Not to worry Laurence, the Authors will gladly wait for their Favorite Fan Fiction Enthusiast to again return to reading and commenting on their stories.

Hmm, maybe i am kindof lengthy in my stories, but i do not like the limit of 30 days, so perhaps could ldw send the story to their email or something, or perhaps maybe an archive of old stories, because i love my stories. anyway, ty ldw for everything, and GOOD LUCK WITH VV4, cannot wait for it to be finished, in fact, my little bro asks me to go check on it's progress like, every minute of the day. catch ya all later!

We certainly want to encourage authors to write stories. The 30 day limit is not how long you have to finish a story, it is just that you must post a new chapter at least once every 30 days.

It has been our experience that if authors don't post a new chapter every 2 or 3 weeks, the fans tend to rapidly lose interest in the story. After 3 to 4 weeks, the authors themselves lose interest and the stories languish unfinished.

In the old forum, there were literally dozens of unfinished stories, many of which had been there for over a year. When we set down to revamp the forum, we decided to impose a few rules to help both the authors and the fans.

The 3 basic rules to encourage both finishing stories, and to keep fan interest are:

• An author can only have 3 stories in progress at a time.
• An author must post a new chapter at least once every 30 days.
• Stories are limited to 30 chapters (replies).