Not-So-Spring Cleaning

[slyprentice]

After some consideration (and looking at my orginazation elsewhere), I've finally decided to go ahead and do a clean up on my journal. I'll be deleting old entries that no longer reflect my feelings / beliefs / etc, putting my fics in order (with a masterlist of all of them), and work towards being finishing some of my long standing works in progress by systematically going through, taking them offline, the re-posting them when I'm done.

It's gonna be a lot of work - well, the whole finishing my WIPs - but I've come to the conclusion that I really want to unclutter my fandom life and get back to the point where I loved fandom for fandom and was able to write fanfic without stress. So, first step, unclutter my journal.

Next step with be pulling my fics from the billion different sites I have them on and consolidating them to one or two. Then get to writing.

Then, well, we'll see.

Comments

[noagirl.livejournal.com]

I totally get the organising of fics – did that whole mess on batsutousai and it was hell, but it needed to be done – but I admit that I don't get the going back and deleting old entries. To me, part of keeping a journal is so you can see how your views have changed over the years and go back to remember what an idiot you were back when. But maybe that's just me.

Gods... WIPs make fandom life way too stressful, especially when you've got reviewers every few weeks going, 'OMG! Liek, when're you gonna update _____!? Evers?'. ^.^"
♥♥

[slyprentice.livejournal.com]

My fics are a big mess; they're posted all over the place and I was/am really terrible about tagging/linking to each part so they're scattered everywhere. Plus, I went through a really awkward (and embarrassing to me now) phase where I felt like I needed to post my fics everywhere with no real regard to consistency so...yeah, organizing is long overdue.

As for getting rid of old posts: I certainly don't plan to delete all of them but I'm kind of viewing this as a way to have a "fresh start" with fandom. I feel so stressed and grumpy with it sometimes, I thought maybe having a "out with the old and in with the new" mentality might help. At least, I'm hoping it will.

WIPs are the bane of my existence right now. I can't post a new fic without someone asking about an old one or being really snide and saying "are you going to finish this one?". It's infuriating, especially since some of those fics I started years ago when I wasn't working full time, maintaining a reccing community, and generally being a normal adult with real life responsibilities. =/

[noagirl.livejournal.com]

LOL Yeah... I was smart enough to put all of mine on LJ, but I lost a couple one-shots during the time I switched accounts and before tags were big. (Lot of fun hunting those down. Not.) But that's just my HP stuff; I can't begin to guess where half of my old YGO fic has gone off to, and I've only got three or four Digimon fics on my harddrive, anymore. (Luckily, I don't much care about the last two, but it is sort of distressing that so much has been lost.)
I spent a week re-working my tags on batsutousai because they were just sort of a mess. ^.^"

Mmmm... I suppose I can understand that. It just seems wrong to me to delete old things completely. Making them private, or downloading them to lose on your harddrive somewhere makes more sense to me, but I'm also a notorious pack-rat, so that can all be ignored...

I've just about given up on posting anything, anymore. I mean, if I finish something, sure, fair game, but otherwise I just keep it to myself, 'cause I'm beyond tired of getting asked about WIPs; the last thing I need is to add another one to the list.
But, yeah, finding time... Or even finding inspiration, which is more my problem than the time constraints, I think. ♥

[slyprentice.livejournal.com]

Honestly, I don't even remember all of the sites I've posted fic to over the years (which actually makes me quite anxious) so I'm sure I'll lose a few fics along the way but, really, what can you do?

I've almost entirely given up on posting, too. I absolutely adore writing (fic or otherwise), but it's hard to be inspired these days. I mean, I still get story alerts and reviews from a fic that I haven't updated in years. It's starting to feel like the Ghost of Fan Ficcing Past to me. =/

I have the same problem with finding inspiration. I'm still kind of baffled at how, years ago, I could just sit down and write my arse off and now I'm lucky if I can get a paragraph out on a good day. Hell, sometimes I'm lucky if I can get a sentence.