WIP Challenge Check-in, Day 17 -- Tuesday

[lacygrey]

Hi there! How is the fanfic writing going today? Are you...writing? editing? betaing? posting? or something else entirely?

I was really impressed with the number of people who participated in the poll yesterday and interested by the results.

In part, this was because I tend to think in 'screenfuls' as I write - I like there to be some significant event in each screenful and try to make sure there's an incentive in the story for the reader to pull down on the scroll bar - I guess I wanted to know if that makes sense with respect to people's reading habits. After all, a computer screenful doesn't mean anything on a cell phone's tiny screen.

Today the discussion topic is about posting. It's kind of the same question as yesterday's first one. Do you find that you post in the same places where you read?

Poll #9135 Where do you post your fic?

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 20

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Do you post...

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at your journal?
17 (85.0%)

on a community?
11 (55.0%)

at an archive (AO3 / ff.net)
17 (85.0%)

on a fandom-specific site
0 (0.0%)

on a fanzine or mailing list
1 (5.0%)

Do you promote or 'pimp' your own fic?

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yes
8 (42.1%)

no
11 (57.9%)

If you like, tell us how and where.

Comments

[crowdog66]

I post at doctor_tailor here on DW, at the "doctor-tailor" community on LJ, and in the ST:DS9 section on AO3. As for pimping, every time I post something new a notification goes up on my Tumblr, and I often post bits of in-progress text there as previews, but that's as far as I go.

Today I edited what I wrote yesterday, posted two more chapters of "Ovum", and have written ~1400 words of new material. If I manage to get much more done I'll add it in a comment appended to this comment. :)

[sharpiefan]

Depending on the fic/fandom, I post to my own journal, to my fic journal sharpiepen, to my AO3 Sharpiefan and to various fan communities here on DW. (The stuff on my own fic journal and on my AO3 is duplicated, though I've not copied everything over ot AO3 yet.)

I'm also responsible for putting out the Age of Sail newsletter here on DW, and the reader watches all the comms I post to as well as my fic journal, so I end up pimping out my own fic there. I've also been known to highlight my own stuff in the regular Rec of the Week slot on the newsletter (mainly when I really can't think of anything else to put there). I do tell other people about stuff I've written, if they're asking for recs and something of mine fits what they're looking for.

And writing today hasn't happened. Which is about usual for me. :D

(And I've just had to switch browsers. Again. Because Safari wasn't letting me post. Agh!)

[haruka]

I post everything on my fic journal, harukafics, at AO3: haruka, and on my Yahoogroup: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/harukahangout/ but I also post on different communities if they pertain to the fandom. I'll post anywhere if it'll get me more readers. XD

[jagnikjen]

The revising is going as well as can be expected--slow. But I'm excited about them, so I keep plugging away, though I have a tendency to check e-mail a lot while my percolates what's next.

I'm not a big pimper when it comes to my work, but here you are: I have a huge body of work for the BBC's Robin Hood and two handfuls of Harry Potter. They can be found on both my dreamwidth and livejournal accounts.

[sleuth]

I've just started posting on AO3 but I'm not pimping things out since I still have some confidence problems. I'd rather keep writing until I get a nice body of work under my collection, then maybe pimp out some things.

Today was most spent on doing research/canon revision with a tiny dash of writing.

[ty_writes]

I mostly post on my journals, LJ and DW. Once I'm FINALLY happy with a fic, I post everywher eles (AO3, FFN, in communities). And no, I really don't pimp my works.

[littlebutfierce]

I post everything at AO3 (I'm paperwar), & then I link-drop in relevant comms on DW or LJ.

I'm still doing my 750 Words first thing in the morning at work, hee! Tonight I'm trying to edit. It's going... all right, but I'm too distracted. Also rattled by a surprise!landlord visit (it shouldn't matter that our house is a mess, but I always worry that it will make landlords less likely to renew our lease or something).

[lacygrey]

Ive been editing an angsty scene and feeling depressed about it. I don't know if this is a sign that my angsty writing is effective or whether I'm getting fed up with the fic.

I post for challenges, particularly Blind Go and on archives. I tend to backup to both my journal and an archive and then sometimes put a link on a community. Perhaps I should do the last thing more often.

[sqweakie]

Not much writing today. Maybe latter I'll try. Right now I'm replying to people.

As to where I post, it usually goes on ff.net (gotta respect my roots), DW/LJ and eventually I'll get everything up on my AO3 page. Not big on pimping my own work... I'm a lurker at heart and sometimes it's hard for me to get out there.

[pinstripefedora]

Today, I was rereading a section of my fic, and got to a spot where I had put an [insert text here] because I couldn't think of an appropriate dialogue exchange, and instantly the perfect words just popped into my mind. I love it when that happens. Other than that I didn't get much actual writing done, but I think I've hit upon the reason I've been stuck at a certain point on one particular scene and I know what I need to do to fix it, I'm just so completely exhausted that I can't do it tonight. I know I'd just mess it up.

I don't actually post all that much fic, seeing as how I can never finish anything, but on the rare occasions I have in the past I've posted them to ff.net because, as I said yesterday, my fandom is nonexistent outside of it. I might start posting them to my journal, though; I really don't know why I've never done that. I'm really shy, though, so it's hard to put myself out there on communities. That goes for posting on AO3, too, where I know there's only like three other fics posted for my fandom... I feel like I'm on display.

[krait]

Can I ask what your nonexistent fandom is?

Since 95% of the things I've written are in nearly-nonexistent or inactive fandoms (mostly book-based), I can empathise. One is in a fandom with only 24 fics for both book and movie; it's received seven hits.

(Random note: I love your username and icon!)

[bay_alexison]

(bleh late, but whatever)
Yesterday got one of the chapters of my Big Bang fic finished. Want to get that over with before my beta sends me back the chapters I emailed to her.

I mostly post at A03 ( Bay there ), FFnet (under Bay Alexison), and at my livejournal bay115. I'm considering posting my stories here and crossposting at my journal, but we'll see. For Pokemon fics I would post them at some Pokemon forums as that's where I got my start at writing fanfiction.

[krait]

There being no gradations on the "where" options, I would like to further clarify that I post my fics:
always on an archive (AO3),
usually on my own journal, and
sometimes in a community.

Likewise, if posting to a comm counts as pimping, then I do it sometimes. Mostly, though, I just throw up a brief "Hey, I wrote something" post on my journal, at some point after getting it up on the archive.

You'd think I was allergic to feedback, the way I go about this; but it's just that I seem to only write in obscure fandoms where there is no comm and no active discussion. It makes promoting very difficult because the target audience is so small, I'd have to somehow reach all of DW to get just a few readers.