Deadman

Funny, I went the opposite route it seems. I also tend to wait for me to figure out how the story is going to end for me to start writing.

Well maybe the problem was how much you rewrote it from 108 chapters to 11. If you had instead separated it into 50 chapters, it could’ve been something people wouldn’t be intimidated by.

I’ve noticed that a lot of my stories being posted here have much longer chapters than I normally write. Usually my stuff is much shorter but also a lot more chapters. Do you find people prefer the longer chapters or shorter ones?

Someone was nice enough to add a review to a piece I posted in the brief time the site was out of read only mode. Because of this, I figured we should start a list of stuff you’ve been reading while you haven’t been able to leave a review. What’s something you’ve read and do you plan to leave a review?

@CrossroadsMk2Yes although in positive news for @MorbidFantasyis that the archive mod has said they are looking to get it back up in the next week or so. Supposedly, we’re going to be getting emails to reset our passwords because that’s how the site is going to have to come back apparently.

Well I’m not making a paycheck or a day job at the moment. So I have to find one some way. The only thing that doesn’t require other people in any direct sense, is my writing. I can just do it and hope people are interested enough to pay me.

Okay, well, I was right. That’s not what I’m necessarily doing. My writing is mostly coming of age but not in the sense of Euphoria style content. I try to write SFW stuff for things I want to get paid for.

Cool, good to know. I may have stuff like that later on.

I’m not sure exactly what you mean by minor half tags, but if it’s what I think it is, not really. My original stuff is meant to be adapted for television. I adapted a couple scripts into books and put it out there. But I haven’t been in a place to really get it out there for people to buy. So now that I’m in a better place, I’m working on that aspect of it.

I’ve heard about the small presses that are open to erotica but I’m more interested in having my non-adult stuff be available for purchase. I tried posting it somewhere for free that I was hoping would lead to getting picked up, but it didn’t. So now I’m focused on trying to post it places that would make money or has the potential to.

Well, I have a thing about wanting to keep some of my less adult oriented content separate. Not necessarily going to be upset if people found both, but I had someone who asked for it here and I decided not to share where to find it.

Totally get that. I had a lot of my stuff on Yahoo Groups back when that was still a thing and started moving it over to other sites when they became more popular. Nowadays, I post most of it elsewhere but I’ve been on something of an AFF appropriate story kick. It’s lead me to post some old stuff here but also some new stuff that I’m working on now. I never considered selling my stuff but most of it I would have to edit it, change names and all that. Most of my original stuff doesn’t fit here anyway.

Yeah, totally get that. I’m just curious how much competition I’m going to have for views.

I’ve seen a few people talking about writing while the site is in read-only. So I’m just curious how much people are actually getting done? Not to be self-congratulatory but I’m writing quite a bit.

Yeah, that’s why I’m all about writing things ahead of time. I don’t like to change my mind thanks to reader feedback necessarily, but that has more to do with the fact that the story is laid out in my head long before I ever post anything and often written months and sometimes years ahead.

Oh me too. Most of the time my stories are figured out well ahead of time. I had definitely decided when the character was going to appear. But unlike some of my previous work, this wasn’t necessarily an ongoing narrative story. Although I do have those coming up when the site gets rid of the hacker, this one involves one shots. Now I’m thinking maybe I should’ve delayed the release of the chapter featuring the character until later. Maybe it would’ve given me some more reviews.

Well it could also be thanks to the fact that I’m writing in a fandom.

Just curious how much you think about the way to release things. As an example, my story (Scooby Gang Time) had several reviews looking forward to a particular character showing up in the story. Within a few chapters, that character showed up and then reviews dropped off. This was long before the whole hacker situation. Kinda curious if you hold things back from your readers hoping to see certain things. What’s your general policy on this in your writing?

Well, I would say that I have written that stuff, but what I post on this site in particular isn’t very chaste according to your definition. I started out writing stories that don’t really involve getting physical with each other. Now I do both.

Well maybe you should define chaste and avoid mouthing off then. My understanding of it is that I try and hold to the fandom. For instance, I write a lot for the Buffy fandom and they aired on a network that didn’t have swear words or stuff that would be on HBO or the internet. Not sure if that works for your idea of chaste and avoiding mouthing off.

Are you talking about my work specifically or just in general? Because your description sounds like my stuff in many ways but I’ve enjoyed many others who do that on this site.

Totally get it. I have a whole list of stories that I have been planning on writing and right before the problem of this hacker, I was worried that I wasn’t updating fast enough because I’m writing too slow. Now I don’t feel that way. It’s going to be fun when it comes back on and hopefully it’s going to be enjoyed for people.

I figured that. No worries, I’m happy to wait. It’s helpful though because it’s given me time to write more stuff that can get posted when it’s back up.

Okay, just making sure the site is still under read only mode? Curious because I see there’s all kind of discussion on this thread I don’t know I’m going to go through it all. Also, I checked the main archive and it seems like I can go through the main process of adding a new chapter if I wanted to. I assume it’s still in read only mode?

Oh they are building something... a reputation. Things like what they’re doing is what they can use to make themselves seem cool in the hacker population. That’s how they get the much worse jobs they can take.