I am currently finishing up a fort I made in the creation kit, but if i can only view it if i get in the general area of it. On the other hand i can view vanilla forts from miles away... any ideas how to fix this? plz do help

That would be LOD. It's a bit...touchy, and always has been in Bethesda games, so you may want to read up on it.

http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1354877-new-worldspaces-object-lod-and-region-generation/

the vanilla forts you see in the far distance are part of Tamriel terrain LOD's. they are not mesh LOD's (as the individual mesh LOD's of the exteriors disappear after a very short distance, leaving behind the terrain LOD)

Yup, checking the little is LOD box seems to make things visable from a distance.