chapter to add section of this site. Not sure if it works with every type of codes for internet, but it does work with my word processor and keeps my bold, italics, and other formatting in place. This trick also is a much faster process than having to do line by line editing to get the fic to look the way intended by the writer I've found. Hope this shortcut helps other writers.

I can place the old version up. Despite having to revise to reflect the original deleted scenes, it is a completed story that has been read by a lot of peeps at the FFnet site before I took it down to keep my account safe. I am glad to get any input at all on this dilemma. I have been quite disenchanted by the conundrum I've had over whether to put it up as the raw form or to wait.

I am thinking about posting All for Love as is due to it being complete, and revising chapter by chapter as an ongoing project. I discovered with Alternate Tracks that revision lag does prevent reading the whole series efficiently. What do those who have checked this thread think? Should I post the current 3rd story, and modify as I get the time? OR: would readers prefer it if I crawl along the updates as real world allows scenario that has been experienced with Alternate Tracks? This is one of the moments where I find myself flustered over taking review suggestions to heart and correcting the trouble spots I learn about from my readers. I really am debating the idea of putting All For Love up and revising as I can. I've gotten annoyed with the headache of constant intrusions preventing people interested in the stories from reading the tales. Some days being a perfectionist with mild dyslexia fits is too much to ask of readers I think. I have gotten chapters 34 and 35 revised and posted in Alternate Tracks story today. Finally got the real world problems cleared away so I could get back to revision work. There are 41 chapters total in this completed story, so I am frustrated that I can't plaster the complete tag onto the revision version yet. I am seriously ready to add the last few chapters to get the completed tag up, and then complete the revisions with the replace chapter function.

I adored the following post. I am bouncing up and down that I am not the only one that loves the fresher kink of switching role! This is the truth of real living gay couples! There is not absolute uke/absolute seme within real life gay couples. I have several gay friends and am a nosy enough old broad to ask questions when I found out my own son was bisexual. The truth made me into a person who despises absolute Uke/Seme roles. I thought I was completely alone in my love of shaking up readership expectations. Thanks so much for saying the same thing I have thought for ages!Now for the next response. I can see rough and tumble men getting into gay relationships as easily as the innocent, too perfectly pretty, and weaker looking types. Strong and beefy men can be as much fun as the expected bishi boys that dominates so much of the Yaoi fan fiction base of many diverse anime/manga series lists. Someone recently got me interested in Bleach yaoi, so I am investigating the typical couples that are written by fans. I can see a couple of beefy boy combinations in that series already. We'll see which ones I settle on after I finish the series I am currently revising and posting here. Agreed! A character should evolve once he gets his cherries popped! When the character remains too clueless the story becomes a lame read. I can see the prude flashing up and the blushes as the character evolves into an equally sexy partner, but when the innocence goes overboard for too long it gets obnoxious. Nobody stays that dumb after they get accustomed to sex. One thing I have noticed is a lack of comments about personalities in yaoi/slash writing. Personally, when it comes to putting together yaoi couples, my biggest thing is the personality between characters. Whether they are fighters, lovers, or whatever tags you want to insert within the cannon universe, the men involved have to have conflict and harmonic aspects to make them believable. The body types are not all that important to me since a big and beefy man can get with a short and petite innocent and I'll love the tale so long as the personalities mesh and retain sparks. Yaoi needs the personality meshing quality to make it a hot read. Both characters need to have conflict sparks to maintain interest. They can't be too perfectly alike in their meshed characteristic states, or there isn't anything worthy of reading unless it is mindless PWP formats. Here's an example of what I mean by character meshing: In the Initial D yaoi cannon couples, the number one written is Ryosuke x Takumi. Ryosuke is always the seme over Takumi. I for one find the idea of Ryosuke only boning Takumi actively putting me to sleep. There isn't enough sparks to make the relationship interesting. Takumi's hero worship can only hold so much interest for me, or Ryosuke being my gut reaction. With Ryosuke being in medical school it is easy to imagine him manipulating Takumi into everything he wants to do. I can't see Takumi's personality as that meek however, so I feel those stories become too OOC-ish for my taste. However, the super competitive Keisuke getting put with Takumi and wham, I am wide awake and rearing to read more. Keisuke and Takumi have the needed personality sparks. Misunderstandings, and competition create electricity and friction between these characters. The two men share common ground and love of driving hard and fast, yet they are different enough to have to work with the other instead of a blind, one character following the other character's lead 24/7. Both have violent streaks so it is easy to see them having mild to hard core verbal tussles over which is the dominant partner. Disagreements and working things through to remain together gives them the needed zippy dynamics to fuel a great reading fan fiction when they are kept within cannon characteristics.

This topic caught my interest so I figured I would respond. I can understand wishing to let the cannon stand on originality merits. However, there are plenty of ways to remain in the cannon world while writing a story. Most Yaoi writers fall squarely into the problematic gray area of staying within the confinement of a cannon world. It can be very difficult keeping the characters from going ooc while promoting a clandestine love life that weaves into a behind the scenes feeling position within the cannon structure. It is a very tough task to do with finesse so most writers don't bother. I find that many AU writers are not up to the task of keeping cannon characters true to their established personalities. OOC is my second biggest complaint with AU writing. My biggest pet peeve is having to read way too much Original Character take over in an AU storyline. IF I am reading a story about an anime I like, I want to read about the actual characters from the series, and not get overwhelmed without break by an original character that was created by the writer specifically. When AU has too much Original character, and too little cannon it makes me gag. I do not mind a splash of OOC happening due to an emotional strain the character endures. All people have those moments, and it makes the cannon character more realistic/human. I can handle the cannon acting out of character for a couple of chapters while they resolve an overwhelming problem. If I find the OOC behavior continues non-stop over a number of chapters, I will stop reading because I get fed up with the non cannon portrayal. It feels way too disrespectful to the original creator. There are a few well written AU stories that I have read. However, most often those are way too far and few between for my comfort. I only like AU that remains faithful to cannon characterization. So long as it is the genuine character from the anime I like, I will read and love the tale. Even if it goes very AU, I will be content so long as the author does not make me gag on an original character, and keeps the cannons within expected boundaries. My hatred of OOC makes it impossible for me to stomach tags that simply do not fit the cannon character personalities. A gentle cannon character will not get into sado/masochist bondage and pain in example. I can't see it, and have trouble suspending my expectations for that characterization. Character evolution is a different beast all together, which I do not mind. The differences between OOC and evolution of character determines whether I will stick with an AU story.

