an experiment, or a sad trolling for reviews

[dbskyler]

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.

Comments

[shadowturquoise.livejournal.com]

I finally got an AO3 account set up last week (it was a 2 month wait to get it). And I have almost abandoned reading off of Teaspoon while making my way through all the AO3 goodies. Their search engine is far better than the one at Teaspoon. I, for one, would certainally be rereading over your stuff to see if I missed anything.

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.

[thisbluespirit]

Aw. Well, I'm writing some ficlets again now, but while I've been ill I've been gradually putting my DW fic on AO3 and the occasional reviews and slightly more frequent kudos is something I've found v comforting. Especially since Teaspoon seems to be quieter. I think the Classic Who fans who use Teaspoon tend to also use AO3 so there's a lot of the same readership - but I'm sure you will pick up new readers, or people who missed some stories. Pretty much all your fic is so great, anyway.

I think it's worth having things on both, because they can be searched in such different ways. Teaspoon is easier for just sort of wading through a Doctor or author, while the way you can just click on any character or pairing - and not only the few major characters who are listed - and see what else is there, and crossovers and things on AO3 is nice, too. It's v good for browsing (or time-wasting, :lol:)

It is pretty busy at the moment - I'm midway through really getting a lot more of my Teaspoon on it & it keeps crashing. I think, from what I gather, there was the Avengers, and now there's a huge influx of people from the ff.net thing that's going on.

I did use ff.net once, but found it counter-intuitive in every way. Whereas, posting-wise, AO3 has quite a lot of similarities to Teaspoon, which helps a DW fan. :-)

(I've subscribed to you, anyway, now.)

Also, I do hope you feel able to write something again soon - for you, and also because I really miss your fic.

[pitry.livejournal.com]

It's definitely worth having the fics on both - first, there are people on AO3 who aren't on Teaspoon - not a lot, but there are. And second, new users don't always fnd the oldest fics. So reposting also opens your fic for a bunch of people who have never heard of you because it's been a while since you posted.

[pitry.livejournal.com]

Looks like the experiment was a success :D