Where to Find Webfiction
Free online fiction can be found everywhere, in various forms from free ebooks to short-story collections. While there are a lot of sites where people can publish there fiction, Ergofiction has a strong focus on independent published online fiction, so we’ll leave these aggregators out of this overview.
Webfiction Directories
Web Fiction Guide (WFG): The site currently holds over 400 listings of webfiction in various formats — from online novels, blogfiction to short story collections. They offer both editorial as member reviews, have a shelves system so you can easily collect stories you want to bookmark. A personal favorite feature is the “secret” random link which takes you to random listings. A light version of the site can be found at Novels Online.
Not really a directory, but a great way of finding the more popular webfiction out there is visiting TopWebFiction.com, created by the people behind WFG.
Muse’s Success: A similar directory to the WFG, Muses’ Success currently offers over 300 listings, reviews and a spiffy rating system. The biggest difference is that everything is completely user-maintained.
Web Fic Directory is a smaller directory than the previous two, but it has a very different setup. Instead of listings by genre or tag, it is organized by format, which can result in surprising finds.
Social Media
Social Media sites can be a great tool for discovering new things, and webfiction is no exception. A lot of authors update about their stories on Twitter, often using the hashtag #webfiction or #weblit. Each wednesday fans use the #WebficWed tag to recommend their favorite stories.
Some readers tend to keep bookmarks on Social Bookmarking sites, tagging stories with “online novel”, “webserial” or “webfiction. If you’re a fan of randomly discovering new things, I suggest following the webfiction tag on StumbleUpon.
Other Ways
If you like forums, you’ll definitely love Epiguide, a community for webseries. They discuss more than webfiction, but that only makes you discover more exciting things! They offer recaps and previews, and have been around for a very long time.
And of course you should keep an eye on this very magazine, since we’ll have weekly round ups on what’s happening in the webfiction world.