I, a person chronically allergic to self-promo, would like to very quietly mention that I have a website that I'm very slowly putting all my writing on!
https://lemonadecafe.neocities.org/
also mirrored on Dreamwidth here:
https://lemonadecafe.dreamwidth.org/
There's both original fiction and fanfiction on both; it's a little messy right now because I have a lot to archive, but I'm doing my best.
I've been very haphazard with my archiving, especially the fanfiction. ^^;; If there's a link that's not clickable that you'd like to see clickable just let me know!
I do have stuff on AO3 still, but I stopped posting there last year for various reasons. I'm also working on archiving everything from an old site I no longer have edit-access to.
It's a LOT.
I've been writing and posting online for about 22 years now and while old stuff is old, watching so much other stuff disappear just makes me want to archive it more.
Just because.
Aw, thanks!
Honestly, templates. Make good templates.
This is easier said than done - but take the time to think about how you want to present things (vs how you might've just been inputting info for years) and then make something that hits a good spot of simple and versatile.
I'm a short ways into a long process, but I know the end result will be pretty darned cool.
(And imperfect, but cool.)
@kalloway congrats on doing this! its inspiring to see others creating their own archives for their work instead of relying on potentially unstable websites. ive been meaning to do more of this on my own site, but its so time consuming to pull everything and reformat. do you have any tips that have helped you with this process?