So, I’ve been writing a 175k word One Piece fanfic for about 6 months. Most of my writing is done on a 10 year-old laptop I dug out of the closet while I wait for my kid to finish sports practice. Today, the hard-drive died. (Thankfully I have a cloud backup.)
Now, without a laptop, I have nothing to continue working on. I can’t afford a new laptop. Just glad I didn’t lose all my work.
I just published to AO3. I put up about a dozen chapters because the format is better if you upload the story arcs together. No feedback yet, but my kid likes it, which is great
Awesome! I know nothing of One Piece, so probably can’t give any useful feedback, but may read some time anyway.
Though be aware you may not get a ton of comments. I suspect Ao3 readers are generally into shorter-form stuff (and smut) these days, and I’ve been told some would-be commenters are ‘afraid’ of antagonizing the authors, more or less.
Oh, that stinks. I’d love to be able to publish it somewhere I can get genuine feedback. I’m honing my writing skills again in preparation to pick up an old novel I wrote years ago.
Even better! Writing, and reading other’s writing, is the way to do it; I feel like my writing skills improved massively after my first fic (hence, I’m trying to get better prose in the second).
I publish on Ao3 too, but after a while I also upload a few chapters at a time to Fanfiction.net. As janky as it is, it still has a lot of readers.
I dunno where else you should consider publishing… Tumblr? Maybe anime forums? A Fediverse animation group? There might be places with a large One Piece following, including oldschool forums where posting fics is a thing. But I can tell you (from my experience with fandoms) Reddit subs are not it. I dunno what it is about the format, but more speculative lore discussion and fanfics just don’t have much traction there.