Okay. (First campfire. Whew!)

This is probably a total newbie question, but I really just need some clarification. With all the Omnific drama out there and the copyright issues that have been discussed the past few days in lieu of this, I just a question to all you ff writers out there - what is the general opinion on disclaimers? I mean, I get the jist of it - they are in place so SM and Twilight can't come out and sue us for copyright infringement. I get that. But... what is your opinion on them?

Are they completely necessary? What do you/should you include in it? Do you post it before each chapter? Or do you not bother at all?

Is it so that other writers can't steal your work? And I know there's been issues lately with unauthorized translations and reposting of stories.

I guess I'm just basically confused on the matter. I mean, a lot of people seem to be going all out, with the copyright and the year, and others just make sure to note that Twilight belongs to SM.

Anyway, I'm basically uber confused on what should be included in a fics disclaimer, and whether or not it actually does do anything.

Wow. That's a lot of questions. My peace offering:

Thanks all!

This weeks Trainwreck comes with a few disclaimers:

1.  This was taped BEFORE last night, which means a few Omnific details were unknown.

2.  Pwtf and Tuesday Jane--The answer to your Dialogue with Omnific Post is in here.

3.  Excuse the blaring noise mid through.  We're ghetto but promise it won't happen again next week.

Can anyone start a campfire? I'm new.

Anyway who's doing TT25? Cause I am! Yup.

Well comment if you are or whatever, I wanna see your epic stories :)

That's how you do a campfire right?

Adios

twitter.

use it?  hate it?  avoid RL people on yours?  fanfic people?  people named mr. douche?  (omg he follows me and why?)

post links to your twitter accounts here.  follow each other.  jandco and i have an account to notify you of updates.

who do you follow?  who's your fave tweeter?

now go follow ADF, dammit. retweet us whenever you see a post.

and now as a test of your learning curve/ability to pay attention/lurking on adf...

screencap your current twitter page and post it here.

wtvoc on twitter

jandco on twitter

adf on twitter

jandcoandwtvoc on twitter

BonesonFox on twitter

and here's laviepastiche, inviting herself over for lunch since i made delicious sammiches today

 lol red panda

Ok, so in true born2dance94 fashion, I'm asking for yet more recs. :P

This time, I want recs for stories where either E or B cheat on the other, but they end up getting back together by working things out.

I'm reading "A Woman Scorned," but I'm looking for others.

Thanks, guys!

I like to speculate as much as the next person, but what I would love at this point in the discussion would be a information straight from the OmniFic founders. Is there any chance they could be convinced to join us for some respectful dialogue on the subject? Rangers, is this possible? They've contacted ADF for publicity reasons, maybe they would be open to addressing fandom concerns here? We would of course need to make sure they felt welcome and not attacked, but I think that's possible.

Alrighty... This is my first campfire and I'll be the first to admit I have know idea what the hell I'm doing. I rarely review the fics I read (what a bitch, right?) and my pathetic excuse for a story failed miserably. I try to involve myself in the fandom and then chicken out a lot because some of you people are more famous to me than Mr. Pattinson.

I had know idea about this whole Omniwhatever thing until I looked on here today. I'm still not 100% sure I know what's going on, but I have noticed that people are talking about S. Meyer killing Twific.  I'm a self professed net-stalker and regularly check S. Meyer's website. I just wanted to bring it to everyone's attention that she has a list of all the "Twilight Fansites" that she must support, or else they wouldn't be listed on her site, right??

Well, if you scroll down to the 'F' section... The first one there is Fanfiction Net Twilight Page.

Every fanfic that we love and adore, directly linked back to her own website. Now... Does that change anything????

ps- Please go ahead and yell at me when I sound like an idiot. Thanks.

First campfire :)

So... it's officially 7:14 here in the shit-tastic state that is Michigan... and I'm ordering that it's way too early.

My kids decided that 6:30 was awake time this morning!

Anyway, this got me thinking. Did anyone ever notice the change Bella went through in her sleeping patterns when she came into the fanfiction world? In Twilight... she's always a morning person. You always read about her being up and ready or whatever at the ass crack of dawn. I'm calling a big N-O here. I mean, she's a teenager, right? How many of you guys were morning people as teenagers? I tend to think that fanfiction has a more realistic side about things when it comes to the sleeping patterns of Bella. I'm all for her throwing an alarm clock at the wall. THAT seems realistic to me.

Anyone else ever notice this?

