Dreamwidth and some fannish stuff

[luzula]

Happy Labour Day everyone! Like everyone else, I now have Dreamwidth. I'm luzula over there, obviously.

If I import my journal entries from LJ, and then make more journal entries on LJ, can I import those to DW later? In a related vein, if I crosspost and consolidate my comments on LJ for now, can I later import those comments? The FAQ does not answer this...I want everything in one place.

I'm hoping that the people who crosspost are going to consolidate their comments in one place or the other, because I hate the thought of fragmented discussions. I'm planning to subscribe to people in one place or the other (but not both), depending on where they want their comments.

I haven't yet imported anything or begun to crosspost, but I eventually will, I suppose.

Also, I have finished my Fraser/Victoria story! It was one of those stories that was really easy to write, and I ended up at 9500 words.

My fandom goals for May are:

1) post due South recs at crack_van
2) record more rare fandom podfics for amplificathon
3) work through and post the Fraser/Victoria story, and also the Martha/George story I finished a second draft of for ficfinishing back in February (btw, I really recommend ficfinishing if you haven't tried it). I am stubborn, and I will wrestle that story to the ground and win.

Comments

[meresy.livejournal.com]

Re: DW

You can re-import your LJ entries to include the new ones -- it'll just overwrite the older ones. However, crossposted entries will be duplicated -- at least, any with a client will, as I'm not sure how DW treats its own xpost.

What I'm going to do, if and when I ever move shop mostly to DW, is delete all the entries back to when I started DW (they have no comments) and then import the comments/entries from LJ. Voila. Then I'd route comments in the other direction.

[luzula]

Hmm, yes, that sounds like a reasonable solution. Thanks for the tip! : )

[kill-claudio.livejournal.com]

I hate the idea of fragmented discussions and people being scattered all over the place too, although I have to say that so far the transition has been smoother than I was expecting. Still, it's only Day One. :-/

Also, I have finished my Fraser/Victoria story!

YAY! I love Fraser/Victoria, even if it is usually angsty like woah. I am really excited to read it now. And you're driving the Crack Van this month? You have a busy, busy month planned!

[luzula]

I don't have much of a problem with checking a reading page at two places, actually. The thing I dislike is if people crosspost and then there are different sets of comments at both places. But most people who crosspost are disabling the comments at one place, so that's okay.

Yeah, Fraser/Victoria is kind of unavoidably angsty, but I actually loved writing it. Though I guess it wasn't that unexpected--I mean, I like angst. And hey, thanks for the encouragement! : )

I've written a couple of recs ahead of time, so I hope the reccing won't take up that much time.

[nos4a2no9.livejournal.com]

Hooray for finishing that story! And for possibly posting the Martha/George story! This is fabulous news :-)

Also, good luck on Crack Van! I failed at it epically this month (and I HATE people who never post once when it's their turn *hangs head in shame) so good luck to you, sirrah!

[luzula]

Yeah, I'm really on a writing binge. I've already written 1000 words of porn for the porn tag, too. OTOH, my hands are hurting, so that's bad. But you can't have everything, I guess.

And hey, no shame for the crack van thing! Things happen, and sometimes they prevent us from posting.