archiving drabbles

[wisdomeagle]

All right, talk to me about this, people, since I've only got about three more ficlets to go (plus BV1000, right -- that should take me awhile, too) before I get to the drabbles.

Here's how I think it's going to look at the moment:

Each piece of fic has its own page. One page a fic, one fic a page, end of story. These "fics" range in length from 250 to 20,000 words. At the top of each page is a header with:

Title:
Fandom:
Pairing/Grouping/Characters:
Rating:
Warnings: (if any)
Spoilers/Timeline:
Disclaimer:
Summary:
Wordcount:

At the bottom of each fic is a set of tags. The fic in my primary fandoms (Jossverse and Gateverse) is tagged with fandom, genre [het, gen, boyslash, girlslash, poly], pairing, characters, and place in the timeline. There are also some special tags (like curtainfic and weddingfic) relating to ficlets that resulted from certain challenges.

The tags pages, which I haven't created yet, should, I hope, be self-evident. So, for instance, after reading "Library Science," the Fred/Giles fic I just wrote, you could choose to go to a masterlist of all my Jossverse fic, or all my Jossverse het, or all my Fred/Giles fic, or all the Fred fic, or whatever, depending on which of those interested you the most and how you felt like navigating.

I'm more unclear about how to tag stuff that's in fandoms I've hardly written at all (like HP or ATGB) or have written several fics but not more than a dozen or so (like Firefly), but I'm working on it.

My problem is the drabbles. I write -- not a terribly large amount of drabbles, but enough so that it's a problem. I'm just so torn! If I were to treat each one as an individual fic, that would be something like 50 more pages -- and I can't imagine that being a good idea -- but otoh, while some of them are already in batches (i.e., "thirty-two pairings and then one" or the first-line drabbles), some of them aren't. Some of them have titles, most of them don't. Some of the things memoried as "my drabbles" are really 150 or even 250 words. *headdesk*

So! A poll (polls solve all problems.)

[Poll #558314]

Comments

[jennixen.livejournal.com]

Kill me, I ticked twice...

[hermionesviolin.livejournal.com]

I already left a comment with my thoughts on this on the earlier entry, but I also filled out this poll. And look, I have more thoughts.

I'm more unclear about how to tag stuff that's in fandoms I've hardly written at all (like HP or ATGB) or have written several fics but not more than a dozen or so (like Firefly), but I'm working on it.

My instinct for that is to have an "Other" section with subsections. And then when the subsections get big, they get their own page and their listing on the "Other" page is changed to just a note linking to their new page.

If you run into offensive content (a pairing you dislike/character death/etc) in a drabble

I find this question difficult (and thus didn't answer it) because how much it bugs me is gonna depend on how big a role the offensive content plays in the fic. A pairing I dislike mentioned in passing is gonna bug me less than a pairing I dislike that is the main pairing of the fic, whether the fic is 100 words or 10,000 words.

Some of the things memoried as "my drabbles" are really 150 or even 250 words. *headdesk*

If you call these "drabbles" on your site (as opposed to "ficlets" or "pseudo-drabbles" or something) you know I'll kill you, right? :)

[wisdomeagle]

If you call these "drabbles" on your site (as opposed to "ficlets" or "pseudo-drabbles" or something) you know I'll kill you, right? :)

Oh, yeah, I wouldn't dream of it. I'm also kind of anal about the properly labeled drabble thing. Except in my memories, apparently, where "drabble," "ficlet," and "fix" all have variable meaningings.

Thanks for your thoughts. :)

[hermionesviolin.livejournal.com]

:) I figured it went without saying, but I couldn't resist chiming in.

And you're welcome.

[sage-theory.livejournal.com]

As far as drabbles go, I read them like I read fic. It's all mood based. The length means nothing to me.

It's whether it's got the character/pairing/genre that I'm after. 100 words of Kaylee femslash is just as good as 10,000 when I'm in the mood.

I don't really differentiate between drabbles and longer fic to tell you the truth.

I say organize them as though they were regular fic and dude - why does there have to be a form header for each fic? Maybe just put "Kaylee/Inara drabble, R" for a drabble and there ya go. I mean, mark your spoilers and squicks, but still.

Only exception I would make is if you were doing something like tptigger did on her site where you write a drabble for every single episode and they're related in that way and you have 22 ep-based drabbles and then they should get their own page.

But that would be the same thing I'd do if I had 22 ep based, connected longer fics.

As far as I'm concerned if it says "Ari rited this fik it iz about lezbeeuhns" I'll *still* read it. *snerk*

- Meg

[ladylakira.livejournal.com]

If I ran across one of Ari's fics labelled Ari rited this fik it iz about lezbeeuhns, I would probably not only read it, I would print it off and tape it to my wall, just for the label. I'm such a dork.

Besides, them lezbeeuhn fiks are hard to come by. :D

[sage-theory.livejournal.com]

I know.

lezbeeuhn fiks iz luv.

And actually, so would I 'cause if Ari actually did that - it would be guaranteed rockage.

- Meg

[ladylakira.livejournal.com]

*snicker* Now Ari needs a "lezbeeuhn fiks iz luv" icon.

[hermionesviolin.livejournal.com]

You know I'm entirely willing to make such an icon should you ever desire, right Ari?

[sage-theory.livejournal.com]

I already made one if y'all want it! It's on my journal.

- Meg

[wisdomeagle]

So I see! <3. By the way, this post isn't locked. :)