A Chapter system

[disasterifickaz]

Title
A Chapter system

Short, concise description of the idea
Fan Fiction authors are in desperate need of a system capable of linking chapters in the same story.

Full description of the ideaHopefully you're aware of the number of writers and Fan Fiction writers in particular who make use of your site. It would be exceptionally helpful if you would

Comments

[boredinsomniac]

Thank you for your suggestion! I can see that a way of linking chapters would be useful, but I've never used FanFiction.net and I'm wondering about the details. Would you mind commenting here with a brief description of the chapter system you'd like to see on LiveJournal?

Regards,
Maura
Suggestions moderator

[disasterifickaz]

I would love to see a system that allows us to connect chapters in a single system. Something along the lines of: when we create a post or edit a post, we have the option to 'add new entry/chapter'. LJ would then, upon publishing, link the entries together allowing a reader to read through a multi-chapter story/entry without having to resort to a master list (which I'm using now and is a serious pain in the butt) or searching back through twenty pages of journal entries to find the next chapter/entry in the series

[pauamma]

Wouldn't tags work for that?

[trixieleitz]

From a reader's point of view, tag navigation isn't always ideal, especially if there are tens of chapters. If you click the tag link, you end up at the last page of chapters and have to fiddle around to get back to somewhere you can start reading.

Yes, a reader could maybe create a style that reversed the entry order and configure it to display all of the tagged entries on one page (unless there is some upper limit I'm not aware of), and that would get you a chronological list of chapters, but that's still non-intuitive and fiddling around.

[azurelunatic]

Tags do not allow navigation to previous-in-tag or next-in-tag. So no.

[charliemc]

Exactly.