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peopleofthedas2010-11-07 11:48 am
varelishawt) wrote in peopleofthedas2010-11-07 11:48 am
A question to you all...
I'm thinking of posting my Varel/F!Cousland stories to ff.net, but due to the nature of the stories, which are fills for DA kink meme prompts, they are, of a necessity, out of order, with only vague references to when they happen in the story's timeline. I'm currently chewing on ideas not only for requests, but for a prologue and the (action-adventure) story of just how the hell Varel has such an in with the Wardens that he knows so many of their secrets. However, I predict that I will concentrate on the pr0n first before the history.
The question, therefore, is whether I should wait until I have a proper prologue/history written and posted to ff.net first before posting the kmeme fills. What is everyone's opinions?
The question, therefore, is whether I should wait until I have a proper prologue/history written and posted to ff.net first before posting the kmeme fills. What is everyone's opinions?
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Since I write S&S extreeeemely out of order, and try to keep most of the parts relatively stand-alone, I've turned it into a series on AO3. This has worked out marvelously for me so far, so I highly recommend it. You can re-order stories in the series, see hit counts on individual ones, etc etc. It creates a mini-index for just the series itself within your profile.
Plus A03 is made of win and <3. :D
I'm disgruntled that I didn't do this with Immovable Object, which really needs to be written out of order as well... but isn't really a "series" anyway, so there you go. :( Being stuck with rigid chapter order on ffnet is a serious downer.
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With either place, you're still going to want to advertise on the various DW/LJ comms and such, just as you do now. You're going to get more people randomly finding you on FFnet, but... yeah.
FFnet also randomly deletes formatting, so that's always fun.
AO3 is rumored to be adding subscription stuff soonish, which will help. I've toyed with the idea of adding the non-smutty parts of S&S to FFnet just for the random readers myself, though. With a link to the full version, naturally.
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Myself, I'm staying wary. I've been on there for nine years and don't intend to have my crap wiped out.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FanFiction.Net
Under NC-17. Yes, it's wiki, but all I'm doing is confirming something I remember happening right around when I lived in Seattle. (I coulda sworn it was during 2003, but 2002 isn't that far off.)
I'm not sitting here wagging any fingers at people, fuck knows TAF skates the M/NC-17 line reeeaaaaaally closely at various points, I'm just giving my two cents on why I haven't personally posted k!meme stuff there and am probably never going to in their entirety.
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It may never happen. That's not really my point.
Just, folks shouldn't go on there to post k!meme stuff without knowing the technical problems with it. That site is and/or used to be super famous for just deleting the shit out of everyone and everything.
I mean, if someone was considering posting k!meme art on DevArt, you wouldn't warn them that it could get TOS'd even though there's an awful lot of smut on that site... particularly in this sparkly new fandom? :/ "Hasn't been banninated yet" doesn't reassure me much after almost a decade of being on ffnet.
Anyway, I dropped my 2c.
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I think maybe you might want to have some sort of guide to the ordering of the stories. I was kind of wondering where your last story (where he takes an arrow for her) fits into it the time line so far. Are they in order so far?
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Just in the time that I've been writing DAO fic, though, FFnet has destroyed bits of formatting for me twice. It's definitely a site one uses like the whore it is and doesn't call the next morning. >_>
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1) over my scenebreaks, a-la:
- - - - -
forcing me to replace them through-out a novel's worth of old fic with their ugly-ass, won't-space-correctly version of an <hr> tag, and
2) they changed all my --s to -. Not one big long dash, just... -. Which may not bother you, but drove me batshit. I fixed that on IO and left it alone on all the rest since I'd already added a note to each non-DA story that the formatting for various things wasn't reliable, and to see the website version if it looked garbled.
Stupid shit like that. :(
But, you already use single dashes and are fine with the <hr> tag, so you're probably okay. I don't think they've done any crazier removals than that in years and years. I'm pretty sure I remember having all of my apostrophes eaten at one point in like 2004. XD
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So no, they aren't in any order.
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I haven't had a problem yet, but then again there's generally around at least 50/50 ratio of smut to story in them and my stuff is fairly vanilla. I also have a lot of shorts about the same group of four people (some fics smut, some not) that can stand alone but also part of a larger story overall. So I just created a story called "Practical Romance" and started adding them as I wrote them with a note that these were all written as stand alone fics for various prompts and challenges and that while they tied together, they were out of chronological order. It seems to have worked better than posting every single one of the individually and cluttering up my page.
Ao3 is nice (and has better features than ff.net), but I don't really bother with it anymore as the audience really can't compare. My stuff's already spread out way too much and adding another archive that doesn't really seem to have much activity doesn't seem worth the hassle.
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I should note that I'm a member of the Organization for Transformative Works, so I have a definite bias in favor of AO3, but I was also around when AO3 was first proposed, and I am very much in favor of the concept of an archive created by and for fan authors and artists. Obviously, it doesn't have the readership of FF.net; it's still in beta, and it's only been really active for about a year. But in addition to the security of knowing that I can post whatever I want, and not have to worry about being reported because one of my characters is 14, or because I'm writing explicit porn involving sibling incest, I love the fact that I can download fic to my Kindle and my iThing easily. I've also noticed since I've turned the hit counter on that I'm getting a lot more traffic than I thought I was.
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Grateful for any help...
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2. Select Add Story.
3. Input all the information for your story, and select +A to F in the Choose Category drop-down box. This will populate the Choose Subcategory drop-down box - where you can then select Dragon Age. If this second drop-down isn't being populated, you may not have Javascript enabled.
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