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Guest post: 8 Reasons to Read Online
I came across Lori Titus several months ago first through the Flashes in the Dark ezine, but since then I’ve come to realize that Lori never takes a moment to rest and contributes greatly to the webfiction community. Today Lori shares her thoughts on what makes webfiction worth reading. Whether or not you consider yourself... »
An Introduction to Podcasting
Kicking off our issue examining alternative forms of online story-telling is our very first guest writer. In this post, Evo Terra shares some insights on the world of podcasting, and fiction podcasting in particular. In the summer of 2004, the world changed. What? You missed it? Don’t worry. You’re not the only one. It even... »
Types of Webfiction
We’ve been talking about webfiction for quite a while now, but there’s one point we’ve left out of the equation: the different types of webfiction. Webfiction isn’t as uniform as its term implies, and in fact the whole discussion about webfiction vs. weblit has much to do with the many forms in which webfiction... »
Twitter Hashtags 101
Twitter was one of the most popular social media sites of 2009. The great news for us webfiction fans? It’s probably not going to disappear any time in the near future! Why is it great? As explained in “Why You Should Read Webfiction”, one of the biggest perks of the format is the interaction with... »
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... »
Why You Should Read Webfiction
Webfiction is a great pastime due to two important aspects: it’s convenient, and it’s a very social way of reading. I’ll explain each aspect thoroughly below. Webfiction is Convenient… … because it’s everywhere. The biggest caveat of webfiction is that it’s published online. Which, in this era, means you can access it from almost everywhere. Now that... »
What Is Webfiction?
Webfiction isn’t very complicated, yet it is almost impossible to fully capture its definition in a few words. I could define it as online novels, but then I wouldn’t cover the thousands of short-stories that are floating around. I could define it as online fiction, but then I’d be omitting online poetry, and it... »