{"id":891,"date":"2009-05-31T14:06:51","date_gmt":"2009-05-31T20:06:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nerdflood.com\/2009\/05\/31\/ficly-is-now-live\/"},"modified":"2009-05-31T14:06:51","modified_gmt":"2009-05-31T20:06:51","slug":"ficly-is-now-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/ficly-is-now-live\/","title":{"rendered":"Ficly is now live!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I mentioned a while back<\/a> (holy crap, and it’s still<\/i> on the front page) that Kevin Lawver<\/a> was going to re-incarnate the long-lost property that AOL killed, Ficlets, into a new creation. And now that day has come.<\/p>\n

Introducing Ficly<\/a>! I haven’t had a chance to really play with it yet, but here’s some things I’ve noticed right away.<\/p>\n

1) You can sign in by linking your account to either Google, Facebook, or even OpenID (which, in the end, stopped working on Ficlets). I linked to my Facebook account since I’ve been using that particular social network more and more these days. Will this mean that any story I create can be automatically published to my Facebook profile? That remains to be seen but would be an awesome feature.<\/p>\n

2) There’s a special section devoted to challenges<\/a>. I love that they decided to do this. Challenges were something that appeared on Ficlets where authors would post a challenge of some sort–such as “write a story that takes place following a future apolocalypse”, for example–and fellow authors could create sequels to that challenge with their themed creations. The fact that Kevin and the Ficly team included this as a standard feature shows that they really understood the Ficlets community. Challenges appeared organically as a result of the authors attempting to install their own form of ownership and comaraderie within the community. An inclusion of this feature in Ficly is a direct nod to that established community, and it’s well-deserved.<\/p>\n

All in all, I’m really looking forward to digging into Ficly and writing some more short, short stories. I’ll probably post again with a follow-up once I’ve had a chance to see more of Ficly first-hand and check out all that it has to offer. For the moment, I’m just really excited to witness the return of Ficlets; even if it doesn’t have the same name, I already know it has the same heart.<\/p>\n

Here’s a post from Kevin<\/a> on the launch of the new Ficly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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