More and more writers are being born into the world today, and all of them struggle to receive some appreciation for their work and gain some recognition. FictionPress.com, a website where over a million talented writers find a home for their original lit

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Undiscovered Talent

Thomas Gray has rightly said:

“Full many a gem of purest ray serene,
   The dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear:
Full many a flower is born to blush unseen,                
   And waste its sweetness on the desert air.”

FictionPress.com provides a place for such gems – undiscovered writers in this case – to showcase their works of fiction and receive recognition for their work.  

More and more writers are being born into the world today, and all of them struggle to receive some appreciation for their work and gain some recognition. FictionPress.com, a website where over a million talented writers find a home for their original literary works, grants them both these prospects. This ever-growing network of approximately 1,200,000 pieces of writing is fast becoming popular among people of all ages from all over the world.

FictionPress was originally part of its now sister website, FanFiction.net, under its own category of “original fiction”. However, once the number of fiction pieces started escalating in this category, FictionPress was branched off into a separate website. FanFiction – as its name suggests – is a site dedicated to people wishing to write fiction pieces based on characters from their favourite authors’ books, and it is clearly the more popular website of the two, with over 2.2 million users worldwide.

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Apart from hosting fiction pieces, FictionPress showcases poetry of different genres as well. The fiction section has 21 genres (general, fantasy, romance, and young adult being the most popular), while the poetry section has 15 genres (the general, life, and love genres being more popular here).

The site has a set of guidelines for every registered user (registration being free) who wants to publish their work, involving a run-through of the rating system derived from FictionRatings.com – the ratings being K (the content meant for ages 5 and up), K+ (for ages 9 and above), T (for ages 13 and ...

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