FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

1. Why do you say a person has to be age eighteen or over to read this
   site?
2. Can anyone comment?
3. How do I get an account?
4. Are there restrictions on comments?
5. What do I say in a comment?
6. So do I have to comment?
7. Do you like chapter by chapter comments?
8. Are there other ways to show you if I like the fiction?
9. Should I comment if I see an error in the fiction?
10. Do you accept payment?
11. How much fan fiction have you written?
12. Why are so many of your pieces co-authored?
13. Is your work available on any other journal sites?
14. Why this site and not post to LJ or a journal site
    instead?
15. Is your work available on any of the archive sites?
16. Why are the stories at some of the archives not as complete as here?
17. Do you need people to Beta for you?
18. Why the name slashpervert?
19. Do you write things other than fan fiction?
    
20. What is your real name?
21. How old are you?
22. Why do you post so much?
23. Isn’t your co-authored fiction just RPG logs?
24. Why don’t you post more of your works in progress (WIP)?
25. Isn’t what you have already published WIP?
    
26. Why not just wait until they are done?
    
27. How do you choose co-authors?
28. Which characters do you write?

1. Why do you say a person has to be age eighteen or over to read this journal?
   United States law. I could be prosecuted for contributing to the delinquency of a minor, and other similar charges, if I knowingly allowed someone under age eighteen to read my sexually explicit fiction. (It strikes me as particularly odd that it is often legal to have sex in some places before it is legal for young people to be allowed to read about it. I could do an entire rant – and probably will sometime – on the censorship of erotic material.) In the meantime, please do not put me and my writing at risk.
2. Can anyone comment? You have to give a user name and email to comment if you don’t have an account on the site.
3. How do I get an account? Accounts on this site are free. Just sign up and you are ready to go. There will be some bonus material only available to readers with accounts.
4. Are there restrictions on comments? There are basically two types of comments not allowed: First, irrelevant or abusive comments. Let’s keep things civil and on topic. Second, no spam or other overly self-promotional comments. You know the difference.
5. What do I say in a comment? Anything that shows you read it and it engaged you. It’s always lovely when someone quotes a favorite line or tells their reaction to specific parts. Was reading it worth your time? If so, why?
6. So do I have to comment? No, but it is the polite way to reward the author for their time. Many hours of work can go into even a short work, let alone a novel. Can you spare a minute to tell the author you enjoyed it? Even anonymous comments are acceptable. In fan fiction, we can’t charge money for our work. So show your appreciation in comments, please.
7. Do you like chapter by chapter comments? Love ‘em! Like getting to reread it with you.
8. Are there other ways to show you if I like the fiction? Yes! Recommend our work to others. Get it out there. If you are an artist – we adore illustrations! Photo manip? Video? Anything inspired by or that reminds you of our work, let us know.
   
9. Should I comment if I see an error in the fiction? Yes, comment or email us. No matter how many times we and out beta’s read the fics, there are always little errors that slip through. Fan catches on them are great and I am able to edit them then. (Comments on the content will be read but are not likely to result in changes to an already written and published fic.)
   
10. Do you accept payment? We can not legally accept money for fan fiction. Comments are gold though. And we accept donations to cover the costs of maintaining the site itself.
11. How much fan fiction have you written? Over two million words at last count, only about half of which is published yet.
    
12. Why are so many of your pieces co-authored? It’s more fun to write with someone else. And I usually save my solo writing for non-fan fiction writing. And I am more prolific when I co-write than solo.
13. Is your work available on any other journal sites? Yes. I have slashpervert journals at both insanejournal.com and greatestjournal.com. I will be moving all the fiction to this site and only links on those.
14. Why this site and not post to LJ or a journal site instead? I was not happy with the way those sites can restrict content. I want control of that myself.
15. Is your work available on any of the archive sites? Yes. Under the name slashpervert at: adultfanfiction.net and archive.skyehawke.com. I no longer archive at hexfiles.net since they banned two of my stories and I will not support censorship. (Details here.) I also archive at restrictedsection.org but they are currently behind in updating. Please let me know if there are archives you would recommend.
16. Why are the stories at some of the archives not as complete as here?
    That is usually the case at archives where we have to submit the files to them and wait until they are either approved and/or uploaded. This means we can’t publish there at the pace we do on LJ. Or, I have fallen behind in doing the updates because I am too busy writing. Or both.
    
