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I've put all of my old stories up on AO3 except for the X-Files ones - I simply haven't gotten around to them yet. It's a not inconsiderable amount of work to adjust the formatting for AO3, edit until everything works, and so forth. I kept meaning to get to it at some point in the future...
Except that now, they've suddenly appeared on the AO3 entirely without my doing, evidently because an old archive (that I had forgotten they were even on) is being imported to AO3.
And of course they are full of the screwiest of formatting, ancient out-of-order email addys and websites, and are entirely untagged. Plus there is, of course, that one story that I have since repented of, and that I had hoped would sink into merciful oblivion, never be clapped eyes on by the eyes of the living. But here it is, right there in its screwy formatting non-glory, like an unsexy zombie from my writing past.
I don't really want to deal with this right now; I'd prefer to kick the stories back to draft status and handle it later, but that seems impossible to do. So - leave them up in a state that hurts my perfectionist soul, take them down entirely, or invest time and energy into editing them that I don't have right now?
Right now I'm leaning towards just deleting them. Argh.
Except that now, they've suddenly appeared on the AO3 entirely without my doing, evidently because an old archive (that I had forgotten they were even on) is being imported to AO3.
And of course they are full of the screwiest of formatting, ancient out-of-order email addys and websites, and are entirely untagged. Plus there is, of course, that one story that I have since repented of, and that I had hoped would sink into merciful oblivion, never be clapped eyes on by the eyes of the living. But here it is, right there in its screwy formatting non-glory, like an unsexy zombie from my writing past.
I don't really want to deal with this right now; I'd prefer to kick the stories back to draft status and handle it later, but that seems impossible to do. So - leave them up in a state that hurts my perfectionist soul, take them down entirely, or invest time and energy into editing them that I don't have right now?
Right now I'm leaning towards just deleting them. Argh.
