Hey hello, self-hosting noob here. I just want to know if anyone would know a good way to host my writing. Something akin to those webcomic sites, except for writing. Multiple stories with their own “sections” (?) and a chapter selection for each. Maybe a home page or profile page to just briefly detail myself or whatever, I don’t know. It doesn’t have to be fancy, and I apologize for not knowing how to describe this well. I’ve just been searching and searching and I don’t know what to look up to find what I want, it’s extremely frustrating. Any help is greatly appreciated.
If I understand correctly, you want a self hosted version of Wattpad or Inkitt for posting stories. I don’t know if there is a 1:1 software that can do exactly that.
As a starting point, you could try building a static website. They easiest ones follow a blog format and store the text on a markdown file. Many have recommended Hugo on this thread, but I’d like to recommend Zola instead. Paired with the well documented tabi theme, you could spawn a new “blog” for each story and use the archive view to have the chapter selection.
It’s not exactly the best solution, but I think it’s a good starting point to try it out.
P.S. Zola is inspired in Hugo. The creator thought Hugo was too complicated.