New Archive! Pimp-pimp

[icarus]

Skyehawke.com

Tien is running it, and I've tried it out.

It's very efficient, easy to navigate. FF.net without the immense size and pop-ups. There are some bugs here and there that Tien is working on.

Multi-fandom, plus original work.

It's by invitation only. You can be invited by Tien, invited by a current author, or put your email address in a request in the Forums, with a link to an example of your writing.

The goal appears to be to have an ff.net-style archive with only high-quality stories.

It will accept R and NC-17 rated stories soon (within the next couple of weeks). She is moving it to a new server that will allow this.

In the meantime I've uploaded all my 'First Signs of Magic' and 'Your Friendly Neighborhood Death Eater' -type stories. I'll pestering my friends (i.e. people that barely know me, but I managed to lay my hands on their email addresses and I love their stories ;) to stuff the archive with stories I like.

The only downside appears to be the name, which reminds me of 'Skynet' from Terminator 2. Eeep.

CLS stories are overlooked and reap few reviews. We discussed this a week or so ago. I told her that the same happens with my LotR fics - they build slow, which means the 'quick fix' readers (90% of those on the internet) bail halfway through. Which is shame, because her work is really powerful. So I passed her name along to Tien, who checked them out. She loved them, and has sent CLS an invitation to the archive. *Icarus beams... this is gonna make her day....*

On another note:

Meep. Cassandra Claire epicycle responded to my review of Draco Veritas from, oh, months ago. Probably January. She's been reading 'Primer to the Dark Arts.' Likes the Harry/Ron. Really -? No kidding -?! Wow.

People really like my stories... well. I'll be damned.

I really never thought anyone would read them.

Comments

[aigooism.livejournal.com]

Oh don't say that! Of course people read your stories! I do! ^_^

[bluemoon02.livejournal.com]

*Grins*...Don't you love it when people tell you they like what you write?...I had the same feeling when I was first added to someone's favourite authors list...It was like, 'What? You like this nonsense that leaves my mind and splatters on the keyboard?'

*Befriends you, so I can read your drabbles myself tomorrow!*

I thought they were pretty good

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Don't get me wrong, I didn't think my stories were terrible, or I'd never have posted them in a public forum. I thought they were fun. I just honestly thought no one would bother to read them. That I'd have them posted for the sake of having written them and the satisfaction of seeing them out there.

I'd written five Lord of the Rings stories, and got a few responses, but nothing much really. (When I posted I didn't realise there was a 'review' feature, or that people used it, so that came as sort of a pleasant surprise.)

When I wrote the first few chapters to 'Primer to the Dark Arts' on ff.net, I was totally floored when about fifteen people started to consistently review. Moira McDuff comes to mind. Wow. I had some time off, so I made a commitment to finish the story in one month (pre-Beta). Before that I'd only written one Harry Potter story, 'An Irresistible Photo.' I posted a chapter a day. Didn't know how many people were reading till I posted 'Fools' Victory' - the cliffhanger. Right before Thanksgiving.

I got all this irate email.

I stared at it, bemused, and pushed on to post the next chapter ASAP. I felt a sense of responsibility. After that it was a horse race -- apparently it was unusual for an author to write a chapter a day, so the people reading were really caught up in the story. One woman told me she read it every day when she got off work. I got some very helpful criticism while writing that helped me fill in plot holes before they were set in concrete. When I finished, I heard from 67 people... mostly demanding the sequel, 'Snape Manor.'

I was done, just needed to get the Beta review finished so I could post it elsewhere. But I had trouble finding a Beta for a while. I mean, Betas aren't usually dumped an entire book in their laps. I'd write 'Snape Manor' later.

That was going to be it for my foray into Harry Potter fanfiction. Except a few one-off chapters still occurred to me. I wrote 'A Moment of Sin.'

Then Kissaki of the restricted section got a C&D letter.

That really got my dander up, so I made a committment to write fourteen really, really smutty NC-17 stories. I started the RS.org sleazy fic drive. Wrote Fred/George twincest. A Snape/Harry/Ron three-way. The NC-17 Harry/Ron chapter from 'Primer to the Dark Arts' I'd promised Moira McDuff.

Ironic, isn't it? That the attempt to stifle NC-17 fiction has me writing Non-Con Draco/Ron, twincest, three-ways, cross-dressing, MPREG and eventually, if this idea pans out, S&M Het smut. Now Percy is waking up in bed with Ron after a drunken binge... LOL

No doubt this is exactly what the lawyers wanted to accomplish.

~Icarus

Re: I thought they were pretty good

[aigooism.livejournal.com]

Ironic, isn't it? That the attempt to stifle NC-17 fiction has me writing Non-Con Draco/Ron, twincest, three-ways, cross-dressing, MPREG and eventually, if this idea pans out, S&M Het smut. Now Percy is waking up in bed with Ron after a drunken binge... LOL

No doubt this is exactly what the lawyers wanted to accomplish.

*chuckles* oh yes. That is WHAT the lawyers wanted XD. And ironic? Oh yes! But it's a good thing for us readers! Mwahaha. XD.