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A brief ode to SoA
Jul. 5th, 2006 10:34 pmDo you know what I really love in the Stories of Arda archive? That they give every author a chance, as long as they write the sort of stories they like.
Okay, they don't allow slash and adult-rated stories, which means that roughly half of my stuff can't get in. As for the rest, though... I'm not best buddies with anyone of the archivists or the star authors there, and yet if I post a story that interests the readers, they actually make the effort to give some feedback - mostly positive one. They don't just read the stuff of their own starts or friends, they give every story a chance if the summary seems interesting enough. I've got more feedback on SoA since I'm present there than on FF.Net and TFF together.
Besides, uploading stuff to SoA is idiot proof. You do all the work with your word porcessing program, copy and paste the whole thing, with italics and bold fonts and everything, hit the Add button and are done. No hand-coding, no fancy stuff. For a techno-wheenie with weak eyesight like me, that's a true blessing.
Okay, they don't allow slash and adult-rated stories, which means that roughly half of my stuff can't get in. As for the rest, though... I'm not best buddies with anyone of the archivists or the star authors there, and yet if I post a story that interests the readers, they actually make the effort to give some feedback - mostly positive one. They don't just read the stuff of their own starts or friends, they give every story a chance if the summary seems interesting enough. I've got more feedback on SoA since I'm present there than on FF.Net and TFF together.
Besides, uploading stuff to SoA is idiot proof. You do all the work with your word porcessing program, copy and paste the whole thing, with italics and bold fonts and everything, hit the Add button and are done. No hand-coding, no fancy stuff. For a techno-wheenie with weak eyesight like me, that's a true blessing.
