I can understand worrying about posting at other archives. Some can all but crush you with their list of 'what we won't accepts' and 'this better be damn near perfect or else it's not allowed'. You think a story fits their requirements only to get the dreaded, 'we don't accept that here' type email back instead of a posted story. As my muse is often all about rubbing my fandom the wrong way I tend to write things are as as anti-canon as they come and that often comes with that 'this isn't allowed here' email when submitted into an archive's que. You don't have to deal with that b.s. at FF.net. It's a little harder for me to find places that won't turn their collective noses up to what I'm writing simply because of what it is depending on who and what I've been writing.
However, things are looking less and less stable at FF.net. A good back-up plan is always sound. I think it was why I was so intrigued by having never heard of AO3 yesterday. Granted the main fandom I write for isn't small - though the pairings I often pick can be sparse. Still I would hate to lose the majority of what readers I have because FF.net is ass of tea kettle more often than not.
Sometimes if you can find another place you feel comfortable posting, it's a good thing to have that. You get a different demographic of readers in some cases that you might not have gotten other wise. Or it could give you a place to have everything in case something drastic were to happen to ff's already unstable site.
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I can understand worrying about posting at other archives. Some can all but crush you with their list of 'what we won't accepts' and 'this better be damn near perfect or else it's not allowed'. You think a story fits their requirements only to get the dreaded, 'we don't accept that here' type email back instead of a posted story. As my muse is often all about rubbing my fandom the wrong way I tend to write things are as as anti-canon as they come and that often comes with that 'this isn't allowed here' email when submitted into an archive's que. You don't have to deal with that b.s. at FF.net. It's a little harder for me to find places that won't turn their collective noses up to what I'm writing simply because of what it is depending on who and what I've been writing.
However, things are looking less and less stable at FF.net. A good back-up plan is always sound. I think it was why I was so intrigued by having never heard of AO3 yesterday. Granted the main fandom I write for isn't small - though the pairings I often pick can be sparse. Still I would hate to lose the majority of what readers I have because FF.net is ass of tea kettle more often than not.
Sometimes if you can find another place you feel comfortable posting, it's a good thing to have that. You get a different demographic of readers in some cases that you might not have gotten other wise. Or it could give you a place to have everything in case something drastic were to happen to ff's already unstable site.
*hugs* Hope you get lots of wonderful reviews.