Man, AO3 is just slow as hell all of the time. It's the one thing that's been preventing me from transferring my stories over there in any great numbers.
Comes from the Slashdot site: notoriously, any site they link to is so overwhelmed by visitors that it breaks. So, "slashdotted."
I expect that if it continues they'll extend the uploading deadline for a while, so I'm not too worried about that part. I'm just ANNOYED. :) (Also, I asked in a thread on the admin LJ if it was going to be slashdotted, and I was assured that the servers were more robust than the old one. I'm sure that's true, but there's still lots of people uploading! Not blaming anyone, just ... annoyed at the situation.)
The one story I uploaded went slowly but smoothly. Of course I wasn't trying to upload with possibly-hundreds of other people at the same time. :)
I just finished. I rewrote the bits the betas had problems with, did a few cosmetic edits, ran it by myrialux and when he seemed to get what I was trying to do with it, declared the thing finished. :)
I've mostly been importing stuff and had issues with it failing for no discernable reason. Of course, that was also a week or two ago because I decided to hold off uploading more until I figured out how I want to handle works/series/chapters when it comes to drabbles I've grouped together elsewhere.
Whee!
As for my story...I've met word count which is really the first hurdle for me. The problem is that I'm about halfway done and I'm stuck. I think what I have is pretty solid, it just, you know, needs Big Important Things to happen.
I ended up not being able to start writing this one until I had an outline down. Not a formal one, just a set of sentences that said "this happened, then this happens, then this..." And I ended up with a drabble that has nothing to do with anything, when I had a false start earlier. XD I may or may not post it after reveal.
It is the least plot-heavy of the three Yuletide stories I've written, and what happens, happens in the background. Once I realized that had to be that way, it was much easier, even though it meant I had to write what, on the surface, just seems a random day with no particular aim in mind. Which I'd never done before, so it was strangely hard. XD
Oh, I've got a couple of pages of notes, not to mention two other stories started in the fandom that may end up as 'treats'. I've been stuck on this one scene for a few days now. I thought I'd 'loosened the gears' a bit when I scrapped what I had and started the scene over to the tune of a couple hundred extra words. Now, though, I'm stuck again. This time, at the end of what I was able to crank out earlier.
I'm honestly not sure what the problem with this scene is, but my next trick is to try sleeping on it and start fresh in a few hours. One or two more writing jags like I was able to pull off today, and I'll have the story finished.
Barring that, I've at least got enough for upload and I can put something in the archive by deadline so I don't default and fix minor issues like a lack of ending after the fact.
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With any luck, this is an easily fixable ting and when whoever's in charge of the machine wakes up and looks at it, it'll be fixed.
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*waits ... waits ... waits...*
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I expect that if it continues they'll extend the uploading deadline for a while, so I'm not too worried about that part. I'm just ANNOYED. :) (Also, I asked in a thread on the admin LJ if it was going to be slashdotted, and I was assured that the servers were more robust than the old one. I'm sure that's true, but there's still lots of people uploading! Not blaming anyone, just ... annoyed at the situation.)
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I just finished. I rewrote the bits the betas had problems with, did a few cosmetic edits, ran it by
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Whee!
As for my story...I've met word count which is really the first hurdle for me. The problem is that I'm about halfway done and I'm stuck. I think what I have is pretty solid, it just, you know, needs Big Important Things to happen.
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It is the least plot-heavy of the three Yuletide stories I've written, and what happens, happens in the background. Once I realized that had to be that way, it was much easier, even though it meant I had to write what, on the surface, just seems a random day with no particular aim in mind. Which I'd never done before, so it was strangely hard. XD
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I'm honestly not sure what the problem with this scene is, but my next trick is to try sleeping on it and start fresh in a few hours. One or two more writing jags like I was able to pull off today, and I'll have the story finished.
Barring that, I've at least got enough for upload and I can put something in the archive by deadline so I don't default and fix minor issues like a lack of ending after the fact.