Interest Problems

[The Man]

Originally posted by Britt
I believe the most logical course of action would be re-combining the arts forums into Fiction/Art once again. We'd originally divided them because the art/writing ratio was enormous, but anything would be better than what's going on now.

*agrees with Britt*

Originally posted by Shira
I think the problem is there's too many originals and poems and stuff just about literature in the Writer's Corner, so when people who are into fanfics see that they're just like "what? No fanfics here. I'm leaving." So I'm for putting fics in the forums for the actual games themselves.

That might be true as well.

Actually, I think authors should simply start posting short summaries of their works and their intentions at the tops of said works. Then people can know whether they're interseted in reading them after a few short seconds. The problem we're dealing with, as I see it, is that many people have very short attention spans. Perhaps writers in the WC should also be allowed to change the titles of their own threads, because works change after they've been worked on for awhile, and I think it's only fair that a user be able to rename his/her work without having to get a moderator or administrator to do it for him/her.

I think synopses for authors' works sound like a nifty solution, though. This might be a highly roundabout idea, but if there were some way to display some information about original works on the thread view in the Writer's Corner, there might be more viewing of stories. It seems somewhat impersonal the way it is right now. Works of literature are different than discussion of games, and classifying them in the same way seems... wrong. Or something. I certainly think that organizing by game rather than date in the case of fan fiction sounds like a wonderful idea.

But I dunno. Maybe I'm talking nonsense.

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The Man