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.
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I dunno, anybody have an opinion?
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.
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I dunno, anybody have an opinion?
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Date: 2012-08-29 08:33 pm (UTC)Yeah, I was reminded that AO3 has an import function, which would speed things a LOT. I think, aside from line breaks -- I use a weird line break (o-o-o-o-o-o-o) on ff.net to get around the way their file uploader strips punctuation from documents -- the only thing I'd have to reformat is a bit in one chapter of "Secrets" where Sir Vladislav crosses out something he wrote. Which is represented literally via strikethrough in my own file, but which I had to write around to describe for ff.net.