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Over the years, FictionPress has evolved from a purely Fanfiction media to a site that embraced all forms. At the moment the most popular form of writing on it is poetry, but many users also write Fantasy , Science Fiction , Essays , Plays , and so on. Many other specific genre choices are available, and there is also a "general" genre for writing that doesn't apply specifically to the listed genres. The FictionPress Community is made up of groups of individuals who review each other's work and create off-shoot forums. Commonly, philosophical and political debates may occur between users. Users are given a free biography page where they may include any personal or background information about themselves. Links to all their published poetry/prose are also present in this bio page. Other links on each user's bio page include their own "Favourite Stories" section and a "Favourite Authors" section which users can use to express their exceptional liking of a particular writing piece or even an author. FEATURES FictionPress offers an extremely wide array of poetry and fiction, having over 650,000 original pieces of writing on display, with many different specific genres for the two categories. This allows readers to select their choice of preference easily, having only to click their favourite genre on the main page. Also, on 18th November, 2004, FictionPress finally allowed submission of literature in almost any language on the planet, after a massive technical upgrade lasting for 24 hours, during which FictionPress.com was set at a read-only mode. The languages supported include many Eastern-European languages and Asian languages, such as Korean, Japanese, Chinese, etc. Prior to the massive upgrade, non-english language submission and display support had been at best very weak and at worst unusable. Another attraction of FictionPress is the easy upload. To successfully upload and publish a poem/prose piece requires no more than 10 minutes, or as fast as 2 minutes, depending on how much the user wants to edit his or her work before publishing. Nevertheless, the whole process is simple and user-friendly, even for first-timers. After uploading a document, FictionPress has a "QuickEdit/Preview" function, allowing users to edit and preview the document with ease, so as to check for any errors before publishing. Of course, even after publishing, users also can make changes to the poem/prose piece by re-uploading a corrected version and replacing the published version. FictionPress also accepts the following 7 document formats: # Plain Text (.txt) # Rich Text Format (.rtf) # HTML (.htm, .html) # Microsoft Word (.doc) # StarOffice (.sdw) # OpenOffice.org (.sxw) # WordPerfect (.wp, .wpd) SEE ALSO
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