Category Hierarchy?

[Tx Tall Tales]

Also, don't forget, that if you're going to break it up into chapters, each chapter can go in a separate category. So you could start in Letters and Transcripts, but put themed chapters in different areas (group sex, lesbian, BDSM, etc.)

 

[Zeb_Carter]

L&T exists because that particular style of storytelling isn't terribly popular with readers and a separate category means low vote counts are more likely than low vote scores -- which that style of storytelling tends to accumulate in the more content oriented categories.

If an author doesn't mind the negative comments on the format there's no reason a diary entry couldn't be posted in a category appropriate to the content rather than be banished because of a style choice. Some diary/letter format stories do quite well in content oriented categories because the "diarist" is a good first-person storyteller; other diary/letter format stories tank badly because they're just poorly told stories and would be in any style/format.

If the diary element is limited mostly to the opening and closing sentences of each diary entry, then the content is driving the story of a first-person narrator and the story should go into the appropriate content-category.

OTOH, If the diary element is the driving theme of the story -- lots of asides, interuptions, gaps in the timeline, etc -- then it is a Letters and Transcripts story and should go where fans of that format hang out and non-fans of that format won't trash the scores.

Also, don't forget, that if you're going to break it up into chapters, each chapter can go in a separate category. So you could start in Letters and Transcripts, but put themed chapters in different areas (group sex, lesbian, BDSM, etc.)

It is the format of the piece. All entries in a diary, gaps in the timeline just as in real life, asides, comments from a second party (bff who reads over her shoulder). And in any one entry there could be a multitude of categories included.

It is basically about two women exploring their sexuality as they attend graduate school. The current diary, #25 in her collection, starts half away through her first semester in her first year of school. I early stated she was 30 but I made a mistake in my calculations she's actually only 24 and still a bit naive about her sexuality. Her roommate and BFF is a little more knowledgeable about sex and the difference between love and lust.

So it looks like L&T is the cat. with me.

 

[DuckLover]

Thanks Harold!

This thread helped alleviate my concern over a story I'm working on now.