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  4. Can you create your own tags?

    in Archive Tech Support

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    48 minutes ago, BronxWench said:

    When you’re uploading a new story, you can manually type your additional tags into that field, where you’ve added tags from our dropdown list. If the story is already uploaded, you might be able to edit that field from your Story Manager (https://www2.adult-fanfiction.org/forum/topic/63419-how-to-edit-the-story-info-including-disclaimers-and-content-tags/ ). If you’re unable to edit that field, let me know, and I can add any tags you need.

    Okay, I think I’m able to change things. Maybe check my Buffy stories because I’ve made changes to them. Just wanna make sure that I’m not the only one seeing it.

  5. Can you create your own tags?

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    22 hours ago, BronxWench said:

    You can actually manually input your own tags. We don’t provide pairing tags in the drop-down menu, for example, so some members like to add a tag upfront about the story's pairing. 

    What we do ask, however, is that you stick to our tags for trigger topics. As an example, “Non-con” is not a valid replacement for the “Rape” tag. You can add Non-con, but you must have Rape clearly tagged. The same thing goes for anime-specific age related tags. Minor1 and Minor2 are not optional, or replaced by Shota or Loli. 

    Okay, how does one do that? I put some tags based on what’s already available. A few pieces I put it in the pairings in the summary, but if I can add it to the tags, I would do that.

  6. Can you create your own tags?

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    I happened to see a story in which the tags seem to be different than the traditional ones.

    Did I miss that ability or do I have to request this from a mod/admin?

    Not sure I would actually change anything about my current stories. Just curious about being able to do this thing.
     

  10. Is there a policy around proper formatting?

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    On 5/30/2025 at 9:49 PM, GeorgeGlass said:

    If the author has a forum account as well as an archive account, you could PM them.

    Otherwise, unless they've put an email address or something in their profile, a review might be your only recourse. If it were me, I'd be glad for someone to point out a problem like that, even in a review. Remember, the author can always delete the review if they take offense -- or after they have fixed the problem you pointed out.

    I may just consider it. If it were consistent across chapters I feel like it would be a choice. The fact that they corrected it in future chapter makes me think it wasn’t.

  11. Character driven non-linear stories?

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    22 hours ago, Desiderius Price said:

    Once the time turner gets written in, “linearity” is out the window :)  Not that it was the first point of non-linearity, as I’ve also got some “alternate reality” creeping in too.  Thus, quirks are starting to appear, like new yet old paintings showing up on the walls at Hogwarts.

    Sounds like a lot of fun. I’ve played in sandboxes like that in the past though not in this story specifically. No alternate realities or dimensional travel in this one. Just in the sense that the story isn’t told “correctly”.

  12. Is there a policy around proper formatting?

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    This is more of an issue for me on the reader side of things. There was a story I was curious about which I kinda wanted to read but the formatting of the first couple chapters is off.

    I looked at some of the later chapters and they seem to fix it later but I’m a little put off by the first several chapters.

    Would it be considered bad of me to point this out to the author? I feel it’s probably better to do one on one but I’m not sure how to go about doing that. Rather than get a moderator or admin involved in it directly. I could write a review but that feels too public and somewhat mean.

  14. Character driven non-linear stories?

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    6 hours ago, Thundercloud said:

    My take is that brilliant non-linear stories you here talk about get their fame from being good despite not being linear.

    A possible comparison is the Westworld tv-show season 1 that had a big reveal when you realized what you had been watching. In season 2 they wanted to repeat the trick and made things just as non-linear and in the end it was barely watchable. I have avoided the later seasons like plague.

    My point is that for every successful non-linear storytelling there are many more trainwreck attempts. Doing non-linear storytelling that manage to capture the reader is seriously difficult.

    You’re definitely right and I think I’ve done an okay job so far. I’m pretty far into chapter 2 or what might be considered character 2 of a story and I think I’ve come up with an interesting way to do it. Basically, each character has their own somewhat different relationship to the main villain character and I’m telling the story of different ways they came to be taken over by the villain. Kinda built around similar themes.

    So for instance, character 1 has resisted many things about the villain all throughout the narrative. Their story is all about kinda finally giving in to everything. However, with character 2, it’s more of a twisted love story where they think the villain is in love with them only to realize once it’s too late that isn’t their dynamic at all. I’m also sorta outlining character 3 and this one is more about the character’s ego and how the villain metaphorically strokes it for their own purposes. Whereas character 4 it’s a mystery they’re trying to unravel.

    At least that’s how it’s kinda playing out story wise. We follow the characters at different stages and how this lead to their downfall.

  16. Only in Riverdale

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    20 minutes ago, BronxWench said:

    Adding a WIP tag is personal choice. I’m happy to do it for you, of course, but we aren’t sticklers about WIP or COMPLETE. I do know some readers like those tags, though.

    Okay, because I usually do it to show that there are more chapters coming up and the complete to know there’s not. However, if it’s not a requirement, I suppose I could just leave it the way it is. Unless a reader wants me to be more clear.

  19. Only in Riverdale

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    On 5/7/2025 at 11:11 AM, BronxWench said:

    Hi!  The new tag is added! 

    Thank you, also, I forgot to add a “WIP” tag to my newest story in Television. Should I have that added or should I just wait to have it complete?

  20. Character driven non-linear stories?

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    9 hours ago, GeorgeGlass said:

    IMO, a nonlinear story can work IF you make it clear when the events of each chapter are happening. You could use a literal timestamp (eg, starting each chapter with the date) or a figurative one (“Iggy was exhausted from training, but the championship was only two weeks away”). Or a narrator could explain it (“Now that I’ve told you ____, let me tell you how it all began”).  

    Yeah, I think I can reasonably say that it should be clear. Essentially, in chapter 1 it says that the villain took over a business from a particular character in the past from the perspective of chapter 1. Then in chapter 2, it features the character who the villain took over the business from and explores the reasons why they decided to allow the villain to do it. So I think that will be clear.
     

  25. Is there an archive limit on chapter size?

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    29 minutes ago, Desiderius Price said:

    On the practical side, I’d suggest against super long chapters too.  I’ve tried that on my potter fanfic years ago, reorganized/rewrote thinking it was a “good thing” with my highest being like 107k… nope!  Not only did I lose some details in that consolidation, I also lost focus to the chapter too.  Small details/scenes were now one/two sentences in basically a wall of text.  (Which it became as FFN.net somehow seemingly lost all my carriage returns, so it was one big “blob”; and a fast re-insert of them is how I uncovered FFN’s new 65k max per chapter limit.)

    I’m still pulling that 107k old chapter apart right now with my “rewrite” … though I’ve now got at least 121 in its place, which is probably close to 1M words itself as I now hover around the 6-7k words per chapter average, and if the chapter nears the 10kword mark, I seek to break it up.  Even in my Jefferey episodic story, I’ll effectively do “part 1” and “part 2”.

    Well my story is not getting that close at the moment. Right now it’s about 25k words for this chapter and probably won’t top 30k words at most based on where I’m at in the story structure. But it’s the same story I was asking about regarding “Character driven non-linear” stories. Because it’s all one character’s journey, it feels right to create the story in a single chapter. I’m noticing though that I could probably break it up into about 10 pages a chapter. It’s going to make the story have a lot more. Almost every 10-15 pages there’s a transition of sorts into something new. That wasn’t necessarily intentional on my part but it seems to have worked out that way.

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