wherein Liz thinks out loud to herself about AO3 and her old fanfiction.

I've been crossposting a bunch of my older Narnia fic to AO3 over the past few days. I haven't touched the Jadis-centric ones yet, nor the Problem of Susan fics, nor the genderswap AU, and definitely not the random one-offs. I also haven't figured out what I want to do about the really short pieces, and whether or not I want to try grouping all the stories that fit into my "Lost Chronicles" timeline into a single series.

I think I will put all the Problem of Susan stories into their own series, since that's basically how I have them grouped on my own journal master list page. And obviously the genderswap AU is its own series. But the other bits and pieces... nrgh. It would feel odd to post a bunch of tiny ficlets as individual things, but most of them have no unifying theme, nor unifying character/pairing set, nor were they all written for a specific ficathon, so I don't know what the organizing principle could possibly be.

I suspect I will end up posting pretty much everything individually and not trying to corral them into a series.

I might post my timeline as a meta file, though. I believe that is allowed. Or maybe just link to it in the Author's Note section of every relevant story? That seems like an awful lot of work, but I'm not sure a tidier solution exists. :-/

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After all that, I will need to get back to crossposting my ancient HP fic. God love a duck, I am not looking forward to that. But it needs to be done sooner or later. (Also, right now my AO3 works statistics look even more hilariously wrong to me than they did when it looked like I only wrote Homestuck and Yuletide fics. Having one of my other major fandoms somewhat correctly represented somehow makes the omissions even more glaring. And at a certain point, that will stop being hilarious and start driving me nuts until I fix the imbalance.)

wherein Liz moves her old fanfiction to AO3, inch by tortuous inch

If you have subscribed to me on AO3, I would like to apologize for the stream of backdated stories I've been posting for the past week or so.

I am not the world's most organized person, so it takes me a while to pull together and format each fic. The summaries always exist, but they may not be attached to the story files on my computer. The author's notes may have to be written from scratch, or at least heavily modified in the transition from informal chatting on my journal to formal metadata on an archive site. I have to check the files to make sure all the italics tags are where they should be -- I may have yanked them out, you see, if I posted the fic in question to ff.net, which forces people to use their own rich text editor and also eats formatting in general. I have to open the story on my journal to check the original posting date. And then I have to think of appropriate and informative tags.

It's not a difficult process, but it's tedious and a bit mind-numbing, so I deal with the stories one at a time as I have the time and mental energy.

I will keep doing this until I've crossposted the majority of my fic backlog, or until I run out of spoons. I have been writing fanfiction since 2002. I have a LOT of old stories to crosspost.

So if you are subscribed to me, consider this your fair warning: you are going to keep getting "Elizabeth Culmer posted a backdated story!" spam for a good long while.

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ETA: All my MN-era Narnia fics are now up on AO3! Tomorrow I think I will tackle the Problem of Susan fics, since they form another sort of easily-grasped unit.