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A Chapter system
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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
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Maura
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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.
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Also, I do read a lot of serialized fiction on LJ. As a reader, I'd really like to be able to navigate through sections of a serialized story. Tags don't cut it. A friend of mine wrote a massive 100+ chapter novel, and I only went back and started reading it when he announced it was almost done. Using the story's tag, each time, I was brought to... the last ten chapters. And I had to navigate back through the tag results to where I was (which involved remembering which chapter number I was on -- chapters were unnamed). Man, that sucked.
I don't know what FF.net does. But I'd propose implementing this as a new asset type, "Series" which organizes serials1) Under the "Journal" menu item, add "Series ( ... )
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(As noted by other users, you might get better reception for this if you could phrase it in a way that made it applicable to all LJ users, not just fanfic writers.)
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