A question

[sempervivum]

Is it possible to make a post to my own feed and a community simultaneously? Or do I have to make two separate posts like I just did?

Comments

[usononikki]

Unfortunately to my knowledge, I don't think there is! At least, I haven't figured out a good way to do it.

Personally, I really like writing flash fic directly in the Dreamwidth post editor like a heathen, so a lot of my stuff I end up posting raw to my personal Journal before anywhere else. I write a lot though, so to avoid the hassle of manually cross-posting every little thing, I make the executive decision whether to cross-post right away or wait until there's a bigger chunk I can post to a community all at once to save everyone who subscribes to me the spam of incessant double-posts.

I've seen other DW users do it the other way around, where they primarily post in a community and then combine all their works into a single anthology post on their personal Journal later. Some don't cross-post at all and keep their fanwork in communities and leave their personal Journals for other things. It's really up to you how you wanna go about it.

Honestly, though, if don't write that often, I'm sure cross-posting the way you did as you see fit works just fine. At the very least, I don't mind it. (Also I'll get to making all those tags in DRA ASAP I had no idea that only admins could edit the taglist, my bad!)

[sempervivum]

Ahh, okay! Ty; I might do something similar to you where proper ao3-worthy fanfic gets crossposted immediately and more minor pieces are only individually posted on my own journal. I do have some things on tumblr I should do the latter with.

[usononikki]

Sounds good! I look forward to seeing them on my Reading Page! ^^