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

[first-seventhe.livejournal.com]

...that looks almost exactly like what I want. As long as it's not too hard to install for a complete assmoron like me.

[ovo-lexa.livejournal.com]

I'll install one when I have a moment and write up a step-by-step for you. I remember being tripped up by something, but I don't remember what it is. :D

[first-seventhe.livejournal.com]

That would be completely awesome. I probably wouldn't work on it for another month or so, just so I can get everything else organized, but I would really appreciate it.