So I'm working towards posting my long-ass fic and I haven't posted anything quite this monumental for 6 years so I wanted to know what you young hip youthful types think when it comes to posting formats for long fic, and for fic in general. Results will probably inform my decision of where/how to post said long-ass fic in the near future. Uh, and the 'in parts' thing -- I do mean parts of a completed fic all at once, not installments -- so I'm not talking about posting a section a day or anything insane like that. WHO DOES THAT, ANYWAY? (*glares at young hip youthful self from 6 years ago*)[
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Also, if the poll had allowed multiple choices I'd have ticked boxes both for the AO3 and Dth, as I like both equally, I think, for reading fic.
Thanks for weighing in!
And I second the comment above about AO3, I really love that readers can choose to list the whole fic on one page if they wish and the author can also choose to have chapters, and they work for both people.
Personally I like one page because I often knit while I'm reading, and it's a lot easier to just hit a key to page down than to click a link for the next chapter, while I'm holding knitting needles and yarn and all that.
*nods* With cross-posting I'd have to chop things up for LJ's convenience, unfortunately, or have to post on each site separately.
Yay knitting! I totally do that too. My spacebar has a little shiny spot from scrolling down and this computer is not even 2 months old.
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I never really thought about it! I got my fic through email, so it was kind of a load-all-at-once situation!
Probably true. I think, at this point very, very few people are on dial-up.
I like AO3 because then I can just load one page and also because I love the reading history. Everything else is fairly equivalent for reading, but I get unfortunately distracted from commenting and am much more likely to comment if I'm reading on DW or LJ.
I'm discovering all the AO3 features reading these comments! History?! AMAZING.
The important thing is that I'm able to get the words onto my computer screen so I can read them.
Yay! That, I can do.
Anyway, I would be posting in 5 parts at most (though, honestly, probably a bit more on LJ because of the character limit) but it seems like all in one page on AO3 is the way to go.
Thanks for weighing in!
I just hope that people that are posting fic to other places than LJ continues to post links to their stories on LJ so I don't miss out. ;)
*nods* No, I wouldn't do that. The fic itself is structured into 5 long parts but I think at least some of the parts are probably still too long for LJ. I'm thinking AO3 is the best way to go here.
I will definitely post on LJ when the story goes up, though!
So as long as I know it's posted the site doesn't matter. AO3's good though as you can make a multi-chapter thing all in 1 if you want - easier to do a select-all.