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[prillalar]

I'm finally close to getting all my fanfic into WordPress (God, AO3 will be a whole nother thing!). I've been working my way backwards by year and I'm in 1998 now. Then just a couple from 1997 and I'll be done. (The data entry, at least.)

It's been kind of a downer for a few reasons:

☞ It's so tedious

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[codyne]

I remember doing that. Yes, it was very tedious! Also, I had lost the dates on a lot of my early XF stuff, and ended up just guessing wildly when the stories were originally written/zine pubbed/posted.

Doing the AO3 thing now. The good news is, you can import story files directly from your Wordpress site, so you don't have to copy/paste, and all your formatting will be intact. The bad news is that it imports sidebars and headers and footers and all, so you have to edit out extraneous junk from the beginning and end of the file, but it's not too bad. I'm doing my AO3 import alphabetically by fandom (because it's easiest to go down the drop-down list of fandoms in the sidebar). Currently working on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. X-Files will be second-to-last, if I make it that far!

[prillalar]

I was hoping AO3 would have something like that. I can probably just make a special theme to switch to when archiving that will get rid of everything else.

Of course, what I really need is to be able to just upload a huge CSV file!

I've never forgotten that one Mulder/Krycek story of yours, the one where Mulder tracks Krycek down at a club and Krycek works him over. I enjoyed it a lot!

[mousapelli]

speaking of that, I just bought seasons 8 and 9 for like $12 apiece on Amazon for their ridiculous DVD black Friday sale. I HAVE COLLECTED THEM ALL.

[prillalar]

I have not yet done that thing! I wonder if they're in Blu Ray yet.

[annotated_em]

*rueful* I've spent the past day or so importing the fics from my Gundam Wing days into AO3. Most of them date from 2000/2001 and man, I was not nearly as good a writer back then as I thought I was.

I wonder where the people I ran with back then--the ones I was writing fic for and so on--are now. I miss some of them.

[prillalar]

It's humbling, I agree! I like to have everything up, but I make sure the date is prominently displayed. :)

There are some I'd like to hang with again, definitely.

[annotated_em]

Oh, yeah. I was very careful about labeling things as Very Old Fic and making sure they were all backdated appropriately. *wry* Even so, I did do a cut-off. GW is as far back as I'm willing to go--the stuff that's older than that, and it's out there, is not going up on AO3. A woman's gotta have her limits.

[prillalar]

Yeah, I think the amount of fic I archive at AO3 will be limited mostly by my patience. :)

[campylobacter]

Yay! All that delicious XF fic without the lock against the comment-spammers!

Gotta get around to giving you feedback on the under-appreciated Blue Screen, because there's not enough Frohike smut in the world.

[prillalar]

I so agree about Frohike! Damn, I would hit that any day of the week. And I'm so glad to hear that about Blue Screen. :)

[laurashapiro]

Oh man, now I am SO nostalgic.

Why don't we have a time machine? We could visit back then!

[prillalar]

Hee! Sometimes these things are best left in memory.