Website Advice Needed
Sooooo I ended up offering 4 things (2 one shots, 2 multi-chaptered fics) for help_lisa, and no doubt that's gonna be a lot of work for me. However, in doing that, I will have, at this point, raised $110 for Lisa Edelstein's charities. People aren't fucking around with their bids, and it makes me really happy to know that my work is good enough that others would be willing to donate that much or volunteer that much time to have something of mine custom made for them. With Gift of Screws, I really feel like I defined myself as a writer in the fandom, and it's nice to see that that might pay off in the long run. It's truly great and heartwarming, especially when I had no idea that that piece was ever going to have a following.
That said... Fanfiction.net mods are deleting fics left and right these days for all sorts of reasons. Supposedly from the top 20 fandoms alone, they've removed almost 8,000 pieces without warning. Imply in your summary that there will be violence? Deleted. Sex, which may or may not be explicit in your work? Deleted. Curse in a lower rating fic? Deleted. Contact them to ask what their reasons were or to find a solution, and you'll be told that, as your fic was not appropriate for children under 15, it was not properly written and is therefore bad. I think at this point it would be foolish to think that my work[s] won't be deleted. I would like to believe otherwise, but I worry that that's what's going to happen. And if they don't delete my profile off the bat, I'm going to be obligated to cuss some fuckers out, and then my profile will be deleted.
So that leaves me with LJ, which is so cheap I can't even. I have to split up chapters because of post length limits. They've changed RTE in such a way that it places random spaces into my fic, which are unfixable. Given that LJ has also gone on a protect the children rampage in the past, I'm not sure I trust that only posting here is a good idea. I've never used AO3, and I guess I'm open to it, but I don't know. At this point, I'm considering opening my own site, but I'm not sure what would be the best place to start. Any advice? I like websites like I like my [wo]men: cheap (better yet free) and easy.
That said... Fanfiction.net mods are deleting fics left and right these days for all sorts of reasons. Supposedly from the top 20 fandoms alone, they've removed almost 8,000 pieces without warning. Imply in your summary that there will be violence? Deleted. Sex, which may or may not be explicit in your work? Deleted. Curse in a lower rating fic? Deleted. Contact them to ask what their reasons were or to find a solution, and you'll be told that, as your fic was not appropriate for children under 15, it was not properly written and is therefore bad. I think at this point it would be foolish to think that my work[s] won't be deleted. I would like to believe otherwise, but I worry that that's what's going to happen. And if they don't delete my profile off the bat, I'm going to be obligated to cuss some fuckers out, and then my profile will be deleted.
So that leaves me with LJ, which is so cheap I can't even. I have to split up chapters because of post length limits. They've changed RTE in such a way that it places random spaces into my fic, which are unfixable. Given that LJ has also gone on a protect the children rampage in the past, I'm not sure I trust that only posting here is a good idea. I've never used AO3, and I guess I'm open to it, but I don't know. At this point, I'm considering opening my own site, but I'm not sure what would be the best place to start. Any advice? I like websites like I like my [wo]men: cheap (better yet free) and easy.