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an experiment, or a sad trolling for reviews
I've had an AO3 account since Yuletide 2009, but I've never posted any of my non-Yuletide fic there. In particular, I've never put any of my Doctor Who fic there. I've always felt that the best place for Doctor Who fic is the Teaspoon, and the second-best place for my Doctor Who fic is my journal and sometimes certain LJ communities.
But, I realize that there might be a slightly different audience at AO3, so I've nevertheless toyed with the idea of putting my Doctor Who fic there. It's also occurred to me that some people who only know me from my Yuletide fic might be curious to see what else I have written. Unless they're big Doctor Who fans, they are unlikely to go looking for my fic at the Teaspoon. Actually, even if they are big Doctor Who fans, they are unlikely to go looking for my fic at the Teaspoon unless they happen to already know that I write in that fandom, which they would not know from looking at my AO3 account. When you put it like that, it makes sense to post all my fic in the same place at AO3. In fact, I believe that is one of the main points of having a multi-fandom archive.
But why am I feeling motivated to finally cross-post a fic or two now? Well, the sad fact is that I haven't written anything new in a really long time, and I am kind of missing reviews. I had been thinking that it would be nice to get another review. And then I thought, maybe putting an already-written story onto AO3 would be a good way to get a review.
So, I confess that I have gone and put "Spotter's Guide to the Doctor" up on AO3. This will be an interesting experiment to see if it's worthwhile to put all my Doctor Who fic up there.
And, perhaps I will get a review.
But, I realize that there might be a slightly different audience at AO3, so I've nevertheless toyed with the idea of putting my Doctor Who fic there. It's also occurred to me that some people who only know me from my Yuletide fic might be curious to see what else I have written. Unless they're big Doctor Who fans, they are unlikely to go looking for my fic at the Teaspoon. Actually, even if they are big Doctor Who fans, they are unlikely to go looking for my fic at the Teaspoon unless they happen to already know that I write in that fandom, which they would not know from looking at my AO3 account. When you put it like that, it makes sense to post all my fic in the same place at AO3. In fact, I believe that is one of the main points of having a multi-fandom archive.
But why am I feeling motivated to finally cross-post a fic or two now? Well, the sad fact is that I haven't written anything new in a really long time, and I am kind of missing reviews. I had been thinking that it would be nice to get another review. And then I thought, maybe putting an already-written story onto AO3 would be a good way to get a review.
So, I confess that I have gone and put "Spotter's Guide to the Doctor" up on AO3. This will be an interesting experiment to see if it's worthwhile to put all my Doctor Who fic up there.
And, perhaps I will get a review.
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Be aware, however, that they are having a few problems right now with system crashes because they have doubled their membership since March. They do have the money and intention of installing a new server and they keep a very active Twitter account to let everyone know minute by minute what is going on if the server is down.
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You really think you'd have more luck finding my fic at AO3 than at Teaspoon? That's interesting. I think Teaspoon is an easier archive to search, at least when it comes to searching for fic by a given author. But AO3 does have a far better tagging system, true.
For now I only have the one Doctor Who story up at AO3, so you won't have a lot to look through. ; ) I'll probably eventually put it all up there, though.
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However, the folks at Fanfic Flamingo have been accepting and redistributing donated Ao3 invite codes for quite a while. From what I can see, if you contact them with the necessary info, they can get you one pretty much right away.
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I know that comes across as sarcasm, but I'm being serious. What guidelines? In particular, what guidelines are being enforced there now that are not in place at AO3? I'm really curious.
I'm never going to post at ff.net, though. I can't even read fic over there. I don't know if it's an association with bad!fic or what, but every time I cruise over for a peek, I get the hell out again as quickly as I can.
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The Pit has guidelines, and every single time you post a fic there, you are forced to sign off on them, no matter how many times you have already done so. Even though (last time I looked) they haven't been updated since 2008.
Things That Are Forbidden include: smut; anything that isn't a fic; RPF; works that don't fit the category where they're posted; items on the List of Banned Authors (authors who, prior to 2008, publicly stated that they will not countenance fanfic).
I don't spend a lot of time there -- although I do post there, because, like it or not, it's where the bulk of the readership is. But even I have been able to notice that every one of their guidelines is constantly violated, especially the one about smut. Personally, I decided early on that the very very small and feeble amount of smut I wrote myself was not going there, because it would be stupid -- what if they actually enforced their guidelines someday?
Well, the day has arrived: apparently the smut is being deleted. I only know this second and thirdhand, but there seems to be a lot of deletion happening; there is certainly a lot of lamentation.
By not posting there, you're probably missing some readership, but you're also missing a lot of aggravation. The author side of the user interface is -- let's call it "user-hostile".
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I suppose I am missing some readership by staying away, but I'm willing to live with that. I already can't stand the reader side of the user interface, so if the author side is even worse, I doubt I'd survive it.
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LOL, yes. I'll say. After finally getting on it, and managing to navigate the unhelpful interface, and posting three stories, when I came back, it had eaten my scene breaks. My scene breaks were important. I gave it up for good after that - and someone - oh,
I occasionally read fic on there, but rarely even attempt leaving reviews, let alone anything else. And I only dive into the pit in desperation. Even though there are some marvellous stories and authors on there, of course.
I think us DW fanfic writers are probably a little bit spoiled by Teaspoon, though, really.
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The POS interface parses them out. Just in my brief time there, they've tweaked it two or three times so that it parses out the workarounds as well (ASCII characters, dashes, etc.)
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stalklook up some of the folks I know on this side of the alternate dimensional interface, so there you were!no subject
Next fic_rush, how about we set the Ninja Penguins on the scene-break eating monster from the pit?
Which sounds like crack fic of the fic rush variety, really. :lol:
I'm probably unfair to ff.net, but, as I said, with being a DW fan, we've got a big central archive - I didn't get more reviews on anything at ff.net than Teaspoon.
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Careful analysis determines that this sentence is meaningless. ;-)
Let's definitely send the Ninja Penguins after the Monsters of the Pit. A fine way to celebrate our Rushiversary!!
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Yes, in DW we are spoiled by Teaspoon. <3 <3 <3
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I'm more annoyed with them for disallowing brackets and dashes in the fic's title. I just posted a fic that has a dash in the title and it ate it, too :(
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And yes, I've had top work around the dumbed-down titling, too. Gack.
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- x - marks the spot where the narrative breaks