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Post by Anna on May 15, 2021 7:51:13 GMT
Oh, that’s harsh. I hear that AI can write text, now... so how long before it can critique it? Five years? Not much longer, for sure. I don’t know what specs you have in mind for the short stories, Anna? Any guidance as to length? Subject matter? X-rating? I’ll let you have something if I can. Maybe the dysmorphic dinosaur thing I wrote this week doesn’t quite fit your expectations. Bx I think, length wise, just something that can be read in one sitting, so probably up to a max of 15,000 words, or as few as 500. Subject matter is open as long as there is a trans protagonist who isn't a sissy. As for x-ratings, nothing pornographic, but sexy is okay. Anna xx
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Post by Anna on May 17, 2021 13:44:36 GMT
The first story of the week is up on the website and it's one of Tanya's. Please take the time to visit the site and boost our numbers, it helps us get found on searches, and share the heck out of it any way you can. Finding Jocelyn by Tanya HEnjoy Anna xx
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Post by superhellkitten on May 17, 2021 18:13:06 GMT
Hi Miss Mouse, Just went onto the site and I can't see the link on the home page to the free stories. I think we need to make it a big splash that takes you to the free story page to drive traffic.
Kat
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Post by Bryony Marsh on May 17, 2021 21:22:47 GMT
The first story of the week is up on the website and it's one of Tanya's. Please take the time to visit the site and boost our numbers, it helps us get found on searches, and share the heck out of it any way you can. Finding Jocelyn by Tanya HEnjoy Anna xx I’ve read that story before, but it was well worth another look. I devoured it. Good work, Tanya!
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Post by Anna on May 18, 2021 16:16:45 GMT
Hi Miss Mouse, Just went onto the site and I can't see the link on the home page to the free stories. I think we need to make it a big splash that takes you to the free story page to drive traffic. Kat Thanks Kat. Any Better? Anna xx
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Post by superhellkitten on May 18, 2021 17:24:25 GMT
Much better Anna. Hopefully this will drive some people to go back and look for the story of the week.
Kat
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Post by Bryony Marsh on Jun 2, 2021 11:58:03 GMT
You used my short story!
Thanks – it’s great to see it “out there”.
Bx
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Post by Bryony Marsh on Jun 7, 2021 12:48:40 GMT
I wrote a short blog post to point my readers in the direction of “story of the week”. If nothing else, the extra links ought to do something favourable in terms of search rankings?
Thanks for what you’re doing Anna!
Bx
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Post by Anna on Jun 9, 2021 8:48:38 GMT
Hi guys, I'm giving away free kindles of For Love this weekend to try and drive traffic to the website. I have posted on both the TS facebook and twitter pages and will continue to do so over the next few days. Please share/retweet wherever you can, so far the site is failing miserably.
Anna xx
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Post by Bryony Marsh on Jun 9, 2021 9:06:05 GMT
I like Katerina’s story that became story of the week, but the ‘archive’ listing for previous stories has disappeared? I only mention it because I am a putz and I need to fix the link on my blog.
Sorry to hear that the site is “failing miserably” but I guess you have to keep on swinging, if you want hits. (Thinking baseball rather than anything else you might have imagined.)
Bx
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Post by superhellkitten on Jun 9, 2021 16:15:12 GMT
I'll do some advertising when I next write a post on my blog.
Kat
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Post by Tanya on Jun 9, 2021 19:29:57 GMT
There was a post on Fictionmania's message board today asking for advice on editors.
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Post by madmaddy on Jun 13, 2021 4:24:36 GMT
Retweeted— I’m on the road so can’t blog right now. I think my followership is better on Twitter, anyway. Although my follower count DID go down after I posted a selfie of me in a sports bra . Second puberty, what can I say?
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Post by Bryony Marsh on Jun 13, 2021 6:17:43 GMT
Haha. You boobed there.
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Post by Bryony Marsh on Jun 13, 2021 10:14:21 GMT
I had an idea for promotion.
All the various freebies we have lodged with (for example) Fictionmania have no formatting, or very limited formatting. How about we offer the same stories - branded - as ePub or something, through TransSctipts? That way there’s still a full story at FM (where teaser first chapters are not allowed) but it could be updated to include text that says to get a prettier version from our site.
We would need a ‘house style’.
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