AO3 and awaaay

[primsong]

Spent some time copying a few of my stories from ff.net onto AO3 (still under "primsong" - keeps it simple) - Nothing like making me aware of how many stories I've put out there like moving them and having to re-tag and re-summarize and re-decide what to say in notes for each one - I made it through about two thirds of my 1-shot/vignette/single chapter bits, but I've a ways to go still and haven't tackled anything with chapters yet.

I like the layout and the various features so far, still finding my way around a bit - any of you keeping your works over there? What name are you under? What's your favorite feature there that I should know about?

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[senmut]

I'm Merfilly.

And the feature I love best over there is such a simple one. The search function, which lets me narrow down to fandoms or other tags.

[elleth]

AO3 is fantastic, from what little I have seen of it so far - I love the fact that it allows you to list different pseudonyms... otherwise can't really say anything as I did not migrate there yet, though have an account; Elleth. :)

[kerravonsen]

I'm KerrAvonsen.

My favourite feature so far is the "import" feature; give it one's fanfiction.net URLs and 70% of the work is done for you. One still has to tweak the meta-information, because not all of that is imported, or not quite correctly, but it still saves a heap of time, especially with multi-chaptered stories. I haven't finished importing everything, I think I'm about 2/3 done.

[juliet316]

I haven't imported any of my ff.net stuff yet, but I have put up some of my Charmed and SG-1 LAS fics after the voting's been done on them. If your interested I'm under Juliet316 (I like to keep things simple in terms of my SNs too).

The layout will take a bit getting used to after dealing with FF.net for so long, but it's nice and clean and simple and there doesn't seem like a million and one hoops to go through to upload your stories, unlike FF.net. I may well just stick all my non - Who stuff on AO3 from here on out rather than FF.net while continuing to put my regular Who fic on Teaspoon.

[curuchamion]

Curuchamion, of course. One made-up fic name, almost unique, in a fandom I don't write in - keeps it simple.

I'm doing mine in order originally written. It's slow going, though, because I didn't quite tag all my LJ entries properly, so I have to go through them by hand. And of course I'm run off my feet with college/moving.

Love your mood theme - where'd you find it? (I haven't yet figured out mood themes on here, even the pre-installed ones.)

[primsong]

It's so much easier to only have one nom-de-plume, though I suppose I can see where people who write squicky things might want to compartmentalize moreso. I like the idea of ordering them by original publication, though I may or may not have the wherewithal to wade through and actually figure mine out. Ten years worth does seem a bit much when I step back and look at it.

I wish I could remember where I found this theme now - it was one of the handful of communities for customized dreamwidth themes 'out there'...I'll have to search the interests and see if I can ferret it out.

[primsong]

I really liked the simplicity of the import, I so agree! That was a treat, though I'm still trying to figure out the common tags.

Hadn't realized how used to ff.net's quirks I'd become until I didn't need to be so convoluted. I'll probably still duplicate over to ff.net simply because my sad little writer's ego is an audience-addict and more readers is worth the effort, lol...

[primsong]

Yes! I couldn't believe that it worked when I did that. After reading some comments from people about how they had to "tweak" their stories after import I was expecting text-garbage, or losing all the formatting or something but even the poems still look right, like a modern-day miracle. I haven't tried a multi-chapter yet, but I'm more confident now that it will get it 'right' and not just lump it all into one huge document or something.

[primsong]

I can see where it would be helpful to people who write under more than one name in more than one fandom, or have their fanfic under one name and their original fic under another. I like to keep things tidy. Besides, I like to be able to search for works from people whose writing I like; after chasing one lady who changed her name multiple times I decided it wasn't a good plan if you want to actually keep your audience.

[primsong]

I've always hated the difficulties in finding what I'm really looking for at ff.net - I haven't taken the time to properly test-drive their searches yet but am pressing my nose to the glass and thinking it looks very hopeful in there.

[kerravonsen]

Oh, that reminds me of another cool invaluable thing about AO3: unlike ffn, you can change the date of the story, thus, you can back-date a story to when it was actually written, rather than when it was uploaded. Rather important when one has ten years worth of fic.

[elleth]

after chasing one lady who changed her name multiple times I decided it wasn't a good plan if you want to actually keep your audience

No objections to that. I have my writing journal under a different name, but it's still Elleth's fanfiction, so rather clearly assigned... I do agree that this feature does help your audience to find you, though, if you want a hub for your fanfics and people from various fandoms all come to the same place.

By the way, after poking around the MEFAs tonight, I found a couple of stories by a certain Primsong. You, or a coincidentally identical nickname? :)

[primsong]

I'm the only one of me that I know of. ;-)

I wrote quite a bit for LOTR before I wandered off in to Who, so between them it's a fair stack all told. Dear me, with everything else going on I almost forgot about the MEFAs this year, I'll have to check in over there.

[elleth]

Don't worry about the MEFAs unless you feel you absolutely have you - you're doing quite well as far as I could see. ;) And voting doesn't end until December 15th, if that is what you are up to. Just thought I'd poke and ask, since those stories were really quite lovely. ^^