Fic archive journals

[snorkackcatcher]

I've had a fic archive post on this LJ for some time now, with links to all the sites where I've posted HP fics, but have been vaguely thinking about creating a separate journal to archive a copy of them all (and any occasional "DVD extras" meta I might write about them) -- mainly so there's one 'site' I can point to that has everything, regardless of length or subject matter. Additional possibilities include tagging for cross-reference purposes, specific icons for types of fic and so on.

Does this sound like something worth doing? I know quite a few people have set up this sort of journal or site -- so to those who have (or indeed those who haven't), how have you found them to go in practice? Are they too much like hard work? Do people actually browse them? Is there a minimum number of fics needed to make them viable? Or are they just a pure vanity project? (I know, I know, they're naturally going to be a vanity project to some extent, the question is whether there's actually some value in them as well.)

Lyrics: The last one was Gallows Pole by Led Zeppelin, from Led Zeppelin III in 1970, spotted by a_t_rain. What I didn't know until I looked it up is that this is apparently a version of a 1939 Leadbelly song called Gallis Pole, which in turn is a version of a centuries-old folk song called The Maid Freed From The Gallows. Well I never.

Which leads quite nicely on to this one ...

He had it coming
He had it coming
He only had himself to blame
If you'd have been there
If you'd have seen it
I betcha you would have done the same! (1970s, recently revived)

Comments

[octobersnow.livejournal.com]

As a reader I actually quite like the idea. thetreacletart has one and that's usually where I go first if I want to read something of hers. Since I can't write for dirt, I can't comment from the author side of things.

[octobersnow.livejournal.com]

As for the song, Cellblock Tango from Chicago?

[lareinenoire.livejournal.com]

Hee! Cell Block Tango from Chicago!

[dharmavati.livejournal.com]

From personal experience with my own fic journal, I have to say that it's very useful. It helps me personally organize my writing without going through my personal LJ posts. It is a bit like a vanity project but people do browse. If you think it will help you, go for it!

[lazy-neutrino.livejournal.com]

I've benen thinking exactly the same thing, oddly enough. Not that you should have a fic journal :) but I was thinking of reviving a journal I started for a crit group: neutrinofics, which would fit the bill quite nicely. And posting them in order from the start, with a note as to where they first appeared. I've got stuff scattered everywhere, like rabbit droppings.

[dreamer-marie.livejournal.com]

If you get a writing journal, I will totally friend it, especially if you give us some meta!

[snorkackcatcher]

Ah, right. I must admit, I usually just go to the archive site or a bookmark to reread something, although I've occasionally browsed the 'back catalogue' of an author I liked if they had one.

[snorkackcatcher]

Yep. :)

[snorkackcatcher]

It is indeed!

[snorkackcatcher]

Cheers! That would be helpful -- the LJ stuff is split between my own LJ and omniocular.

[snorkackcatcher]

Thanks! I was planning to do an overview of NTLJ explaining how various things were desperately improvised at the last minute carefully crafted to form a seamless plot. Ahem. :D

[snorkackcatcher]

Yeah, that was the general idea too ... FA and FFN have almost everything but in both cases there are stories I can't really post there (and they wouldn't accept an NC-17 fic in the admittedly unlikely event that I wrote one). I've been trying to build up the back catalogue at Checkmated and MuggleNet FF too, but have already had stories rejected at both so they're never going to be complete either! Even the LJ stuff is split ...

[lazy-neutrino.livejournal.com]

For me a lot of it is down to CBA. I keep meaning to post it all to one place, but...

However, The Archive at the End of the Universe takes everything, I believe.

[lazy-neutrino.livejournal.com]

Regrading lyrics, I have the Child site for ballads bookmarked here. It's fascinating!

[snorkackcatcher]

Hmm ... the layout isn't inspiring (same code as MNFF?), and it doesn't exactly seem to attract reviewers. I might be better off with LJ or the like here. :)

[tree_and_leaf]

It sounds like a good idea - I'm always a fan of writers I like having their stuff easily available in one place :)

[snorkackcatcher]

Heh, thanks. :)

[jesspallas.livejournal.com]

Without looking at any other comments - Cell Block Tango from Chicago. ;)

And an archive sounds a good idea. I don't do it myself but that's only because if I didn't post fic there, no one would look at any of my other LJ moanings....;)

[snorkackcatcher]

Without looking at any other comments - Cell Block Tango from Chicago. ;)

It is indeed. :)


And an archive sounds a good idea. I don't do it myself but that's only because if I didn't post fic there, no one would look at any of my other LJ moanings....;)

I'm not sure that's true (because you don't normally post fic there, do you -- just links?) but it is something I was concerned about. ;)