Where can i bounce plot bunnies off of for REAL, non-partial judgments?

Tx-J

So I've had the Nook, the original one, since it came out. IDK how long ago that was. I love it, for the most past, BUT......

I was wondering if anyone else has problems with it freezing, or not keeping your page when it goes to the screen saver or shuts off.

At first I though it was because I was reading PDF files on it, but now it's happening with real, purchsed books too. It's making me CRAZY, and I'm not sure what to do.

Anyone having these problems, or problems like it with your e-reader? Any suggestions on what to to to prevent me from tossing it out the window?

Hey! I know everyone and their mother is in love with this fic, but I haven't even started it! I like completed stories.

Is there just an epi left? Is it "ended" enough for me to start and not be left hanging with some major plot points?

You know? this is a great place to have fun and forget about you RL problems, but once in a while RL it's just to much to deal with and you have to do something about it, don't you?.  Well for me this is one of those times and I thought..."well, why don't tell my story to the campers and get energy to keep on going from there?".  So here I am ...I have this "thing" that it's eating at my heart and I need to tell or die from anguish (Details inside).

What about you?.  What's that thing that you need to tell to feel a little lighter?

Hi all!! I've been terribly MIA lately, I know, but I have a valid excuse. I temporarily moved back in with my parents (so I can have all my stuff there while I'm travelling the world) and that means I can't be online all the time...

Anyway... I'm about to finish my current WIP. Wowza, big shocker! Yes, it's almost done! Can you believe it? But that's not the reason for this campfire. During my travels, I intend to start fleshing out a plot bunny that struck a while ago. I'll post the prologue on FFn before I leave to give you a little taste of what's to come. And I'd just love a banner to go with it.

As I've already outlined most of the plot, I know which direction the story's gonna go, so the banner idea I have is quite specific. However, I have absolutely zero banner-making skills... Would anyone want to help me out?

It's the free for all! Isn't that great? Post away. Just don't you swear on the front page. Or put dirty, dirty images there, either. And if you want, put a good song in this here thread.

Hello everyone! *waves*

At the begining of the year I started the reading challenge on goodreads. I set a goal of 80 books for the year and I've read 73 so far. =) but alas... 

With the reading of all those real books, I left the world of Twilight behind and it has been around 8 months since I read any fanfiction.. untill tonight. 

I was going through CF's earlier and saw the one from Nayarit about the fic Resent by sistergrimm/dearlybeloved'93 (It was pretty good and I'm excited to see how things turn out for all of them!), I was bored and I'm between good books so I gave it a shot and realized I really miss Edward and Bella. *sigh*

So this is what I want from you...

Give me any fic that you've read this year that you absolutley loved, I'd prefer something completed or nearly complete (because there's only about 6 weeks untill school starts back here and once it does between all my kids going to school and me going to school I wont have much time for the updates..) and something B&E of course. 

But I really just want something really good that will hold my attention, if it's supernatural that would be awesome!

Thank all you lovelies for you time.. 

(ps. it's 11:30 on a thursday here so I was going for the FFFA)

I haven't done this in a while and I am in need of some new reads. So tell me, what are the last 5 stories that you hit "add to story alert"? Be a dear and add a link :)

1. Sleep On The Floor

2. Theories of Bellativity

3. Two Lines

4. All At Once

5. Outside the Box

Well, I'm just on a roll, eh? Two campfires in a week, lol.

Anywho. So, had an interesting survey/conversation/etc on Twitter this evening. My question...

From a reader's perspective, what's your ideal chapter length? Ideal update frequency? (Realistically).

Answers were far and wide, ranging from 2-3k every week to 3-5k every other week to 7-8k twice per week.

I bring the same questions to you, ADF, along with a couple of more.

Readers:

1. What's your preferred chapter length?

2. How often do you think updates should occur?

Writers (a few additional questions for you):

1. What chapter length to you prefer writing?

2. How often do you prefer to update?

3. Now, this is NOT a competition... including

a) research,

b) writing,

c) edits and re-writes,

d) anything else involved with finalizing a chapter,

What is your average word per hour? Or what's your range?

In other words, how long does it take you to write a chapter, start to finish.

Be honest because there is a point to this question, something that I think will be interesting and maybe enlightening for some.

ETA: one of the goals of this discussion/survey is an examination/comparison of what people would like/expect to read and what is maybe realistic to write.

Ladies and gentlemen of the forest.  This is where I live

I don't know if any of you have caught this on the news, but Minot, ND and surrounding communities are bracing themselves.  We are going to be flooding.  In Minot, 11,000 people have been evacuated from their homes.  And many of thoses homes are going to be literaly filled to the ceiling with water.  The Souris River (also known as the Mouse River) is so full from snow melt and releases from dams up in Canada and there's nowhere for the water to go.

Minot consists of three parts...two hills (we call them North Hill and South Hill) and the valley.  Everything on the hills (including me), will be safe.  Everything in the valley will be lost.  We could be under water as soon as tomorrow.  With the force of the water coming through, they're doubtful that the dikes and levees can hold.

The Twilight fandom is a generous one, they help for childhood cancer, tornadoes, overseas tsunamis and floods, sexual assault and autism.  Now I'm asking for your help.  For a flood that's within our own country.

You can donate to two places: minotredcross.org or text REDCROSS to 90999 for the Minot Area Red Cross chapter.
Text MINOT to 80888 to donate to the Salvation Army flood relief fund for Minot.  For both text messaging numbers, the donation amount is $10.00.

We have a celebrity from here that's trying to help us out, too...

Organizing fics. I saw that discussion on LiveJournal and was curious what other campers think...

