I’ve officially begun transferring my fanfics to Archive of Our Own (AO3). As promised, initially I’ll just be double-posting, meaning that my fanfics will be available in both places.
Luckily, I already had an AO3 account from an experiment that I tried years ago. I didn’t have a lot of success with getting readers there back then and decided I preferred Wattpad, but now that things have changed the good news is that my two most popular books (Getting Out of Fuchsia and The Girl with the Chikorita) are already there.
Last night, I uploaded the first chapter of Pokémon Rewritten there as well. I plan to upload it one chapter at a time with a few days in between each chapter in the hopes of getting as many new AO3 readers as possible.
Meanwhile, I’m also working on familiarizing myself with AO3 as a platform. I’m learning how things work, playing around with tags, and learning how to stylize my fanfics so that I can include images like covers and banners and make my fanfics look nice in general.
On the Wattpad front, discussions with the GRA are ongoing, but my current plan is to continue with the review of Alola, Alola that we were working on before all of this started. It’s also worth noting that I am still actively checking my account and posting and responding to comments there.
As I said, this transition will be slow, but I’m excited about the new things that I’m creating as part of it. Already, I can see so many possibilities for things I can do here on my blog or with my stories on AO3 that weren’t possible on Wattpad’s platform. I hope that when this process is all over I’ll have created something even better than what I had before.
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