June is upon us

[sholio]

... and it arrived with a light frost that took out most of my herbs. Alaska, I love you, but we might have to see other people if this keeps up.

I (a fool) decided to kick off June by signing up for tasty-looking bingo cards I probably will end up not writing anything for. I have requested two of them, first of all for July Break Bingo (instructions at the link), which looks really fun and features a wide variety of prompt types and customization options, and the other for scaldinghotcibingo (dubcon/noncon prompts) - I'm genuinely unsure how many of these will be relevant to my interests, but since some of them definitely are and there's nothing to lose, I thought it'd be fun to give it a spin.

A poll:

Poll #28984

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: Just the Poll Creator, participants: 71

Thoughts on whether I should go back to cross-posting my fic here in full, as well as at AO3? (Check all that apply.)

It would be useful to me because I prefer commenting here
2 (2.8%)

It increases the chances I would read it
9 (12.7%)

I like it because I enjoy seeing more fic content on DW even if it's not my fandom
28 (39.4%)

I think it's a good idea to have your fic in more than one place
44 (62.0%)

I prefer if you don't because it clutters up my reading page
1 (1.4%)

I prefer if you don't because I like having just one place to comment
1 (1.4%)

The extra effort of formatting for two different sites probably isn't worth it
4 (5.6%)

I feel it's entirely up to you
51 (71.8%)

My opinions cannot be contained in a mere poll!
2 (2.8%)

I just want to see the results
4 (5.6%)

Comments

[lannamichaels]

regarding if it's extra formatting:

I post to both DW and AO3 and the only place I need to futz with the formatting is AO3, not DW. I write all my fic in a text editor, and do the html tags by hand. I paste it into DW and into AO3. AO3 likes to strip out line breaks around horizontal rules and blockquotes, so every time I have those, I have to fight ao3. On Dreamwidth, it Just Works.

[sholio]

YMMV, obviously, but I find it extra work to post at DW personally because of the header info. I used to post in both places but eventually stopped doing it at DW because of needing to write out and hand-code the headers, links, etc - with AO3 it's just a matter of ticking boxes and pasting in the text. (I don't usually do anything complicated with the HTML, so I've rarely had to fight with it too much.) I mean, it's kind of like ... yes, it's not that much extra work. But it *is* extra work, and some days for me handcoding all the formatting/link tags on the header is just that little extra thing I don't want to do.

[lannamichaels]

I'm not sure what kind of formatting/linking you're doing in the headers, but if you'd like to post to DW and think my header template are what you'd like to use, I can send you the txt file I keep with it formatted.

[sholio]

No thank you, I can make my own if I want to do that. (Edit: What I normally do is copy from an older post and change all the info to the current version.) But I appreciate the offer!

[sholio]

I mean, I appreciate that you're trying to make this easier for me, but it's not that I don't have a system that I use, it's that doing it *at all* is the part that adds an extra burden of work: the process of finding the text I need, checking the word count, getting the AO3 link, remembering what tags in my labyrinthine tagging system I use for this, etc. If the text I'm altering and formatting is text from an email or text I copied out of a previous post, that part doesn't make a lot of difference to me - if that makes any sense.

(Though, to be entirely fair, I could probably streamline this process a lot by just c&p'ing the auto-generated AO3 share code, but I hate the way it looks. xD)