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I have started a backup archive for my fic on DW. So far, I've formatted and posted few fics. I think I'm going to work by rating. All of the fics I've put up so far are G and PG rated, by chance at first and by intention now. Working my way up the ratings will give me a chance to figure out how to set an adult content warning (which looks easy enough but I haven't tried yet), the sort that gives a little warning when people come in following a link from elsewhere.

My higher rated fics are such that I don't want people hitting them without some sort of warning. Maybe I need to put extra space after the header information and before the body of the fic. That would help make sure that people can look at the warnings/labels without getting hit by the text immediately.

At any rate, I expect that getting my fics up will take at least two weeks, possibly two or three months. A lot depends on how much time I have for it. Putting in the tags for formatting is time consuming and irritating. I may be able to get at the source code for my documents*. I haven't tried that yet. I use a WYSIWYG interface for posting to my website (I use SeaMonkey), so I don't have easy access to the html.

I will be indexing and tagging everything as carefully as I can. I have more fics than I thought I did. They've accumulated so gradually. I also have four fics that I need to polish and post at my website. I keep putting those off.

If you're interested in my fic, you're welcome to follow the new journal. I'm still considering my website as my primary archive, but I plan to keep the journal up. I don't think I'll put my recs on the journal, however, because the work involved is way too much.

*Okay, tried that on a short fic. Cleaning it up would be more work than starting from the word processing file. I'm not going that way right now.

Backup Fic Archive

I have started a backup archive for my fic on DW. So far, I've formatted and posted few fics. I think I'm going to work by rating. All of the fics I've put up so far are G and PG rated, by chance at first and by intention now. Working my way up the ratings will give me a chance to figure out how to set an adult content warning (which looks easy enough but I haven't tried yet), the sort that gives a little warning when people come in following a link from elsewhere.

My higher rated fics are such that I don't want people hitting them without some sort of warning. Maybe I need to put extra space after the header information and before the body of the fic. That would help make sure that people can look at the warnings/labels without getting hit by the text immediately.

At any rate, I expect that getting my fics up will take at least two weeks, possibly two or three months. A lot depends on how much time I have for it. Putting in the tags for formatting is time consuming and irritating. I may be able to get at the source code for my documents*. I haven't tried that yet. I use a WYSIWYG interface for posting to my website (I use SeaMonkey), so I don't have easy access to the html.

I will be indexing and tagging everything as carefully as I can. I have more fics than I thought I did. They've accumulated so gradually. I also have four fics that I need to polish and post at my website. I keep putting those off.

If you're interested in my fic, you're welcome to follow the new journal. I'm still considering my website as my primary archive, but I plan to keep the journal up. I don't think I'll put my recs on the journal, however, because the work involved is way too much.

*Okay, tried that on a short fic. Cleaning it up would be more work than starting from the word processing file. I'm not going that way right now.

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This is very, very, very frustrating. I desperately need about ten hours of writing time. We have errands, time consuming errands with time constraints, that must be run. Last night was our actual anniversary. Scott is so sick that he's barely upright.

He can barely manage a whisper and is coughing a lot. He needs to sleep so that he's well enough to go to work on Tuesday (he has Monday off as a vacation day, the one bit of our hoped for trip to Origins that he could get off). I don't know if we're going to get everything done, and I can't do most of it without help.

( A list to vent and ease anxiety (I hope) )

I know where I should start-- Things will look better after I eat something. A hunk of cheese and a mug of coffee might be enough to keep the headache back, but it's not enough to let me plan anything.

Anybody local who can offer help with any of this-- even the loan of folding chairs for Wednesday would help immensely-- please let me know. I can probably find a way to deal with the groceries and the library, but the rest is beyond me.