Sharing Fiction Journals on BearBlog

16 Jun, 2026

Hi, I'm an amateur writer, and keen on writing fiction. You'd think that a blog is a good medium for that. And, yeah, it quites fits, except that people expects non-fiction in their blogs.

BearBlog is no exception, I think… Let's see, there's this simple date that is included in every post by default.

My first approach was to reserve “posts” just for author comments, and sharing updates, while using “pages” for fiction. But I just abandoned the idea, for:

1. Fiction won't appear in the RSS/atom feeds
2. As a consequence aggreagators might not show it either.
3. I'm actually working on a fiction diary that might be confused with a real blog. And, in this particular case it might cause concern for the protagonist is in, —a quite humane but still— juvenil detention center, with a few issues. So it's not beyond the realm of imagination that I might alarm a casual reader.

So this is what I'm doing:

1. Set my fiction posts with class_name: fiction at the header.
2. Apply this CSS rules to my theme

.fiction main:before{
  content:"Fiction";
  background-color: green;
  padding:3px 15px;
  color:#EEE;
  border-radius:25px:
}

And that's that, really. The chief thing is the line content:"Fiction";, which adds the word Fiction. I'm also using pages to have a presentation and table of contents to group chapters and sections into “books” of some sort.

Yeah, you could do this manually inserting a note on each post, but that's prone to error.

I hope this might help you if you're thinking on doing something similar.