justjustin (imported) wrote: Tue Feb 28, 2012 12:18 am
If it was not too difficult, it would be nice to have long stories with a lot of chapters separate from the short ones, and each one alltogether so you don't have too go back and find the next chapter all the time. I realise this is not a priority, just that at some stage, it would be nice. I like full-lenth stories better than I like just short one-chapter ones.
I really appreciate all the work that people do first writing, and then other people formatting and so on.
You and I are of a mind on that. Unfortunately, that is how the stories were submitted, and that is how they are edited.
Because of how the archive orders things, we've tried to be consistent with how they appear in order. For the longer stories (over ten chapters) it used to order the chapters like this;
Chapter 1
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Et Cetera...
Chapter 2
Chapter 20
and so on.
Where I've noticed those chapters, I've changed it to
Chapter 01
Chapter 02
Chapter 03
Et Cetera
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Adding that zero to chapters 1 to 9 helps keep them in better order, and easier to find the next one.
Also, Sometimes the title of the chapters changes slightly. Sometimes with minor spelling errors, or a mix-up in how the different chapters are identified;
My Story - 3
My Story Chapter 1
My Story Continued : Chp. 4
My Story Part 2
I'll change those to;
My Story - Chapter 1
My Story - Chapter 2
My Story - Chapter 3
My Story - Chapter 4
This makes the chapters consistent, and properly ordered in the new archive. My goal is not to change what anyone has written, but make them a lot easier to find, and read in order.