Well, I might start posting here after all.

TinaMigarlo said:

maybe a lot of writers are here, just because they got kicked around somewhere else.
I know I am.
what's the old clay-mation they still play around christmas every year for kids?
"the island of misfit toys".

maybe, we're "the island of misfit writers".

I just don't want to be a dentist... lol

I (twice) read the first chapter of MLA.
because where I came from, someone would always link to it.
"Here. this is how a first chapter of an Isekai LitRPG is done right!"

had to read that.
even if its not my style of what to read, with that build up how could I resist the first chapter.

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Very OP female MC (I like) w/Zero smut (shrug) I just worked.

Anonjohn20 said:

I can understand why he hates it, but from what I've heard of the story, he might be misunderstanding it. I've been told that in the story the man is a submissive bottom that was only pretending to be a dom early in the story because his previous dom had broken his heart. The story is about the girl starting out as his sub and slowly learning more about him until she's the one domming him (a popular female fantasy, to have control over a malleable/pliable femboy/twink).

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He hated the first book so much he didn't finish it. I haven't read any of them myself (keep thinking of picking up Twilight when I see it at the discount shelf but always find something better to spend the money on - I've heard Meyers actually was "coming into her own" as a writer with the third book, and the fourth might have been good enough to justify her success if it hadn't been leaked by a "friend" when 1/3 finished and she just lost interest - have heard her second series was very well written, but just never really found an audience, even if it did get a film adaptation).
And I'm old enough that if my characters make references to the 80s, that was their childhood but my teen years...

TinaMigarlo said:

maybe a lot of writers are here, just because they got kicked around somewhere else.

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I just needed some website to start posting a story, and SH came up and wasn't RR. I heard RR uses your stories for AI training without a way to opt out. With all the other stuff I've heard about the place, I didn't see any reason to pretend the red flags aren't flapping loud in the wind.

I don't know how I feel about SH after half a year, but it at least has a real text editor unlike Honeyfeed.

Juia_Darkcrest said:

I think it is fine. I'm in my 40s, never tried to hide it. There are some younger ones here, but for the most part, I am guessing it's mainly GenX and millennials.

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Oh wow, I never expected that we're around same age. I thought I was the only old folk lurking around here, hahahaha

Daeron said:

Oh wow, I never expected that we're around same age. I thought I was the only old folk lurking around here, hahahaha

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LOL

Hardly the only one. Several have a decade or two on me =)

Daeron said:

Oh wow, I never expected that we're around same age. I thought I was the only old folk lurking around here, hahahaha

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40? Young whippersnapper. Get offa my lawn...

Another RR refugee.

CharlesEBrown said:

40? Young whippersnapper. Get offa my lawn...

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Uncle, I only want to help moving your package to safe place!

JordanIda said:

My books are very long, and I won't ask any of you to read them. Romance isn't big here, and I know it.

But the series (despite being fan fiction on its face) goes way beyond trite Twilight canon. It explores the interdependence of human and vampiric origins, the false allure of immortality, and the grace of ephemeral mortal creatures that have no choice but to rush toward completion.
The series is also filled with original poetry! (I'm more into poetry than prose.) Here is a short original poem from the series. It captures the essence of the larger theme. Read this, if nothing else.


          god has it easy

              truly

   what is there to admire
         in this vaunted omnipotence
this coveted immortality?
      naught but crutches
  for a stunted maladroit child
    who makes and ruins the world
 in takebacks and redos forever

       take your brat's eternal tantrums
  keep them hold them deify them
           if your faith confers solace
    for all the good it will do
        when time's fingers
clamp around your throat
     good luck to you
     and good fortune

   give me adam
        broken and spent
on the unfinished foundations
    of this one imperfect earth

  adam who has persevered
     his terror from his first breath
his mortal span a clockwork
           bludgeoned into the grave
   by molten iron rain

      keep  your    god
      with    his   falsity
      and petty dominion

   i'll take adam
      his foibles
  his futility
        his hubris
   and above all
        his brevity

     the half-wound
     stopwatch
   trapped within
    his mortal heart

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That's good one actually, What i felt towards that poetry is leaned more on 'possessiveness'.

JordanIda said:

I've got three finished novels to post. And working on a fourth. They're romances. Fanfic very loosely based on Twilight.

