Cross-posting hell

[ratherastory]

I just cross-posted a fic for the first time in months. Cross-posting takes forever, and since I'm relatively prolific I'm always worried I'm spamming communities and that people are just rolling their eyes and going "Oh, God, not HER again!"

Yes, neurotic, I know.

It's also time-consuming, as I mentioned. Ten minutes on average per community, because they all have their own posting templates, even if I let myself play fast and loose with the ones that aren't as draconian about their guidelines. So given the number of communities I tend to post to, it can take up to an hour to cross-post everything.

Or else I try to cross-post over the course of a few days, and THEN I forget which comms I posted to and spend even more time double-checking to make sure I'm not posting to the same comm twice, and GAH.

I know some of you, dear flist, cross-post a good deal. Do you have a trick for it? Or do I just have to suck it up and deal?

In short, I hate cross-posting. Meow.

Comments

[sagaluthien.livejournal.com]

Where and how much you post a story is and shall be up to you. If the story fit the community you should not hesitate to post it there if you want it there. You do hope someone shall read it and you are pround of your work. Would it be so that the same story trurns up x times in your friends list after that you have posted it to several coms it is only because that they have choose to be member/watch the community and then know stories can turn ups several times. Its ther choose to be in the com.

How to post If the community not demand that you post the whole story I satisfy with do the header and the link to my own journal and the story. After the first post to a community I do copy the entry and post the same to all, only change the tags after the com.
Doing it that way also made that the eventually comments you recive for the story is all in the same place.
I have noticed by myself I'm quite bad to post to different communities, but do so only makes that I have a small group of followers/readers.

I'm sure that you will find a way that suit you, and how you do it is the most important.

[ratherastory.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I haven't yet found a community that insists on my posting the whole fic there, so I usually just put in teh header with a link back to my journal, because I'm a little OCD about trying to keep all my comments in the same place. ;)

Thanks for the encouragement!