You will notice that it's kind of empty right now, but we are going to work as fast as we can to put back all of the stories that we can. We want to make them all consistent with the new procedures, so it won't be done in a few days (or possibly a few weeks), but none of the stories are lost and we will start with recent stories and work our way back.

Thanks for your patience and understanding. We think this is going to be a big improvement for everyone.

YAY! I thought I was going to go nuts without the stories

I was missing it!!

Yay! at last! if it lasted longer i would have been waiting forever..... but at last.

Yes I was missing some of the stories, so I got on with other projects while I'm waiting, which is a good thing

YAY!! So does that mean I can continue my new story?

As soon as stories are moved back here, you can continue to post new chapters to them. You are also free to start new stories. All new posts will be placed in an approval queue and will not appear here until they have been reviewed and approved. Any post that doesn't fit the guidelines will not be approved and will not show up in this forum.

Rockmower and I will work as quickly as possible to restore the existing fan fiction stories to this forum. Keep in mind that the reason they are all "missing" right now is that many of them violated our fan fiction guidelines in some way, and we moved everything to a private area for review. Only stories that are E-for-Everyone will be moved back into this forum.

okay, i have an question. i neither know what story i made is E for everyone or 10+, but i do know that i wanted to make the storys. sorry if some of my storys are not E for everyone but i did want some storys to return. the island of refugees is okay, it may be deleted, and the diary of Sunny Wind can also be deleted, i am going to do it all over again because there was only the preface and chapter 1. that leaves The story of manli alone, so hopefully that will be re-added.

You can find the guidelines here.

A big tip for all authors! I really really really suggest you write your stories in a utility like "word" or wordpad. By doing this, you will have a copy of the story you can work with.

Then, when you submit a story for review, If it needs changes, I will send you a pm telling you whats wrong with it. This way you will have a chance to correct and resubmit your story without having to do a total rewrite (at least in most cases).

The vast majority of stories are rejected because of a few lines and sometimes even a single phrase in the story. Very few are rejected because the whole story is flawed.

By following this process, I think we will all be happier in the end. You save work, and I get a chance to help you be better authors!

Rockmower I know my stories were old and it is ok if they get deleted, I tried to follow the guidlines as closely as possible but that is life! All I know is that my syories are safe on my puter.

Just a suggestion: I did them in microsoft word professional so that they could be easily edited.

First, let me explain (as LadyCFII has done previously) that we aren't deleting the old stories. Those that aren't approved, will simply remain in the archives out of site of the general membership.
Second, I'm delighted to hear that you have your stories safe in a word processing utility! This is the way I highly suggest all authors do their stories.
I say this for two reasons: A) If you have it on your computer you can rework it as I've explained over and over. B) Just because it's not suitable for this forum, doesn't mean it's a bad story! There are a number of VV fan sites out there, and I'm sure many of them (including some ran by members of this forum) would be delighted to have them. You would, of course, have to follow the guidelines of those sites, but I know many of them allow stuff that LDW can't because they have to protect their E for Everyone rating.

Oooh, I have a suggestion! How about for old stories that have been ended, there be a story archive viewable by forums. By ended, I mean that the authors no longer write in those story threads. That way if people want to read something that is no longer being written, it will be easier to find.

It's a good idea, Sp!
And also, it would be nice and more easy for us if there is a different forum in the "Off-Topic Discussions" (or in the "Fan Fictions") for the fan-fictions comments.
When the moderators' job will be finished, in the "Off-Topic Discussions", it will be impossible to find the right threads, I think!

We haven't considered a viewable archive (like the one in Off Topics) for this forum, but may look at it after we're done with the process of setting up this forum. That will still take several days, if not weeks. You guys were busy posting in the old forum!

Laurence, while I agree that it may be difficult to locate comments by going directly to Off Topics, it should be a fairly simple process to comment and read comments by clicking in the cross link in each story. Each story will be required to have one, and most of the comments will have cross links back to the story as well.

As Rockmower has said, we're busy right now just trying to clean up and restore the stories. I may very well end up making sub-forums for fan fiction comments and/or story archives, but a lot will depend upon how we decide to maintain fan fiction. We may end up saving the best examples of fan fiction in an archive forum and pruning older stories. All of this will be announced and carefully planned before we do anything, so don't panic!

I don't panic, Barbara. I just thought there is a difference between the Fan-Fiction comments and the Off-Topic discussions.
It's the Off-Topic discussions that will be hard to find among all the Fan-Fiction comments!!

Yeah, the Off-Topic forum is a bit of a mess....

I just finished created a comments sub-forum and moving all of the fan fiction comments there. I think everyone will like that better.

Yeah!! Thanks a lot, Barbara!!

When or if our story gets put back in will the author be notified? I've been looking for my story and it would make it easier if authors where sent a PM. A PM would be nice to know if your story was flawed and needed fixed before it could stay.

I did write my story on paper and then typed it so I can fix it easily

Regrettably, there are too many stories for us to notify the author when one makes it back and or is archived.

If you are wondering about a particular story, you can PM me and I'll try to let you know the status of it. Just don't expect a rush on the reply.

Yay Fan Fiction!