Tags

[fishgetter]

Is it not proper to have tags for each chapter? Seems some authors merely copy and paste for each chapter they publish. Not good for us who peruse said tags to get what the chapter has in store.

 

[KeithD]

It can be done either way and there are pros and cons about doing it either way. The argument for one set for the whole story is that it is, in fact, one story. If what starts out as a Romance, and is labeled as such, in chapter one and there's an anal gang bang in chapter twelve, the argument is that your reader deserves to know that's coming before they decide to read chapters one one through eleven. What happens in chapter twelve is as much part of the story as anything that happens in a story that isn't delivered in separate chapters.

 

[ElectricBlue]

It's up to authors how they load their tags, with some oversight from the site editor if the author doesn't use all ten; and in some cases the site ed changes tags. That's the best you're going to get.

Authors only get ten tags, and we use them to promote stories. Your request seems to come from the school of thought that says, "Tags should be used to alert me for what I don't like." It doesn't work that way. If you sense "unpleasantness" about to happen, just leave the story. It's not hard to do that.

 

[NotWise]

The authors' use of tags is anything but standardized. I use the tags to help people find my story.

If I use the same tags on every chapter in a series, then I have ten tags for the whole thing. That's it. I've limited my reach.

If I use different tags on different chapters, then a five-chapter story could have as many as 50 tags to help people find it. There would usually be overlap between the tags on different chapters, but there could easily be 30 different tags to help readers find the story. That's five tags common to every chapter and five tags that are different on each chapter.

 

[AlinaX]

If what starts out as a Romance, and is labeled as such, in chapter one and there's an anal gang bang in chapter twelve, the argument is that your reader deserves to know that's coming before they decide to read chapters one one through eleven. What happens in chapter twelve is as much part of the story as anything that happens in a story that isn't delivered in separate chapters.

Which is fine if you know when you publish Ch. 01 that somewhere in the subsequent chapters there will be an anal gang bang... although there is an inevitability in long stories that at some point the MC will be coerced into a family bang.

I often wish it were easier to make minor edits to stories, to fix grammar and change tags, etc., but I can see how that might get abused.

 

[Panty Wrangler]

The authors' use of tags is anything but standardized. I use the tags to help people find my story.

If I use the same tags on every chapter in a series, then I have ten tags for the whole thing. That's it. I've limited my reach.

If I use different tags on different chapters, then a five-chapter story could have as many as 50 tags to help people find it. There would usually be overlap between the tags on different chapters, but there could easily be 30 different tags to help readers find the story. That's five tags common to every chapter and five tags that are different on each chapter.

Good point. As a long time reader I'll search for various key words and may turn up Chapter 17 of someone's sordid sex saga. If I like that chapter I may go back and read parts 1-16, or I may even divert to those and read them first as the author no doubt intended. Thus it may be in the author's interest to tailor their tags by chapter in the hopes of catching more eyeballs.

As an author, I'll tailor the tags to each chapter; but I'll also employ some gamesmanship too. I'll look for which tags are most popular and tweak what I'm using that way so long as it still fits with the story content, so if mother or mom is more frequently searched for than mommy I'll probably use that - assuming it's relevant to the story.

In the 10 tags per story constraint I'll probably wind up with some overlap between the related stories, but the overall span will be larger than what I'd get if I only use the same 10 for each chapter. I'm not sure it would actually be more effective to "diversify" just to broaden the set, but perhaps it is. I'm still new at that part of the game...

 

[KeithD]

Which is fine if you know when you publish Ch. 01 that somewhere in the subsequent chapters there will be an anal gang bang... although there is an inevitability in long stories that at some point the MC will be coerced into a family bang.

I do know because I don't start submitting until the whole story is finished.

 

[AlinaX]

Nothing like the Discipline/Submission dynamic, eh?

 

[Panty Wrangler]

I do know because I don't start submitting until the whole story is finished.

Keith, I suspect you're an exception in this regard. Also, I applaud your dedication to finish the story before you publish.

 

[KeithD]

Keith, I suspect you're an exception in this regard. Also, I applaud your dedication to finish the story before you publish.

You brought this up yesterday in the posts that disappeared overnight. No, a lot of the writers here have posted that they complete their chaptered stories before starting to post them (this topic comes up periodically) and a lot of those reading have posted that they won't start reading anything until they know it's finished because they've been burned too often by uncompleted stories here.

I now pretty much keyword extreme kinks for the whole story even in chapters that this doesn't occur, because I don't want to have a reader start into reading a chaptered series without know that Chapter 4 will have something that makes them ditch the whole read--and thus irritate them.

 

[jaF0]

I never finish anyth