User blog:Monenlaisia/What To Do When Adding Fanfictions

I had recently edited the Fan Fiction Category so that each story had its own sub-category, and can be found in one convient location for each story.

Now, I'm not gonna always do this, so what can you do to make sure that the main Fan Fiction category stays super organized?

Step 1: Creating A Category
If creating a new story, create a category.

You do this the same exact way you create a normal page. The only difference is you add "Category:" before the title. That's, the word Category with a capital-C, and a colon after it.

If I were to create a story called The Story of A Weresheep, I would create the category by going to Contribute > Add a Page > Typing in Category:The Story of A Weresheep > Create

While it is optional, I recommend choosing the Blank Page template for categories, since it will be filled with content once you start adding stuff to it.

After creating the page, write in something at the top. What I put was "The fan fiction [title] written by user [linked username]." However you can put in whatever you like. But please provide a link to your userpage!

After all that is done, you need to add it to the Fan Fiction category. You do that easily on the right-hand side. Once you publish the category, it will appear as a sub-category on the Fan Fiction category.

Congratulations! Your story now has a sub-category. Now we can move to Step 2.

Step 2: Adding Chapters
This step is very, very simple. The only changes you have to do is to, instead of adding the category Fan Fiction, you make the only category your story's sub-category. Easy, right?

That means once I finish typing up a chapter for The Story of A Weresheep, I would make the category for that page the one I created for my story. That way, the story will only appear in that sub-category, and not the main one.

This is because the sub-category is already linked to the main category, so you don't need to do it twice.

Step 3: Blog Posts
If you are writing your story through blog posts, that's great! It doesn't have to be an actual article page if you don't want it to.

However, that does not exempt you from doing Steps 1 and 2. So please do them!