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Jun. 13th, 2014 04:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
the_rckTalking with a few people has led me to decide to post my lower rated fic on fanfiction.net. I currently post to AO3 and my website. For a little while, I was posting my stories to a dedicated DreamWidth journal, but I gave up on that once I started posting on AO3 since the point was to have a backup location for my stories just in case my website went down, and AO3 seemed to me to be easier to use for that and a more likely location for finding readers.
When I started posting, I was only writing Rheotaxis, and that doesn't fit the content guidelines for fanfiction.net (that was new then. I remember the fuss over it), so I settled for posting it exclusively to my own site. For a while, I considered posting to Mediaminer, but I couldn't figure out the interface and wasn't willing to experiment with it when I had a perfectly good website. (Does Mediaminer even still exist? I haven't gone there in many years.) Once I started writing other things, things that could go on fanfiction.net, I was in the habit of posting only to my website.
I never started posting fic to my LiveJournal because most of the people I know there don't read fic. I didn't see any reason to do more than announce a new fic and link to it. I suppose I could have cut tagged it (once that was introduced) but again, habit.
Anyway, back to posting on fanfiction.net-- I'm having trouble figuring out how to post, and I can't find any sort of FAQ. Is there a place that gives answers to basic questions? I don't feel like I should have to open a help request when I just have basic, functional questions. I have gathered that my preferred word processor, TextEdit, isn't supported. I'm mostly looking for information about things like how to do bold and italic text. I'm used to putting in the html as I write my stories (makes it easier to post to AO3 and gives me cues for when I post to my website since copying and pasting there loses that type of formatting).
I think I understand the rating system. I'm being harsh about what fits which rating. That is, some things I consider T on AO3 are coming in as M by the standards of fanfiction.net (mostly for language). K and K+ are difficult for me to distinguish. I think part of it is that I don't think any fic is appropriate for a five year old (largely because I have trouble imagining a five year old who'd be interested).
Anybody use fanfiction.net and have advice on how it works? Some hand holding would not go amiss. I'd ask the person who most recently suggested fanfiction.net to me, but the only e-mail I have for her is a work address, and I don't want to risk outing her.
When I started posting, I was only writing Rheotaxis, and that doesn't fit the content guidelines for fanfiction.net (that was new then. I remember the fuss over it), so I settled for posting it exclusively to my own site. For a while, I considered posting to Mediaminer, but I couldn't figure out the interface and wasn't willing to experiment with it when I had a perfectly good website. (Does Mediaminer even still exist? I haven't gone there in many years.) Once I started writing other things, things that could go on fanfiction.net, I was in the habit of posting only to my website.
I never started posting fic to my LiveJournal because most of the people I know there don't read fic. I didn't see any reason to do more than announce a new fic and link to it. I suppose I could have cut tagged it (once that was introduced) but again, habit.
Anyway, back to posting on fanfiction.net-- I'm having trouble figuring out how to post, and I can't find any sort of FAQ. Is there a place that gives answers to basic questions? I don't feel like I should have to open a help request when I just have basic, functional questions. I have gathered that my preferred word processor, TextEdit, isn't supported. I'm mostly looking for information about things like how to do bold and italic text. I'm used to putting in the html as I write my stories (makes it easier to post to AO3 and gives me cues for when I post to my website since copying and pasting there loses that type of formatting).
I think I understand the rating system. I'm being harsh about what fits which rating. That is, some things I consider T on AO3 are coming in as M by the standards of fanfiction.net (mostly for language). K and K+ are difficult for me to distinguish. I think part of it is that I don't think any fic is appropriate for a five year old (largely because I have trouble imagining a five year old who'd be interested).
Anybody use fanfiction.net and have advice on how it works? Some hand holding would not go amiss. I'd ask the person who most recently suggested fanfiction.net to me, but the only e-mail I have for her is a work address, and I don't want to risk outing her.
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Date: 2014-06-14 11:27 am (UTC)Then click on 'doc manager' and upload or copy/paste your story.
Finally go to 'new story' to publish your fic.
There is an Info/Guide section there too. Good luck!
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Date: 2014-06-16 02:22 am (UTC)