Yeah Raymy, thanks so very much for the review. Not a problem. AS soon as I get this stupid hard core yard work for the duplex (X) 3 units communal yard is completely cleared up I will be posting again. Sad to see the first good next door unit neighbor go though. At any rate I hope to be completely done with final clean up within a couple more days. I will be posting the last of Alternate Tracks as soon as I can get past the real world infringements. On to your review. Chapter 2: When I read, "I have to help get that baka to bed", I got the impression of a double meaning which Keisuke wasn't aware of. It's fun to know what's going on with him before he does! I so enjoy the different descriptions of Takumi in Keisuke's mind: -oo0oo- You did pick up on his denial- slash "what he really has on his mind" but is hiding from himself. ROFL. It is so rare anyone gets that specific double dealing loaded foreshadowing of the plot to come. Grins big and happy., I am so grateful someone finally picked up on that one after it being published for 2 whole friggin years. ROFl.. damned little punk spaced out little genius that baka or that young baka -oo0oo- Ah, Doncha love his way of strengthening his denial through equating everything to a fighting scenario? Keisuke strikes me as being exactly like that. Try ot deny via convincing himself it is the enemy. -oo0oo- In Takumi's POV, I'm uncertain as to the cause of the blurry vision. I know that when I'm tired my eyes can go unfocused but to go blurry and stay that way even when you know it's happening, I haven't experienced. Are you implying that the lack of caffeine caused him to see blurry and blackout; his deep need for sleep finally catching up to him? -oo0oo- It is acute exhaustion. I know how the eyes finally refuse to work since I am a chronic insomniac. The caffeine wears off and then the body is totally screwed because it says shut own and to heck with the situation. My intent was for people to recognize that his anger burned the caffeine off too fast while he was in a situation that it needed to stay in effect so he could get back up to the top of the mountain. Emotions can completely yank caffeine out of the system that quick. At least it does in my own life experience. Thanks so much for your review. I really appreciate it.

I have added more chapters to Alternate Tracks, including a couple of previously deleted chapters that are lemon. Working on chapter 30 today. Getting so close to the second story's completed tag I can smell it! I am shooting for 2 weeks max before I am officially revising and posting story number 3 All for Love.

ROFL. I find the Hall of Shame one of the best reasons to move here from FFnet where I had the aforementioned problem. At FFnet a signed in Review can never be deleted, only anonymous review can be removed. The Mod squad at FFnet didn't do jack because a minor caused the stink. I deleted all three completed Initial D novels I had posted over 2 years. To be blunt, I'm fed up with children getting by with plaguing me through fanpoodle or outright nonsense such as the unacceptable hatemonger lines. I would rather get zero reviews and have peace of mind about who is reading my angst heavy stories. I placed a single chapter up at FFnet for each novel removed after adding a very hardcore warning that I have zero tolerance of hatemonger reviews that are off topic. ROFL. I also added the information that chapters 2 to the end of each story are getting moved to this site for my hardcore fans. I have been very focused on getting everything revised (minus dyslexic moments I am hearing about) and permanently housed here at AFFnet.

It is a great idea to have anonymous review because it lets people who don't plan on joining the archive as members give feedback. Thanks so much for the update on the stats for this review feature. Will we writers still have the same ability to keep or delete reviews from Anonymous sources? I only ask because I had a nut-job who was fixated on putting up tons of off topic reviews for my series of fan fic novels at FFnet. For some reason I was one of 20 authors this particular weirdo thought would be a good showcase for Kill all Evil White People comments when there were no white people anywhere in my stories. Anyway, thanks in advance for your response.

Started working on revising the rest of the Alternate Tracks story this morning. I am so glad I am finally cleaned out from the stupid pain medication. Woke up and my brain was clear. Hip Hip Hoozah!

I am so sorry I have not gotten the second finished or the third revised and posted. I've been too dratted sick to do anything but stay in bed for over a week now. I've been brainless level high on very intense pain medication. As soon as I can I will get back to work and finish posting all the completed novels. I am sooo sorry I did not get them done yet. Keep fingers crossed that I get over this disgusting illness please.

I've noticed that there are some pretty fanatical ideals of pairings that are and are not acceptable in several fandoms. I'm personally sick of standard cannon Yaoi pairings so turn them all on their heads in my fandom writing. Some people like it, and others don't. A truly fresh approach can get review results. I think it comes down to how genuine to the character the cannons remain if you want to get reviews, pro or con.

The cartoon is a double edged sword in truth. Science can be both good and bad. I got the ideal that it depends upon how the science gets used in the end. When the guy got his own head dumped on, I saw that is a reminder to be careful how you chose to use the science. The fact he burns the cave, another such reference. Chuckles. I saw both sides of the equation in the cartoon you posted. The good and the bad have a place, and requires common sense is the message I got. .