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mijanOkay, my fellow Trekkies and fandom brethren... I need advice. I have time, so it's not an emergency, but I refuse to wait until the last stinkin' minute to figure this out.
I have approximately 126K words of (hopefully) decent-quality fanfiction that I would like to present to you in a few short weeks. I need to figure out how best to present it to you. How would you prefer to read such a fic?
I've already figured out that posting to LJ would be evil and cumbersome and difficult. If I had been posting it in sections, daily, I'd certainly do it that way, but I'm posting this all at once. Even if I break it into pieces... I can't handle getting that many LJ entries cross-linked and activated within that short amount of time. And yes, it MUST ALL BE POSTED IN ONE DAY. Trying to do that on LJ would be evil. Does. Not. Want! So... how shall I do this?
Options:
1. Archive. Broken into short pieces, maybe 10K to 15K each.
2. Archive. Broken into longer pieces, maybe 20K to 30K each.
3. Self-designed web-page, hosted on a server, kinda like last year, but broken into maybe four pieces.
4. Self-designed web-page, hosted on a server, kinda like last year, but all in one gigantic page of doom.
5. Another amazing idea that Mijan has not yet considered.
If I do an archive, which one? I'd really rather NOT use fanfiction.net. It's kinda... just no. So are there any archives that you guys particularly like? That are easy to use but not crap-tastic? That the Jim&Bones folks seem to like?
Also... here's another piece of bait... this isn't just a sequel to last year's fic. This is part 2 of a trilogy. Yeah, guys, I'm writing a trilogy. Each step leads to the next step in character and universe development, and it all goes together. I've had it planned that way since last year. Whatever I end up doing in terms of posting technique/location, I'm going to want to post all of my fanfic in this trilogy arc to the same website. I'll probably post AAtKM there before Crossfire goes up. But before I do any of that, I need to figure out where and how to make this happen.
Ideas? ANYONE?
HALP???
I have approximately 126K words of (hopefully) decent-quality fanfiction that I would like to present to you in a few short weeks. I need to figure out how best to present it to you. How would you prefer to read such a fic?
I've already figured out that posting to LJ would be evil and cumbersome and difficult. If I had been posting it in sections, daily, I'd certainly do it that way, but I'm posting this all at once. Even if I break it into pieces... I can't handle getting that many LJ entries cross-linked and activated within that short amount of time. And yes, it MUST ALL BE POSTED IN ONE DAY. Trying to do that on LJ would be evil. Does. Not. Want! So... how shall I do this?
Options:
1. Archive. Broken into short pieces, maybe 10K to 15K each.
2. Archive. Broken into longer pieces, maybe 20K to 30K each.
3. Self-designed web-page, hosted on a server, kinda like last year, but broken into maybe four pieces.
4. Self-designed web-page, hosted on a server, kinda like last year, but all in one gigantic page of doom.
5. Another amazing idea that Mijan has not yet considered.
If I do an archive, which one? I'd really rather NOT use fanfiction.net. It's kinda... just no. So are there any archives that you guys particularly like? That are easy to use but not crap-tastic? That the Jim&Bones folks seem to like?
Also... here's another piece of bait... this isn't just a sequel to last year's fic. This is part 2 of a trilogy. Yeah, guys, I'm writing a trilogy. Each step leads to the next step in character and universe development, and it all goes together. I've had it planned that way since last year. Whatever I end up doing in terms of posting technique/location, I'm going to want to post all of my fanfic in this trilogy arc to the same website. I'll probably post AAtKM there before Crossfire goes up. But before I do any of that, I need to figure out where and how to make this happen.
Ideas? ANYONE?
HALP???
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Date: 2010-10-15 03:43 pm (UTC)1. Post the story to Archive of Our Own, with a master post on LJ that links to AO3. At the bottom of your story on AO3 you can include a link back to your masterpost on LJ (and people do tend to return to LJ to comment)
2. Break your story into how ever many Livejournals posts you need, and start posting them private locked. Maybe do a post a day, so that you don't need to mess with dates or anything. Tag it, include your links to each post, however you want to set it up, and (just like if you were posting it daily in parts like you said), because they're private they wont show up on your flist, but you can still mess with them.
On your posting day, all you'll have to do is make your Master Post, with all your headers and links to the private-locked parts (like however you want to set it up). Then you go back and unlock all the parts of the story (a little annoying, I know, but doesn't require any coding). They won't show up on your flist, and you don't have to mess with any backdating. :-)
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Date: 2010-10-15 03:48 pm (UTC)And you know, I could post to BOTH on the same day. Do you think that's a good or bad idea?
I have a Saturday posting date, which I think is awesome. I hope it rains EVERYWHERE that day. *is greedy*
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Date: 2010-10-15 03:56 pm (UTC)so I'd still do all the LJ posting stuff, and then post the master post with links to the LJ parts, and a link to AO3 on that day. So people could read it in whatever easier way for them... (plus there's no coding involved with AO3. It's just cut and paste, fill in some boxes for the labels and viola! Posted :-) )