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If you've read my last post, you'll know that I've been considering making a new community. If you haven't read my last post since it's friends locked and focuses more on some issues I've been having, I'm considering a new community.
Specifically a flashfic community, only for original fic instead of fanfic. It's kind of a tentative idea since I'm not sure if I want to deal with being a mod for another community, but I like the thought of having a place that would inspire short-story ideas and making use of the short stories that often pop into my head (but that I've never been motivated to write). And it wouldn't just be fiction that would be welcomed but graphic novels and even poetry as well.
But the real icing on the cake is that I also want to make this a community open to advertising any published or uploaded works people may have. And I will readily admit that this was inspired by my dread over finding ways to advertise my book so that it doesn't end up collecting dust like my last self-published work. But more than that, I like the idea of a place where people can advertise their self-published projects and increase their chances of being noticed. And I also like the idea of there being a place that makes it easier to discover what else is out there.
As for how people would go about advertising, they can't just up and post an ad. They need to actually post a piece of work, and the "ad" would come at the end of whatever they've posted - specifically a link to a website, blog or where their works can be purchased. They can't post snippets of the work they're selling since I feel that would be unfair to the readers, but they can publish something set in the work's universe so long as it can stand alone (that is, a reader shouldn't have had to read the book in order to understand the short story).
As for the community itself, it would be set up kind of like SGA flashfic, in which every month there will be a prompt. People write their story, post it to the site, and at the end of their story place a small add with a link to their published work. It wouldn't be a big ad since there wouldn't be room. Just something along the lines of: "If you enjoyed this piece please come see my other works" (or something along those lines) then the link.
And of course there will be the usual rules about warnings and content and how to tag, etc.
As usual, I would really appreciate some feedback on this idea, and whether you feel it to be a good idea, bad idea, want to point out that it's already been done, or if people would avoid it like the plague because people prefer their flashfic to be fanfiction. The more input the merrier.
Specifically a flashfic community, only for original fic instead of fanfic. It's kind of a tentative idea since I'm not sure if I want to deal with being a mod for another community, but I like the thought of having a place that would inspire short-story ideas and making use of the short stories that often pop into my head (but that I've never been motivated to write). And it wouldn't just be fiction that would be welcomed but graphic novels and even poetry as well.
But the real icing on the cake is that I also want to make this a community open to advertising any published or uploaded works people may have. And I will readily admit that this was inspired by my dread over finding ways to advertise my book so that it doesn't end up collecting dust like my last self-published work. But more than that, I like the idea of a place where people can advertise their self-published projects and increase their chances of being noticed. And I also like the idea of there being a place that makes it easier to discover what else is out there.
As for how people would go about advertising, they can't just up and post an ad. They need to actually post a piece of work, and the "ad" would come at the end of whatever they've posted - specifically a link to a website, blog or where their works can be purchased. They can't post snippets of the work they're selling since I feel that would be unfair to the readers, but they can publish something set in the work's universe so long as it can stand alone (that is, a reader shouldn't have had to read the book in order to understand the short story).
As for the community itself, it would be set up kind of like SGA flashfic, in which every month there will be a prompt. People write their story, post it to the site, and at the end of their story place a small add with a link to their published work. It wouldn't be a big ad since there wouldn't be room. Just something along the lines of: "If you enjoyed this piece please come see my other works" (or something along those lines) then the link.
And of course there will be the usual rules about warnings and content and how to tag, etc.
As usual, I would really appreciate some feedback on this idea, and whether you feel it to be a good idea, bad idea, want to point out that it's already been done, or if people would avoid it like the plague because people prefer their flashfic to be fanfiction. The more input the merrier.
