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Big giant index?
Nov. 8th, 2010 12:03 pmSo I'm beginning to think it would be prudent to make a big master index of the fanfics I've been putting up all willy-nilly on here. Between independent projects (multi-chaptered and not) and the dribs and drabs I've done for community prompts, I'm feeling a little swamped and, for lack of a better word, cluttered. I'm sure it's even more confusing for anyone out there who's just stumbling across this journal.
Connected to these grand indexing plans is the thought that no, I suppose I haven't really put everything onto my AO3 account like I'd planned. This is mostly in regards to the unfinished pieces I've done for prompts. I haven't put those couple/few things up over there because...well...it feels like cheating, to me, to deliberately put something in with my finished/soon-to-be-finished/actually have plots and plans for finishing works. I think it's a horse of a different color to toss in pieces that are so very, very unfinished. (So unfinished that they are, really just a couple scenes or a handful of scenes with no real plot to hold them together.) At the same time, I feel a little guilty that I'm not living up to my own standards and expectations. I'd planned and expected to share everything on AO3...but I haven't, and that's kind of what I'd set out to do in the first place.
Will I be satisfied if I make a nice, easy master list for all the things I have here, even if I don't decide to cross-post everything? I don't know. It will certainly make things easier for people who are only interested in browsing what's here on LJ.
It's never far from my mind that audience is important. That's not to say that I'm writing just because people are reading what I write. I write for myself, first and foremost. It brings me great joy and allows me to work at improving my skills and style and all that good stuff. I like writing. But, at the same time, I don't want to alienate people by becoming so deluded and egotistical that I start thinking that readers don't matter at all and the only thing that matters is the writing itself. It's not. There's a certain level of accessibility that needs to be met. I suppose I think I'm somehow cheating readers by not making things that are available in one place available to all.
I'll have to think it over some more while I work at compiling some sort of index.
~ciao
Connected to these grand indexing plans is the thought that no, I suppose I haven't really put everything onto my AO3 account like I'd planned. This is mostly in regards to the unfinished pieces I've done for prompts. I haven't put those couple/few things up over there because...well...it feels like cheating, to me, to deliberately put something in with my finished/soon-to-be-finished/actually have plots and plans for finishing works. I think it's a horse of a different color to toss in pieces that are so very, very unfinished. (So unfinished that they are, really just a couple scenes or a handful of scenes with no real plot to hold them together.) At the same time, I feel a little guilty that I'm not living up to my own standards and expectations. I'd planned and expected to share everything on AO3...but I haven't, and that's kind of what I'd set out to do in the first place.
Will I be satisfied if I make a nice, easy master list for all the things I have here, even if I don't decide to cross-post everything? I don't know. It will certainly make things easier for people who are only interested in browsing what's here on LJ.
It's never far from my mind that audience is important. That's not to say that I'm writing just because people are reading what I write. I write for myself, first and foremost. It brings me great joy and allows me to work at improving my skills and style and all that good stuff. I like writing. But, at the same time, I don't want to alienate people by becoming so deluded and egotistical that I start thinking that readers don't matter at all and the only thing that matters is the writing itself. It's not. There's a certain level of accessibility that needs to be met. I suppose I think I'm somehow cheating readers by not making things that are available in one place available to all.
I'll have to think it over some more while I work at compiling some sort of index.
~ciao
