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[flaming_muse]

I finally got an account over at the AO3 and archived a few of my fics there (Sports Night, SG-1, Firefly, and H50)... and now the Buffy and Angel categories are looming in my journal's sidebar, mocking me. Ugh. I kind of don't want to upload any of it, except that I've written well over a hundred fics in the combined fandoms and feel like I

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[knotted_rose]

I'm kind of watching this to see what other people reply. I've put up a bunch of the longer Buffy fics, but not all. I have probably close to 100 drabbles and I'm just not sure I want to move them all over there. As Jane said the completist in me wants to, but the *very busy* person over here kind of shudders at the enormity of the job. . .

[flaming_muse]

I'm okay with not uploading my own drabbles, despite the archive not being complete, because I don't think many people go looking for drabbles to read... and because I have so many that they would take over my index. All of the impromptu ficlets and stuff, though, are harder for me to decide about, since I feel like - for me - the AO3 is more of a formal place than my own LJ. I feel like the fics I post ought to be more than just silly off-the-cuff things.

I am perhaps overthinking.

[knotted_rose]

I will probably end up compromising -- only posting the drabbles that I really like, and leaving the rest -- the ones that are more like poetry than fic. As for impromptu fic -- for me, it's more about quality than inspiration. Some of my "give me a prompt!" fic is actually good (or at least I think it is.) Some of it, not so much. I don't know if that helps or not.

[flaming_muse]

I suppose quality is my issue, too. I probably have to judge each piece individually and see what I think.

I was also considering whether I could put the drabbles into a collection or some sort of organized block on the AO3 instead of just having them intermixed with everything else; I'll have to see what kind of options the site has. Some of the drabbles I quite like, but I don't want them to overwhelm the rest of my fic.

[justhuman]

I've got a suggestion for the dabble dilemma. You can post stories in parts, so you can post chapter one and then connected to that is chapter 2, etc... Ultimately one story with many parts are listed in your index.

So why not title it a collection and then post each drabble a chapter. You could do themes -- "A Collection of 10 Spike Drabbles"

For the record, my current fandoms are up and I sigh heavily about uploading the Angel and Buffy stuff.

[flaming_muse]

I really like the idea of drabble collections!