Not-So-Spring Cleaning

[slyprentice]

After some consideration (and looking at my orginazation elsewhere), I've finally decided to go ahead and do a clean up on my journal. I'll be deleting old entries that no longer reflect my feelings / beliefs / etc, putting my fics in order (with a masterlist of all of them), and work towards being finishing some of my long standing works in

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[slyprentice]

My fics are a big mess; they're posted all over the place and I was/am really terrible about tagging/linking to each part so they're scattered everywhere. Plus, I went through a really awkward (and embarrassing to me now) phase where I felt like I needed to post my fics everywhere with no real regard to consistency so...yeah, organizing is long overdue.

As for getting rid of old posts: I certainly don't plan to delete all of them but I'm kind of viewing this as a way to have a "fresh start" with fandom. I feel so stressed and grumpy with it sometimes, I thought maybe having a "out with the old and in with the new" mentality might help. At least, I'm hoping it will.

WIPs are the bane of my existence right now. I can't post a new fic without someone asking about an old one or being really snide and saying "are you going to finish this one?". It's infuriating, especially since some of those fics I started years ago when I wasn't working full time, maintaining a reccing community, and generally being a normal adult with real life

[slyprentice]

Honestly, I don't even remember all of the sites I've posted fic to over the years (which actually makes me quite anxious) so I'm sure I'll lose a few fics along the way but, really, what can you do?

I've almost entirely given up on posting, too. I absolutely adore writing (fic or otherwise), but it's hard to be inspired these days. I mean, I still get story alerts and reviews from a fic that I haven't updated in years. It's starting to feel like the Ghost of Fan Ficcing Past to me. =/

I have the same problem with finding inspiration. I'm still kind of baffled at how, years ago, I could just sit down and write my arse off and now I'm lucky if I can get a paragraph out on a good day. Hell, sometimes I'm lucky if I can get a sentence.