Selina K January 14, 2015 Share January 14, 2015 I posted my story the other day, I think got 4 or 5 reads, no reviews , and one slightly pornographic pm suggesting how I should continue the story. I was fine with that volume as I don't have a tumblr and didn't post about it to attract readers anywhere besides here. I think there is such a volume of fiction there that if someone doesn't happen to see your work right when you post, it can get lost in the vortex pretty quickly. Link to comment
Dianthus January 14, 2015 Share January 14, 2015 I hesitate to say anything, 'cuz I doubt it'll go anywhere, but I was reading a fanfic wherein Killian gets turned into a mouse. Now I'm totally hung up on the idea. Hell, I can't even decide if he'd have his little hand back or not. Still, how adorable is Killy-mouse? It wouldn't be for too long, but he'd get to have a bit of adventure. Link to comment
ParadoxLost January 14, 2015 Share January 14, 2015 I posted my story the other day, I think got 4 or 5 reads, no reviews , and one slightly pornographic pm suggesting how I should continue the story. I was fine with that volume as I don't have a tumblr and didn't post about it to attract readers anywhere besides here. I think there is such a volume of fiction there that if someone doesn't happen to see your work right when you post, it can get lost in the vortex pretty quickly. Well, you at least made me feel better. OUAT gives me a complex because I'm used to a fandom where basically everything gets 500-700 reads on the first day. And I'm talking with no promotion at all, under a different pen name than other places I frequent with no link from other forums. Link to comment
Dani-Ellie January 14, 2015 Author Share January 14, 2015 I have some absolutely wonderful loyal readers who read and review pretty much everything I write but it took me quite a few stories to attract the readership. The Once section at ff.net moves very fast, so it's easy for new stories and new authors to just get lost in the shuffle because things will get knocked off the front page in a couple of hours. (And to be perfectly honest, I still have no idea how I attracted the readership I have. I remember watching in shock as the favorites on "Can You Help Me" climbed past anything I had posted on ff.net in any fandom ... and I've been posting in various fandoms since 2001. It's now my fifth most-favorited story and the four ahead of it are all Once stories. I mean, I'm thrilled and super-grateful but it also completely boggles my mind.) Link to comment
sharky January 14, 2015 Share January 14, 2015 Yea, things get pushed down fast in this fandom. I will say that I saw a big boost in my readership when I got my tumblr. I think many people search for stories or links to stories through the different fanfic tags there. I also find that one-shots don't get much love -- if you do a multichàpter, your views can snowball with each new chapter. And to be honest, I'm a bad reviewer. I don't usually know what to say past "That's awesome!" That's one reason why I like the kudos system on Archive of Our Own. I'll also favorite or follow stories as a way to show my appreciation. I was in another fandom where we had a great archive and message board, which made it easy to promote and recommend fanfics. I keep thinking I want to start something similar for the Captain Swan fandom over at ff.net if anyone would be interested. It's a bit hard since I already love this place and I'm not sure how many people would join even if I promoted it on tumblr. But I feel like the speed of ff and tumblr is causing things to get lost like stories or appreciation weeks and such. I rely heavily on recs from here because it's so hard to wade through all the fanfic. Link to comment
Souris January 14, 2015 Share January 14, 2015 I've actually mostly stopped reading Once fanfics. It was just making me even more disenchanted with the show, because so many of the fanfics were miles emotionally better and dealt with things the show never will. Link to comment
Dianthus January 15, 2015 Share January 15, 2015 Ah, fanfic...wish fulfillment that can be so much more. 1 Link to comment
daxx January 18, 2015 Share January 18, 2015 Someone plagiarized Put me in coach on FF.net. Report them if you have a second. https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10980716/1/Rounding-the-bases 1 Link to comment
Dani-Ellie January 18, 2015 Author Share January 18, 2015 (edited) Done. On both stories. Edited January 18, 2015 by Dani-Ellie Link to comment
Rumsy4 January 18, 2015 Share January 18, 2015 How pathetic can they get? I think the person is a troll, and knows the account will be taken down. She/he is just doing it to annoy the authors. Link to comment
sharky January 18, 2015 Share January 18, 2015 Holy crap! How bizarre that Manic Monday got plagiarized as well. Last year, msgenevieve and I had our stories plagiarized by someone. It was so strange because I didn't have that many hits so I couldn't figure out why I was included in the mess. But why plagiarized two VERY well known stories? Idiot. I guess the good news is that I know from my experience that FF responds to plagarism reports quickly. Geez. 1 Link to comment
