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Omake/ Miscellaneous Words outside story
I hate to be the bad guy, but this is a fanfiction site, not a babble on. I love the little omake on the end or beginning, but I have to put my foot down. Omake will have their own category. I expect any current stories containing conversations or omake scenes tacked onto the beginning or end of chapters to instead either not put it in or make a special omake in a new story file.

What I have seen so far makes the story messy and really is a waste of space. Since A Single Spark is a few years old, editing the thousands of fanfics are impossible. It is best to nip this now rather than later. I will add to the "Add New Story" module a note about this. Further omake will be removed by me or any other moderator.

--Nile on 01 Sep 2007 12:53:57 AM 3 Comments
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Er... What's Omake? I know the title says 'Miscellaneous Words outside story' but what do you mean?
- Lupi on 02 Sep 2007 5:50:23 PM
Omake (お負け but often written オマケ) means extra or bonus in Japanese. Among other things, the term is used to describe what in English are called 'Special Features' on DVD releases: deleted scenes, interviews with the actors, "the making of" documentary clips, out-takes, amusing bloopers, and so forth. However, this use of the term actually predates the DVD medium by several years. For more information:

Omake on Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omake
- Taiyoukai_Nile on 02 Sep 2007 8:10:05 PM

But when I use omake, I have author notes in them.  It just makes it a litte more intresting.  Not to mention at the end I have a preview of the next chapter.  I want people to know why they're coming back, you know.  I can't make a whole NEW story just for those. 

~TH~ 

- thehotty on 03 Oct 2007 4:14:23 PM