Fiction, Web Software, and You (aka: Sev's Desperate Plea For Help!)

[seventhe]

So I've been sitting here writing my share of the porn for HNtDB* and thinking about writing in general. I'm kind of peeved at fanfiction.net and their recent Crusades Against All Sensical Punctuation (including scene breaks of all kinds). One of the reasons I like LiveJournal for my writing is that I know once I post something in brokenprism, it's going to look like I intend for it to look, and since LJ is a blogging community the chance of them cutting out "---" is pretty much 0.001%** and so it's probably going to continue to look that way for a while. I liked the fact that lots of people read my stuff at fanfiction.net, but I also have readers here at LJ, and what I've lost in "raw number of random commenters" I've gained not only in "raw number of insightful commenters" but also in "community", per se.

The thing is, of course, that since I was writing porn while thinking about this, I started thinking a little harder. I don't understand what's been going on in the Livejournal Background, and I don't really care to, but kerfluffle after kerfluffle has made me just a little nervous about The Future of LiveJournal As Pertaining To My Porn***. I mean, I would also like to have my own archive of my own fanfiction work. I own http://seventhe.net for this very basic reason, but I never could maintain it. Flaw #1: Writing on breaks at work. I can't FTP into my website from work. I can, however, post to LJ.

So what I'm looking for are some recommendations of website-based software which will let me post stories to my website -- much like fanfiction.net's software -- without FTP. I know they're out there, and in fact I know that some of you use them for your own work. What do you recommend? Keep in mind I am severely PHP- and SQL-impaired, so anything that's super easy to use (think "Plug and Play") wins, even if it lacks certain features.

I already run Gallery on seventhe.net (which needs a good updating), so I'm not completely hopeless. That's really what I'm looking for -- something like that, that I can access anywhere, without having to HTML-code all my writing and then actually upload it. I am Le Lazy.

And now, back to helping poor tormented Quistis finally get a piece of ass, before I go to bed.


* at least, I'm trying. We'll see how it actually turns out, as I have to go to bed soon ><
** although it may be higher with our new Russian overlords
***PRIORITIES, DUDE

Comments

[heyheyrenay.livejournal.com]

I agree with the suggestions of installing wordpress (or having someone inclined do it for you) and posting work like that. Bonus: there are loads of free themes available! I do suggest wordpress since I divorced MT LONG AGO.

Although I guess I am not yet jaded enough to believe LJ is going to come after people who post porn on its servers, I still like the idea of having work in multiple places (I love my website but it is hand-coded and that would drive most people insane). I love the idea of spreading stuff across. Fandom centralized scares me!

On the bright side, here comes OTW!? With their awesome software that will be ready in oh six months or so. XD

[first-seventhe.livejournal.com]

Having my website hand-coded was basically its downfall. I never updated anything because it was so complicated to update, and basically I stopped posting any writing OR art there. (Other than photos of my cat, of course -- but even that's automated by Gallery.) I mean, ideally it's the best way to make sure you can do exactly what you want, but in the end, uh, I'm lazy (see Sev's Law) and just won't do it. This has been proven!

But yeah, mostly I realized that my writing isn't really archived anywhere other than LiveJournal. And while I don't really think LJ is going anywhere, and I also don't think they're really going to move to a PG webspace like most people seem to be afraid of ... I still need a backup! I mean, what if something happened to brokenprism, even if it was an innocent mistake? I'd cry. I have copies in random places, but I should really own my own freaking archive.

[heyheyrenay.livejournal.com]

Oooh, also ovo_lexa had good advice, too! eFiction = thumbs up!

This whole thing makes me sad, though. Why does FFN have to be such a cock? I do NOT want to edit all my work there, and I'm close to taking it down since they do this every few months. sdlkhflhfff

[first-seventhe.livejournal.com]

I actually just got really depressed about this entire thing like 20min ago when I started my lunch break and went to look at my ff.net account and found all my stories have been liusdk;jf;klsjdklj they look terrible. I mean ... Yes was basically a series of scene breaks! Now it looks like I am a robotard author who can't write. >.>

I'm also thinking of just bailing. It makes me sad, but then again, I haven't posted there in a while anyway. I use LJ more as it is.

random P.S. - there is a new FFDQ because I am also awesome

[heyheyrenay.livejournal.com]

Just think! All your work elsewhere formatted all pretty! This is what keeps me going, I admit, when I'm manually adding paragraph breaks to my 17,000n word stories. It's a hard life!

I feel bad for whining because I sort of only posted my longer work on FFN and don't even have that much available. And most of it is already available elsewhere so uh, deleting for me would just be, I dunno, not a big deal.

Except to my watchers. Sorry, guys. :(

It's a sign that we've exchanged this many comments and I've only made it two entries down my friends list! I'LL BE THERE SOON.

[first-seventhe.livejournal.com]

Well, that's the thing. I only have two stories still going on ff.net, and I've pretty much lost interest and/or FAILED at either one, so I'm not too sad about that. I'd like to keep the other ones up because people seem to really like them, but I'm looking at all the scene breaks (apparently I overuse those things) and kind of wanting to cry a little because who knows? 3 months from now they might decide that Page Breaks Are Evil.

I just haven't added anything there since like 2005. Except for Yes, which I only posted because people here seemed to like it. I have not been good at updating it, which may end up being to my advantage, apparently. XD

hey, I just wanted to let you know! You've got all week, no worries