ABSTRACT ABC TALES http://www.abctales.com/ a diverse online forum and community at which writers can post their poetry and
stories for a general readership. Stories can be read, and critiqued in a manner not unlike that of the Shvoong pages h right here. ABC provides an excellent starting place for writers to promote their talents to the world, and receive constructive critical feedback from fellow wordsmiths. Some poems and stories are cherry picked by ABC experts for special consideration. The ABC title comes as writers are encouraged to present work in twenty six unit blocks, though writers can have as many blocks as they like, at zero expense. The site provides so much
literature that users might never need to buy a book ever again if they don’t wish to do so. The ABC site provides information and links of news throughout the publishing world, and they are very keen to show when an ABC author has achieved some success in getting work into print. Stories are listed by genre, author name and title, as well as other reference criteria, which makes finding
material very easy. The quality of writing is high and ABC is careful to have authors warn when work has strong adult only content too. It would be now virtually impossible to read the site’s complete library of material in a single lifetime. The amount of material available is astronomical. It is possible to go to the site’s most recently added stories and start from there, which may be a good starting point for many readers. If you are unsure what to read, you can select a story at random, which can be fun. Of course, if you don’t like a particular story you can quickly move to a new one. Mailing lists, discussion forums and regular updates of activity on the site are freely available in a very creative environment. ABC may well spawn some of the great authors of the future.