Heart's Soul

Why were people giving you all those negative reps? X_X

Actually, there are better alternatives. For example, the URL link list I've mentioned before, as seen here. You don't restrict yourself. Rather, you post your chapter normally and then link to it in the first post. That way, your reader can get all of the chapters in the open, allowing them to not only search for the part they stopped at but also skip to a certain chapter without having to deal with spoiler tags or finding the next index post.

So, yes, there is such a thing as a good order when it comes to organizing fanfiction.


No, you really can't unless your work is under fifty thousand characters. =/ I've broken the character limit a number of times, so I can tell you that fifty thousand characters translates to roughly twenty-five pages of writing. (To give you an idea, my one-shot Bloom is about twenty-five pages. I had to split it into two posts because PC wouldn't take it otherwise.) That means either your chapters are so small they're lacking any sort of detail, or you're going to have to make multiple index posts.

I'm not saying you wouldn't care. I know you care, and that's why I'm saying don't restrict yourself by forcing yourself to post within a character limit (which you would if you continue to use this format). If you do, you'll end up having to create either a rushed ending because you try to cram everything into a small space or a disorganized thread because your index post ran of out space. As I've said in the edit to my earlier VM, it's not going to be innovative. It'll just be a hassle for both you and the people you want to benefit.

Or is this about something else?

But what happens when you get more reviews or when you post more installments and then realize you need to add more to your index post?

For example, let's say you can fit at most ten chapters to an index post. (Not saying you literally can. It's a figure.) At this hypothetical moment, you've got five chapters done. So, you decide to have ten chapters in total at that point. As you post your chapters, you do it in your index post and in the rest of the thread. You also get more reviews. However, when you've reached chapter ten, you realize you haven't gotten done everything you wanted to get done in your story. You then have two choices: either to write a crappy, rushed ending so you don't have to create another index post or create an index post right then and there, two or more pages after the first post of your thread.

In other words, either way you're restricted. In order to prevent the above from happening, you need to know everything that's going to happen before you write your story, and you can't change things except to make things shorter unless you overshoot the character limit and are forced to make a new index post posts away from the first one. So, you end up with a rushed plot because you're cramming a lot into a small space thanks to the knowledge that you have a character limit. Yet, if you don't anticipate it by restricting yourself early, you end up with a disorganized thread.

Long story short, seriously. I really suggest you don't use this format. It's not going to be innovative. It's just going to end up being a hassle for you and the people you're trying to benefit.

*Mewthree changes the rules*

I have changed the rules, hope I do not change them again.

XD

*Uses the lance of longines to take out the missile*

^^

But there's a couple of problems with that:

1. You have to figure out how many installments you need and judge how many characters you'll be using in order to figure out how many placeholder posts you actually need. This limits you severely because you're setting not only how many chapters you're writing but also how long those chapters should be. You need to leave things open-ended so you can actually get all of your story out.

2. If you make placeholder posts, you're essentially spamming your own thread with empty posts that have no meaning.

3. If you don't make placeholder posts, your thread becomes a mess because your reviewers will come in and comment before you can actually get a chance to make the placeholder posts you need. Hence, the readers will need to scroll down past other posts in order to find the next listing.

So, really, I say you're better off ditching the system and just doing it the way other people are. Seriously, it's not a convention that looks pretty and doesn't serve a purpose. The reason people put their stories in posts without spoiler tags and without trying to dump everything into one post is just readability. It's easier to read chapters and find parts that are completely in the open and in their own posts as opposed to crammed under spoiler tags in one post. If you want organization, use a library of links, not spoiler tags. It's more work for you, and it'll end up being more of a mess.

Thank you for accepting me :O

There's a few reasons why your system probably won't work, though. =/

1. First and foremost, the character limit on a post is 50k. As in, you can write fifty thousand characters (letters, punctuation, spaces), but after you hit that limit, PC will refuse to let you do it. So, you can't actually put your entire story in spoiler tags on the front post (unless it's under fifty thousand words... which rounds out to about twenty pages, and yes, I've tried this before), and doing so for a large chunk of it will probably be blocking you from doing links.

2. It's inconvenient to you because you're posting your story twice, once with extra tags.

3. It's inconvenient to us because we have to load your story twice.
3a. Not to mention there's that search problem I mentioned earlier (about how we can't search for certain parts we want to go back to unless we open all of the spoiler tags) again.

I'd say just post your story the way most people do -- directly in the post, without spoiler tags -- and then create a URL link to each chapter in the first post.

*NOM NOM NOM'S on rocket*

Tasty ^^

Okay, I'll check that out later. :D

*Mewthree looks at the flesh wound, bends the knife into a pretzel, and hands back*

RAWRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

Poking mewthree causes missing limbs. XD

How are you.

You want to repay me? No thanks, I'll just help yuu in your threads.

That stinks :/ I'd help raise your rep, but seeing how I don't have any rep points...

Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, so the people who neg. repped you might just disagree with you. And perhaps it isn't just one person who's against you, unless they were able to rep a bunch of people and then get back to repping you.

Though it would really be annoying if they had a bad reason for giving you a neg. rep >.>

Ah. That's OK, then :3 But don't worry, I would never flame you, even if I were to highly disagree with your user title. I'm too nice for that XD

lol sure, i'll do that. A bad mod/ text edit =D

lol, well anyway, good luck on ur animations.

sorry for not replying for so long, anyway, what kinds of anime do u watch?

A. No thx because I already have my songs ready for a beta.
B.Err i have no clue what happened really because that was like a year or 2 ago