For those of you who might read the fiction I write - and those of you who just follow me in general:
Is posting an entire episode of fiction here on Mastodon something that you find helpful, or annoying? Is an offsite link to a site more geared toward longform text better? Is seeing a fiction update here annoying?
Just trying to gauge if it's something that just disrupts, rather than enriches.
Thanks much.
@Phorm It turns doomscrolling into bloomscrolling. I like it.
Reading Mastodon feels to me like reading newspaper columns, so reading your stories here feels like stumbling upon a serialized story episode in the daily tribune: a very pleasant surprise every time.
An offsite link helps, but the link shouldn't substitute for the episode you tell here. At the story's end, it's a gentle hand offering to pull us out of here and into a storyteller genie's bottle for more, if you will.
I hadn't considered that it could brighten anyone's scrolling experience at all! The point is well made. I suppose it DOES break up the timeline a little.
Thank you for that very kind comparison, re: serialized stories in the paper, too. I very much appreciate that.
And I promise not to pull everyone into the bottle... TOO much <3
@arielmt @Phorm This.