I've seen some stories crossposted in one shot like that, and exposure suffers a great deal. I see a higher Subscription number than Bookmarks. But I had entered all the chapters into A03 on one day, and just left them as drafts.
I often see people use the 'All Media Types' tag plus more specific tags.
Fanlore claims that AO3 was started as a consequence of the Great Strikethrough and Boldthrough of Livejournal in 2007.
It is an excellent tool and I hope it helps! Also, I've no issue with real interstitial ads as they work fine. Just the real banner ads are not showing up. The reverse is not true: works listed only under "All Media Types" show up under "All Media Types", nothing else.
Question! But its been like this for a while. AO3 treats chapter drafts as having been published the day they're created, not the day they're posted, and sorts them accordingly.
The date has to be corrected before posting. Seems like no matter what you write about, no matter how original or however much effort is put into your story, if it's not taboo shipping smut it won't get any attention whatsoever. If you bookmark but don't follow it won't send you an email I think. Clearing cache etc. Every other website in existence works fine.
As has been pointed out before, FF.net has a larger readership, so more people tend to read the story in general.
Thank you for this!
If not, see what tags others are using to fall under that category and add them. Cookies help us deliver our Services. It is strictly an archive. Be the change you want to see in the fandom. Editing scripts through Tampermonkey is not apparently allowed. LJ went on an account-purging spree because of smut, especially the kind which they thought could get them in legal trouble. I don't know, I've found a lot of great gen on there, and I've also posted a fair amount of gen as well.
If our works fail, they should fail fairly, damn it, not because the site doesn't work the way we expected. HTML and Rich Text buttons not showing which editor is active it was my first work in english published on the internet and i was nervous about it. To draw more attention to your work, promoting on social media is a necessity. I just discovered that Subscriptions and Bookmarks are apparently not the same thing. See if it's there.
Saving them again seems to do the trick. And then going back it explained it on the main AO3 Savior script page, but only in such a way that I understood it after having it explained to me. Can anyone help? In all fairness, the most popular AO3 stuff in my fandom is porn penned by a professional author.
Especially in AUs, which often have zero relation to the canon beyond the names of the characters- why not just change the names and make it an original story?
For the community, you go to other sites like Tumblr or whatever. I actually prefer to completely finish writing a work before I post, but recently started spreading out the days I posted the chapters, to make the last work a little more visible. Just like with pretty much everything else, it's all about networking and advertising. Gotta get those sweet front page views, man. You can't force people to read what they don't want to read. Do people actually use the forum function on ff.net to promote their stuff? There is no gatekeeping, and any person who bangs out a few hundred words on a keyboard can post their work for other people to read, meaning that the 99% of the works that are crap flood the market. Maybe (like me) you just have eclectic tastes and are polyfannish and like to go tag surfing, but are tired of wading through stuff you're never going to want to read to get to the stuff that you find interesting. Well-written one shots also have the disadvantage of only showing up in the most recent listing once. Does it actually do any good?
Works on my desktop great. Sorry. They don't have to bone, they can just bounce off each other's worldviews. You're welcome! To get the most exposure, use specific media tags.
That stuff can be really messy at times. Because of the aforementioned 99% of everything being crap, readers become very choosy over what they will or won't invest their time in. To get the most exposure, use specific media tags. Honestly, I've found the long adventure fics to get the most attention. I'd be lying if I said I didn't find that annoying too. Small explorations of what characters were thinking in one scene or another. Some have bigger followings on ff.net, some on AO3.
I'll have to check on that this weekend when I post my new chapters. I do use AO3 without it, when I'm (for example) killing time at work, but I don't tag surf without it. Always tag both, or you miss out on readers like me who search by character. Search their 'browse tag' system.
Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. From my own personal experience, my highest-rated fic (by kudos) is a 50k-word, multi-chapter, T-rated fix-it fic. Subscriptions are only for WIPs and authors. Another tip, if you only tag by pair it won't tag the individual characters.
These are all things that you can't really get in a original fic, but can be SO enriching to read. However, if you: My experience on Android devices is, this still works but some shenanigans are required. Some of my fandoms are heavily weighted toward smut fics because the source material is more adult and it feels more natural.
I'm not hating on anyone who likes or reads shipping/etc anyways, honestly.
