[personal profile] lacygrey posting in [community profile] writethisfanfic
Hello All, How is the writing (editing? posting?) going today?
More particularly, what are your plans for this week?


For today's discussion question I thought I'd ask about your reading habits. While this is not dead on topic for the comm, I assume that everyone here also reads and there's some connection between that reading and your writing. I'll make tomorrow's topic about the writing side.

So...
Where do you get your fanfic?

Poll #9129 Where do you get your fanfic?
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 31


Do you read fanfic mostly on...

View Answers

your computer screen?
23 (74.2%)

your phone?
3 (9.7%)

an ebook device or tablet?
5 (16.1%)

paper?
0 (0.0%)

Where do you find it?

View Answers

Fandom or theme-based communties / challenges
7 (23.3%)

Via rec lists / rec comms
8 (26.7%)

On archives (ff.net, AO3 etc.)
15 (50.0%)

At fandom-specific websites
0 (0.0%)

Fanzines / mailing lists
0 (0.0%)

Date: Monday, January 16th, 2012 16:15 (UTC)
juliet316: (DW: Eleven: reading interrupted.)
From: [personal profile] juliet316
There should have been ticky boxes for the second poll because I get my fanfic from at least four of those options.

And there's likely not going to be a whole lot of writing done for me today as I'm going to be horribly pressed for time.

Date: Monday, January 16th, 2012 16:58 (UTC)
cpolk: (Default)
From: [personal profile] cpolk
I'm not writing today. Today is housework day.

i'm going to nitpick the poll, in the grand spirit of internet polls!

for the first question, computer screen is the answer. I would -love- to put fics on my kobo to read, and I'm happy AO3 has a way to convert computer screen fics to ebook fic. I need to investigate this further, because I'm so hooked on my kobo. So hooked.

As for the second question, there isn't really an answer there that applies, though rec lists is closest...

I find most of my fic from the recommendations of friends and fic writers I follow. I know there's more ways to do it but generally it takes the enablization of a friend for me to go look.

Date: Monday, January 16th, 2012 17:02 (UTC)
linaewen: (Star Trek Yay)
From: [personal profile] linaewen
I finished a 1,470 word thing (on time, yay!) and posted it. That's probably about it for the day as far as writing goes. Now that I have all my short challenge fics out of the way, I need to get back on track with my WIPs. So my plan for the week is to pick one and do some kind of work on it -- research, rereading to get back in the flow, outlining, maybe even writing. ;-)

In addition to reading fic on archives, I also read at fandom communities and fandom-specific websites.

Date: Monday, January 16th, 2012 17:07 (UTC)
sqweakie: It's all fun and games until someone breaks out the Blowtorch (Default)
From: [personal profile] sqweakie
I POSTED!!! IT DESERVES CAPSLOCK CAUSE I HAVEN'T UPDATED Orbits of Glass SINCE THE END OF 2008! YAY!!!

I agree with juliet316 with the ticky boxes. I'm almost split 50/50 between reading on a computer and my Nook, but I use my ereader slightly more.

Date: Monday, January 16th, 2012 19:38 (UTC)
insignia: (Default)
From: [personal profile] insignia
*APPLAUSE* :D

Date: Monday, January 16th, 2012 18:03 (UTC)
jagnikjen: (Default)
From: [personal profile] jagnikjen
My writing plans for the week are to work on my WIP every day. I make so much progress this weekend, I want to keep the momentum going.

Reading fanfic . . . mostly I read on my computer or my iPad. I usually use archives so that I can choose to invest my time in fics that are complete. I am a fast reader and waiting for installments of WIPs is not my cup of tea. I do read from various and rec posts as well. I'm not too selective, though for most fandoms, ff.n is last choice for me.

Date: Monday, January 16th, 2012 19:36 (UTC)
insignia: (Default)
From: [personal profile] insignia
I'm not officially part of the challenge, since I'm new here, but I'll tell you my plans anyway: This week I intend to finish the five one-shots I promised various people last month. (Now that I've said it, I hope I can stick to it.)

Date: Monday, January 16th, 2012 20:16 (UTC)
sleuth: (dw⌠scratch a pose)
From: [personal profile] sleuth
I save a lot of fanfic on my computer; break glass in case of internet emergency. Otherwise, I spend a lot of my time browsing ao3 to download fics on my mobile. I abuse the stanza app like it's nobody's business.

I started editing on a story I had tucked away (I usually have around 10 stories at any given time that I can expand on or edit). I've sent it off to beta and we've been rolling the ball back and forth a bit on some wonky bits that needed a re-write.

