Hee.. unproductive in the morning? Where I am it's nearly evening (5 p.m.) and I was unproductive the whole day *headkeyboard*.. Always happens when I have to revise for an exam.. But WTH..!
I think it's funny that my preferences are not at all what I do on my own site :/ It was just so much easier to organize where the fic "fell" and that was in genre. What scares me is that out of my three genre categories, one is threesomes. How the heck did that happen?
Heh. My site, which hasn't been updated since I started writing in the Buffyverse (*facepalm*) is for some reason that I've yet to discern organized in chronological order within the series. Thus, pre-series fics at the top and post-series fics at the bottom. Eventually I really am going to re-do the site, but I have no idea how best to organize it!
And yeah. If I did "genre," I'd totally have to do threesomes as one of them. And crossovers. When did I start writing so many crossovers?
I always prefer to sort/categorise an author's fic so I can read a particular story when the mood strikes me. Fandom and pairing, obviously. But also, if I only have five minutes, I'm not going to read a 300kb file.
Totally agree about the chronological sequence when it comes to series, or writing in a particular "universe". One-shots would be separate.
I am (of course) thinking about categorizing my own fic here, and it's giving me worries, totally. I'd actually like to arrange it something like how doyle_sb4 has her recs pages -- you click on a character name, and then see all the gen fic with that character, and links to pairings involving that character.
In my memories, I just have all my fic bundled together -- I don't have any series or fics set in the same 'verse (except in my head, but I don't know if my readership really cares that unrelated Fred/Kaylee and Willow/Giles fics are linked in that they both exist in an indulgence!verse that lives inside my head.) -- pretty much by length. I've got "ficlets," "drabbles" and "fic," though I realize that stuff that's in there as fic is short enough that I'd probably label it as a "ficlet" now. And there's no sorting by fandom/pairing/character.
URGH.
When I'm in a mood for fic of a sort, I generally just hit recs pages. And when I do hit an author's page, I generally wish I could sort for "anything that doesn't involve Spike, plz."
I don't have any series or fics set in the same 'verse (except in my head, but I don't know if my readership really cares that unrelated Fred/Kaylee and Willow/Giles fics are linked in that they both exist in an indulgence!verse that lives inside my head.)
Now, see? That is interesting to me! I have a crossover epic thing that I'm writing in my head (and haphazardly in Word) and I make notes to myself about when a particular unwritten story falls in my timeline.
When I'm in a mood for fic of a sort, I generally just hit recs pages. And when I do hit an author's page, I generally wish I could sort for "anything that doesn't involve Spike, plz."
I do that too, but once I find an author I like, I generally try to read all their stuff. Then it's a matter of figuring what order to read them in, to stretch them out most and maximise my fun ;)
Oh yes, we totally need an Anything But Spike button. *uses Nikki icon and hides in tin foil tent*
Oooh, encouragement! Butbutbut -- site is geocities, and teh_suck. Still. It would be worth doing. I keep starting, then getting daunted by the 80+ fics in my memories that have not been archived, and flailing about in despair.
Well just do a few at a time. And i hear rumors NoteTab (like NotePad but way cooler -- available for free download) has a Convert-to-HTML function, which should make life easier.
Having put up a bajillion recs, plus stealing and reworking Doyle's code, i def. have sympathy for all the coding involved.
Oooh. We have NoteTab at home; I wonder if that would be possible? (Actually, coding the actual fic is not too too hard; it's already in html except for line breaks, which go quickly in long documents. It's the "somehow archiving neatly and functionally" that's driving me crazy.
Well at least once everything's coded you can feel all accomplished. And i have no idea how to code in a variety of sort options, and i suppose doing multiple pages (with each page being a list sorted by a different criteria) would be insane. My vote is for grouping by character/pairing, alphabetical by title within that, and state word count and time frame in the listing, since that seems to me to maximize utility. (Fully maximizing utility would be an integrated sort option, but unless someone knows how to code that it's sort of a moot point.)
At the moment I'm just coding the fic and pretending I'm going to hard-code tags, which will be kind of insane for 80+ fics plus drabbles and ficlets, but since all I know is html, and then only v. basic, I dunno which else to do, so, there you are. *goes back to coding working*
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Date: 2005-08-02 03:06 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-08-02 03:10 pm (UTC)'tis 11:08 this morning, and all my creative energy was drained by about 9:30. *facepalms* *frets over fic due quite soon!*
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Date: 2005-08-02 03:23 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2005-08-02 04:04 pm (UTC)For your fiction writing I wish you success, power of endurance and a coffee or two *G*! Some things I don't have for my works.. *sigh*
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Date: 2005-08-02 06:28 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-08-02 06:35 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-08-02 06:39 pm (UTC)And yeah. If I did "genre," I'd totally have to do threesomes as one of them. And crossovers. When did I start writing so many crossovers?
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Date: 2005-08-02 07:16 pm (UTC)That? Is exactly what I just put in the "other" box.
Hee.
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Date: 2005-08-02 07:20 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2005-08-02 08:20 pm (UTC)Totally agree about the chronological sequence when it comes to series, or writing in a particular "universe". One-shots would be separate.
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Date: 2005-08-02 08:28 pm (UTC)I am (of course) thinking about categorizing my own fic here, and it's giving me worries, totally. I'd actually like to arrange it something like how
In my memories, I just have all my fic bundled together -- I don't have any series or fics set in the same 'verse (except in my head, but I don't know if my readership really cares that unrelated Fred/Kaylee and Willow/Giles fics are linked in that they both exist in an indulgence!verse that lives inside my head.) -- pretty much by length. I've got "ficlets," "drabbles" and "fic," though I realize that stuff that's in there as fic is short enough that I'd probably label it as a "ficlet" now. And there's no sorting by fandom/pairing/character.
URGH.
When I'm in a mood for fic of a sort, I generally just hit recs pages. And when I do hit an author's page, I generally wish I could sort for "anything that doesn't involve Spike, plz."
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Date: 2005-08-02 08:42 pm (UTC)Now, see? That is interesting to me! I have a crossover epic thing that I'm writing in my head (and haphazardly in Word) and I make notes to myself about when a particular unwritten story falls in my timeline.
When I'm in a mood for fic of a sort, I generally just hit recs pages. And when I do hit an author's page, I generally wish I could sort for "anything that doesn't involve Spike, plz."
I do that too, but once I find an author I like, I generally try to read all their stuff. Then it's a matter of figuring what order to read them in, to stretch them out most and maximise my fun ;)
Oh yes, we totally need an Anything But Spike button. *uses Nikki icon and hides in tin foil tent*
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Date: 2005-08-03 01:39 pm (UTC)*sticks tongue out at you for last sentence*
*madly encourages you to archive all your fic on your site*
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Date: 2005-08-03 01:55 pm (UTC)Oooh, encouragement! Butbutbut -- site is geocities, and teh_suck. Still. It would be worth doing. I keep starting, then getting daunted by the 80+ fics in my memories that have not been archived, and flailing about in despair.
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Date: 2005-08-03 03:22 pm (UTC)Having put up a bajillion recs, plus stealing and reworking Doyle's code, i def. have sympathy for all the coding involved.
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Date: 2005-08-03 03:27 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-08-03 03:35 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-08-03 03:44 pm (UTC)codingworking*