17. Do you need people to Beta for you? We are able publish the work we do at the rate we do because of the help of some amazing people who help us edit and proofread the stories. What we need in Beta’s is pretty specific. See THIS post for detail and application.
18. Why the name slashpervert? When I created the name if was for a livejournal account, with the intention of just reading fan fiction, not writing it. I wanted something easy to remember. Since I felt like an even bigger pervert than usual for reading HP slash fiction, I chose the name to reflect that.
19. Do you write things other than fan fiction? Yes. I am a published journalist and social scientist. I have written and published hundreds of articles and a handful of books. I am working on several novels at this time, a couple with the co-authors you see here, and at least one solo work.
20. What is your real name? Not telling here. I don’t mix my academic writing world and my fan fiction. The only thing I am willing to share is that if you read LGBT non-fiction titles, you would probably recognize my name. Slashpervert is what you get.
    
21. How old are you? Over 30. Old enough to remember and have read Star Trek K/S fan fiction back when we still had to print it and sell it to others to get our fiction out there.
22. Why do you post so much? Hey, I only post half of what we have written. Just that prolific, I guess. There are at least a dozen pieces that are in progress, or that didn’t go anywhere, sitting in my hard drive.
23. Isn’t your co-authored fiction just RPG logs? No, not entirely. Most of them start out as one-to-one RP logs in IM. But there are some major differences. First, I have a kink for plot. So I get bored easily if it doesn’t turn into a story. Second, it takes a hell of a lot of work to take those rough IM logs and turn them into readable fiction. It’s not just stripping out the IM login names and the extraneous conversation. There is a lot of research and rewriting which most RPG players don’t bother with. I should write up a description of the process, but I am spending way too much time on it at the moment! It involves at least a dozen steps between the IM dialog and what you see on screen.
24. Why don’t you post more of your works in progress (WIP)? I did with early ones like Secrets and Promises. I found several problems with it. First, I can’t always depend on other co-authors to hang in there and finish the story (note the currently stalled S&P). Second, it does not allow the kind of editing that makes for better fiction. We actually go back and change things, add scenes etc. to make the work as a whole better. Can’t do that as easily if you have already published early chapters. Third, I don’t always know that a piece is going to pan out and I don’t want to leave folks hanging. And fourth, I tend to prefer completed works myself.
25. Isn’t what you have already published WIP? Most of it is written before I start putting it out there. With novel length works like Blind Beauty and The Bound Prince series, it can take months to go from a finished rough copy to a ready-to-post fiction. So we serialize it.
26. Why not just wait until they are done? Honestly, it’s more fun not to wait. The comments help give us the energy for the mind breaking work of editing the fiction. Comments get me out of bed on bad days. And most people will only comment at the end of the fiction, but will comment on chapters when it is serialized. And then there is a matter of publicity. As I have said elsewhere, we write the stuff for ourselves but we publish it for you. If we didn’t want to be read by others, we wouldn’t put it online. So when we publish say, a chapter a day, it builds momentum. There are only so many times you can post to the communities about a finished work. But you can post updates about the serialized work. Brings new readers.
27. How do you choose co-authors? I am, at this point, amazingly blessed with several talented people who have become very important to me. If you had told me a year ago that I would be co-authoring anything, let alone something this intimate, with someone I had never even met in person, I would not have believed it. Even my academic collaborations usually grew out of mutual trust and respect in the field. So far, my fan fiction collaborations have happened with people I either met in a online role playing game or who posted to a journal that they were looking to play with someone. A couple of times people have contacted me. I have done the one-to-one RP thing a few times with folks where it was fun but didn’t “go anywhere.” It’s kind of like dating to see if there is chemistry between you. Sometimes it turns into a kind of relationship where I find I both enjoy and work well with someone. Sometimes it was just a nice time but that’s all. There are some writers whose work I admire and would love to write with. But for the most part, my plate is pretty full right now.
28. Which characters do you write? In co-authored work, we divide up the characters to write. In HP/DM fiction, I usually write Draco. Depending on the fiction, I have also written: Remus, Tonks, Snape, Shaklebolt, Neville, Hermione, Ron, Oliver Wood and probably a dozen other minor characters. I often write the villains too: Lucius Malfoy, Bellatrix and the Lestrange brothers, Macnair, etc. Remember, in solo fiction, I am used to writing all the characters. So it isn’t really difficult to write some or even most of them in co-authored work.

This page last updated 2/19/2008.