I've been lurking here for a couple months. In the forums. I like everyone I've met. And even though I can be a cantankerous, somewhat acrimonious sort of person, I've found most of you are, too. So I haven't met anyone here that I can't hang with. People here seem to be mature enough to get my dry sense of humor, and I don't have to be apologizing for it all the time.

I'm kind of hoping the readers here will also have an average age somewhat north of 14. And a bit of maturity. As opposed to other places I've been-and-gone in the past year. There's only one way to find out!

Currently my fiction is down to one venue: the little site with two R's in its name. Got followers, unsolicited reviews, high ratings that I didn't get through swaps. So the readers like me. But in the forum I was bullied and pig piled by the writers. And this morning I got notified of a three day ban.

For "toxicity in the forums."

Because I had the nerve to defend myself against those bullies. ("Premium members"... squeaky wheels... oh well. City hall and clicques: can't fight'em.)

So on March 10, when my ban expires, I'm going to take my fiction down and ask my readers to come here. Maybe a few will. Maybe not.

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I had some unfortunate timing where I was reading your work on RR after I saw it recommended on a Reddit forum, and then I suddenly could not read any further chapters because it got deleted :(

I only got to read the first few chapters so its not like I can give any overarching thoughts on the entire novel yet, but my initial impressions were that it was an enjoyable read with prose that stood apart from a lot of the other writing you usually find on these sites (at least the first parts that i read, and it was nice to read something different).

I was a bit saddened that I could not read what happened next in the story, but does this mean that you will post the novel somewhere else? I hope you find a new home for it, so I might get the chance to read it fully

JordanIda said:

I've come to realize that I've been naive. For me, fan fiction creation is just a hobby. And to me a somewhat repugnant one, as I consider fan fiction theft and don't read it, myself. How strange, that contradiction.

Too many people are monetizing it. I've encountered too much anger and rage from those who attempt to pay their rent and grocery bills-- under the table, on top of everything else-- with this pastime that I've regarded as mere idle amusement. Because my stance places me outside of their cliques, there can be no sense of community or belongingness, for one such as myself. The few true hobbyists are outsiders. Other. Targets.

I've also seen, on webnovel sites, far too much fan fiction that is thinly disguised as "original work." Sometimes "inspired by" the property of others (whatever that means), but more often not even that. This trend will only accelerate, as websites crack down on declared fan fiction.

I've come to realize that fan fiction in all its forms is a blight that should be eradicated. With scalpel, chemo, and radiation. That will have to be someone else's fight, and all too likely a futile one.

Given that this really is just a hobby for me and ultimately an inconsequential one, I've decided to preemptively withdraw from the fray.

Apologies to my readers, from wherever you hail. Maybe at some point you'll find yourself reading original work of mine. Then again, perhaps you already are.

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Fan fiction is where most writers start, though. Some even manage to get into "writing stables" and write the official fan fictions (c.f. the television and movie tie-ins on bookshelves; every Star Trek or Psych or Babylon 5 novel or comic book is fan fiction; there are some exceptions - Belisario himself wrote one of the Quantum Leap novels, and the guy who created Dexter was still churning out novels after the series ended the first time, for example). For some publishers in the 70s and 80s, the only way to get in was to "prove yourself" with a few installments of the ongoing series they had the rights to, either solo or partnered with the creator (about a third of the, what was it 142 novels in The Destroyer novel series were written with one of the two creators as an editor; one left the franchise around 47 or so, and the other did the next three solo before taking on an ever-changing selection of partners (listed on the indica but only his name was on the cover), and then stepping back himself around book 100, with the cover changing to "created by Sapir and Murphy" and you had to look to the credits page to find out who really wrote it).
Heck, there was a name, Robert Arthur, who appeared on a lot of books (mostly short-story collections and a series called The Three Investigators - if I'm recalling the story correctly, the father came up with the concept and approached Alfred Hitchcock to back it; he then wrote the first book and handed the entire line to his son; the last book with Hitchcock's name in the credits - "Alfred Hitchcock Presents: The Three Investigators" - was the only one they worked on together, and the last one either of them actually wrote) between about 1950 and 1990; he was originally one person, then a father and son who sometimes worked together, sometimes separately, and then various individual authors as the NAME was the property of the publishing house.
So don't be so harsh to judge fan fiction. Maybe some of the people churning it out deserve scorn but the entire form of literature does not, IMO.