By the way... (re: fic posting)

[girlguidejones]

I am apparently too old and cranky to deal anymore with the way LJ makes you split up long stories into multiple posts, so the most recent TW one just links to AO3.  Apologies to anyone who's super, anti-AO3.

Seriously, LJ?  A 10K story can't post in a single post?  Go home, you're drunk.

Comments

[blackrabbit42]

I need a tutorial on Ao3, because I see so many awesome writers saying they're witching over, and I fear that some day, I'm just going to be a big echo here by myself on LJ.

:)

[girlguidejones]

It's pretty intuitive; I'm pretty sure you could muddle through it if I did!

[poisontaster]

I have such a hate-love relationship with AO3, but I'm thinking of doing this, too, when I finally post this monster. Convenience trumps, man.

[girlguidejones]

You're not kidding, buddy. I'm too old to waste hours trying to post fanfic. LOL.

[embroiderama]

Usually a bit over 10k will fit in a single LJ post as long as you're not using the rich text editor, but I agree that the limit sucks. Ultimately, I'll go through the torment of separating long fics into separate LJ posts because it seems like >75% of people take the, "Oh, AO3 is just an archive so I don't need to comment," route.

[girlguidejones]

I deeply agree re: kudos, etc. Comments are definitely more satisfying.

I was using the RTE, so I'm sure that was the issue. But what I find the *most* frustrating is:

1) It can't tell you it's too big before you try to post. (I mean, seriously, Twitter tells you this. How hard can it be?) And...
2) It can't tell you HOW FAR over the limit you are, or if it would fit if you used html instead of RTE.

It's literally a roll of the fucking dice, and I find that just ridiculously annoying.

[embroiderama]

*nods* Yeah, I get that. If you post in HTML, the character limit is 65,000 which you can at least find from the word counter in Word or whatever. With the visual editor, I think people get around 3000 words, and you're right it's a total roll of the dice.