You probably don't know this, but they changed and messed up their voting system. Worse than SOL in fact. I read their explanation a couple of times but I don't understand what they were trying to do.
Actually, I think over 10,000 words requires you to go to a new series chapter, but I only have one stand-alone story on Lit that is over that number. (It wound up with sequels and prequels anyway.) Lush does seem to have a lot of emphasis on chats/dating/personal ads, even more than Lit. Although, using a writing site as a dating site is difficult because few people specify where they are living. (The "East Coast" is not very helpful, if you get even that.) Well, I'm too old for all of that anyway, but in the old days it would help to be within a fifty-mile radius of Columbus Circle.
Yes, but here is no ideal one of the moment. Lush is allowing me to do a series that wouldn't fly on Lit. But I think I'm going to be putting much less on both Lush and SOL in the future. It's becoming too messy to have three sites going at once, with some versions of the same stories on them. My next three stories, which are almost done, are going on Lit. Now let's hope that Laurel doesn't retire or pass. There seems to be no back-up plan for that.
"Hey, motherfucker, we can pick on each other, but you can't." I did really appreciate that.
They're semi-flexible about that. They don't want you throwing a 15K word story up, but I've squeaked an 11K word story by without having to split it up.
I was actually being sarcastic about that.
The AH response had been shameful in my opinion, with some shiny exceptions, of course.
Eh, it turned into a shitshow, but that shitshow then led to a period of relative peace. I can live with that.I was actually being sarcastic about that.
Oh yeah, it was resolved in the end... well mostly. But anyway, I was referring to the lack of support from AH at the time. It was when I finally realized that this place wasn't a community. It is what it is
Yeah, I kind of feel that my stories stand the way I wrote them. I've got one that probably needs only a two-sentence edit to get past the character age issue, but I'd lose some color in the character so I let it go. I've got a reasonable set of stories posted there, which was my main goal for the site.
That's generally my question. Especially since the death of ASSTR. I have a group of stories at SOL and a group of stories at Lush and a group of stories here (which I'm slowly adding to - LIT readers don't seem to like stories under a thousand words). Kristen's Board (as distinct from Kristen's Collections) last year had to chop out a couple of sizable topics (the usual reasons). I looked at AO3 but unless someone was specifically looking for my stories, they'd never be seen there. I posted my full story collection on ASSLR but that attempt got shut down.
I think you have to be a member to comment and vote, and you can't be anonymous when doing that. Trolling is thus almost impossible. That does reduce quite a bit of the craziness.