Many of us have a to-read list and in my case, it keeps on growing. Last week, I finally managed to cut my list down from ~200 to ~70 fics.

I I don't fic dive so, basically, if enough people say something like, "You have to read this!" or "It's SO GOOD OMG!" I'll put it on my list here and then I'll revisit it later when I have time to.

So, do you guys also have some sort of To-Be-Read list somewhere?

Is it your alert list or a special bookmarks folder, etc?

What's your system for organizing the list? How does a fic make it onto the list?

Or do you have no system at all and just like to jump into the latest hot recc's?

Jackson Rathbone's new webseries, Aim High, stars him as a high school aged spy.

http://insidetv.ew.com/2011/06/23/twilight-jackson-rathbone-aim-hig/

The trailer is interesting....

Will you watch?

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5596195/1/Stars_Fall_Down

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5661369/1/And_Yet_They_Shine
 

I hope the links work.

If not, at least you have the addresses here.

I love Greek Mythology. The first one has Bella falling in love with the God of the Sun and the second one has her falling in love with a different God. I do not want to spoil too much. The author says that you do not need to read the first one in order to understand the second one, but I disagree. I recommend reading Star Fall Down first. The second one picks up right where the first one leaves off.

Are there any other fics out there based on Mythology? My favorite story is the one of Cupid and Psyche.

Or I can't get enough of your angst writing

Twific authors you'd beg for more, because their writing ruined you for any other author appeals to you so much you adore everything they've written (even if it's just one fic not that I have anyone particular in mind or anything)

And... I was done.

MY FRUSTRATION KNOWS NO BOUNDS

JUST LET ME REGISTER ALREADY

THERE CAN'T POSSIBLY BE MORE THAN SEVERAL MILLION PEOPLE ACCESSING THIS SERVER AT THE MOMENT

WHAT'S THE HOLD UP

GET IN HERE AND DISCUSS HOW EXCITED YOU ARE FOR THIS

AND IF YOU DO NOT KNOW TO WHAT I REFER, CLICK HERE

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH PENT UP HARRY POTTER FRUSTRATION

pardon the raciness of this image on the front page, i just  have a lot of feelings

O I C U lurking there Thorin Oakenshield  Richard Armitage!

Official pics from The Hobbit set. 

And what is this?  Stephen Fry is going to be the Master Of Laketown???  

This is the goodest of good news that ever was good.  Discuss.

wtvoc, this one is for you.

So I was tooling around Amazon's weekly email of kindle offerings for .99 books. Low and behold when I clicked on one and advertisement appeared for this book:

The Billionaire Bum

and I think to myself...I've read a fanfic by that same exact name...

So I did a little digging...and it just so happens that it's THE SAME STORY by the SAME AUTHOR. I have read it, and another story she wrote.

She has made no effort to hide that these stories are the same, in fact the fic is still up on FFnet. In addittion, there are at least two other stories up on FFnet that have counterparts listed for sale on Amazon with the same exact titles and story summaries that are on FFnet.

She does have a few other books listed that don't correspond with her FFnet profile, so good for her for publishing her original work, if that's really what it is.

There have been numerous campfires about pulling to publish and such. We've even seen fic stolen and published on Amazon before...but this, to me is extrememly disturbing.

Forget pulling to publish - at least these authors attempt to get rid of their  fanfic versions of the stories they publish, but this...this is IMO is just asking for a law suit and to ruin twific for us all. This has got to be a blatent copywrite violation.

So, I bought a kindle so I can read my fan fiction on the go. Sadly the Flag downloader website thingy doesn't seem to be up & running anymore. 

Has anyone had any luck downloading/accessing the Flag site?

Does anyone have any suggestions of other sites that do the same thing?

We all know what Nessie will look like, but we all have also done our own image-ideas of what we thought she'd look like.  

I remember taking a picture of Kstew and Rob, blending them together and getting this girl as a result for a future child for them:

Well, it wasn't Camilla Belle exactly, but it was pretty close!

I also came across this random boy on TV as a potential child for them (or just Edward):

I loved the hair and believe this is what shade Edward's should be.

So, I guess what I am trying to get to....I would love to see pictures of the Twilight Children, and yes, I mean more than just E & B as many love to take our cast and write them in Human stories.

IT'S THAT TIME AGAIN.

DO YOU MAKE FAN VIDEOS?

DO YOU HAVE A FAVORITE YOU WANT TO SHARE?

POST THEM ALL HERE.

MY WEEKLY RECS:

"Twilight Cast || Here it Goes Again" by Catushka <- FREAKIN' ADORABLE VIDEO. SRSLY.  IF YOU'RE HAVING A BAD DAY, WATCH THIS.  GET READY FOR GIGGLES, SMILES AND AN ALL-AROUND FEELING OF CUTENESS.

"[Twilight] Marble house" by paradisedanifm1 <- Awesome vid... but this girl is AWESOME anyway.  Definitely worth checking out.

AND FOR ALL YOU RON/HERMIONE FANS OUT THERE...

"Ron&Hermione | Floating in space" by psprayboom - <- I probably posted this before, but IDC B/C THIS VIDEO IS JUST LOVELY.

POST AWAY CAMPERS... WHETHER IT BE A VIDEO OR JUST TO DISCUSS THE ALREADY POSTED VIDEOS, I WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU!  TELL ME HOW MUCH THAT FIRST TWILIGHT VID MADE YOU SMILE.  COME ON... YOU KNOW IT DID.  THERE'S GYMNASTIC ROB IN IT FOR CRYIN' OUT LOUD.