March Meta Matters Challenge, Check-in 2

[yourlibrarian]

Hello everyone! It's check-in time to see how we're all getting along with our meta importing.

Comment below with any of the following:

1) How do you motivate yourself when you're facing something daunting or overwhelming?

2) How many works have you identified for future transfers, or have you now moved to AO3?

3) Are you having any problems moving your meta?

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.

Also, if you've got tips you've developed during this process, do share them with the group! And if you can help someone out with a problem they're having, share a solution.

Comments

[eidolonlathi]

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.

[yourlibrarian]

Good advice! I think for me, I'm also realizing that my original goal of getting through 3 years of posts may not work out this month. I took a week on just my first few posts I reviewed, although I'm satisfied with getting a newish post drafted and released.

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!

This is probably going to be my process in coming weeks too. I got the loveliest comment today on my new meta post over on LJ, it's really inspiring me to work on some more :)

Your decision about Tumblr seems sensible, and as you said -- deal with the problems when they happen. A good tip for anyone else making the same transfers, thanks for that!