archiving drabbles
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wisdomeagleAll 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]
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]
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Date: 2005-08-24 06:51 pm (UTC)