Greetings, 21st Century!
Nov. 16th, 2009 11:31 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dmarleyOkay, so I'm sort of caught up with all my immediate things-I-want-to-be-caught-up-on. I have hit my NaNoWriMo goal for today (35,106 words!), and if I just write a little more than 1,000 words a day I'll get it done.
I have also uploaded all my stories to Archive of Our Own. So far, I'm pretty happy with it. I didn't have any technical problems getting my stories on there, and I like most of the tagging and labeling features. There are couple of things that I suspect still need to be refined a bit, notably what, exactly, the various warning options are supposed to mean, but on the whole what's there is workable.
One thing I finally did was enter the 21st century and leave my mailing list/Usenet story formatting behind. I've been meaning to turn all my ASCII format asterisks into em tags for a while, but when I realized that if I didn't do it now I'd have to re-load 2 sets of stories, that was sufficient motivation.
The tagging of the formerly-asterisked formatting went very smoothly, thanks to TextWrangler, but I did learn something very important when I decided to add pointer links to my story index at the end of all my journal-posted stories: When doing a simultaneous search and replace on 25 files at once, using a relatively common pair of words such as "THE END," do not forget to make the search case-sensitive. Yeah. Luckily, what multi-file search and replace can screw up, multi-file search and replace can also repair, yea verily. Still *headdesk*
I'm also, like many others, wondering what the heck to do with the tags on AO3. As anyone who's ever glanced at my Delicious account knows, I love my tags. I love them so much that I haven't yet upgraded the Delicious add-on because the current one can be used as a work-around for the 50-tag limit and I'm afraid that the new options might have fixed that loophole.
So, my impulse is to tag a lot, but every time I type in something like "frottage" and find that there isn't a tag for it yet (seriously, I was the first person to tag "frottage"? I find that hard to believe), I worry that I'm Doing It Wrong. But I figure that the archive is still growing, and once more people get in there and tag, the uncertainty about what to tag will lessen. At least I hope so. For now, I'm being a bit conservative myself, trying to figure out what tags are useful for my stuff and which would be clutter. One which is definitely the former is the "m/m/m" tag. :)
I have also uploaded all my stories to Archive of Our Own. So far, I'm pretty happy with it. I didn't have any technical problems getting my stories on there, and I like most of the tagging and labeling features. There are couple of things that I suspect still need to be refined a bit, notably what, exactly, the various warning options are supposed to mean, but on the whole what's there is workable.
One thing I finally did was enter the 21st century and leave my mailing list/Usenet story formatting behind. I've been meaning to turn all my ASCII format asterisks into em tags for a while, but when I realized that if I didn't do it now I'd have to re-load 2 sets of stories, that was sufficient motivation.
The tagging of the formerly-asterisked formatting went very smoothly, thanks to TextWrangler, but I did learn something very important when I decided to add pointer links to my story index at the end of all my journal-posted stories: When doing a simultaneous search and replace on 25 files at once, using a relatively common pair of words such as "THE END," do not forget to make the search case-sensitive. Yeah. Luckily, what multi-file search and replace can screw up, multi-file search and replace can also repair, yea verily. Still *headdesk*
I'm also, like many others, wondering what the heck to do with the tags on AO3. As anyone who's ever glanced at my Delicious account knows, I love my tags. I love them so much that I haven't yet upgraded the Delicious add-on because the current one can be used as a work-around for the 50-tag limit and I'm afraid that the new options might have fixed that loophole.
So, my impulse is to tag a lot, but every time I type in something like "frottage" and find that there isn't a tag for it yet (seriously, I was the first person to tag "frottage"? I find that hard to believe), I worry that I'm Doing It Wrong. But I figure that the archive is still growing, and once more people get in there and tag, the uncertainty about what to tag will lessen. At least I hope so. For now, I'm being a bit conservative myself, trying to figure out what tags are useful for my stuff and which would be clutter. One which is definitely the former is the "m/m/m" tag. :)