GeorgeGlass

That would be great. Making them searchable (and excludable, if there are certain tags people want to avoid) would be terrific, too, if it can be done.

No, I don't think so either. I think you mentioned that the plan for the revamp includes a one-click method of favoriting stories and authors. The number of faves might be a slightly more meaningful metric than the ratings, because people will mostly fave stories that they think they will want to read again. Will the number of faves appear somewhere?

I'm not sure there's a difference. It occurs to me that the only famous female horror writer I can think of is Mary Shelley. Maybe it's time for another one.

Re: "F**k Perfect" Thank you! It is indeed a one-shot, but I can't dismiss the possibility that I'll want to write about these characters some more in the future.

Re: "Daddy's Rules" This may sound odd, but I find it somewhat comforting that some people react this way to "Daddy's Rules" and those of my other stories that are in a similar vein. This is really strong stuff, and I'd feel a little weird if every single reader reacted with "Oh, that was lovely." Even though I'm the author, there are plenty of moments when even I don't want to be looking at a story like this. And I certainly wouldn't want anything like it to happen in real life. If the father were a real human being, I would like to think that I'd bash his head in with a two-by-four and escort his family to a shelter. As you say, it was your choice to look at the story, and it's tagged well enough that you had ample warning about the contents. But at least it gave you a better idea of what your preferences are when it comes to erotic literature. And thank you for the comments about the quality of the writing. (If it's not too arrogant to say so, I'd like to think that you would not have had such a visceral reaction if the story had been less well written.) If the mere sight of my name doesn't make you physically ill, I have a lot of other stories that you might like much, much better. As for your being a "dum raft guide," I'm willing to bet that your life is more interesting than mine for at least 8 hours a day. Thanks for taking the time to review.

Being one who occasionally writes original PWP stories, I think part of what makes them fun to write (only part, mind you) is describing the characters as well as you can in as few words as possible so that you can get right into the action. When it comes to stories with plot, though... ...I agree completely. As a reader, I don't like starting a story and being firehosed with information in the first chapter. I want to get information when it becomes relevant to the story. And I don't want to catch more than a glimpse of Jaws until I'm way the heck out to sea and Quint has smashed the radio. As writer, I have the same philosophy as Pak. But I'm really nonlinear about writing; in fact, I'll often start with the "big reveal" scene(s) first and then write the rest of the story around them. Continuing with the Jaws theme (and pretending that the screenplay was wholly original and not based on Peter Benchley's rather depressing novel), I probably would have started with "This was no boating accident," jumped forward to "Smile, you son of a bitch!", gone back and written the ferry scene near the beginning, and so forth until all the blanks were filled in.

Um, thanks, I guess?

I was going to mention Warrant's de facto strip-club anthem "Cherry Pie," but I just learned that it's from 1990. Likewise, Concrete Blonde's "Mexican Moon" (possibly the sexiest gettin'-it on-song I know) is from 1993. So the only useful suggestion I have is Animotion's "Obsession."

I like the insipid rate thingy, myself. It provides information about how well readers like the story that hits and reviews don't necessarily capture.

The only reviews I delete are those that point out specific technical problems that I have since corrected (eg, when an admin notes that I need to add a tag, or when someone tells me that the formatting of the story is screwed up). Apart from that, I keep them all, even the ones that are irrelevant (eg, "When are you going to write another story about _____?"). Of course, I've never had someone attack me personally in a review, so I'm not sure what I'd do with a review like that. Frankly, I think I might feel validated if someone called me a sicko or a pervert or something in a review, because even I think that some of my stories warrant that. The closest I've come is a review from someone who said that my story "Side Effects" made him want to throw up. I didn't delete that review, partly because it's useful as a warning to potential readers about the strong content of the story, and partly because the person confessed that even though he found the story really upsetting, he also couldn't stop reading it.

And I take it as such. Thank you! Suzy's need to compete with Candace to be Jeremy's "favorite girl" has always struck me as creepily incestuous, so this story seemed like a plausible extrapolation from her behavior on the show. And, of course, I'm having fun imagining all the sick stuff that goes on in her head. (I seem to have a fetish about women as sex offenders; it's a recurrent theme in a lot of my original stories, most notably "Side Effects" and "Cruel Nature.") Thanks. Belladonna ("beautiful woman" in Italian), also known as deadly nightshade, is known in folklore as a favorite poison of witches. Rumor has it Livia, wife of Augustus Caesar, used belladonna to kill him and maybe other people, too. So it seemed an appropriate name for a female dog trained by a female sociopath. The deadline for a story contest I want to enter is coming up in a few days, so I really need to finish that story (which I'll post here on AFF, of course). That said, given my lousy attention span, I'm sure I won't be able to help but spend at least a little of that time on "Little Blonde Monster," too. That you are--if for no other reason than that you're my only self-proclaimed fan. Thank you! I do my best to bring the madness.

Re: "Caitlyn's Punishment" What, no cherry on top? I honestly can't make any promises as to when the third and final chapter will be posted. I literally have about 20 other stories going, and then, of course, there's life.

