June 20th check-in

[roane]

Halfway through the week! Hope everybody is doing well.

Poll #10897

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 8

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How has the writing gone today?

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Great!
5 (62.5%)

Average
2 (25.0%)

Meh
0 (0.0%)

Other (in comments)
1 (12.5%)

What did you do today?

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Wrote
6 (75.0%)

Edited
2 (25.0%)

Sent to beta
1 (12.5%)

Posted
1 (12.5%)

Researched
1 (12.5%)

Other
2 (25.0%)

And here, let's resort to a Fanfic Flamingo:



Have you been part of the crackdown? Where do you generally post your stuff? AO3? FF.net, LJ/DW? Somewhere else entirely?

Comments

[roane]

*VICTORY ARMS!* I finished a draft of the Chapter from HELL. I'm sure it needs a lot of work to be postable, but for now... yay!

I tend to stick to posting to AO3 and FF.net. Sometimes I'll post ficlets to Tumblr as I write them as well. Tumblr is pretty much my fandom home these days.

[insignia]

Go you! \o/

[crowdog66]

Just about to settle down to writing, but wanted to reply to today's question...

I have some old fics up on FF.net, but consider their admins to be a huge bag of dicks and now steer clear of them. All my posting these days is done on AO3 (where the people running the asylum actually seem to give a damn about the inmates), and I often post previews/fic bits to Tumblr, just because I can.

The current situation on FF.net (and the storm of surprised squawking from fans) has me facepalming like crazy, because the writing was on the wall ten years ago when the admins got the screaming meemies over "adult" material and screwed their user base over a barrel the first time. I have one M-rated fic on the site, but I'm not particularly concerned about losing it since I've got it archived at my end.

[crowdog66]

Finished and posted the second chapter of "Incompatible" -- go me! :)

[insignia]

Go you! \o/

[lilly_c]

Have got some new fics nearly ready for posting. All for Rizzoli & Isles - the show finally ate my brain. I was going to do it today while I'm in the town library but decided to give them a final look over first.

I used to post almost exclusively on LJ but these days it's DW and AO3 but with AO3 I tend to be selective about what fics I post there. I have never used FF.net at all because I didn't like it, and still don't.

[linaewen]

Nothing got done yesterday after my exhausting day, because I just didn't have it in me; I watched anime instead and it was relaxing! However, today is a new day, and I have a nice block of time ahead of me and a fresh brain to apply to my writing -- so I'm hopeful. I'm looking forward to being able to change my vote response from "other" to something more gleeful. ;-)

I have two things at FF.net -- I just haven't been in the practice of posting there. Neither one is in any danger from the crackdown. I have thought of putting my WIPs up there, but the formatting at FF.net is awkward at times and I think it would be too much of a pain. I am a bit new to Ao3, but I'm starting to put up my stuff there now; I also post at LJ/DW and there are several fandom-based archives where I post regularly.

[laceblade]

omg I'm actually working on a fic, so now I can comment here again!
Have been working on a Glee fic! I wrote a lot longhand when away for the weekend with my family, and again yesterday at work.
At home, I started constructing a Scrivener file for the fic. 'Though, instead of like, putting in my text-thus-far into the document or working on my outline, I mostly filled the "Research" folder with pictures from Tumblr and DeviantArt. I REGRET NOTHING.

I haven't been part of the crackdown, :O
I typically only post to AO3 (although I always link to it from my DW!). Last night, though, I re-discovered my fanfiction.net profile, where I mostly posted things while I was still in high school. SO EMBARRASSING, I could only bring myself to skim the most recent fic (2005), and I had to ignore the rest, bwahaha.

[lielac]

I have a single one-shot posted over at ff.net, actually posted after the initial purge so I wasn't hit. It's also rated K+ and fits it, so it's hopefully safe. It's also posted at AO3, with a mention both in an initial author's note in the ff.net version and in my ff.net profile that I post at AO3, so if it does get baleeted for some reason anyone who cares enough to want to reread it after that knows where to find it and any of my other ff.net-posted fics.

That one fanfic is also in a fandom where the only real fanfic presence is on ff.net; any fanfics in a fandom where there's actually a presence on AO3 is going to be posted only to AO3 because sod ff.net. I might also link to it on a hypothetical fic on an LJ or DW comm for whatever fandom, but the fic itself will be posted at AO3.

[dragonfly]

I love to post at ff.net because over ten or maybe twelve years I've accumulated a lot of followers, and I get *tons* of feedback there. What can I say, I love the attention.

I am a rule-follower, and when they said no explicit material, I obeyed, so I don't anticipate having anything taken down. I haven't looked. I'd be notified, right? *looks around*

OTOH, I haven't entirely forgiven them for taking down a story because someone claimed I was plagiarizing a movie. I had a quote from a movie in the dialogue, and I didn't attribute it to the movie, because it was a WIP, and I planned a surprise ending where what looked cool turned out to be just a quote from a movie. I hadn't gotten that far, yet, and they took the story down and dinged me for plagiarism. So I re-posted and paraphrased the quote, but sheesh.

I also post at AO3 and here on Dreamwidth.

[bay_alexison]

Last night been trying to get back to my help_japan fic. Did tiny bits of editing/writing, but not much progress. Today is my day off so I have quite a bit of time to make some progress (although I do need to get some housework stuff down, ack! ).

Haha haven't been part of the FFnet crackdown since none of my fics I posted there are rated M. Besides FFnet I post my stories at AO3, Dreamwidth, and LJ. I also post at forum boards too, but only for Pokemon haha.

[the_rck]

I post my fic at AO3 and at my own website. For a long time, I just posted at my website, but using a bigger archive appeals to me, just in case my house (where our webserver is) burns down or something.

Back to writing. I need to crank out about a thousand words today, and I'm having trouble getting started.

[lullabymoon]

Over 600 words today on my bigbang! Really pleased!

It's mainly LJ/DW and AO3 for my posting. I used to post on ff.net but I went through a spell of writing nothing but porn so I stopped and haven;t got back into the habit. I keep meaning to though, especially the couple of things from small fandoms.

[insignia]

My modus operandi is to never finish anything, so I had no fics there for anyone to remove >_>;