Good sites for sharing fiction

[(((I am NOT a jew)))]

I know that online publishing/Wattpad is cancer and all, but does anyone have a site to recommend that I share my fiction on without it being buried underneath a sea of autism? I'm not trying to publish anytime soon, but I do want to get some stories out there. A place someone on here would actually go to read something decent and not just to riff?

 

[Ultrapenguin]

Problem is, everyone online thinks their story is the good one that doesn't deserve to be buried under a sea of autism. And unfortunately they're rarely correct.

The un-curated sites are obviously completely inundated, and the curated ones are like the fucking SCP wiki which is filled with marginally less nonsense, but in tradeoff it's controlled by pompous, sociopolitically preoccupied loser control freaks.

If you wanted to write fan fiction or based upon a popular IP I think there's some autistic corners where it's a little easier to stand out, but I doubt that's up your alley.

Point is, if you want to write or whatever then do so, but I wouldn't go forward with any expectation that it isn't going to get buried. There's a lot of literary and artistic work on the internet, and unless you're a notable figure or have some kind of trendy hook, or are able to figure out an inventive way of getting eyes on your work, it's probably just going to sit there.

Online in general there's simply too many desperate people clamoring for their share of a very, very small collective attention span.

 

[(((I am NOT a jew)))]

Point is, if you want to write or whatever then do so, but I wouldn't go forward with any expectation that it isn't going to get buried. There's a lot of literary and artistic work online, and unless you're a notable figure or have some kind of trendy hook, or are able to figure out an inventive way of getting eyes on your work, it's probably just going to sit there.

Online there's simply too many desperate people clamoring for their share of a very, very small collective attention span.

Okay, a better question would be what would be a site you would actually look at for someone who wasn't going to get published anytime soon. Or a site you think someone might have a chance to get recognized or build a decent following if they refined their work enough?

 

[southpawdagon]

Okay, a better question would be what would be a site you would actually look at for someone who wasn't going to get published anytime soon. Or a site you think someone might have a chance to get recognized or build a decent following if they refined their work enough?

if you can tolerate weeb culture, webnovel is a pretty good site to start imo. I dont know where other people read their fictions but i used to read there,royalroad and fanfiction.

 

[(((I am NOT a jew)))]

if you can tolerate weeb culture, webnovel is a pretty good site to start imo. I dont know where other people read their fictions but i used to read there,royalroad and fanfiction.

I'm kind of a part of weeb culture so I should be fine. Truth is I actually am inspired by a lot anime but don't want my story to literally be some shitty isekai/shonen degenerate fanfiction level trash. I just kind of want to implement how I see Japanese fiction is told (the theming, certain tropes and character archetypes) into a very western non-genre narrative, which is going to be very difficult without coming across as complete cancer. I doubt it'd get a following from the type of weebs that like the bad isekai ripoffs/harem knockoffs that seem popular on those sites though.
Another question, do these sites have word filters or am I going to get banned for having a character say something edgy every now and then?

 

[southpawdagon]

I dont think they have that much of word filter.

 

[Equal Rights for Androids]

Fictionpress is the website I've gone to post-Quizilla era for non-fanfiction stories. Wordpress is filled with trash beyond any other site I've seen for fanfiction. Wordpress has the same quality of trash as Quizilla—that is, these kids don't know how to format, grammar, spell, etc. Fictionpress is run by Fanfiction.net. I used to go there to read stories about stars. Read a really cool story about a cannibal there. You won't get many if any readers, but you need to be realistic. You may not be writing something worth reading. Reading is like consuming art in that most people aren't going to comment on it.

Most nonfanfiction writers aren't going to see any modicum of following. Artists do because their content is easy to digest. It's hard to convince a reader to sit down and spend their time reading some nobody who may not even be writing something that they're interested in. It takes way more time to read a story than look at some art.

 

[(((I am NOT a jew)))]

Fictionpress is the website I've gone to post-Quizilla era for non-fanfiction stories. Wordpress is filled with trash beyond any other site I've seen for fanfiction. Wordpress has the same quality of trash as Quizilla—that is, these kids don't know how to format, grammar, spell, etc. Fictionpress is run by Fanfiction.net. I used to go there to read stories about stars. Read a really cool story about a cannibal there. You won't get many if any readers, but you need to be realistic. You may not be writing something worth reading. Reading is like consuming art in that most people aren't going to comment on it.

Most nonfanfiction writers aren't going to see any modicum of following. Artists do because their content is easy to digest. It's hard to convince a reader to sit down and spend their time reading some nobody who may not even be writing something that they're interested in. It takes way more time to read a story than look at some art.

So is there anyway you'd recommend someone to gain traction without being published?
I'm in a rut right now because there's a story I want to do that I originally wanted to be a show (but obviously with no funding) to a comic (my drawing is nowhere near what it old take to decently do the story) to now I'm mostly just writing it, with all the obvious headache of trying to tell a story you wanted in a visual medium in a literate one without being autistic.
I want to do it serialized but I absolutely know it would not be something publishers would want right now. So I don't know where to really go from here. It's a story I'm passionate about and see could work, but I also actually want it to be seen/read by more than 2 people.

 

[Equal Rights for Androids]

So is there anyway you'd recommend someone to gain traction without being published?
I'm in a rut right now because there's a story I want to do that I originally wanted to be a show (but obviously with no funding) to a comic (my drawing is nowhere near what it old take to decently do the story) to now I'm mostly just writing it, with all the obvious headache of trying to tell a story you wanted in a visual medium in a literate one without being autistic.
I want to do it serialized but I absolutely know it would not be something publishers would want right now. So I don't know where to really go from here. It's a story I'm passionate about and see could work, but I also actually want it to be seen/read by more than 2 people.

Wish I had an easy answer for you, but I don't.
Majority of people do not want to read non-fanfiction stories unless they're published. It's a surefire way to know they aren't wasting their time, and will catch their attention.

People will chance reading an unpublished comic because comics take way less time to consume, and graphics will catch their attention quicker. You can have shitty graphics and still catch people's attention as long as you have a good story, example being One Punch Man

His art looked like shit, but because he had a good story, people were interested.

Despite you sucking at art, you could turn your story into a comic and get at least SOME readers. You don't have to have good art. There're many stories that have ugly art that has a story people enjoy. That's the only way I know how to get eyes on a story. There are multiple sites for art and comics such as webtoons, deviantart (crapshoot and likely to be lost in the crowd tbh), instagram, twitter, but you can also spread your content out to sites like 4ch. Sometimes they'll find it interesting enough that you'll get followers. But the point is you WILL get some followers guaranteed, unlike text-writing it and expecting it to catch on. Fanfiction gets more attention than original unpublished stories because it's shit people want to read and have motivation to read. You have to give people a reason to consume your original stories.

Someone else may have more experience with original content stories. It's not my career but I have made a small following (~10k watchers) from my original stories by turning them into comics. It was a one time thing, I didn't want it growing into a big franchise, so I ended it.