I think it mostly depends on the fandom. I would caution you against dimissing every explicit fic as "badly-written one shots of smut" because there is some absolutely phenomenal erotica out there that's not only well-written, it's stunningly well-written. If I want to crosspost something from FF.net that's already a few chapters deep, should I publish it one chapter a time or the whole thing all at once? People aren't entitled to have their story read no matter what though. But you're right that there's more of a culture of feedback. Or there should be a limit to how many times somebody can move the date forward (but no limit to moving the date backwards)? The vast majority of everything that's produced is awful. ; FanFicFare can call Reading List to sync devices and keep a list of new books to read. Other useful Plugins: FanFicFare can call Generate Cover to generate custom covers for downloaded stories. How would Harry Potter handle Discworld? I have a few that put my stories in a translator, they write a comment in their language and put it in a translator again so they can leave a review in english ... like that is fucking sweet.
AO3 has less of a community than ff.net- I get the feeling that on ff.net people are more inclined to review and leave concrit because AO3 readers seem to expect more of a "finished" product. It is strictly an archive. (She's tagged every single one, and the tag list alone fills my monitor.
However, if you: Excellent explanation! Honestly, I don't understand AO3's tagging system very well. So now I do both with fics I want to follow.
2. There's like a million different tags and I have no idea what to even use on my fanfic.
So it's not all low quality oneshots. I'm using admob for showing android ads. Very helpful. Just decided to stop being found one day. I could be wrong about this, as I've been out of the loop and never really followed the "politics" of either site. Is there a delay? (You could argue that the stuff on ff.net is more creative, but often at the expense of rather important historical events or logical characterization.). Like halp i dont ... under .. stand. For what I write, I actually prefer ff.net. Alternatively if your writing is damn good, it won't matter too much if you write for some small, obscure fandom. I'm not even talking about my own fics at all. I've also been known to complain about how underappreciated many gen fics are and how few are produced compared to ship fics. Maybe you have a lot of triggers and/or squicks.
I've tried a manual fix and the date changed, but the position didn't.
AO3. At least in my fandom, I see a lot more well researched and well written content on AO3. My … Thank you! The draft thing is a problem even if you create the draft and publish it the same day, and then there isn't a way to fix it. Often, trying to transfer a gen story fanfic into its "own thing" would involve reworking it to not be seen as a blatant ripoff of [well known universe it takes place in]. I guess I don't even really get the point of non-shipping fanfiction. I've recently had an urge to "jazz up" some of my fics on AO3. It's kind of terrifying.) One of the most highly rated fics in that fandom is an epic-length G-rated masterpiece. And really, if no one's reading, why continue posting to that site? If I want to read something gen, I'd rather just read an original story with original characters. New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast.
On FF.net I follow a lot of stories, but rarely favorite them for example, which is sort of similar. Like, say you create a draft at 6 in the morning, and it's ready to post at 3 in the afternoon... it won't be at the top of the list when you publish it, it'll be all the way down the list as if you'd published it back at 6, and everything posted between 6AM-3PM will appear ahead of it. Wasn't AO3 created after/because FF.net started shooting down smut themed fics? My reviews were working fine until maybe last night or this morning. Where does the 3 come from? Bad The scripts 'ao3 savior' and 'ao3 savior config' is not working I was browsing ao3 today and suddenly some blacklisted works were not hidden, so I followed the Debugging steps to reinstall the scr... Nika on 2017-04-25. Now I understand why each chapter showed the same publish date. The reverse is not true: works listed only under "All Media Types" show up under "All Media Types", nothing else. This is going to save me so much time excluding tags from my searches, and also prevent me from accidentally seeing the sorts of fics that can trigger me just from the tags/summary. The test ads are working fine but real ads are not shown. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts.
That would be all well and fine, but most gen stories often take heavy inspiration from what universe they take place in. I was used to seeing just one fandom tag (unless its a xover), so that was something I had to get used to, but now I understand why they do! ... i posted an oneshot of a wlw rarepair in my fandom back in february. They don't sink to the bottom of the stack as fast, and the flexible tagging system allows you to vary your searches; sooner or later you'll probably hit your target. Why do people find it annoying that others want to read smut? The moment when James met Severus. B, I did not know that about chapters.
However when looking at your subscription list there is no way to search or organize it. And particularly nice since you can add your own notes and tags ("this is the one with that scene", indy!Harry, etc). But I've seen plenty of non-shipping stories there that get a lot of attention. We can only wrangle tags, not works. With shipping, the reason it's fanfic (as opposed to original) is that it's all about shipping THOSE particular characters. They don't want users to be able to push their stories to the very top all the time. New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast. While I love the ability to manually change the posting date of a fic to whatever I want (I used it when I brought my old fics to AO3 and I wanted the posting dates to accurately reflect when I had originally written them), I hate that it's so easily abused. 4. If you don't have the time or inclination to get that actively involved in promoting gen fic, I definitely encourage you at minimum to become a reccer (if you haven't already).