Web Fiction Links & Resources
Over the past nine months, I have picked up a number of useful links for registering online fiction, communities, and other resources. Partly for my own sanity, here’s a list of them for reference – I know some of you out there are thinking about starting your own online fiction, if you haven’t already!
Directories
Web Fiction Guide – a great directory of web fiction, with good-quality reviews and a helpful community in the attached forums. Lots of good resources there.
Muse’s Success – again, focussed on web fiction and offers a rate and review function.
Web Fiction Directory – another directory focussed on web fiction.
Free Fiction Online – blog listing all kinds of online fiction available for free. Also runs polls on fiction popularity. The lovely lady who runs it also has a Twitter account and tweets links and ads continuously. Worth getting on her list!
EpiGuide – web entertainment directory. Still getting to grips with this, but they do have some interesting features.
Technorati – blog directory, social networking thingy, uses ‘blogosphere’ a lot.
BlogCatalog – another blog directory. My entry is still awaiting approval, so I have no idea how good/not it is.
Communities
Accentuate Writers’ Forum – very friendly forum full of largely professional writers. Good advice and resources to be had, and very welcoming to newcomers. Competitions, freelance writing leads, and publication opportunities found here.
MobileRead Forums – forum for users of e-readers. Lots of good info about e-readers and full of readers of e-books. Not so great for an ongoing serial like mine, but they will help with making that available to e-readers, too. Friendly crowd!
Post Apocalyptic Media – forum and resources for anything post apocalyptic. Good for information and reaching out to an audience into this stuff.
Writing Resources
Blog Fiction – lots of advice and info for blogficcers. Also runs a widget that others can put on their sites that lists all the latest posts on active blogfics.
Writing Excuses – weekly podcasts by writers for writers. Solid advice, very encouraging, hilarious and only 15 minutes long. Love it (and am way behind, oops).
Advertising
Entrecard – free blog-linking advertising, requires a widget on your blog. Good for generating hits, but the quality of those hits is questionable – the Entrecard system encourages its users to visit sites to ‘drop cards’ and then move on again. Hard to say if it generates any actual readers (though it’s possible that advertising through it might).
Project Wonderful – get paid to host ads, and pay to place ads. If you do both, it should be self-sustaining. I haven’t actually tried this yet, but it is on my list of opportunities to look at. I have heard only good things about it so far. Payments are dependent on ad showing time, not clicks.
Google Adsense/Adwords – get paid to host ads. Payments are based on click-throughs, but only for ‘genuine’ clicks. I’ve heard that the classification of ‘genuine’ clicks is too narrow, which has made advertisers unhappy (and poorer). Won’t generate a lot of money. On the other side, I don’t know what kind of hit-rate you get by advertising through Adwords – I have a voucher somewhere that I should use. Again, haven’t used this one at all.
If anyone has any additions, suggestions or comments, let me know! Always happy to expand my list. 🙂 If this winds up morphing into a big beastie, I’ll probably move it to its own page here on the blog.
Michelle L Devon (Michy) says:
Thanks so much for including a link to Accentuate! I hope everyone who stops by, no matter kind of writing they do, will come join the forum and hopefully join our contests too! You’ve been such a great contributor and member of the board, so it honors me to see you recommending us!
love and stuff,
Michy
August 21st, 2009 at 12:33 am
Mel says:
You’re welcome, Michy! I love Accentuate – I often recommend it to people looking to expand their writing sphere. 🙂
August 21st, 2009 at 11:05 am
Chinaren says:
I write stories on a writing forum site:
http://www.TomeCity.com
It’s quite active (although been quiet this week), and free.
August 21st, 2009 at 3:06 pm
Mel says:
Thanks, Chinaren! I will have to check that one out.
I’m in danger of never doing any work if I pick up too many more forums to haunt. Hee hee hee.
August 21st, 2009 at 5:32 pm