I physically can't write by hand anymore - too painful. Plus, illegible even to me. THough I keep a tiny notebook in my pocket so I can feel like a real writer (tm).
I'm trying to archive my work in muliple places re: the servers are not robust. I even have a website of my own that I haven't updated in oh .... about 5 years? I've forgotten the password and don't even have an ftp program to access it anymore. Still it's a record of my fandom self back in teh x-men days. I'm trying to move everything, even my very old, scary stuff to AO3 just for completions sake. I do plan on re-doing/moving my website (slash city seems to be a zombie compnay now. things sort of work and they took my money last year but I've not heard a thing from the company in years).
There was a discussion on metafandom yesterday about moving really old stories over, and whether people should put a note on them saying, "you know, this was written 12 years ago... I did actually improve!" :D
But really, people still like a lot of those stories (I recognised the poster's fic handle from back-in-the-day. I hope you can rescue your stuff easily!
I was lucky. My site had been donw for months but recently came back long enough for me to move some of my work off. I'm re-editing it and putting it up as I get it.
People still email/message me about my x-men fic, none of which is newer than 5 years, so I know people are still reading it. I try and put dates on my fic so people can see it's older/younger etc. And I can too, since I often lose my work over the years.
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Date: 2010-01-12 05:03 pm (UTC)I'm trying to archive my work in muliple places re: the servers are not robust. I even have a website of my own that I haven't updated in oh .... about 5 years? I've forgotten the password and don't even have an ftp program to access it anymore. Still it's a record of my fandom self back in teh x-men days. I'm trying to move everything, even my very old, scary stuff to AO3 just for completions sake. I do plan on re-doing/moving my website (slash city seems to be a zombie compnay now. things sort of work and they took my money last year but I've not heard a thing from the company in years).
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Date: 2010-01-12 05:17 pm (UTC)But really, people still like a lot of those stories (I recognised the poster's fic handle from back-in-the-day. I hope you can rescue your stuff easily!
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Date: 2010-01-12 05:55 pm (UTC)People still email/message me about my x-men fic, none of which is newer than 5 years, so I know people are still reading it. I try and put dates on my fic so people can see it's older/younger etc. And I can too, since I often lose my work over the years.