thirty days of fanfic, day twenty-three
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jlh(list of questions can be found at day one)
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23 – When you post, where do you post to? Just your journal? Just an archive? Your own personal site?
I post to three places: my LJ, my DW fic journal, and AO3.
For HP fic, I will post to FA if it's within their guidelines (not NC-17 and longer than 500 words) though I admit that making html files is a giant PITA and I don't really like doing it now that I don't have to. I have also put my Draco/Ginny fic on the Fire & Ice Archive, and the Harry/Hermione fic at Portkey (though I don't think I'll do that again). I know there's a Jim/Bones archive and I have an account there, but I haven't yet started uploading.
Definitely LJ and AO3 have made me more complacent about putting fics on archives. There isn't an awesome html editor for the mac, and programs like Word tend to export stuff that says it's html but actually is not and won't upload. Back in the day, for FA, I used Netscape because it had an editor included, and I could WYSIWYG edit my html files, but I can no longer do that. It's frustrating enough that it keeps me from bothering with archives. Crossposting is enough effort without making all new files and posting them all over the place.
Also, it's tiring as a writer and as a reader to have all these archives all over the place that have only some of my fic and don't send me notices when someone comments, etc, etc, etc. Now that I'm pretty firmly multifannish, I like having things a little more centrally located. AO3 is the only place other than my LJ/DW where I can post all of my fic. FF.net doesn't accept RPF or NC-17; Skyehawke doesn't accept underage (and I've written a couple of teen stories in HP); and most other archives are fandom- or pairing-centric. Putting this here and that there, it can get a little overwhelming.
Or I'm just lazy!
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23 – When you post, where do you post to? Just your journal? Just an archive? Your own personal site?
I post to three places: my LJ, my DW fic journal, and AO3.
For HP fic, I will post to FA if it's within their guidelines (not NC-17 and longer than 500 words) though I admit that making html files is a giant PITA and I don't really like doing it now that I don't have to. I have also put my Draco/Ginny fic on the Fire & Ice Archive, and the Harry/Hermione fic at Portkey (though I don't think I'll do that again). I know there's a Jim/Bones archive and I have an account there, but I haven't yet started uploading.
Definitely LJ and AO3 have made me more complacent about putting fics on archives. There isn't an awesome html editor for the mac, and programs like Word tend to export stuff that says it's html but actually is not and won't upload. Back in the day, for FA, I used Netscape because it had an editor included, and I could WYSIWYG edit my html files, but I can no longer do that. It's frustrating enough that it keeps me from bothering with archives. Crossposting is enough effort without making all new files and posting them all over the place.
Also, it's tiring as a writer and as a reader to have all these archives all over the place that have only some of my fic and don't send me notices when someone comments, etc, etc, etc. Now that I'm pretty firmly multifannish, I like having things a little more centrally located. AO3 is the only place other than my LJ/DW where I can post all of my fic. FF.net doesn't accept RPF or NC-17; Skyehawke doesn't accept underage (and I've written a couple of teen stories in HP); and most other archives are fandom- or pairing-centric. Putting this here and that there, it can get a little overwhelming.
Or I'm just lazy!