FanaticalWriter January 19, 2015 Share January 19, 2015 Speaking of plagiarism, one of my reviewers informed me that my Captain Swan fanfiction, Neighborly Affection, looks like it was plagiarized as a Harry Potter fanfic. I PMed back to ask for more information, such as username, etc, since my preliminary searches aren't showing anything, but I suppose I was also working under the assumption that it was a HP/CS crossover, which might not be the case. If any of you have seen anything like my story, Neighborly Affection, under another username, please let me know. I have enough other stuff going on in my life to stress me out, and I really don't want to deal with this. But deal with it I will, if I have to. Plagiarists disgust me. A writer works his/her tail off writing a story, and someone else comes along and takes the credit for all of that work. That's just incredibly low. I guess some people are so desperate for attention that they will stoop to anything, I don't know. 3 Link to comment
sharky January 19, 2015 Share January 19, 2015 (edited) Whoa. I guess you've really made it as a fanfic writer when someone steals your stuff but at least changes the names so it's harder to find. ;) I would suggest maybe picking out a sentence or two that's doesn't have any character mentions and Google them -- perhaps you can IG up the culprit that way. And make sure you not only report them but call them out in comments so that story's readers know what happened. Edited January 19, 2015 by sharky Link to comment
sharky January 20, 2015 Share January 20, 2015 I guess I'm double posting, but just wanted to let you all know that Jail and Bail is complete! I posted it on both FF and AO3. Also, seastarved on tumblr is doing this cool hiatus prompt that I've been following and writing for. There's been some interesting pieces that people have written and you can find all of them here. I've really liked it so far! Link to comment
daxx January 22, 2015 Share January 22, 2015 Anyone who bought "Risking the Rogues" from Amazon, they are now selling the kindle version for free if you bought the paperback copy. 1 Link to comment
sharky January 25, 2015 Share January 25, 2015 Just a heads up that it looks like the puritans are coming out of the woodwork at ff.net to report smut in the Once community. So if you've written it or read it, I would suggest you head over to AO3. I know technically smut ism against ff rules, but it seems pretty petty and bullying behavior by the people reporting it. 1 Link to comment
Souris January 26, 2015 Share January 26, 2015 Is it fanfiction for specific pairings that is being targeted, or is it across the board? Link to comment
FanaticalWriter January 26, 2015 Share January 26, 2015 (edited) Are they just going after fics that are too graphic in nature, or what? Or any fic with sex in it at all? If it's the latter, what really is the point of having an M rating on the site? If it's the former...tastes on "graphic" can be somewhat subjective, and sadly I don't think FF net admins take the time to ascertain whether such an accusation is warranted or not. And honestly, I can't recall reading any fics in the fandom that are worse than any of the edgier romance authors published these days. Hardly anything that would qualify for MA masquerading as an M. But maybe my idea of what constitutes an MA is different than someone else's. And that's the problem, really. And FF net certainly hasn't gone out of its way to clarify the matter, either. Update on the possible plagiarism situation: it's possibly a false alarm. I talked to the person who was worried about it, and I think it's possible she may have read Neighborly Affection at one point, forgot about it, and then it sounded super familiar to her when she found it again, maybe. Couple that with the fact that I also write a HP/CS crossover and maybe that's where the confusion came from, possibly, if she got them mixed together in her head (although, I don't see how...to me they are very different stories). I definitely didn't find anything by googling a line or two from that fic, except...my own story! Thankfully.I'm going to PM her again and see if maybe she just got confused. Edited January 26, 2015 by FanaticalWriter 2 Link to comment
sharky January 26, 2015 Share January 26, 2015 They're going after the "rule breakers." So ff doesn't allow MA, among other things, but writers still post it there. It seems there are a few groups who feel the need to police this kind of thing and have set their sights on Once fic. So they keep bullying writers saying they've reported it to ff admins and they're just trying to "help" writers better understand the rules or whatever. I get that the stories break the rules, but the way these groups have gone after writers is pretty obnoxious. On the other hand, more writers are taking their smut to AO3 now so I can't complain too much. I prefer that to ff since there's not as much bad writing to sort through to find the gems. And if anyone does need an AO3 invite, let me know. I think the site had to shut down new user requests because of some spamming issues, but you can still get a new user ID if you have an invite from a current user. Link to comment
daxx January 28, 2015 Share January 28, 2015 The absolute worst is accidentally reading an abandoned fic. Getting to the end and wishing you knew what happened next... Sigh. I need to be more careful when downloading fics. 2 Link to comment
