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Jun. 14th, 2014 01:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
the_rckLast night, there was a potluck for the families of the fifth grade class on the school playground. It was pretty cold for June, about 60 degrees when the potluck started at 6:00 and getting colder as the evening wore on.
I boiled up some potstickers. The pan I put them in had no insulation, so by the time we ate, they were quite cold. Most of them got eaten anyway, though, so I guess it wasn't too awful.
Seven or eight families came out of a class of twenty-six. The fifth graders played on the swings and then played soccer. The younger kids climbed on the play structure. The adults talked. About midway through, the fifth grade teacher showed up.
Scott was scheduled to go in to work at 3 a.m., but his alarm failed to go off. Fortunately, they didn't need him, so he's not actually in trouble. He does, however, need to look into getting a new alarm clock. This is the second week running that his 2 a.m. alarm has failed to go off.
I have posted two stories at fanfiction.net. They limit me to two stories a day for the first ten days, so I'll be slow at getting stuff up there. I really wish they had a FAQ of some sort. I'd like to have know about the two story limit up front rather than banging into it when I tried to post a third story. I also need to fiddle with the formatting in order to keep breaks between different sections of a story. My usual method is multiple returns, but those seem to get stripped out.
I've decided to post the crossovers first. Then I'll work my way through the stuff I rate K or K+. Then I'll do the T stuff. I need to figure out the best way to do warnings for the M stuff. I also need to put together some sort of blurb for my profile. It seems reasonable to mention that I also post to AO3, just in case someone is interested in seeing my explicit stories. I'm not sure there's much else to say. I'd like to let the stories speak for themselves.
I do have several fandoms that I can't find listings for on fanfiction.net. The one that surprises me is Zelazny's Chronicles of Amber. I've looked in books under Amber, Chronicles, Zelazny, and Roger and have found nothing. What am I supposed to do with stories for which there's no fandom listing? I've got six stories like that (three of them Amber). Can one request that a fandom be added? If so, how? Is there some sort of miscellaneous listing? That seems like a black hole to drop a story into. One would never see it again.
I boiled up some potstickers. The pan I put them in had no insulation, so by the time we ate, they were quite cold. Most of them got eaten anyway, though, so I guess it wasn't too awful.
Seven or eight families came out of a class of twenty-six. The fifth graders played on the swings and then played soccer. The younger kids climbed on the play structure. The adults talked. About midway through, the fifth grade teacher showed up.
Scott was scheduled to go in to work at 3 a.m., but his alarm failed to go off. Fortunately, they didn't need him, so he's not actually in trouble. He does, however, need to look into getting a new alarm clock. This is the second week running that his 2 a.m. alarm has failed to go off.
I have posted two stories at fanfiction.net. They limit me to two stories a day for the first ten days, so I'll be slow at getting stuff up there. I really wish they had a FAQ of some sort. I'd like to have know about the two story limit up front rather than banging into it when I tried to post a third story. I also need to fiddle with the formatting in order to keep breaks between different sections of a story. My usual method is multiple returns, but those seem to get stripped out.
I've decided to post the crossovers first. Then I'll work my way through the stuff I rate K or K+. Then I'll do the T stuff. I need to figure out the best way to do warnings for the M stuff. I also need to put together some sort of blurb for my profile. It seems reasonable to mention that I also post to AO3, just in case someone is interested in seeing my explicit stories. I'm not sure there's much else to say. I'd like to let the stories speak for themselves.
I do have several fandoms that I can't find listings for on fanfiction.net. The one that surprises me is Zelazny's Chronicles of Amber. I've looked in books under Amber, Chronicles, Zelazny, and Roger and have found nothing. What am I supposed to do with stories for which there's no fandom listing? I've got six stories like that (three of them Amber). Can one request that a fandom be added? If so, how? Is there some sort of miscellaneous listing? That seems like a black hole to drop a story into. One would never see it again.
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Date: 2014-06-14 06:02 pm (UTC)Why ff.net, just out of curiosity?
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Date: 2014-06-14 07:08 pm (UTC)I definitely prefer the AO3 posting interface, however, and AO3 has better help documentation (ff.net doesn't appear to have any).
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Date: 2014-06-14 07:42 pm (UTC)Don't ask WHY, there are limits to what I can answer.
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Date: 2014-06-14 08:00 pm (UTC)I think the others I can't find are simply too obscure-- Zenna Henderson's The People books, But We Are Not of Earth by Jean Karl, and The Ordinary Princess by M.M. Kaye-- but I thought Amber had to be there somewhere. I was just at a loss to find it.
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Date: 2014-06-15 07:01 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-06-16 12:21 am (UTC)The Zenna Henderson story is a crossover with Doctor Who, so it may get readers that way. The But We Are Not of Earth story isn't my best work, so I don't mind it disappearing into the ether. I will regret dropping The Ordinary Queen into oblivion.
I am already getting comments on the things I've posted.
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Date: 2014-06-15 02:15 am (UTC)https://www.fanfiction.net/book/Book-of-Amber/
FF.net categories are sometimes weird that way; I've been on the site since 2002 and I still can't totally predict how things work. I know you can ask for new fandoms; but not how that works.
There are also Misc categories; look under Misc instead of Books, and you'll find Misc Books, and so on. I still have some stories hanging out in those categories; and no, they don't get much attention. The AO3 is better for teeny fandom stuff, that's for sure.
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Date: 2014-06-16 12:29 am (UTC)I think I prefer AO3, overall, but I'm starting to become more confident about posting on ff.net. I suspect I'll be completely comfortable with it by the time I have all my eligible fics posted there.