Hello! I was curious how you guys like to share your work, particularly long-form works. I mean, excluding publishing because that sounds like a lot of effort I cannot be bothered to put in. I’ve been wondering what other people like to do, I don’t really share my work that often.

  •  altz3r0   ( @altz3r0@beehaw.org ) 
    3•1 year ago

    Well, it’s not that hard to actually self-publish via Amazon, Lulu or IngramSpark for example, but getting your work distributed is another story. However, that’s an issue with any platform as far as I’m aware of.

    Now, the most obvious one is to start a blog, and you can do that with https://paper.wf for example! Which is a federated blogging solution.

    Some options you have are:

    • Wattpad
    • Writers workshop (Local workshops are best)
    • Royal Road (Mostly focused by LitRPG fans)
    • If you are writing short stories or novellas, you can look for magazines that accept submissions in your genre, but I take that’s what you are trying to avoid.
    • If your work involves blogging/journalism or non-fiction in general, I’d recommend Substack and Medium as well, just beware that the monetization format can create an annoying culture.

    And you can post here as well! :)

    •  Squirrel [any]   ( @ImASquirrelYipee@beehaw.org ) OP
      2•1 year ago

      That’s a really useful guide tysm, I’ll be sure to refer back to this.

      I personally tend to write YA / Romance kinda things, so self-publishing sounds like a fun thing to do. Ik Wattpad is good for the genres, but I hate the stigma around the website because of all the… questionable content on there. (To be fair my stuff tends to lean into the dramatics a little bit but i reckon it does it well enough, I’m hardly unbiased though.)

      I kinda wish Amazon had something like a more helpful review system, as I do believe that the system that’s currently in-place doesn’t lead to much constructive criticism.

      NOTE: Apologies if this post hasn’t came out the best I am so tired.

    •  Zagaroth   ( @Zagaroth@beehaw.org ) 
      1•1 year ago

      Royal Road (Mostly focused by LitRPG fans)

      While true, you can be at least moderately successful without being LitRPG or Cultivation, but if you aren’t at least Fantasy then the story is almost certainly not going to do well.