Lately, I've been trying to sample some Castle fics from Fanfiction.net, but have been somewhat frustrated by the way to present their content.
I realize that the sheer volume of material that they archive makes it very difficult to keep things orderly.
The disadvantage they have is that they don't have a nice message boards for every possible fandom where writers can post their works in progress in order to get the feedback that we all desire. So, they essentially allow their writers to do so right on the archive.
Since we have the luxury of such a well organized and well managed fandom we can have our cake and eat it too.
The archive policies don't have to change at all. Luckily we have the message boards to work out our in progress stories, and volunteer editors to polish them up for us before we place the completed product onto the archive.
Sequels, prequels, and fics in a series are all legitimate 'complete' story arcs and should be treated by the archives as such.
Tank (who acknowledges that he is very intimidated by the emensity of fanfiction.net)
