Where do you post your story?

Does anyone here post your story outside of threads in this section? If yes, then where?

I heard that Fictionpress.com is a pretty good place for that.

I've been quite open about where I post my stories. I can't say I'm crazy about having my topics limited to sex and sexuality, but it's much easier to get an audience there than on Fictionpress, and you can get surprisingly good critiques if you use the authors' forum.

I used to post my stories on Fictionpress, Wattpad (briefly), and Young Writers Society.

I took all of them down because they were crap, and that I wanted to improve more. Maybe I should post them here instead.

edited 25th Dec '11 5:43:53 PM by Masterofchaos

Deviantart.

My stories have been shared in places ranging from Unfiction to Slender Nation to Facebook to Chao Civic to Chao Talk to dreamtheaterforums dot org to Tumblr to a Tails Doll creepypasta site, though I get a significant amount of readers from TV Tropes.

I've never posted anything anywhere. But in the event I do, does anyone have any recommendations for a good webcomics hosting site?

Places I had before: Fanfiction.net, Writing.Com, Budding Writers (a minor forum), here.

I'm thinking about publishing Innocence Lost as a serial novel on Fiction Press (is that what FF.net's original fiction site is called?), as it's gotten particularly long and I don't think I want to do it for money. The rest I think I'll try for E-publishing, if possible.

FF.net for fanfic, FictionPress for original, if I ever get around to writing any. All mirrored at that FictionCircle place some troper set up a while ago. I may at one point try e-publishing some bit of original fiction, but that's far off in the future if ever.

edited 25th Dec '11 8:27:57 PM by alethiophile

ff.net; you can get it off my profile if you're curious. There's some other stuff scattered on a few forums. I doubt anyone here would recognize them, and at least one is defunct.

Deviant Art for pretty much everything. All my betas 'n' such are there.

I actually e-published something on smashwords and Amazon. It's sold like...30 copies? http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/66649 and http://www.amazon.com/Kingdoms-Evil-Covenant-Nonsense-ebook/dp/B004W3VWSK

The website I made for it has been more successful. http://www.thekingdomsofevil.com/

Other than that, I've posted stuff on Deviantart. http://bensen-daniel.deviantart.com/

edited 26th Dec '11 12:32:44 AM by BensenDan

I don't normally post my original stuff online, in case it actually gets published and I'll have to take it down. Usually I ask my friends if they want to read it and then send it to them for criticism.

Fanfiction I post on The Simpsons and Futurama Fanworks Central (The Simpsons and Futurama) or Venture Industries (The Venture Brothers). I don't like fanfiction.net, so I don't post there any more.

edited 26th Dec '11 2:03:52 AM by DoktorvonEurotrash

Just a heads up: If you ever want your novel published through traditional means or by a professional publisher, you shouldn't put your story online— online publishing counts as "first publication rights," which is what most publishers want when they're buying a manuscript. Generally, they won't buy a story that has been reproduced in whole or in major part online.

As PD Fs on filedump. Although I'm considering not doing that any more, as it seems that linking to a PDF has an effect on threads somewhat akin to that of a low-yield tactical nuke.

edited 26th Dec '11 10:11:13 AM by RiotousRascal

I post my stories on Fanfiction.net and livejournal (for Sims 2 stories).

I don't post original stories anywhere (because who's going to buy the book if you've already posted it online?)..

I use Fan Fiction.Net for all my stuff. I don't write much original fiction because I don't feel that confident and I can't find a good place to post it. Fictionpress is too jumbled for me. I used Wattpad for a while but it felt too much like one huge competition.

My fan fics go up on Fan Fic.Net. It's the only website that (as it seems to me) hosts any kind of real audience for video game fan fic, aside from the biggest names, aka Zelda, FF 7 and so forth. Other sites, like LJ, have bled away their fan fic communities, and the ones still active are highly specific on content.

For my original stuff... I don't post it anywhere on the Internet for the public (the 5th writing contest here being an exception). If I ever sell anything, my publisher might want first American electronic rights.

Then again, I might get desperate in the future and post stuff for free to see if I can drum up any commercial interest. But that's a last resort.

@Shark: Not always. Some publishers really go in for the people who've already built up a reader base, or stuff that's been proven, because it shows an author and/or a story can clearly hold an audience. Though generally things do get taken down after that, that too isn't a sure thing.

^ That's what happens to manga that get licensed abroad. Their fansubs and scanlations often disappear in anticipation of the "official" translated version.

The whole thing just means that getting professionally published means you have to cover your tracks and go that extra step to secure things if you post on a site elsewhere.

I have a blog I posted a few short shorts to. And one story already published online at Bewildering Stories.

Other than that, I haven't posted anything online yet.

I've only ever posted fiction on Literotica... the serious stuff I'm holding in reserve for actual publishing, since I intend to write for money at some point.

I've posted poetry pretty much everywhere... there's even one on this site.