I know that I have been bitterly disappointed when some of my favorite pieces of fanfiction were removed from their host sites by their creators.

Yeah, that's a good point. I actually hadn't thought of it in those terms. For me, this was more part of my ongoing process, and something I had planned on doing for quite a while now. I just never got around to it or took the time to do it -- too busy with other stuff. (LOLz!)

It's my work product, so I can't think of them in the same terms as other people might. I can't think of any of them as being anyone's "favorite" story or whatever. And, really, I pretty much cringe when I think of people reading some of them. >.O