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The Underrated Story Index - New story up and I need MORE STORIES!
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Persephone_Kore
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Jan '06
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Date Posted:
5/13 3:55pm
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RE: The Underrated Story Index - Announcement
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I think this is a great idea. There are so many excellent stories, especially some of the more unusual ones, that never get that much attention. Thank you for running it!
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Underrated_Index
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Date Posted:
5/18 8:01am
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RE: The Underrated Story Index - First featured story up!
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Upping to show featured story
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Alexis_Wingstar
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Date Posted:
5/18 8:21am
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RE: The Underrated Story Index - First featured story up!
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I know I PMed you with this correction, but that's before I noticed that you also put a underline as well as leaving 'the' out of my writing partner's screen name.  My bad. It's The Musical Jedi, no underlines. I didn't want to flood your box with PM's.
Thanks again for choosing our story first.  I can't wait to see some other fics that will be featured. There are many, I'm sure that deserve more recognition than they get. 
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Earthknight
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Date Posted:
5/23 6:12pm
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RE: The Underrated Story Index - First featured story up!
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UP!
This thread shall not slip into the abyss!
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Underrated_Index
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Date Posted:
5/25 2:53am
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RE: The Underrated Story Index - New featured story + discussion!
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Ok, new featured story up and to lively up this thread a bit, I've decided to start a little discussion:
We've all been there, seeing a story we thought would do alright sink with a small or even no readership at all! How do you, as an author, cope with that? How do you convince yourself to keep on writing?
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-thor-
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5/25 4:05am
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Easy - have the story finished before you start posting. 
On a serious note. I happen to have ... eccentric ... muses. They tend to take long breaks (and I mean long long breaks) so that posting while writing doesn't work for me. As a result there's been just one story I abandoned - because I tried to post while the story wasn't finished.
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Earthknight
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5/25 10:52am
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Well when you see your hard work slip into skid row you naturally feel down. But you also get a hunger to keep writing because a thought appears in your head that 'okay this can't continue forever. Eventually you're going to get a reader'. We all have bad luck but bad luck doesn't last forever.
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DarthIshtar
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5/25 11:06am
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Be more in love with the story than you are with your readers. I have a diary challenge response where I have incredible characters, intense situations and 2 readers. I am so addicted to the characters that I want to keep going.
What do we do if we've PMed stories to the sock and the index isn't showing that we have?
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Alexis_Wingstar
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5/25 11:08am
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From what I understand, the only stories that are indexed are the ones that have been featured.
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DarthIshtar
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5/25 11:21am
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Okay...that sort of defeats the purpose of an index. How are we supposed to support things that we don't ever hear about?
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Alexis_Wingstar
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5/25 11:36am
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I know what you mean. yodas_waiter, this is just a suggestion, but why can't you go ahead and index stories that are eligible for indexing under the underrated category, but still do a feature once a week on one or another story?
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DarthIshtar
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5/25 11:45am
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The main point is, you don't index the underrated, they stay underrated.
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Underrated_Index
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5/25 2:22pm
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The setup and aims of this index invites a tricky situation. Either you do a straight-up index and risk losing several stories in the crowd or one can do as I do now, featuring one rather heavily but leaving many stories unfortunately unseen. Me and The_Face discussed this since I felt that the first option, the one Ish seems to prefer, would the best thing but he felt it would defeat the purpose of the index. Instead, he suggested the current setup with some very persuasive arguments and in the end I agreed with him, thus you see the index in its current form.
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I know what you mean. yodas_waiter, this is just a suggestion, but why can't you go ahead and index stories that are eligible for indexing under the underrated category, but still do a feature once a week on one or another story?
However, I find this to be a perfect compromise and I can't believe it hasn't even crossed my mind until now. Thank you Alexis
I'm sorry for any misunderstanding that may have occured. Apparently, I failed to be clear enough in my opening posts.
I will see to it that stories will get indexed and then later featured, however, since I'm graduating at the end of this week, this may take some time. So all I ask for is patience.
Thanks for bringing this to my attention. I want this to be a good an index as possible
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Alexis_Wingstar
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Date Posted:
5/25 2:38pm
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If you need any help, I'll be glad to give it.
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Underrated_Index
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Date Posted:
5/25 3:23pm
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Alexis_Wingstar posted:
If you need any help, I'll be glad to give it.
Thanks Alexis, but I don't think I need any help with this. At least not now.
I'm just saying, with this being a pretty crazy week, that the index probably won't be fully updated until by the end of the week. So, be patient everyone and I'll get it fixed!
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