A Missing Link

I discovered an HTML file copy of my Joseph Buquet story sitting in my website that had been there ever since 2017, but never actually linked from the index of fan-fiction. Evidently I got as far as doing the conversion, but never got round to all the laborious site maintenance involved in adding all the necessary headers/footers/links required to make it consistent with everything else!

I've been trying to update my exceedingly out-of-date website fan-fiction listing in parallel with uploading stuff to AO3, on the grounds that at least I only have to do the conversion once. ( Read more... )

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I'm not terribly impressed by the author statistics provided by AO3, which are missing a lot of the information afforded by fanfiction.net; they don't record which chapters receive page hits or kudos, for example, so you can't tell the difference between a reader who glances at the first chapter and rejects the story as not what he was looking for (which is the most common reading pattern experienced by *all* fanfiction authors) and one who gets hooked and goes on to read all the way through a story.( Read more... )

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On the plus side, I've typed (but not proofread) what will probably be Chapter 10 of Arctic Raoul, though the precise scene boundary with the next chapter may change, which takes us up to the calf-kissing episode. And I've finally made some necessary revisions to Chapters 1–5, and sent off Chapters 6–8 (which again had to be typed as a single entity before I could work out where the chapter boundaries were to fall) for beta-reading.

And I discovered completely by chance that I could still access stories on fanfiction.net via their www links rather than via the (easier to navigate) mobile site, and managed to 'evacuate' another eleven one-shots before the site cut out on me again, though I haven't been able to repeat the feat. That leaves me with I think eight stories still missing, although they are the longer ones -- I went for the 'quick wins' for obvious reasons.

All bar one

Finally -- and much to my surprise given FFnet announcements -- I managed to access every single one of the stories in my favourites and in my Raoul community (which unfortunately did not entirely overlap; not everything that went in there got favourited, though I'm not sure that was a quality judgement so much as an omission). Some of them had to be downloaded in the less-accessible 'desktop' format, but since the body text is the same it should theoretically be possible to doctor that by editing the header material.

I've spent the afternoon extracting relative links from my Dreamwidth posts and running link checks, which revealed that I'd made a few typos when creating directories, not surprising when trying to type random seven- or eight-digit numbers, but easy enough to correct locally. So now I only have one missing one-shot, Apollo's Lyre by T.C. Muirin of deviantArt fame (she of the angular Eriks: https://www.deviantart.com/muirin007). I managed to save the reviews but forgot to save the actual story after reading it, so I shall need to do it again some time if I can!