I wish I could write something entirely new, but I don't have that much time. When I'm busy I tend to get very brainclouded to the point where I can't focus on anything new, so I'm always glad I have something already written to work on. (I'm in the process of moving -- and when I'm done with that, I'll be spending time with my partner in Florida for about a month. Huzzah!)

Date: Monday, January 16th, 2012 20:42 (UTC)
sylvaine: Dark-haired person with black eyes & white pupils. ([gen] death by fic)
From: [personal profile] sylvaine
I haven't had much energy for writing today, but I've managed a few sentences. This week I plan on continuing with my 2012 goal of writing every day, and hopefully catch up on my word count goal for January.

It's really interesting, actually. I used to get all my fic by randomly browsing ff.net, but now I tend to read mostly things recommended by my dwircle.

Date: Monday, January 16th, 2012 21:11 (UTC)
dhae_knight_1: Adorkable John/Rodney (Adorkable)
From: [personal profile] dhae_knight_1
Finding fic depends greatly on the fandom. Buffy, for example, lives on specialized webpages. Stargate, mostly in archives. Atlantis usually comes out of rec lists. NCIS is mostly drawn from the newsletter. White Collar I read almost exclusively on AO3, while Criminal Minds needs the filter of reliable reccers since it's chock-full of truly, truly bad fic.

Date: Monday, January 16th, 2012 21:39 (UTC)
littlebutfierce: (natsume yuujinchou ot3 school)
From: [personal profile] littlebutfierce
Wrote more utterly unabashedly squishy OT3 stuff today. I'll probably end up using bits of it at some point, but if nothing else, it put me in a good mood at the start of work this morning.

I've also been editing a fic I really want to post this week. I'm feeling a bit more confident about it but still, it needs something.

My fandoms are all small, so there aren't a lot of places to look (no fandom-specific archives, etc.). Everything on LJ/DW seems to get cross-posted to ff.net or AO3 or both, so I just look there for the most part (predominantly AO3).

Date: Monday, January 16th, 2012 21:45 (UTC)
lilly_c: Virgil Van Dijk holding the Premier League trophy on the parade route (Danielle & Jack - pier)
From: [personal profile] lilly_c
It's my birthday today so not much done on the writing front. Looked over some of my big bang fic and that's gonna be my focus for the rest of this week.

Reading fic. I usually read on my blackberry, sometimes my laptop but my main internet and my USB internet block a lot of websites so it's not always easy. Fandom it depends if it's a small fandom then related comms and websites, if it's a big fandom I go by recs and whatever is on AO3. I avoid ff.net

Date: Tuesday, January 17th, 2012 01:21 (UTC)
crowdog66: (Default)
From: [personal profile] crowdog66
I spent a good chunk of today at the hospital, where I discovered (after a very thorough ultrasound) that I do NOT have clots in my legs. Cue the cheering and the jumping up and down followed by a collapse of relief.

In the process, I snuck in ~900 words on "Ovum" while waiting to see the doctor. This doesn't finish a chapter but it puts me well on the way to doing so; therefore I expect to finish and post it tomorrow sometime.

I access fic exclusively via computer (desktop or laptop), and mainly read fic on the Garak/Bashir comm over on LJ (it has a Dreamwidth sort-of mirror, [community profile] doctor_tailor, which has only some of the more recent entries from LJ) or on AO3.

Date: Tuesday, January 17th, 2012 05:43 (UTC)
bay_alexison: (Looking ahead)
From: [personal profile] bay_alexison
Was able to do some edits on my Big Bang and help_japan fics. Might do a quick look over on some parts again before going to sleep.

I mostly read fics over at fandom communities as that's where I read higher quality fics. I do read some stories at A03 and FFnet, but usually only if someone had linked the story and I'm able to catch it.

Date: Tuesday, January 17th, 2012 06:55 (UTC)
pinstripefedora: Picture of a pinstriped fedora (Default)
From: [personal profile] pinstripefedora
Apparently I really was getting sick, so I've mostly just been lying around feeling sorry for myself, but I did get a little bit of revising done.

I read fic exclusively from my computer, and my fandom seems to only exist on ff.net. I don't think ff.net entirely deserves its bad rep, but I'd like to at least have options. Sadly, all the other fansites/communities I can find dedicated to it elsewhere are dead. :(

Date: Thursday, January 19th, 2012 06:12 (UTC)
krait: a sea snake (krait) swimming (Default)
From: [personal profile] krait
I couldn't choose an answer for the second question. I read about equally from fandom-specific communities, multifandom archives, individual journals collected on my flist (both fic writers and reccers), and fandom-specific or multi-related-fandom challenges such as kinkmemes.
Page generated Tuesday, July 8th, 2025 07:18
Powered by Dreamwidth Studios