WIP Challenge Check-in, Day 8 - Friday

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It's Friday! How has the writing gone today?

Poll #12983

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I have

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done research
2 (25.0%)

made outlines and plans
3 (37.5%)

written
4 (50.0%)

revised
1 (12.5%)

posted
2 (25.0%)

rested
0 (0.0%)

done something else with my time
2 (25.0%)

and I feel

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fine!
2 (25.0%)

good.
1 (12.5%)

okay.
2 (25.0%)

meh.
2 (25.0%)

like I'd rather not talk about it.
1 (12.5%)

I've spent my writing time today working on getting things posted, which makes me wonder about a part of the writing process that we don't talk about very often. Once you have your fic finished and ready to go, where do you like to share it? Do you post it everywhere, or limit yourself to one or two platforms? Does it depend on the kind of fic it is?

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[the_rck]

I post to my personal website and AO3. I've never bothered learning how to post anywhere else. I do announce the fic in my personal journal and in any appropriate communities I can find. I don't tend to write things that are going to find a wide audience, so I don't worry too much about it.

[linaewen]

I am trying to write something for my RW work and I totally have writer's block. So that's frustrating.

I post at my personal DW/LJ, Ao3, and at several fandom-related fic archives. I also have one story that gets posted at fanfiction.net as well as Ao3.

[voksen]

Lately everything I write has either been for kink memes or for fan flashworks; I post to whichever is relevant and to ao3

[iosonochesono]

What I've been posting is basically word-vomit because of AO3's bug problem. After chapter 1 it only saves the first time you hit 'preview.' So if you go back and edit there's no way to save as a draft. You either have to hit 'post without preview' or lose your changes (since hitting 'preview' a second time will show... the same stuff from the first time you hit preview.)

I haven't come up with a great workaround for this, since writing it on my word-processor seems to lose formatting. (I'm not sure why that's happening for me.)

I wish I could keep it as a draft until it was all good and done.

Originally I posted to FF.net but I like AO3 a lot better. I'm not sure if I will cross-post ultimately or not.

[lilly_c]

All I managed yesterday was an outline for a couple scenes in ATTTNW. I'll have more time to work on it after work tonight.

I mainly post to DW, sometimes AO3. I used to post to LJ too.