Question about publishing my Fanfictions

[Zephyr_Fauchelevent]

Hi, I'm new here and I was wondering if it was possible to publish my Fanfictions on the forum or falling that, putting links leading to them. I normally cross post them on Fanfiction.net and Archive of our Own, but I was wondering about the possibilities that this forum offer. And if we can post them here, would that be considered as spam to post multiple times on the same topic since I doubt one message can contain more than 6000 words.

 

[Malcolm Tent]

One message can DEFINITELY contain more than six thousand words (though im not sure about the actual limits). Also you can't spam your own threads afaik. Many people bulk post their story when they first get to the site.

 

[Canadian Leprechaun]

I think the actual word limit is some arbitrary amount in the upper tens of thousands.

 

[LurkingInTheDeceit]

Just echoing the two above. You're allowed to crosspost and make as many posts as you need in the story thread(s) you create to transfer the chapters you've written so far. I'm unsure what the exact word limit per post might be, but it's at least 20k.

More relevant to the size of your posts is reader stamina; it's a much bigger time investment reading a 15k chapter vs 2k, but there's nothing stopping writers posting the former (and some habitually do).

More relevant to posting rate is whether you want to maximise the feedback you get on your previous chapters (in which case you might want to post a chapter a day or something for each story till you've caught up), or whether you want to fully transfer first, probably get scattered/general feedback on the lot, then more specific responses to any new chapters you write.

 

[magic9mushroom]

I think the actual word limit is some arbitrary amount in the upper tens of thousands.

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I remember testing and finding that the character limit was somewhere between 300,000 and 400,000 (it's not a word limit; the post consisted entirely of question marks). I think that that was under XF1, though, so it might be larger now.

 

[TheMidnightRook]

I remember testing and finding that the character limit was somewhere between 300,000 and 400,000 (it's not a word limit; the post consisted entirely of question marks). I think that that was under XF1, though, so it might be larger now.

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I just did a quick test where I wrote the word Hi a few times and then just copy and pasted for a bit. The reply box was counting over a million words fairly quickly and didn't seem to have hit a limit.

 

[magic9mushroom]

I remember testing and finding that the character limit was somewhere between 300,000 and 400,000 (it's not a word limit; the post consisted entirely of question marks). I think that that was under XF1, though, so it might be larger now.

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I just did a quick test where I wrote the word Hi a few times and then just copy and pasted for a bit. The reply box was counting over a million words fairly quickly and didn't seem to have hit a limit.

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Did some more testing. I can stick 100 million characters in the reply box, but it won't actually let me post more than somewhere between 8 and 9 million. Enough for War and Peace, but IIRC not quite enough for Worm.

EDIT: it's possible that this was a timeout and that someone with a faster Internet connection (I'm on wireless) could do more. But, of course, I have no way of testing that.

 

[Zephyr_Fauchelevent]

Right, well thanks for the answers. I'll try to post something when I get used to the forum.