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Amalthia ([personal profile] amalthia) wrote in [personal profile] tabi_essentially 2011-03-03 03:13 am (UTC)

Re: p.s.

I don't think you need a tag that says Glitch Chapter 1. What needs to be on Chapter 1 is a tag for "Glitch" (going with title of the story isn't a bad tag name on this one) and then use the same tag on each chapter in the story. Then when someone clicks on Glitch they'll get 11 posts and they won't have to go back 30-50 entries to find all the chapters.

It may not hurt to also add a tag that says something like sho-no-tabi_fic or my_fic to all your stories.

Many authors use a system like my_fic, storytitle, masterpost Basically you need to group each story by it's own unique tag, then tag all your stories with something that shows this is something you wrote, and then make it easy for users to find the rest of your stories. :) You've already made it easy to find all the rest of your stories by making a sticky LJ entry, now we just need a way to find all the chapters to your stories.

Some authors use this method in their story index:

Storytitle: heading info: summary
Chapter 1, Chapter 2, Chapter 3, and etc...

Each chapter being a link to the LJ post with the chapter.

This I think is relatively easy to create as long as you don't have 100 stories. But once you reach a certain number you're going to hit the 10k character limit in LJ. But I think you can easily index 20-40 stories. Though if your summaries are huge that may make a difference. :)

I love organizing stuff. :) I had to really fit the urge when I last visited my friend in January. :)

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