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Adventures in archiving
I have ongoing soap operas of story archiving. I archive stories on my site because there are more readers than commenters always, so I like to see the stats of how many hits it gets and where they're linked from. And I post stories on LJ because stories actually archived on LJ are more likely to have readers comment on them. And then I archive stories on the AOOO because it'll be there forever.
And so right now I try to archive in all three places. Well, I'm gradually moving stories from![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
hopeful_fiction to the AOOO, and am thinking of moving fics posted on LJ to the website solely. Well, not solely; after I put them on my website I use the vacuum importer to put them on the Archive as well.
BUT. I post all kinds of scribbles and timestamps and ficlets on my LJ that I don't particularly want to archive on my website - the website is for completed, polished stories.
BUT I don't want to lose all those scribbles and ficlets either, so the Archive seems the best place to collect all of this in some sense-making way. A set of scribbles for the same theme or set of prompts; or collecting together all the material from the same 'verse - timestamps, outtakes, etc.
But I'm not sure how to collate these on my Archive account - for the outtakes and things, these aren't complete stories (most of the time) that I want to list as separate stories. For example: Not with a bang or a whimper - a single story, with an outtake, and a timestamp. The outtake and timestamp I don't consider stand-alone stories on their own, even amidst a series.
So I don't want to create a "Not with a bang or a whimper" series, because I'm not certain I want each of those fragments of that 'verse given story status. At the moment, as you can see, I've posted them as chapters subsequent to the actual story, but that doesn't quite work either. In part because they're not chapters at all, therefore the "Chapter X" title at the top of each just doesn't work. In part because the way it always displays either as one long, linear piece (chapter 1 then chapter 2 then chapter 3 displayed down the page) or as a serial - read chapter 1 first then click the "next chapter" button.
Basically, the chaptering option is ideal for stories that are actually multi-parted.
And the series option is ideal for collections of stories.
But I'm still unsure of which one, if either, I want to use to collate these bits of material that belong to a 'verse.
*thinks*
I suppose practically speaking, what I want is something that lists as one story (perhaps with a mark to indicate 'additional material'?) on my list of works, but when I click on it displays more like a series, with a linked list of what material is contained there.
So, do I wrangle the existing options at the AOOO to get what I want? Or poke to request more flexibility in the chaptering options? like - a "list titles/links of all chapters" page? (totally makes sense!) The ability to classify something as "chaptered/multi-part" or "verse"? The ability to remove the "Chapter X" added to each part's title?
Or to request a way to collapse the 'series' thing into a 'verse' thing?
PONDERATION.
And so right now I try to archive in all three places. Well, I'm gradually moving stories from
hopeful_fiction to the AOOO, and am thinking of moving fics posted on LJ to the website solely. Well, not solely; after I put them on my website I use the vacuum importer to put them on the Archive as well.BUT. I post all kinds of scribbles and timestamps and ficlets on my LJ that I don't particularly want to archive on my website - the website is for completed, polished stories.
BUT I don't want to lose all those scribbles and ficlets either, so the Archive seems the best place to collect all of this in some sense-making way. A set of scribbles for the same theme or set of prompts; or collecting together all the material from the same 'verse - timestamps, outtakes, etc.
But I'm not sure how to collate these on my Archive account - for the outtakes and things, these aren't complete stories (most of the time) that I want to list as separate stories. For example: Not with a bang or a whimper - a single story, with an outtake, and a timestamp. The outtake and timestamp I don't consider stand-alone stories on their own, even amidst a series.
So I don't want to create a "Not with a bang or a whimper" series, because I'm not certain I want each of those fragments of that 'verse given story status. At the moment, as you can see, I've posted them as chapters subsequent to the actual story, but that doesn't quite work either. In part because they're not chapters at all, therefore the "Chapter X" title at the top of each just doesn't work. In part because the way it always displays either as one long, linear piece (chapter 1 then chapter 2 then chapter 3 displayed down the page) or as a serial - read chapter 1 first then click the "next chapter" button.
Basically, the chaptering option is ideal for stories that are actually multi-parted.
And the series option is ideal for collections of stories.
But I'm still unsure of which one, if either, I want to use to collate these bits of material that belong to a 'verse.
*thinks*
I suppose practically speaking, what I want is something that lists as one story (perhaps with a mark to indicate 'additional material'?) on my list of works, but when I click on it displays more like a series, with a linked list of what material is contained there.
So, do I wrangle the existing options at the AOOO to get what I want? Or poke to request more flexibility in the chaptering options? like - a "list titles/links of all chapters" page? (totally makes sense!) The ability to classify something as "chaptered/multi-part" or "verse"? The ability to remove the "Chapter X" added to each part's title?
Or to request a way to collapse the 'series' thing into a 'verse' thing?
PONDERATION.