Well, I mean, there's a functional reason to use the asteriks in fanfic if it's potentially going to end up on that site. It just distracts me if I'm reading an actual book and see some pretentious fancy scene divider thing.
Anyway, I guess I really don't post anything anywhere on the internet unless it's ready to be seen. I don't use internet journals as a real place to work out my writing bugs. That gets done offline, either on paper or my comp. Most of my fanfiction, though, was written for LJ communities, so naturally it's here. The question of uploading it there is basically that I have shied away from the site for several years and only uploaded One Path because people had asked and someone volunteered to do the work of uploading the previously posted chapters. All of my fics tend to be long, multi chapter things and the idea of archiving them anywhere once there are like 50 chapters or something is rather daunting. Especially since I'd had no reason not to use asteriks since the stories were written for LJ, which means I'd have to go back and edit everything again.
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Anyway, I guess I really don't post anything anywhere on the internet unless it's ready to be seen. I don't use internet journals as a real place to work out my writing bugs. That gets done offline, either on paper or my comp. Most of my fanfiction, though, was written for LJ communities, so naturally it's here. The question of uploading it there is basically that I have shied away from the site for several years and only uploaded One Path because people had asked and someone volunteered to do the work of uploading the previously posted chapters. All of my fics tend to be long, multi chapter things and the idea of archiving them anywhere once there are like 50 chapters or something is rather daunting. Especially since I'd had no reason not to use asteriks since the stories were written for LJ, which means I'd have to go back and edit everything again.