Spellbound 6

[amalthia]

I've finally posted chapter 6 of Spellbound.

My website: http://amothea.slashcity.com/fanfiction.html

Adult Fan Fiction.Net: http://adultfan.nexcess.net/aff/authors.php?no=12474

Skyhawke: http://www.skyehawke.com/archive/authors.php?no=342

Restricted Section.Org http://www.restrictedsection.org/author.php?name=Amalthia (it's probably not posted yet)

Any and all feedback would be greatly appreciated.

Comments

[amalthia]

Hi, thank you so much for the feedback. :) I'm glad you enjoyed it and I just hope it doesn't take me long to finish part 7. :)

I think what bugs me the most about short chapters is that the authors hardly ever consolidate the chapters into 1 file; downloading 61 (just an example) files is time consuming. It would be nice to have the option of downloading the entire story at one go. So far the story is interesting, I haven't checked it in a few days though.

[cadaver-666.livejournal.com]

Okay, I can understand that about shorter chapter. I hate copying and pasting them into one large file too. It is soo tedious.

[amalthia]

yeah, I pretty much gave up on reading Bittersweet Potions series because I find it highly annoying that after reading just a little bit you have to stop and load the next page. I mean it's one thing is the chapters are long...but they aren't. I don't know why authors feel like they need to break the story up into tiny pieces...

If everyone did that...I think i'd have to cry. lol I'm just glad that only a select few authors and not many are very good, decide to do this to the readers.

I feel like some authors do it to manipulate the readers and encourage more feedback, but maybe I'm paranoid.

[cadaver-666.livejournal.com]

Just me but I don't think you are paranoid. I am positive that some authors do that and it drives me crazy! I hate waiting for another chapter as the author holds out for more reviews. That is one thing that just drives me up the wall.

I stopped reading A Bittersweet Potions series too. Although, I did stop for different reasons. I just didn't like the story all that much... Call me crazy but it did not do anything for me.

[amalthia]

I was interested in reading the series because of all the warnings, and I like Harry/Snape but I tried reading the first chapter and kind of lost interest...

In some cases it's kind of fun to wait for the next part in a series. I don't know if you ever read X-Files, but one fic author wrote this series called Dark Angel's Fire and each part was rather long, but I really looked forward to each part because each part was a story of it's own. but what gets me is when you feel like you've read just a small part of a bigger chapter...it kind of cuts the flow of the story for me.

aspen being the exception. So far each chapter seems to be moving the story forward...but some of them I think could be combined.

I just can't believe how much feedback she's getting, I still don't feel like there is a full story here to respond to, just bits and pieces. though I guess when it's finished it should be interesting. :)

[cadaver-666.livejournal.com]

Hm, warnings can be very attractive. I do know that from first hand experience. But I can see why you would have lost interest.

As for reading other fanfiction, honestly I wouldn't know where to begin. I only started reading Harry Potter back in the summer of '03 and I am still in the fanfiction 'closet'. LOL. So, to answer your answer no I haven't read any of Dark Angel's Fire. Although I do love the X-Files. That was one of my favorite series back in the day. Until the last two seasons... I didn't like the direction they took the series at that point and time.

I do agree when you say it feels like some of the chapters could be combined. I just hate the fact that in one of the chapters she writes that she is gonna try to not make them as long because people had said something to her and I am sitting at my computer wondering what moron would say that. I love reading long chapters. It in fact makes my day to see a nice long chapter. Mais telle est la vie, non ?

I think a lot of the feedback has to do with the fact the AYLNO was such a huge hit. And that story seems to have garnered quite the following. That is how I originally even found out about her Snarry story. I am not saying it doesn't deserve the reviews and feedback but just that AYLNO does have a large part in Cambiare Podentes' success. Of course I also think if Podentes was written first it would have helped launch AYLNO. So I guess I can just chalk it up to Aspen being a good author. ;)