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Post by Pallando on May 20, 2004 22:47:51 GMT -5
I wrote some fanfiction recently, and here it is. If Varda would care to put it up on the stories page, I have a .txt version without the HTML in it. It's about an Elf after the Watchful Peace ended. I'm slowly working on the next part, but homework is getting in the way. :-) www.fanfiction.net/read.php?storyid=1865325Review it there or here or both, really.
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Varda
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Post by Varda on May 26, 2004 18:09:12 GMT -5
Orodreth, no problem. Since you wrote it for FanFiction.net rather than the guild, I simply put a link to it from the guild Story page under Authors and under Titles giving you and FanFiction.net the credit. That way you only have to keep one update going.
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Post by Pallando on May 27, 2004 1:45:45 GMT -5
Fanfiction.net deserves NO credit. They're the worst story hosting service ever.. but it works, sometimes. A few more reviews would be nice. and there's got to be somethign you don't like about my story. Tell me!
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Post by Varda on May 27, 2004 22:11:18 GMT -5
Sorry to hear that about FanFiction.net, Orodreth. My main annoyance with it as a reader was its not saying if the work was complete or in progress.
Thanks for your warning of a problem for anyone else who wants to post a fic there. What is the difficulty? Is it down a lot when you want to post?
I have to give them credit as your host for your story, as it is not hosted by us.
As general info for anyone who might be intested in sending manuscripts: I only edit stories submitted to me for the guild's Story page. I prefer to do it privately by email, not after the fact on someone else's page where it might be embarrassing rather than constructive. I also prefer completed stories when submitted to the Valar Guild server. A first suggestion is to use spell and grammar check before submitting anywhere! Beware of homonyms such as rein and reign, which a spell check cannot catch. I have no problem with doing such editing, posting the story, and having the author post it elsewhere as well. I like to be able to show links to those other postings, if authors will let me know.
Perhaps we could have reviews on our forum for our original work (including our pages for stories, poetry, humor, and art), but most that I've seen posted on other pages are pats on the back to keep the person posting, or foolish flames. Helpful reviews seemed rare. If we want to try it here with this exceptional group, it might be useful. This is especially true as we also allow re-writes to improve already published work.
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Post by Pallando on May 29, 2004 0:30:09 GMT -5
I'll send you the next chapter to look at, Varda.
And yes, it would be nice to have something like that here. It would be very nice to have for LotR FanFics becasue, well, everyone here knows what you're talking about. And they don't complain if you use Quenyan words. *cough* *grumble* like my teacher.. *grumble* *cough*
As for what's wrong with Fanfiction.net's hosting, besides the obscene amount of un-looked after stories that they alow posted, many times the story will not update, at all. Reviews will disappear, alerts of reviews will not be sent. IT's just a general mess. But it works if you try hard enough, and it's free.
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Post by Varda on May 29, 2004 2:13:38 GMT -5
If were to make Review section, it would include not just our Story page, but Poetry, Humor, Translations, and Art pages.
Would anyone be interested in posting reviews? Do you folks feel it would it be worthwhile to add to the board? Would you, the person reading this, put up reviews? Do you even read any of those sections?
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Post by arathorn on May 29, 2004 12:37:52 GMT -5
What type of reviews do you mean exactly? Game reviews? Book reviews? Movie reviews? Reviews OF reviews? Reviewing of the reviewers who reviewed the reviews? <and so on..>
I did a review of the Half-Life Helm's Deep mod that Eonwe has a link to on the games page... so what are we talking about here?
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Post by Eonwë on May 29, 2004 15:08:24 GMT -5
Varda mentions story, poetry, humor, art, and translation pages. It's safe to asume she means reviews for these.
Game Reviews is a separate matter, and of course we are accepting those.
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Post by arathorn on May 30, 2004 3:25:50 GMT -5
hmm.. ok I figured those were the topics/subjects, just not sure what you mean by 'reviews' of them? Are they not entities on their own (poems, stories, humour)? Do you mean critiques of stories, etc on our site (this would be a new section)? <sigh> sleepy... best get to bed.. perhaps it'll be clearer tomorrow
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Post by Varda on Jun 27, 2004 15:49:23 GMT -5
Yes, critiques. I am not sure why our group would need them, as we email each other and talk to each other in AIM and games.
On a number of fanfic pages, they use "reviews" for pats on the backs to keep authors posting. Some authors hold the next chapter hostage until they receive reviews. I am not amused by this tactic.
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