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Do you guys know how many fanfics I have written in my life?

I did the math, and not counting the stuff I wrote before college the answer is approximately one billion fanfics. That is a lot of fanfics. I might be the reason the internet is for porn.

I tell you this because today I finished the archive changeover from LJ to Dreamwidth. All of my fanfic is now housed at the Dreamwidth Sam Storyteller archive, including the SGA stuff and Season Zero, which were on separate communities. Every entry that formerly held one of my ONE BILLION fanfics now has a link leading to the new location of said fanfic. All of the interchapter links are functional (or should be) and the tags are accurate and complete.

Here is a thing I did which was stupid: posted a lot of HP fics with ratings but no summaries. What the hell, me of 2003. Being 24 is no excuse for cursing your 30-year-old self with having to read a bunch of your mediocre porn to remind myself what you wrote. If I could travel back in time I would give you such a slap in the head.

Nice job with Stealing Harry though. Way to catapult yourself into fandom, there.

PS: Watch out for uneven pavement.

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It's illegal to sell fanfic I believe but compile them all in one book for the Cafe and we will send cookies!!!! :0) heeheehee

I did want to make myself a book of my fanfic, just to have, but I ran out of energy before I finished compiling it :D

Take a rest and since it's all compiled in one archive perhaps that will make it easier to put in a book format when you're ready. I'm jealous. That would be a most awesome book to have.

Nononononono. You wait till you've written the NEXT EIGHT BILLION fanfics, and then you hire someone to come and automatically index it for you, and we will have an Arthur C. Clarke prophecy coming true, because we will have ...

THE NINE BILLION FICS OF SAM.

(And overhead, without any fuss, the stars will be going out.)

THIS

It's illegal to sell fanfic I believe

People used to though, before the internet was commonplace - the only way to distribute it was via printed fanzines and they had to cover the printing costs somehow.

People still do. Much to my horror, one of my stories is for sale right now, in an anthology priced much above what I expected it would be and on the site of a well-known wanker. Not much I can do about it, but it's pretty annoying.

That's not on :-( I suppose there are folk still not on the internet, who appreciate being able to read fic in zines, but using your writing without permission is Not Nice. I hope karma will deal them an appropriate return...

Well, that's the thing -- I gave my permission for its inclusion in the anthology, without understanding the full ramifications, so I've really only myself to blame, sadly.

Oh, I see :-(

I suppose the upside is you'll know better another time, but it still sucks :-(

Yeah, I had a dream I made the book up for him but nah. Authors have their own particular sytle. It'd be an awesome book to own though. ALthough....