Beginning the Transition
Hello HPFT friends!
I can't believe I'm really here! I've been active again for a couple of weeks now, and so far, it's been great. I've been a part of the HP-fandom community since 2006, and I definitely missed the HPFF forums when they shut down. Now that I'm active again on HPFT, I'm excited to begin really transitioning to this site! Part of that has been changing my username and creating an HPFT archive account. The next step is transferring my HPFF stories over to HPFT and getting back into writing. So...I'm here for advice! You don't have to have read my stories to help out here, but if you have, I'd love to know that too as it might inform your advice also!
Of the 28 stories I have posted on HPFF, only 16 of them may come over to HPFT. The ones not being posted on HPFT are staying on HPFF as they are and will remain unedited potentially forever (as their quality isn't such that I feel they're salvageable—some are over ten years old!). Of the ones that may move, 9 almost certainly will, after being spruced up:
- 1 novel: all 50 chapters of Rule Breaker will absolutely move, but will be retitled Collateral
- 1 short-story: 3 chapters of Permanence
- 7 one-shots: Requiem and Resurrection; Happy New Year, Hermione Granger; Sirius Black: Matchmaker Extraordinaire; Afternoon Tea; For Her; The Final Journey; uh-lone
And 7 may move with significant changes:
- Complete rewrites of As the Rain Falls; From Ashes We Rise; In and Out of Love; Savior
- On the fence about sprucing My Brother in light of actually experiencing this type of loss
- May edit Eighteen Pleats to return it to OF, which I've written it as before
- On the fence about The Parish, if I'm still interested in pursuing it
Finally, I have 6 much shorter one-shots that had previously been entries for HPFF House Cup events that I'm fond enough of that I may post them as well.
So, here's the part where I need advice! I understand that the HPFT queue allows two chapters at a time (and five at the beginning of the month). Should I post my shorter pieces (one-shots and the short story) first, or just bang out Rule Breaker and do the others later? I'm on the fence about what will be more logical. I'm working on the sequel to Rule Breaker—hey, let's start calling it by its new name!—Collateral now, but don't have anything ready to post, but I'll want to edit the chapters of Collateral before it goes up, and...it's fifty chapters long.
Any advice? What would you do? What did you do if you've already transferred your stories from another site to this archive?
Thanks, friends!
Best,
Emily
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