Dreamwidth or Pillowfort as Fic Backup
Jan. 28th, 2021 01:00 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Since I'm planning on phasing out ffnet for my fic at some point (though I want to post one more chapter of each fic and then discuss the phase-out in the author's note, so it's sort of a long-term plan haha), I've been thinking about where to put an alternative copy of my fic from AO3. I love AO3 for fic, but I don't ever want to be stuck with only one cloud copy of my stories so I need them to have at least one more online location. Given the reasons I'm leaving ffnet, that somewhat limits my options. But I think Dreamwidth or Pillowfort are two possibilities.
I was originally reluctant to use any kind of general-purpose social media site, but I realized that if I made a blog or community for each of my long fic, I could still organize them chapter-by-chapter in the way I wanted. And the short fic I could just add to my main blog here and link in my profile or something. And as an added bonus, I could add chapter-specific tags, which is a concept I really like because I love enabling more search functionality. Like sometimes I will skim or search through a longfic looking for particular parts of interest to me, and that would really enable that capability to a much greater degree for my fic.
So, that's probably what I'll do.
I was originally reluctant to use any kind of general-purpose social media site, but I realized that if I made a blog or community for each of my long fic, I could still organize them chapter-by-chapter in the way I wanted. And the short fic I could just add to my main blog here and link in my profile or something. And as an added bonus, I could add chapter-specific tags, which is a concept I really like because I love enabling more search functionality. Like sometimes I will skim or search through a longfic looking for particular parts of interest to me, and that would really enable that capability to a much greater degree for my fic.
So, that's probably what I'll do.