Fiction pad has made some changes:
they now allow a cover page, as well as links to images within the body of a story
and banners are now standard format rectangular rather than square as they were
for a little while. There are also a few more changes including story tags. So
you can add in warnings of character death or original main characters or
whatever in the tags. Neat, huh?
I spent a lot of time today adding
in the scrapbook pages that goldengirl made me for ‘Best Friends share
everything’ chapters, as well lots of other banners people have made me over the years and they look beautiful. I also used the images that
inspired one shots as their cover pages.
So my main page now looks like
this.
All I can say is I need more
banners to fill those plain blue bits!
Since the closure of JBNP I only
have my stories loaded at fanfic. I have looked at ao3 (an archive of our own) and
joined so that I could comment on another story. Seriously, if you like Teen Wolf,
why are you not reading meeranamjoker’s ‘Witha Silver Practise’? It is Derek/Lydia and it is awesome.
But I digress… so, I could load my
71 stories onto ao3 but that might take me years and it is html editing and I
HATE html. I saw an article in fictionators, I think, about a new site called
fictionpad. I had a look.
I joined mostly to protect my fic
name. Woe betide someone else tries to be mtr, like I dunno the real
mrstrentreznor… lmao
It is in the beta phase and very
much reminds me of a Twitter page. Same screen size. It fills your screen and
you navigate by hovering on the RHS where a next page bar pops up.
Some good things:
·You can sign in with Twitter, Facebook or Google+
·One button loads all stories from fanfic. I know
right? It did load Closer to God twice. But I have a lot of stories and it did
pretty well.
·Works in progress are marked with a big blue
spanner next to the fic name
·One shots are marked with a green thunderbolt
·It has an 18+ category
·You can load banners on each chapter if you wish
- I am still trying to work out the banner size for story icons.
·Readers can click the thumbs up or leave a
comment or both
·It allows multiple characters AND multiple
genres
·Writers can PM a reviewer or reply to the review
publicly. If you use an @ like twitter, they get notified.
It is very new, so all my
alternate pairings meant most of my characters aren’t listed yet. But they seem
cool and approachable. I am slowly working through my list and upgrading the
age bracket or telling them they need to add a character.
And big plus for me. No HTML! You
edit the story, click add a chapter and cut and paste it in from Word. Then click
republish. It will hold it as a draft until you have it all done and click the
green button. Neat!
They don’t have lists of authors
yet, but the search box works well at the moment when the site is small.
If nothing else, it will serve as
a backup of my fanfic stories. I wake up every day expecting my whole page to
have been deleted. I do write some rather racy things… *grins*
