View this page "Authors and Stories currently being monitored"
Phil Boswell
a page adjunct to this group linking to the stories currently in
progress by the authors listed under "about this group".
Please feel free to edit and update as necessary, or nuke completely
if you really hate the idea.
Click on http://groups.google.com/group/thecrackedmuggle/web/authors-and-stories-currently-being-monitored
- or copy & paste it into your browser's address bar if that doesn't
work.
elaithin
- Pat
Kezzabear
they did ...
Phil Boswell
as easily have added them, it's not locked to me or indeed to anybody.
Does anybody think it should be renamed from "monitored" to
"discussed"?
Click on http://groups.google.com/group/thecrackedmuggle/web/authors-and-stories-currently-being-monitored?hl=en
melkior
Dino
Phil Boswell
> I was a bit bored so I played around with that page of yours.
then hide until it goes away...
Having said which, I've fiddled a bit more to make (hopefully) better
use of the width available. There's more fiddling to be done, if
anybody can think of a better way to present the information. I did
wonder whether we should link to each story at each site, unless that
would be just too complicated.
One assumes that the authors wouldn't want to have a "last updated"
column? That might seem a little *too* much like badgering ;-)
--
Phil
Harold Ancell
>On Jul 10, 4:42 pm, melkior <dpask...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I was a bit bored so I played around with that page of yours.
>
>Ours...I take no responsibility. I laugh in the face of responsibility
>then hide until it goes away...
That's not a very responsible attitude! ^_^
>Having said which, I've fiddled a bit more to make (hopefully) better
>use of the width available. There's more fiddling to be done, if
>anybody can think of a better way to present the information. I did
>wonder whether we should link to each story at each site, unless that
>would be just too complicated.
And too confusing. You should probably just do what the author
considers to be their "canonical" version. If that site isn't
up, the reader can always try one of the other sites (redundancy
is your friend, even if there's more work involved in uploading
twice). Also, if/as this page scales up, that ... won't scale
very well.
>One assumes that the authors wouldn't want to have a "last updated"
>column? That might seem a little *too* much like badgering ;-)
And too much work to maintain. Plus if the reader is interested,
that information is easily available at the author's site link(s),
as well as when the story was started.
Now, if you were a glutton for punishment, I'd be very interested
in something fanficauthors.net does, which is tell you the date
of each chapter. But I'm interested in that as more of my general
interest in the art of writing, watching how authors develop over
time, and upon occasion helping ... wish I wasn't so busy right
now, since some *really* good stuff is being written.
Seems that while some authors are winding up or have finished
their HP fanfic phase with the end of the canon series, others
like Kezzabear were inspired by the end to start writing (hey, 9
days minus however long it took to read DH! I keep a Post-It
note with the dates of publication of OotP through DH on my
monitor :-), some others have sharpened their work now that we
know "everything", and plenty have continued "steady as she goes".
As someone who's watched fanfic for more than a decade, anime
prior to post OotP fanfics---somehow, almost nothing written
prior to that gains much traction to me, I think book 5 added a
critical amount of ... frisson? to canon for writers to then
work from---it'll be very interesting to see how the HP fanfic
community evolves.
- Harold