Real quick glowfic 101

What is glowfic?

Glowfic is a genre of webfiction! It’s a cross between a text roleplay and a coauthored story. It started as a collaboration by a couple of writers, Alicorn and Kappa, on dreamwidth; now it has its own website, called “the Constellation.”

If you want a less 101 explanation, here's the community guide to glowfic and the wiki glossary.

There’s an awful lot of glowfic and no obvious way to tell which things are prerequisite for which other things! Where do I start?

The first glowfic I read was in color; it requires basically no background (if you want you can read this setting explanation first) and is very good and not insanely long.

If there are specific themes you're interested in reading about, or if you want something shorter than in color, you can take this uquiz to recommend you a starter glowfic.

After that (or before that, if you want) you can check out the newbie-friendly reading list on the next page of this guide.

What if I want to read things by a specific author, or involving a specific character?

You can go to their author page (respectively, character page) on the Constellation and choose from their list of threads or continuities. You can also enter, for example, [author="Alicorn"] into the wiki search bar to find wiki pages for glowfic written by Alicorn.