Thank you! All it takes is practice and someone to offer constructive criticism. As I note at the beginning, my other P&F stories have a very different tone from this one. If you want something more in this kind of vein, you might look at some of my original stories. Hey, length isn't everything. There's also girth. Thank you!

You know, when you say that, it sounds like a compliment. Seriously. Try as he might, Dr. Doofenschmirtz isn't even close to her level of evil. Hmm, but what if her place is a throne? Or a corner office? Good to be back, and thank you!

I suppose what inspires me most are other people. All of what I consider to be my best stories were somehow inspired by someone else who provided direction and limitations, eg, a contest with a particular theme and word limit. I'm doing a story exchange with someone who gave me an idea of the type of story they wanted, and it was something I never would have thought of doing, but suddenly my head filled with ideas for plot, characters, scenes, and so forth. In fact, I think what I came up with might actually be worthy of a novel, even though I have never seriously considered writing a novel before.

Must...resist...grammar...spelling...rampage... Okay, calmer now. On the off chance that there is an AFF member alive who hasn't seen this yet, here is a timely and relevant music video: Weird Al Yankovic's "Word Crimes."

Well I'll be darned, you've solved it. I don't even have to use html; I can just use Find/Replace in Word to replace my paragraph breaks with manual line breaks. I tried that just now and pasted the result into the text editor, and lo and behold, the paragraph spacing was gone. Thank you!

You are not wrong. That's part of why tagging is so important, IMO. It's not just to warn readers away from content they won't like; it's also to attract them to content they probably will like. I'm not sure I agree. The fetishes you mentioned (BDSM and noncon) seem to be popular in pretty much every fandom that I know of. I'm currently working on my eighth Phineas and Ferb story, which, unlike its seven predecessors, includes some noncon (okay, a lot of noncon). Even though I have only posted the first chapter, it is already clear that "Little Blonde Monster" is going to be far more popular than any of the others, given how quickly it is attracting reviews and votes. If I suddenly had a lot of time on my hands, I would LOVE to do a statistical analysis of review rates and votes, broken down by tag (or by fandom AND tag, if there were enough data to allow a meaningful analysis). There might be a lot to be learned about what AFF readers as a whole like, how the tastes of people in different fandoms differ (or don't differ), and whether hits versus ratings versus reviews represent different aspects of a story's attractiveness to readers. Of course, I'd have to beg the mods to give me the raw data. And possibly a supercomputer.

Having reread your post and looked at the spacing in several of your stories, I think we're not quite talking about the same thing. You seem to be talking about not having EXTRA space between paragraphs, whereas I'm talking about not having ANY space between paragraphs. That is, I would like to be able to have no more space between 2 separate paragraphs than there is between 2 lines of the same paragraph. Is there any way of doing that? (Short of turning the whole story into one giant paragraph and then separating the 'paragraphs' by using tabs or spaces to force each one down to the next line, which would be time-consuming.)

What is it you do in the RTE? I just tried messing around with it, and the only way I found to do it was to remove the paragraph break and insert blank spaces until the first word of the next paragraph moves down to the start of the next line. Is that what you do? And what do you do in the Word file? I always take out the extra paragraph breaks before I post to AFF, but this doesn't do away with the extra space--it just keeps there from being even more extra space. In any case, thanks for the quick response.

Don't let that stuff get you down. There are a great many factors that affect how many reviews a story gets, most of which have little or nothing to do with how well it's written. To name just one, FFN has no age restrictions, which means that compared to AFF, it has an audience that is much bigger, far less discriminating, and more prone to gushing or flaming (either of which ups the review numbers). I have two stories posted on AFF that I consider to be the best I have ever written. I literally sweated over them and (less literally) poured my heart and soul into them. And of all the stories I have posted here, they are the least reviewed and the lowest rated. Why? Probably because, unlike most of my other stories, they aren't porn. But the relative lack of attention to those stories doesn't mean that I think any less of them; I just know that they can't be measured with the same yardstick as my other stuff.

Look, a dead horse! [cuts switch, warms up arm] I'm currently writing a story in which vertical spacing is extremely important. It's an all-dialogue story with two characters, and I use the spacing as a way of showing who is speaking: If the lines are immediately adjacent, then the two characters are speaking alternately, whereas if there is a space between two lines, then it is the same character speaking with a pause in between his or her lines of dialogue. I can't think of another way to achieve the same effect without altering the pace of the story (eg, using script-like dialogue headings). Has any solution been found to the mandatory-spacing-between-paragraphs problem?

Re: "Wish List" Thanks!

Thank you, and more thank you! And I shall remember the word "faptastical" for the rest of my days. I hope you'll enjoy the rest just as much. On an unrelated note, I'm sorry about your Tumblr account apparently being nuked. Happens to the best of us. Oh, and me.

Thank you! The next chapter will have a bit more action and a bit less interior monologue, but I have hope that it will be just as enjoyable.