So, I'm looking for a story site that doesn't need a verified email. My email isn't verifiable, and I know Pastebin exists, but I want to edit whenever I please! And Google Docs doesn't work, I can't make my documents I make there public!
I mean, there's the tried and true fanfiction.net and it's worse younger brother archive of our own. but if you're talking about posting stuff, you're gonna need an email for any
I'm not entirely sure if Wattpad needs a verifiable email or not, it's been a while since I visited the site. It probably won't work though now that I think about it. Sorry for the confusion.
Wattpad does need an email..which is unfortunate bc Wattpad is amazing
There's no writing site that allows uploading without a verified email. Too easy for plagiarism and how would you prove it's your story to continue?
Just make a new, writing-only email for it.
I like Fanfiction.net waaaay more than AO3. Less smut to ignore.
Seriously, how can you say that? AO3 lets you exclude everything above whatever rating you want, and lets you exclude tags like, oh, 'smut'. And the quality of works on AO3 is, in general, WAAAAAY higher than FFn. Unfortunately, it's for the same reason that you get a lot fewer views: most young teens and writers aren't willing to put up with the wait to get the invitations to join.
So you get fewer of the troll fics, and fewer of the preteen girls wish-fulfillment fics, but also fewer people to squee over your fics. Plus, AO3 just feels so much cleaner to me. It's well-organized.
Win a little, lose a little.
AO3 and ff.net both have their ups and downs, I think. For fandoms that existed when ff.net was much more popular, a lot of the good fics have and always remained there. I've gotten back into some old fandoms recently and because AO3 is not quite as old, I find it doesn't have the same sort of things that FF.net had. The fact that it's more tag-based is amazing, but I frequently organize by word count which is a bit of a pain in the ass on AO3. I find AO3 can be a bit too broad when it comes for searching for fics that you want, and tags can vary too much, so it can become unnecessarily cluttered.
ff.net, on the other hand, I don't find to be very fantastic for newer fandoms. It's not nearly as active as AO3 and that in itself is a flaw. AO3 is much more welcoming to OC content as well, as there is an entire category dedicated to it.
Both have their fair shares of good and bad authors - but I, personally, prefer ff.net in most cases. But I also grew up with it, so there's a bit of a nostalgia factor there.
(Also, people on ff.net always reviewed and commented more on my works than they ever did on ao3).
I agree with that assessment very much~
Finding fics in general is hard, regardless of the site. On FFn you only have the summary, and maybe room for one or two words-that-almost-act-like-tags. So unless you're sorting by relationship, or looking only for the highest word-count, it's a pain no matter what.
There's a million ways to look just for something like 'time-travel'. Because the summary might not have that exact word combo, so you also have to look for 'back in time' or 'time reversal' or 're-do'. And if you're looking for only yaoi or slash, it's like throwing a coin into a wishing well because that turns up everything 'yaoi' and 'slash' and also 'no yaoi' and 'no slash\not slash\I-hate-slash'. Are you looking for 'yuri'? (You better hope there's not a character named Yuri or God help you.) Or are you looking for 'F\F'? Or 'sapphic'? OR 'saffic'?
I guess I prefer AO3 really for the personal reasons, though. Some of my fics got erased on FFn back-when. Some for being against the rules, some falsely, and some after I HAD gone in and corrected them got purged anyway. So AO3 has always been more 'home' to me. Personal taste, always.
(That, and somehow my first smut fic was Attack on Titan in that single sweet spot back when it was absurdly popular and I got a thousand kudos for it in a single night on AO3 and thought my computer was broken because what? )
(I'm sort of jealous :( I don't write much for fics anymore unfortunately, but I did a lot when Hetalia was at its height and the AO3 Hetalia is somewhat pathetic).
The one nice thing for sure is how good AO3 is for OC content, even if no one ever really reads it.
I was jealous, too, and it was my own thing! It makes you kind of second-guess everything else you've ever written and made me disillusioned with smut as a genre.
Oh! Not just OCs in general, but also Reader-Inserts specifically. All those 'you-based' fics that FFn specifically disallows. Moving them to AO3 makes them actually readable and searchable instead of more tedious sites for it, like DeviantArt.
That's true; I always had a hard time reading anything that wasn't third person, though. The flow is too easily disrupted.
@CC Heart Yeah, I don’t have an account. I just browse. And I’ve only come across one crappy story on FFN and it was written by a teenager girl (which is fine, I’m a teenage girl) who claimed to be world famous for her writing but it was like a Hamilton version of My Immortal.
Another personal opinion, But I really prefer ff.net. As someone who has both browsed and written on these sites, it was far easier to get any response whatsoever on ff.net as well as catagorize my story. On AO3 i could put more filters on, but it was really overwhelming, and more confusing in the long run. I’m sure I could have figured it out, but in the end, I would say ff.net for overall ease of use.