Aleric

To my amazement I see that some authors, even hosted ones, have selected the "Not telling" for their sexuality. I think that gives a very wrong signal to the young gays/bi's that might visit this site. I SCREAMS that you are ashamed of your sexuality and it should be something to hide!? I hereby call for all authors to reconsider! Be 'proud' about your capability to love. Don't be afraid to tell the world! Aleric

Hiya all again, I am running into a few problems while writing. Two things are really getting annoying heheh. First of all, I am heading for a milestone that I set, as end of the first chapter... only to realize that I don't know how to get there! Its impossible! Yeah, that sounds weird - but you'll understand it when you read my story... I'll just have to think of SOMETHING. I don't want to give away too much already though. Let's just say that my main character is inventing something and doing so takes his whole life. That means that I often have to skip large amounts of time - like weeks, months and even years. At the same time however I started to weave in a relationship, a coming-of-age type of relationship even UGH! Suddenly I can't jump through time anymore! I've put myself check-mate :sword: But ok, that is just my problem. Here is my question: I am writing in a style were dialogus are an essential part of the story: it's how a building relationship is described. That's a style where every minute is described thus, almost in real-time. But every now and then I get to a point where the whole situation would get boring and I need to introduce new fuel - so, then I need a jump in time. Very often I feel that this would only "feel" right when at the same time I started a new heh chapter... not the 5000-word kind of chapter, the release-and-wait-for-feedback chapters, the one-html-page chapters that make a nice print-job to read before going to sleep. No, just a new little heading you know. Like this. On with the show Once upon a time there was an author who had written so many stories that he couldn't remember anymore how many. You see? It is *acceptable* when I start something (seemingly) TOTALLY different - provided that it is at the start of a new chapter. And that seems what is needed when I make a jump into time, like ... to the next time "they" meet. I've read a lot of stories of you guys, though from a limited number of authors I must admit (when I like an author I first read EVERYTHING they wrote before moving on to the next . And it appeared to me that you guys never use little headers inside the (big) chapters. Only new alineas Damn. I can't even formulate my question satisfactory. How can I expect an answer to this rambling? Aleric :wacko:

Hello everyone. I am writing my first (gay) story. Its science fiction, my favourite genre I am doing about 1000 words per day I noticed. When should I consider it a 'chapter'? What is a good size of one chapter? Hope to hear from people here and get to get to know you all. I'd like to make many friends here Aleric

Hi, I am very new to this site. I mean, I was a reader - but never posted anything on the forum before. I didn't even read the forum. The reason for that is clear: one finds gayauthors.com because some author refers to it somewhere. You go to the home page, search for the STORIES - and then start reading. That is, you end up here: https://www.gayauthors.org/archive/archive.php?s=2 Which is perfect I came back every once in a while, looking for new stories and that is that. I don't like forums because they are new to me: I never used them before and iI think that web based forums are unclear; there is no overview. However - yesterday i decided that I wanted to write a story myself.. but only when people would read it. And I couldn't think of a better way than to put it on this site. So, I had the question: what to do when I want to publish my story on this site (and then I mean the archive, the page of the url that I gave above, of course - not the forum, that I never had looked at myself before and therefore assumed that by far most people never look at). I could not find this information - not until after looking very, very hard (in some post on some forum). I had a very hard time registering too. At one moment I wanted to vote for a story, so I clicked on 'vote'. I got a page that said that I had to login and that I could register by clicking 'here'. That 'here' brought me back to the home page (www.gayauthors.com) and there is no way to register there! After trying many things, and being WAY more persistent then I think 99% of other people might ever be, I went to the 'forums' section and registered there (to ask there). Only later I found out that I could use the same email address and password as that I had used for the forum to 'login' for the whole site - and now I could vote. That is certainly unclear. Even now, it is still unclear to me which forum exists and which I should read and especially which NOT, cause I don't have that much time ! So - if you ask what could be improved, then from my point of view that is information about how to 'register' from the homepage. And a clear overview for clueless newbies about exists in the forums and where to go/look for what. That overview should be very small of course - as with everything, you can always find everything if you have the time to simply read 1000 pages: then you just read everything and find it. But, since nobody has time to read 1000 pages and it is never clear if a page with 1000 words on it will contain the information needed - I, at least, never read pages that contain 1000 words. Unless I know what it is about - or when it iis addressed to me personally of course :king: . But when I am looking for information, then I want a page with ONE word that proves to me that it is worth to read the next 10 words, which make it crystal clear that this page will contain the data that I am looking for and that all I have to do is read the next 100 words to find out where exactly that information is. Hope this helps Aleric