Furry Writers' Guild Forum

Posting Non-Furry Fiction

I’d like to post the three flash fiction pieces I wrote this month somewhere once their use is over, but I’m questioning if a furry site is the right place.

Wondered people’s thoughts on posting non-furry fiction. Yes you can publish/post them on Weasyl/FA/SF but does that seem right? Or are you targeting the correct audience? Does anyone use any other non-furry sites? As far as I know, Goodreads is for selling your work.

I’ve posted non-furry stuff to my FA and Weasyl galleries. I try to keep the galleries mostly furry, but not strictly so, but that’s just my take on it. Lately, though, I’ve also been using my blog to share a flash piece here and there, since the length is well-suited to that sort of presentation.

It’s really about whether it bugs your watchers, I guess, more than anything. If they don’t mind, why not?

I see galleries on FA that are entirely non-furry art. Additionally, I see a lot of furry stories that don’t need to be furry. Between the two, I’d say go for it!

I think if you already have a presence on the site and have posted some furry stuff, it’s fine to say ‘hey guys, here’s something a little different, thought you might be interested’.

Obligatory ‘Weasyl is not technically a furry site’ post.

What he said. :stuck_out_tongue:

I know, I know, necro-posting, but it seemed redundant to post a new thread for a similar concern.

It’s probably written somewhere that I haven’t stumbled across yet, but I was wondering what this site’s take was on writing that’s not specifically furry, but not specifically non-furry. In my flash fiction I don’t tend to go into that much detail, so the characters involved could be either or. Would that be frowned upon here?

I posted my non-furry stuff because for a while, that was a lot of my output. I had high hopes for going big outside of furry by getting published in “Weird Tales” or “Analog” in 2009-2013, but it just felt forced to do it that way all the time. My furry output is probably going to be higher in the future because I get a much warmer reception for my furry work and because it just feels more comfortable to me.

Still, the stuff I was writing trying to break into the mainstream the hard way- by getting short stories published in magazines and getting enough sales to interest an agent in my novels- was pretty good and I felt it needed to be where most of my readers could see it. I now have a number of non-furry short stories on FA.