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Web Fiction Guide is a community-run listing of online fiction.  Our goal is to help you find stuff you want to read. 

What is Web Fiction?

Web fiction is original fiction that writers have chosen to publish on the web — sometimes instead of on paper, sometimes as well as on paper.  It runs the gamut, from complete novels, to ongoing serials (web comics without the pictures), to short story collection and anthologies.

Here at the Guide, we list anything that is original and story-oriented (we don’t list fanfic or erotica), and that is available for free to read.

It’s free.  It must suck.

Fortunately, that’s not true.  Web comics are free, but some of them are better than what you’d get in a newspaper.  Opinion blogs are free, but some are better than what you’d get in a magazine. 

Quality and price seldom have much to do with each other, when it comes to creativity.

People write online for all sorts of reasons.  Some authors write for profit, making money from donations and advertising.  Some authors write things that are so outside the mainstream, they would never find a traditional publisher.  Some authors write for the joy of their craft, and publish online as a way of sharing their work, without it becoming a job.