Someone tell me why we play this game?
Jul. 10th, 2011 06:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
scribblemynameFF.net finally gets my Divergent category loaded and characters loaded and it won't keep any characters selected and the story shows up on my profile with Zhang Fei as the character. Pardon moi?
I never dumped FF.net and never wanted to for two reasons:
1. As a reader, I've never found a fanfiction site I prefer for easy tracking, reviewing, etc. It makes my life easy.
2. As a writer, my largest audience is there. I'm known; I know; we have community. It's an awesome thing.
And since I had over thirty stories, many multi-chapter, before I even considered switching, it was too much of a bear. I hate losing reviews, readers, and putting in the HUGE amount of work involved in picking up roots.
And then there's PM.
All these people I used to ask for help for so many things disabled PM and now I don't have a French title for All's Fair. I alternate chapters for Remy and Rogue; her titles are in English, and his are in French. For Without a Trace and his All's Fair titles, I asked abthetis, now ab26. And now, she's got PM disabled and I'm freaking out.
Seriously wondering if I should switch platforms. Or something.
Disconsolately yours.
I never dumped FF.net and never wanted to for two reasons:
1. As a reader, I've never found a fanfiction site I prefer for easy tracking, reviewing, etc. It makes my life easy.
2. As a writer, my largest audience is there. I'm known; I know; we have community. It's an awesome thing.
And since I had over thirty stories, many multi-chapter, before I even considered switching, it was too much of a bear. I hate losing reviews, readers, and putting in the HUGE amount of work involved in picking up roots.
And then there's PM.
All these people I used to ask for help for so many things disabled PM and now I don't have a French title for All's Fair. I alternate chapters for Remy and Rogue; her titles are in English, and his are in French. For Without a Trace and his All's Fair titles, I asked abthetis, now ab26. And now, she's got PM disabled and I'm freaking out.
Seriously wondering if I should switch platforms. Or something.
Disconsolately yours.
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Date: 2011-07-11 05:07 am (UTC)It's still the largest, most central, & easily navigated fanfiction archive I know. I know of archives for specific fandoms, but I still find it better organized than most of them, and certainly more active.
I prefer livejournal for posting fic, and I will always prefer it, I think, but it is definitely not where the main audience is.
I tried to stick to other places before fanfiction.net, but for exposure alone, that site is the way to go for stories to find readers.
The switch to PM replies to reviews is something that bothers me because a lot of people have PMs disabled. I understand why they might not want it, but it annoys me.
I may not be a native speaker, and none of my teachers knew Cajun French, but it was my major before I quit college, so if you want a French translation, I might be able to help.
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Date: 2011-07-11 02:39 pm (UTC)I'll email or message you. :hugs:
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Date: 2011-07-12 10:26 pm (UTC)Okay. I haven't had time yet to look at the other thing you sent me to beta, but my schedule should be back to normal tomorrow, so I'll see what happens. :)
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Date: 2011-07-12 10:53 pm (UTC)Don't worry about the story. I'm glad you got it, but let's face it: it's been posted without beta work for a long time. It'll live until you're done with it and whatever pace works. :grins: