Real quick glowfic 101

whatWhat is glowfic?

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

If you want a less 101 explanation, here's the front page of the constellation has a link to a community guide to glowfic,glowfic which includes a glossary of alland the weirdwiki glowfic jargon.glossary.

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

theThe first glowfic iI read was was in color; it requires verybasically littleno background (otherif thanyou maybewant havingyou read 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 aren’twant suresomething whatshorter than in color, you can take this uquiz to readrecommend afteryou a starter glowfic.

After that (or before that, if you want) you can check out the newbie-friendly reading list includedon inthe next page of this guide may be helpful. it contains a lot of the glowfic i’ve read.guide.

What if youI want to read more threadsthings by a particularspecific author, or more threads involving a particularspecific character,character?

you

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.