FanaticalWriter January 29, 2015 Share January 29, 2015 Do you know for certain that it's abandoned? I'd pretty much given up on a fic that I discovered right when I first started reading CS fanfic...the author hadn't updated in almost a year...and then one day I was surprised to see an update in my inbox! Made my day! Apparently she was away at school most of the year, and really busy, so she didn't have much time for updates. I know that's probably the exception to the rule, but still... Link to comment
daxx January 29, 2015 Share January 29, 2015 Hasn't been updated since sometime in 2013. Link to comment
RadioGirl27 January 29, 2015 Share January 29, 2015 (edited) You never now, "When doves cry" has just been updated today after month of waiting. But, yeah, it's frustraiting when that happens. I always look at the date of the last update before starting something new. Edited January 29, 2015 by RadioGirl27 1 Link to comment
daxx January 29, 2015 Share January 29, 2015 I usually do, but I was downloading a few new ones to try and sorted by follows and missed the update date on this one, the rest were either complete or updated recently. Oh well. The plot was interesting too. A child coming from the future to fix things. Link to comment
sharky January 29, 2015 Share January 29, 2015 Wait, When Doves Cry finally got updated? I'm not sure if I want to read the update knowing how long I'll have to wait for the next one. I've got a few on my list that haven't been updated in more than a month, which is frustrating. Lilac Wine was getting good -- and then a whole lot of nothing. This is also why I try to get a story completely written before I start posting so I don't have big breaks between updates. Of course, I'm in the middle of writing what I expect will eventually be a 50K fic so I'm kind of thinking I may have to break that rule but even then, I'm at least trying to build a buffer for myself. 2 Link to comment
Dani-Ellie January 29, 2015 Author Share January 29, 2015 One of the things I've vowed never to do is not finish a piece, because I know I how frustrating that is as a reader. I'm usually at least a couple chapters ahead of myself, so if I get stuck, I can still release something on some kind of schedule. I tend to write fairly quickly once I get the idea (it helps that I'll have more than one idea at once but can only actively work on one story at a time, so I'll have at least a vague notion of what I want to do before I even start writing), and I try to warn my readers if I have things coming up that may interfere with my writing schedule. I mostly feel bad for my prompters because I can only write one thing at a time, so it may take me a couple months to get to it, depending on what I'm working on when the request comes in. That's also something I tend to tell them when they ask, though. Link to comment
Rumsy4 January 29, 2015 Share January 29, 2015 ... Yay! You updated When Doves Cry. Great chapter! 1 Link to comment
RadioGirl27 January 29, 2015 Share January 29, 2015 (edited) FanaticalWriter, I didn't know you were the one writing When Doves Cry. I trully love that fic, and you totally made my day updating it. Edited January 29, 2015 by RadioGirl27 1 Link to comment
sharky January 29, 2015 Share January 29, 2015 (edited) Wait, you're the writer, FanaticalWriter? I forbid you from doing life outside of When Doves Cry! Or something. Just make sure you post in big cap letters when you get the next chapter up. Two chapters in a row I can handle...for now. ;) I mostly feel bad for my prompters because I can only write one thing at a time, so it may take me a couple months to get to it, depending on what I'm working on when the request comes in. That's also something I tend to tell them when they ask, though. I don't even take prompts. First, I'm not very good at them anyway -- it's hard to write something when I'm not the one originating the idea, but I am working on that. And second, I have so many other things I want to write first. It's a bit hard to fit writing into my life so when I do, I want to make sure it's something I write. Edited January 29, 2015 by sharky Link to comment
Dani-Ellie January 29, 2015 Author Share January 29, 2015 So far, the prompts I've been given have been very, very vague, which helps a lot because then I'm free to interpret it however I want. For instance, my "Aftermath" came about because a reader asked me to do a Daddy Charming piece following "White Out." Those were the only specifics she asked for, so it allowed me a lot of freedom to decide how I wanted to write it up. Link to comment
Rumsy4 January 29, 2015 Share January 29, 2015 Smutty update in the PMiC universe. Yeah!! 3 Link to comment
sharky January 29, 2015 Share January 29, 2015 And what an amazing smutty update it is. It's always fun when she randomly updates that thing. 1 Link to comment
Lieutenant January 30, 2015 Share January 30, 2015 *sighs happily* God, I love the "Coach" verse soo much! And to add to the list of oldies but goodies that have finally been updated, I got an alert for "Walking on Water" the other day. 1 Link to comment
Selina K February 3, 2015 Share February 3, 2015 (edited) Also, seastarved on tumblr is doing this cool hiatus prompt that I've been following and writing for. There's been some interesting pieces that people have written and you can find all of them here. I've really liked it so far! Sharky, I read all yours today and they were fantastic! Are more coming or were those 4 from you the total? Or does it depend upon how inspired you are by the prompt? Edited February 3, 2015 by selinak Link to comment
