Why do people use display sites?

Dermit said:

Speaking as someone who's been mucking about with Wattpad for around a year, I can tell you the main reason I bother with the site: it's fun.

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That strikes me as a worthy thing all on its own.

Medievalist said:

That strikes me as a worthy thing all on its own.

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couldn't agree more.

I have to remind myself from time to time that this is supposed to be fun. Writing is fun. Creating is fun. When it turns to being all about making the monies and allowing that to overshadow everything else I do...it is no longer fun.

Does anyone use fictionpress.com instead of wattpad? What's your experience like? It's basically fanfiction.net for original fiction (same general layout, I suppose the same company runs it.

Rina Evans said:

Does anyone use fictionpress.com instead of wattpad? What's your experience like? It's basically fanfiction.net for original fiction (same general layout, I suppose the same company runs it.

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I used to use it (now I'm on figment though) and it was pretty good. People there are serious about writing and helping each other out.

I've never used fictionpress. The most accessible site for my fan work is Archive of Our Own, which has a user base of all ages. I stick around there because of loyalty to the parent org, whose mission statement I tend to follow. There's no money whatsoever in it for me, but I do enjoy the near-instant feedback.

I'll try not to wander OT here, but I remember Carey's comment on fan fiction - and support that, too. Writing someone else's character too far out-of-character has always seemed wrong to me, unless the story reveals a good reason for it.

That and Real Person Fic are quick ways to make me ditch a story, on any display site.

Rina Evans said:

Does anyone use fictionpress.com instead of wattpad? What's your experience like? It's basically fanfiction.net for original fiction (same general layout, I suppose the same company runs it.

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I used it for a few of my original stories. It's fine, but it didn't get that much traffic and the reviews tended to be a bit sparse. It was easy enough to use though and, except for porn, you were pretty much free to post whatever you liked.

Maybe they want to share their work

Let us know how it goes for you. I'd wander back, but none of my best writing is 'clean' enough for Wattpad. If it's not sex, it's violence.

Kevin Nelson said:

I guess that will have to be the last word. Personally, I can't help but think that real-person fan-fic is different enough from other fan-fic that it ought to be in its own category. (For one thing, it would raise entirely different legal issues if you tried to publish it commercially.) But I bow before established usage.

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But most fanfic writers don't try to publish their fics commercially. I used write Real Person Fic--never posted it anywhere, just sent it around to my friends who were often characters in the fic. Basically, you take someone you're a fan of, maybe a few known facts about their life or their persona, and you write a story. I can see how it can be creepy. I once read a RPF where an actor was turned into a psychopathic serial killer in the fic.

My cousin posts her fics on fanfiction.net. She gets some super detailed reviews on there.