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My writing laptop just died (lemmy.world)
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So, I've been writing a 175k word One Piece fanfic for about 6 months. Most of my writing is done on a 10 year-old laptop I dug out of the closet while I wait for my kid to finish sports practice. Today, the hard-drive died. (Thankfully I have a cloud backup.)

Now, without a laptop, I have nothing to continue working on. I can't afford a new laptop. Just glad I didn't lose all my work.

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[–] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

I wrote a too-long 300K Avatar fanfic! And I’m low key writing another!

Would recommend.

I dunno if you are already doing this, but you should publish it one chapter at a time. It will get way more visibility, and create more feedback as you write.

And there are relatively affordable ways to get the laptop it working again, or get writing on a phone via a usb keyboard or something like that. You’ve come to the right forum!

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I just published to AO3. I put up about a dozen chapters because the format is better if you upload the story arcs together. No feedback yet, but my kid likes it, which is great

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Awesome! I know nothing of One Piece, so probably can't give any useful feedback, but may read some time anyway.

    Though be aware you may not get a ton of comments. I suspect Ao3 readers are generally into shorter-form stuff (and smut) these days, and I've been told some would-be commenters are 'afraid' of antagonizing the authors, more or less.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Oh, that stinks. I'd love to be able to publish it somewhere I can get genuine feedback. I'm honing my writing skills again in preparation to pick up an old novel I wrote years ago.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    Oh, that stinks. I’d love to be able to publish it somewhere I can get genuine feedback. I’m honing my writing skills again in preparation to pick up an old novel I wrote years ago.

    Even better! Writing, and reading other's writing, is the way to do it; I feel like my writing skills improved massively after my first fic (hence, I'm trying to get better prose in the second).

    I publish on Ao3 too, but after a while I also upload a few chapters at a time to Fanfiction.net. As janky as it is, it still has a lot of readers.

    I dunno where else you should consider publishing... Tumblr? Maybe anime forums? A Fediverse animation group? There might be places with a large One Piece following, including oldschool forums where posting fics is a thing. But I can tell you (from my experience with fandoms) Reddit subs are not it. I dunno what it is about the format, but more speculative lore discussion and fanfics just don't have much traction there.

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