The Great Archiving Project: Update
Aug. 13th, 2023 04:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
miya_moranaYou know what? Archiving stuff... takes time. It takes so much time you guys.
Fortunately I've mostly figured out ways to not have to fight Dreamwidth too much when it comes to formating, but it's still a bit of a chore. I'm going through my works alphabetically by fandom (though I might end up changing my masterlist around to have them by publish date instead when I'm done, we'll see), and I just finished archiving my Merlin fics, which brings me to something around 77 works if I still know how to count. Given that, according to AO3, I have 78 fics for Supernatural alone, yeah, I'm nowhere near done.
It doesn't help that I've decided to also crosspost everything on SquidgeWold Archive, which is basically a smaller AO3 (uses AO3's open-souce coding, basically the same terms and services aside from their strong "no AI-generated works" stance, way less fics).
Fun thing about this whole endeavor is how it made me realize there are definitely years when I wrote a lot more than others. I might do some stats when I'm done, just to see. Can't really go to AO3 for that because I didn't bother backdating when I archived most of my older stuffs there, so the posting dates aren't exactly accurate.
Anyways, still a lot of work to do on that front. It's amazing how much I've written in 20 years.
Fortunately I've mostly figured out ways to not have to fight Dreamwidth too much when it comes to formating, but it's still a bit of a chore. I'm going through my works alphabetically by fandom (though I might end up changing my masterlist around to have them by publish date instead when I'm done, we'll see), and I just finished archiving my Merlin fics, which brings me to something around 77 works if I still know how to count. Given that, according to AO3, I have 78 fics for Supernatural alone, yeah, I'm nowhere near done.
It doesn't help that I've decided to also crosspost everything on SquidgeWold Archive, which is basically a smaller AO3 (uses AO3's open-souce coding, basically the same terms and services aside from their strong "no AI-generated works" stance, way less fics).
Fun thing about this whole endeavor is how it made me realize there are definitely years when I wrote a lot more than others. I might do some stats when I'm done, just to see. Can't really go to AO3 for that because I didn't bother backdating when I archived most of my older stuffs there, so the posting dates aren't exactly accurate.
Anyways, still a lot of work to do on that front. It's amazing how much I've written in 20 years.
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Date: 2023-10-05 01:29 am (UTC)I started crossposting (and backdating) my AO3 fics to SquideWorld a few months ago... I think I stopped after like six fics... Thank you for the reminder to crosspost a few more.
It's already so much work to make a list/overview of fics on Dreamwidth... Another work in progress I really need to finish at one point. :D
Stats sound like such a fun idea!
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Date: 2023-10-11 07:58 pm (UTC)