Greetings gentle readers,

You were probably expecting to find a long-delayed chapter of Unrealized Peacekeeper here. Sadly, I must disappoint. The chapter is not finished yet, and I do apologize for the long wait. Life happens, sometimes.

That is not, however, my reason for posting this.

Over the past few years that I have been a contributing member of the FanFiction.net community, the site administrators have done a number of things that annoyed me. Today, they finally found the straw to break my back. The following is from their main page notices for April 27th, 2005.
"In addition, FanFiction.Net would like to address a growing problem. For whatever reason, some writers feel it's okay to copy-n-paste musical lyrics they have not written into their fiction. If you did not write it, do not post it. This has always been our policy. Please remove these entries immediately to avoid account closure."

I kept my stories here because I had written in more than one fandom, and it was the only place I could find to keep everything in one place, under my control. Now, while I have not used any song lyrics in my stories, I have committed the grievous sin of quoting poetry, famous writings, and dialogue from television shows that Idid not write.

A number of writers that I respect and admire have taken this as their cue to leave a place where they are not welcome. I'm planning to follow their example

Many of those departing fic writers have created Yahoo Groups for their stories, where they can post what they like, invite discussionof it, and interact more freely with their readers. This, too, is an example I am following.

You will be able to find all of the finished stories I had posted here at my new Yahoo Group:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/oneeyes_fanfiction/

I have also added a number of works-in-progress, including a Farscape filler fic and an Invisible Man/MacGyver crossover. "Unrealized Peacekeeper", of course, will also join these. Anyone
interested is welcome to join this group.

One of the things I liked least about the format here was how much it limited my ability to interact with the readers who had left me reviews. Hopefully the Yahoo Group
format will help me rectify that.

Thank you all, and I hope to see you at Yahoo.

OneEye the DRD

ETA (2/7/06): Unrealized Peacekeeper, Episode 16: The Sound of Silence has been completed and posted. You can find it in the files section of my Yahoo! Group, at Unrealized Realities, and at Terra Firma.