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I am idly wondering if it would be worthwhile to crosspost all my fanfic to AO3. And by "all my fanfic," I really do mean ALL my fanfic. Which is... over two hundred stories, several of which are multi-chapter, dating back to April 2002. That would be a VERY BIG undertaking, best done in small pieces. Also, while I wouldn't pull a story from the internet, there are some things I've written that I am perfectly happy to have languish in obscurity on my journal, rather than crosspost them anywhere more public. And it's not like I haven't already bashed LJ/DW into acting like a faux-archive in some ways.

On the other hand, making a journaling site act like an archive does require extra work -- I have to actively remember to update my directory posts -- and that's a continuing work cost whereas backlog uploading to AO3 would be a one-time work cost.

...

I dunno, anybody have an opinion?

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Date: 2012-08-29 07:10 am (UTC)
ext_12918: (sherlock curious (by secret_memoir))
From: [identity profile] deralte.livejournal.com
If you upload the stuff you don't want people to see first, it'll languish at the bottom of your list while the more recent stuff will sit at the top.

A03's the only place that has all my writing in one place and I haven't regretted taking the time to upload it (I've got about 50 fics). However, I was able to shortcut a bit by taking some stories directly off of ff.net (which has resulted in a hilarious argument in one of my fics over how I formatted a fic back in 2003).

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