Fiction Explosion!

After the flood of requests we finally got our act into gear and made Flickspin a whole lot broader. We've now opened up a whole new fiction area for short stories, poetry and web-novels!

This expansion brings some big style changes for these new format types where we've kept things as clean as possible and done our best to make the published work the star of the show. Let us know what you think.

If the new fiction area wasn't enough we've also added in some more non-fiction sections: reviews, recipes and helpful how-tos. All new format types can be added to Flickspin by using the good old word processor you'll find in flickspin.com/central.

Changes to the revenue share system

With the new expansion of the site and our need to keep our marketing message clear we've made some changes to revenue share percentages for published works. Here are the percentages that go into the writer's pocket:

Non-fiction: 75% (this includes blogs!)

Fiction: 50%

(Log into Flickspin to find out more details.)

For those not interesting in making money we've also added the option to turn the ads off for their pages. This switch can be found within the settings area under flickspin.com/central. For those leaning the other way and want to make the most our of their published work, the settings area also has the option to increase ad exposure on their pages (where available). By catering to both ends of the spectrum we feel we can make writers happy for whatever reason they enjoy writing.

Have a happy Easter!

Keeping it Short and Sweet

We've taken a step towards fiction writing with a new category for short stories. This decision lines up with the main goal of the site - to be an awesome place to write and to be read. Allowing short stories on the site could just be seen as a natural progression of this idea.

The format is fairly new for the site but we plan to develop a number of features around the idea and treat it as a special case across the site. No doubt we'll announce the changes as they happen.

If you want to submit a short story, make sure you've signed up with the site, then submit your work as an article via the word processor and we'll put it in the right place.

Peace!