First, I remember reading a rec here a while back for a fic that was an New Moon AU. Bella gets all crazy and thinks she imagined the whole Cullen experience and then they all come back to convince her otherwise. Whats that and where can I find it?

apparently this is rob and kristen holding hands.

I have some thoughts.

Some...unpopular thoughts. (Or perhaps really popular, I'm not sure.)

I don't think it's a good idea. In fact, I think it's a horrible idea. I think we are about to get the proverbial banhammer from Stephenie Meyer because people are trying to make money off of her characters. And that is what's going on. Boycotts and Barflies? Everyone knows that's a Twific. So they changed the names. And maybe the setting. Who knows? But guess what campers. It's still Twific. It never would have been written if it wasn't for Twilight and the work that SM has put into her novels that have been published and made into a movie (or two). SM and Co. are a money-making machine. Money-making machines like to make money. They don't like when little upstarts take what they think of as their money. They stop those upstarts. At the source. Which is fanfic. I can't say it any simpler.

In short, I don't like it. I hate it. I support the entrepreneurial spirit. I just wish they had stuck to original fic.

There are my two cents. IDK how to make this interactive.

Do you think this is a good idea? Do you think I'm a special kind of idiot for railing against the BNFs in this fandom? Will I be blackballed? Will people talk about me behind my back? Will I care? 

(erm...I don't know if I need to say this, but this post was approved by wolvesnvamps.) 

I'm on a MSCL kick tonight (shocking, I know.) and now I'm craving some angsty fics akin to this prematurely cancelled drama.

So rec away please!!

Okay, so when I started posting my new story called River Dam, I admitted that I had to have help writing it.

But for a while, I had to keep my helper a secret. In my author's notes, I've asked readers to GUESS who they think my collaborator might be, but so far only these four names have come up:

• Bratty_Vamp
• Gallantcorkscrews
• Jandco
• Pastiche Pen

Hmmmmmmmmmm.

Well, this coming Sunday, when I update the story (now that I have my laptop back - YAY!) the writer's identity will be revealed. So if more of you wanna get in on the guessing, now's your chance.

You can read the three extant chapters right here: 

 Word Challenge. Yo.

Haha, anyways, a WC is where two or more people get together in a chat and then compete to see who can write more in a certain period of time. And, then you just do whatever after that. :P Talk, teasers, run far away, you know. :)

Anyways, I am going to host one tonight. Cause I need to write, like really bad. I'm hosting it on gtalk. So, if you have one and want in, add me : A.Hoenie39@gmail.com then tell me and you're in. So, far jandco, cullenismsays, and Zombie's Run This Town, aka anythingzombie, is in. Along with me. :)

So, who else? :) 

KAY. We're starting it...so...yeah. Still add if you want though. :P :00 is when the deadline ends. :P

I just saw a tweet--Omnific is announcing their first two books tonight.

any guesses on what we'll be seeing?

I'm going with reworks of The Office and Passionfish.

What are your guesses?

ps--adf is happy for any authors taking advantage of this opportunity--as always, snark and opinion are welcome, please, no personal attacks.

HELLO ADF!!!! I had been looking for a good copward story and haven't been able to find one so I decided to write one myself, so if anyone wants to check it out go to ff.net and look up My Tourniquet by SaxGirl2012.

PLEASE I'm BEGGING FOR REVIEWS!!!!!!!

 That addicting site that is great for procrastinating? Yeah, that's the one. :P

I want everyone's Twitter if you have one. And, if you don't get one. If you don't get it, I don't care. :)

The reason for this campfire is because these past two days have been freaking great and I had to fangirl to my friend about wolvesnvamps & jandco following me. 

Two more things. ADF is love. And :

I love his hats.

Edit : I forgot to give you mine. : IChimpz :P

Hello Everyone!

Today was not such a good day at hell aka work. There were tears and lots of quietness around the hell hole. (by me mostly) But its ok, Ben and Jerry came over and invited their good friend Bacardi  to help dry my tears.  Now we all are sitting here wanting to read some good fluffly fanfiction.

Can you please share your favorite fluff?  Thank you so much!!! In the meantime I am going to be at Tor's campfire checking out Henry.

ULTIMATE FANTASY POST. AKA REALLY HOT DUDES.

Hello! Share you weekend plans with the forest!

I am going to a party, doing a million errands and watching the wildcard playoffs. It is suppose to be freezing here so we will probably watch some movies as well. And of course, I will be hanging in the forest!

Whatcha doing?