sharky February 3, 2015 Share February 3, 2015 I'm aiming to write one for each prompt, plus I've got two more stories in the process of being written. I don't know why I thought that was a good idea. :) Link to comment
FanaticalWriter February 4, 2015 Share February 4, 2015 Yes, I'm the author of WDC. Seems I've finally been outed, haha. I'm working on the next chapter of WDC in tandem with some other fics that I've had update requests for, so it's a matter of which fic cooperates and writes itself the fastest, so to speak, as to what will get posted first. 4 Link to comment
Rumsy4 February 4, 2015 Share February 4, 2015 Yes, I'm the author of WDC. Seems I've finally been outed, haha. I'm working on the next chapter of WDC in tandem with some other fics that I've had update requests for, so it's a matter of which fic cooperates and writes itself the fastest, so to speak, as to what will get posted first. Hey--you posted about being the author of Neighborly Affection, and that's one of my favorite CS WIPs. ;-) Are you guys reading Walking in a Straight Line? So so good! 2 Link to comment
Lieutenant February 4, 2015 Share February 4, 2015 Are you guys reading Walking in a Straight Line? So so good! You know it! Everything msgenevieve writes is like sweet torture. And being an Aussie, she always posts a new chapter literally right as I'm heading out the door for work in the am. So, I suffer the entire day long thinking about it until I can get home. It's great, lol. Link to comment
RadioGirl27 February 4, 2015 Share February 4, 2015 Are you guys reading Walking in a Straight Line? So so good! Yeah, I'm loving it. It's so well written. Link to comment
sharky February 4, 2015 Share February 4, 2015 Loving Walking in a Straight Line. Loving! I also just finished one called The Very Thought of You -- very AU but good. Arrangements is a good Lt. Duckling fic. And I just started The Devil Makes Us Sin because I should've started that awhile ago. Link to comment
daxx February 9, 2015 Share February 9, 2015 Can I get someone to beta the first chapter of what looks to be possibly a 3 chapter story? I will include the outline so you know where I am going. I am using open office but I can export it to word format. I also need feedback, I am not sure Killian sounds right, Neal I have a good handle on. Link to comment
Serena February 10, 2015 Share February 10, 2015 You can nominate your favourite CS fanfics from the last year for the fourth round of the Captain Swan Awards. 1 Link to comment
sharky February 11, 2015 Share February 11, 2015 (edited) Was just about to post that as well! I have to get my list together. I know certain fics will definitely get nominated so I'm trying to think of lesser known fics that deserve a nod. Edited February 11, 2015 by sharky 2 Link to comment
daxx February 12, 2015 Share February 12, 2015 Dianthus, thanks so much for beta ing the first chapter of my fic. It looks oh so much better now. It's up on tumblr. Hopefully a few people will like it. I need to find time for the next part. 2 Link to comment
sharky February 12, 2015 Share February 12, 2015 Ugh. I have some actual work to edit, but I'm adding your fic to my list now! Link to comment
Dianthus February 12, 2015 Share February 12, 2015 Dianthus, thanks so much for beta ing the first chapter of my fic. It looks oh so much better now. It's up on tumblr. Hopefully a few people will like it. I need to find time for the next part. You're welcome! Happy to help. 1 Link to comment
KingOfHearts February 12, 2015 Share February 12, 2015 I've been writing down scenes that I think should happen within the six week time jump. If we're not going to get the character cooldown period, then fanfiction is going to have to sate my appetite. One scene is with Henry and Emma looking at houses and discussing Regina and Hook and another is Will breaking into Jefferson's house to look for his hat. This show has some of the most interesting one-on-one setups. Debating on whether or not to publish these as a collection. 1 Link to comment
Dianthus February 12, 2015 Share February 12, 2015 I've been writing down scenes that I think should happen within the six week time jump. If we're not going to get the character cooldown period, then fanfiction is going to have to sate my appetite. One scene is with Henry and Emma looking at houses and discussing Regina and Hook and another is Will breaking into Jefferson's house to look for his hat. This show has some of the most interesting one-on-one setups. Debating on whether or not to publish these as a collection. I'd give it a shot. I've been considering a series of small ficlets myself, centered on specific songs/music cues. AO3 is a good place to go. There's a waiting period to get started, but it's not long (in my experience). Link to comment
sharky February 12, 2015 Share February 12, 2015 I actually have some AO3 invites so drop me a PM if you want to sign up and you can avoid the wait. Link to comment
Selina K February 12, 2015 Share February 12, 2015 Dianthus, thanks so much for beta ing the first chapter of my fic. It looks oh so much better now. It's up on tumblr. Hopefully a few people will like it. I need to find time for the next part. Daxx, do you have a link to your tumblr? Link to comment
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