Revised Fan Fiction sticky., Please read this before posting. Options

[Alexander]

The amount of stickies in this section had grown quite a bit over the past few years, so here is the new and improved Fan Fiction section sticky.


This section is meant for posting Elder Scrolls related Fan Fiction, even so, if you have Fan Fiction not related to The Elder Scrolls, we'll welcome that as well. Non fantasy related Fan Fiction may be removed at a moderator's discretion.

The entire forum is a 13+ forum. That means that anything on it should meet those requirements. Censor avoidance is not allowed in a story. If you feel your story simply cannot go without adult content, please make sure to contact a moderator or administrator before posting the story to make sure it meets the requirements for an exception.

Please do not create a thread solely to announce a future story, nor for the sole reason of asking advice on a story that already has a thread.

Polls are also frowned upon in this section so before posting it, please make sure the poll actually adds something.

[Alexander]

Replying to stories.

We've lost some balance recently in replies, which is to be expected as new people join. I'm not going to criticise people for replying, but we have our own way of doing things at this forum. We've been running for years now, and all our older members have come to an understanding. So for the benefit of everyone, this is what I suggest. For every story you reply to, try to incorporate the following.

Something you liked about the story.
Something that could maybe be improved.
A positive mention to the author for taking the time and effort to share their work with us.

Dead easy, and it won't take any longer than before to reply. Someone criticised us recently for being a "warm fuzzy forum". You know what? We are, and we like it that way. We want to help people to improve and we want to encourage. I can see no reason why we can't do both at the same time.


As a minimum those three points are what I'd like to see. If people want to go into more detail than that, great, go for it! If every post has those three points though, we're getting a balanced take, even in a short reply - which should stop the "great, well done" posts. Minimum, not maximum. Any posts that do that, and go into greater detail as well I'll be REALLY happy with.

Now aside from that, we've noticed there has been an increase in requests for critical replies to stories. We believe we've come up with a good compromise between the way we're used to having this done and the requests.

As you might have noticed there's a new sub section titled "critical reviews". If anyone wants a more critical view or review from members then what we're used to here, then you're welcome to post your story in that sub section. It's entirely voluntary. Some guidelines will be posted in there going into this further.
I'll note though, critical does not mean brutal or containing personal attacks.