Dang it! LJ ate my original comment, so if another one shows up later, you'll know why!
I didn't find cutting the three parts of my fic into "chapters" for LJ to be all that painful. I just figured out what the character limit was when posting Part 1 and since the other 2 parts were all around the same length, I cut them all into the same number of chapters. Honestly I just started with the whole section, then cut it in half to see if that fit and when it didn't, I cut it in half again. When that worked, I just broke each chapter off at the nearest line-break to that quarter section so that cutting the thing up didn't really interrupt the flow of the story much. Plus I got to use more of Alby's pretty line-breaks that way since I put one at the top and bottom of each "chapter" ;-)
AO3 on the other hand, what a nightmare! Yes, it let me post each part as a whole but have you ever embedded a lot of art into a draft at AO3 before? You can't really edit it once it's saved! You have to delete it and redo it entirely. Even tiny adjustments will cause the code over the whole thing to go insane! All of a sudden code you never inserted appears out of nowhere and screws up all your carefully placed art! Also, anything I tried to center got bunged. Ugh! It took me three times as long to get the coding perfect on AO3 as it did on LJ. So in that respect, LJ was actually easier to use even if I did have to cut a three part story into 3 parts with 4 chapters each.
Is your artist planning on finishing the art even though it can't officially be part of the PL post? I love all the art that came out of this fest! I've been able to peek at all the artwork even though I've only had time to read 2 stories. It would be nice for both of you if you could still add the art to story later on.
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I didn't find cutting the three parts of my fic into "chapters" for LJ to be all that painful. I just figured out what the character limit was when posting Part 1 and since the other 2 parts were all around the same length, I cut them all into the same number of chapters. Honestly I just started with the whole section, then cut it in half to see if that fit and when it didn't, I cut it in half again. When that worked, I just broke each chapter off at the nearest line-break to that quarter section so that cutting the thing up didn't really interrupt the flow of the story much. Plus I got to use more of Alby's pretty line-breaks that way since I put one at the top and bottom of each "chapter" ;-)
AO3 on the other hand, what a nightmare! Yes, it let me post each part as a whole but have you ever embedded a lot of art into a draft at AO3 before? You can't really edit it once it's saved! You have to delete it and redo it entirely. Even tiny adjustments will cause the code over the whole thing to go insane! All of a sudden code you never inserted appears out of nowhere and screws up all your carefully placed art! Also, anything I tried to center got bunged. Ugh! It took me three times as long to get the coding perfect on AO3 as it did on LJ. So in that respect, LJ was actually easier to use even if I did have to cut a three part story into 3 parts with 4 chapters each.
Is your artist planning on finishing the art even though it can't officially be part of the PL post? I love all the art that came out of this fest! I've been able to peek at all the artwork even though I've only had time to read 2 stories. It would be nice for both of you if you could still add the art to story later on.