Fictionpress thread

As good as a website as it is, fictionpress.net's traffic monumentally pales in comparison to fanfiction.net. This thread is to post any stories from the site that have gotten either extremely low or no views/reviews.

I'll start. Here's my latest: http://www.fictionpress.com/s/2811020/1/Tales_of_the_Waffle_House

I'll use this to pimp my own work.

Check my sig.

Fun fact:

Fiction Press.com: 1,203,497 works

Fan Fiction.net: 2 million… and just the top 25 fandoms.

edited 27th Nov '10 5:53:50 PM by snowfoxofdeath

Nobody wants to read original works the days. If it's not fanfiction, why read it

A damn shame.... A damn shame...

I think it's partly because it's easier to enjoy badly-written works when you know the setting & characters. Original fiction doesn't have that crutch.

Oh, cool. I actually started to read your story a while back, Will, but, you know. Life. Gets in the way of all my online reading. >=

And hey, it’s Morven. I’ve spoken a bit with/read his stuff there, too. It’s always fun to see the same people pop up on different sites you frequent.

edited 28th Nov '10 8:38:11 AM by dreamshell

I have a fiction press account. Never used it. Prolly should. I'm typing up a script anyway. Might as well put it somewhere.

It can still get published if I put it up there, right?

Cool! Small world. While it's not really a substitute for actual publishing, fictionpress is a site where you can upload something and prove that it's yours should you ever had problems with copyright or plagarization.

Suweet. Whelp, here is my Graphic novel script, the first 8 pages at least.

Hey, I just realized something.

I CAN MAKE MY OWN TROPER WORKS PAGE NOW!

Cygan Angel said: Nobody wants to read original works the days. If it's not fanfiction, why read it

That is one of the saddest things I've ever read on the Internet.

That... was not intended to be serious...

Especially since judging by one pair of internet sites is silly, but off-topic.

...how do you make a troper works page?

Make a page in the appropriate namespace (ex. Literature.TheSagaOfAHR or whatever) and index it on Troper Works.

OK. So... Scripts.Thirteenth Sage and then I'd make it a blue link, and put it on the page? Just double checking.

edited 28th Nov '10 10:49:40 AM by MrAHR

And then you can treat it like any other works page, yes. You know how to index things, yes?

Not really. But there is a guide for it, I'll use that.

edited 28th Nov '10 10:54:12 AM by MrAHR

As a rule (and there are always exceptions) I don't consider fan fiction to be in the same league as original fiction. Why? Because no matter what, the romance archive is always the biggest on fan fiction sites, and most of those stories are, for all intents and purposes, porn. And most of us don't consider porn True Art (again, always exceptions.)

As for my own work, it has two hits. Both by me when I needed the link to it. It's in the sig.

Perhaps the issue isn't that people don't want to read original fiction, it's that if they want it they'd rather just go to a bookstore and buy published stuff? You can get original fiction everywhere, but you can only get fanfiction on the internet.

Plus, at least with fanfiction, you know what you're getting. With fictionpress, much less so.

Suweet. Whelp, here is my Graphic novel script, the first 8 pages at least.

Wait a sec! You can post scripts on fictionpress!?

There is a play section.

That's way cool.

I used to write awful, awful, awful poetry and post it on Fictionpress. Actually, I used to post it on FF.Net back when it still hosted original work, but it got transferred over when the sites split. God, I'm internet old.