I was thinking because when a fanfic is done it starts getting pushed down to the second and third pages where no one will see it. And I don't know if this board has an overflow issue but I know some do where if a thread gets burried by so many others it's deleted.

Finished multiparters get comments, die, and are resurected with the next part. That's the way of things, no problem with that. If someone doesn't want to finish the story it goes all the way down--with the finished single part stories and the finished multipart stories, and will possibly never be seen again. In time no one will see 'One Night in Dragon City' again on this board because it will be burried. It's still an awesome fic, but no new comments on it, because it's done, and so it dies.

So I'd like to suggest a sub-forum to the FanFic board, like how Episodes is for The Dragon Booster TV Show Forum. This new Forum would only have locked threads on it so they wouldn't go up and down on the board and stay in basic chronological order. Finished Fanfics only (Finally Finished Fics?) which are dead threads. And maybe a pinned rec-thread?

Now I'm not sugesting that Lightning Flash go through all the old fanfics to sort out which are finished and not. At her discression we either PM a link to a finished fic or put it on a thread in the normal FanFic section. If the story is broken up into seperate threads (sequels perhaps) then poke the author into posting it into one thread (which unfortunetly would include double posting, sorry!) and then move it to the locked forum.

If this is stupid, been asked before, too much trouble, a bad idea, or anything else, including you just don't want to do it, LF, sorry.

There's also the issue with reviews and authors' replies to those--a lot of readers just aren't interested in scrolling through ten posts of "OMG! GR8! Update soon!" (Nor are those who write novels' worth of detailed appreciation or critique any more interesting to future readers of old threads; I'm not using the example to discourage people from posting whatever review they feel like, because most authors really like getting any sort of acknowledgement.)

Maybe the area for finished fics could be dependent on the author reposting their own story just by itself? The thread locked for replies, and the link to the original thread placed at the bottom so that future readers could drop a review there if they felt like it? Which is more of an FF.Net format, but some people don't like scrolling through reviews and stories at the same time, and in any case the original thread would still remain up.

I also wouldn't mind if there were separate areas for thoughts on creating as against actual creations--for example, the fanfic section has a few discussion threads and character profile threads and the like, and there's nothing wrong with that, but it might be nice if it was more of a story archive with that sort of thing relocated, to facilitate browsing for fic/art/vids.

The reposting sounds like a great idea. A last chance for edits, closing up plotholes, maybe adding something that occured to you. Or in my case, rearranging the entire fic, "Her Cunning Plan" would be much better, I think with Part 2 as Part 1, Part 3 except for the ending as Part 2, and then Part 1 as a flashback and ending with Part 3's ending.

But I don't think most people will have that much to change

So the end result would be every fic posted twice? And once enough fics got added to a new section, they'd start being bumped back several pages too. I'm not sure if I'm missing something (probable, this is a tad confusing), but wouldn't that defeat the purpose?

I think what's contemplated is all complete fics being stored in a more Voles-y format--posted by themselves (minus reviews and perhaps with a little more editing) in a separate forum for people looking for fic, just fic, and completed fic. It would be sorted by date, but people could scroll through knowing that they'd only find fic as against writing advice or questions or whatever. And it'd be nice to see some of the longer fics without the reviews and responses spliced in between.

Or I guess I could just start a topic and link completed fics with a bit of description.

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