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marchmetamatterschallengeWelcome to year 4 of the Meta Matters Challenge! I'm your moderator, yourlibrarian.
These posts will be used for us all to check-in with one another, offer encouragement and answers to questions, and maybe tips we come up with as we copy our work to AO3.
Before we begin, some reminders. Please look over the FAQ as there are some important bits for everyone to follow, namely:
Remember to tag all your posts with the "Meta" and "Nonfiction" tags in the "Additional Tags" section of the posting form if you are posting at AO3 or Squidgeworld.
Remember to add your meta to the March Meta Matters Challenge community on AO3 or Squidgeworld.
Since this is our first check-in, please comment with one or more of the following:
1) Details about you: This could include canons (if any) you've written meta in, years in fandom, things you tend to write about (if you've noticed themes), or whatever else you'd like to share.
2) Details about your meta: How much of your past work are you going to be looking through? Have you already started reviewing fandom accounts? Do you have organizing tips to share as we go sorting through our posts?
3) Goals you have: Maybe you want to back up a certain number of posts to AO3. Maybe you want to compare things you used to write about to things you're writing now. Maybe the challenge is an opportunity for you to start using AO3 as a creator as well as a reader or to try out Squidgworld for the first time. Maybe it's a good prompt to re-read discussions in your posts that you'd forgotten about. We all have hopes of what we can accomplish this month. Feel free to share them!
Also, if you have any questions not already covered in our introductory post or in our FAQ, include them here.
Remember, this account accepts anonymous comments, so if you don't have a Dreamwidth account we still want to hear from you and have you take part. Just sign your messages with your username and we'll all get to know you!
yourlibrarian. These posts will be used for us all to check-in with one another, offer encouragement and answers to questions, and maybe tips we come up with as we copy our work to AO3.
Before we begin, some reminders. Please look over the FAQ as there are some important bits for everyone to follow, namely:
Remember to tag all your posts with the "Meta" and "Nonfiction" tags in the "Additional Tags" section of the posting form if you are posting at AO3 or Squidgeworld.
Remember to add your meta to the March Meta Matters Challenge community on AO3 or Squidgeworld.
Since this is our first check-in, please comment with one or more of the following:
1) Details about you: This could include canons (if any) you've written meta in, years in fandom, things you tend to write about (if you've noticed themes), or whatever else you'd like to share.
2) Details about your meta: How much of your past work are you going to be looking through? Have you already started reviewing fandom accounts? Do you have organizing tips to share as we go sorting through our posts?
3) Goals you have: Maybe you want to back up a certain number of posts to AO3. Maybe you want to compare things you used to write about to things you're writing now. Maybe the challenge is an opportunity for you to start using AO3 as a creator as well as a reader or to try out Squidgworld for the first time. Maybe it's a good prompt to re-read discussions in your posts that you'd forgotten about. We all have hopes of what we can accomplish this month. Feel free to share them!
Also, if you have any questions not already covered in our introductory post or in our FAQ, include them here.
Remember, this account accepts anonymous comments, so if you don't have a Dreamwidth account we still want to hear from you and have you take part. Just sign your messages with your username and we'll all get to know you!
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Date: 2024-03-01 06:16 pm (UTC)2) About all that I have posted, I have it on tumblr. I'm very anal-retentive about my tagging system, which I know will be a big help, since the search function on the site itself is. Subpar lol.
3) I wouldn't be "archiving" everything because I don't think all of it is worth archiving, to be frank, but I will look through my more involved metas. I haven't set a specific number in mind for this month, but I have thought of specific metas I'd want to preserve -those I remember as being particularly good or incisive. Knowing myself, I probably won't be able to stop myself from adding to/expanding on them ^^U.
And as a secondary goal, I want to finish with some meta prompts I got; they were supposed to be for February, but life got in the way. This event gives me a good excuse to complete them!
I also think, since it looks like Squidgeworld is more meta-friendly, I'll be posting there, while keeping my ao3 account (both under the username laufire, like my tumblr) for fiction.
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Date: 2024-03-01 07:15 pm (UTC)Yes, it's a luck thing about the tagging! And it's a good point about adding to older posts, or creating sequels, as it were. Often looking them over again gives one new ideas.
Yup, we definitely encourage new meta, whether it follows the prompts this month or not!