1) How do I motivate myself when I’m facing something daunting or overwhelming?: I remind myself that not every piece has to be finished instantly but that it’s okay to need a few days for every piece. And I’m making smaller steps out of the entire transfer process, like this finishing every step feels like a small success already.
2) How many works have I identified for future transfers, or have I now moved to AO3?: I moved one piece to AO3 so far. A second piece is ready to be moved as soon as I have the time. The process of gathering together smaller meta snippets together looks to be complete. Next will be ordering them into fitting themes. And then writing new works based on those themes. Hopefully the material will be enough for 3-4 new pieces!
3) Am I having any problems moving my meta?: So far everything is going well. For now I avoid the question of finding a new hosting place for the images in my meta by making good use of the fact said meta is all located on tumblr: 1) Open edit mode on tumblr for the meta I’m transferring 2) highlight entire meta while editing mode is on, and then copy it over to AO3’s rich text editor (it's important this and not html is in place when inserting the copied text). Like this the images embed in tumblr will be copied over quickly. The problem stays that should the tumblr page in question ever vanish, so will the images (but not the text!). But seeing that I still have a small pile of meta to transfer over, I decided to let this be a question that needs solving for another day.
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Date: 2020-03-06 04:46 pm (UTC)2) How many works have I identified for future transfers, or have I now moved to AO3?: I moved one piece to AO3 so far. A second piece is ready to be moved as soon as I have the time. The process of gathering together smaller meta snippets together looks to be complete. Next will be ordering them into fitting themes. And then writing new works based on those themes. Hopefully the material will be enough for 3-4 new pieces!
3) Am I having any problems moving my meta?: So far everything is going well.
For now I avoid the question of finding a new hosting place for the images in my meta by making good use of the fact said meta is all located on tumblr: 1) Open edit mode on tumblr for the meta I’m transferring 2) highlight entire meta while editing mode is on, and then copy it over to AO3’s rich text editor (it's important this and not html is in place when inserting the copied text). Like this the images embed in tumblr will be copied over quickly.
The problem stays that should the tumblr page in question ever vanish, so will the images (but not the text!). But seeing that I still have a small pile of meta to transfer over, I decided to let this be a question that needs solving for another day.