Grey Liliy's Journal

I love the chapter notes feature on AO3. It helps keep word counts accurate so long, rambling notes don't affect the count.

I also really like there's a separate story notes from the individual chapter notes.

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While I'm doing all this crossposting, I'm also trying to clean up my old fics on FFnet to make them a little more uniform (using the same system for notes on each page, making sure the line breaks are there since a lot were destroyed when FFnet updated their system a long while back and it removed all the symbols I had been using as line breaks).

And it's made me realize I get bothered by little things & anxiety continues to not be my friend.

Like one-shot collections. I'm staring at the next item on the list and it's a one-shot collection--with one work in it.

Part of me wants to rename it & post it as a proper one-shot, even if it's like 10 years later (I would note that I did it of course, on both AO3 and the original). 

But the archival part of my brain is "This is what you first posted it as, this is what it should stay."

The truth is, on FFnet, one-shot collections were a lot easier. I could group everything together nice and neatly in one place.

But on AO3, it's much more advantageous to split them all out into separate works due to tagging. Sort of. Like, I still enjoyed putting "Challenges" together in a single work/story (like when I did Huxloween) since they're related despite the different subjects...up until I remember series exist and would do the same thing but still keep all the one-shots to be neatly labeled with their own appropriate tags.

The end of this ramble is that I have this stuff organized in different ways and part of me wants to fix it but the other part is "Leave. It. Alone." Ultimately it'll probably bother me forever, but what can you do? XD

I'm feeling chatty today. So you get to see the ramble.

 As I'm sitting here wondering what to fill my Dreamwidth journal with, I realized that since it both is great for writing and inflicts a sense of nostalgia, I figured I should probably post links to my fanfics here with a few words about them. :P

I'm in the process of crossposting my fanfics from my Fanfiction.net site over to Archive of Our Own anyway, so I'll go ahead and mix it up with old and new stuff. (Typically I just post a link to the fanfic when I start it, I don't usually update with every chapter. You can subscribe on AO3 if you want that.)

And just for kicks, I'll probably include the original text to the posts I made over on Tumblr & will tag them accordingly.

I'll try to stick to one a day though so it doesn't entirely overrun everything else. ;D