Q: What is Interactive Fiction?
A: explain it
Q: What is a webserial?
A: A webserial (also known as a webnovel or webfiction) is a serialized online story. Instead of being published when complete, they are instead regularly published in installments or chapters as they are written. One of the m0st famous pieces of serialized fiction is Sherlock Holmes, which was written in installments that were later collected and published in different volumes. A webserial is just the same, simply on the internet instead of a specific magazine.
Q: Is it okay to create fanart or fanfiction about your stories?
A: I have a couple of rules: You need to credit my work (refer back to this site/the specific work in a clear and obvious way) and make it clear that you don't claim my specific characters/settings/etc. as your own. Basically, fanart and fanfiction are more than welcome for noncommercial purposes. I'd love to see it!
If you want to do something potentially commercial or more involved, such as full translations, audio books or recordings, or something outside the scope of general fanart, feel free to email me at divergentdaydreamer@gmail.com to ask about it.
Lastly, the most important rule: You will not ever have my permission to feed my work to AI (including GenAI, C.AI, etc.). There are reasons this site is locked behind a sign-up, and part of that is to prevent theft.
Q: Do your stories have content warnings?
A: Yes! I'm a big believer in content warnings. I provide them at the start of each serial chapter, short story or piece of interactive fiction, as well as in the table of contents. My webserial has a general content warning attached as well, readable on the serial's page.
Q: How can I best support you?
A: Recommending my stories to others who might enjoy them helps more than you would think! If you want to support me financially, I have monthly paid tiers you can sign up for with a thank you in the form of a newsletter [and other content?]. You can also [link this part] leave me a tip. [/link] or make a tip button to a NEW KOFI. SET UP NEW KOFI
Q: Will your stories ever have a physical version or ebook?
A: Perhaps one day! I would love to write enough of my webserial to put into a book, and likewise, creating and printing a short story collection would be wonderful. So the answer is no, not at this time, but ideally in the future.
Q: Do you use AI of any kind in your work?
A: I do not believe in using AI for creative work, and I will never use AI or GenAI during my writing process. I believe the human heart holds a spark of creativity and emotion that cannot be emulated by machinery – most especially not when the machines are trained on the stolen and copyrighted works of others, as GenAI is. Everything you see written, down to this very sentence, is 100% written by me.
More questions? Email me at divergentdaydreamer@gmail.com.