To link chapters together, you need to create a Title Page for a series or serial. Use the|++Organizer| link at the top of the screen. Then to link the chapters in, use the |Outline| tab while viewing the story. This will bring up a list with all the titles and chapters currently linked together on BC, a lot. Click on the window with the list then type the first few letters of your title for your story and it should scroll down to make looking for the right one easy. Just highlight the title you want your chapter linked to and click save.
There's a weight button to help you get chapters in the right order, chapters 1-9 should have weight 0, 10-99 weight 1, 100-999, weight 2, etc. You can give appendices and codexes to your story weights of 8 or 9 or something to be sure they appear after the chapters, or -1 or -5 or something if you want them to appear before the chapters.
Hope that helps! If you make mistakes, I or one of my editors will probably catch it within an hour or two and fix it for you. :)
If you just post chapter two of a multi-chapter story without doing any of this, one of us will probably do it within a day, giving you time to step up and do it if you can.
Hugs,
Erin
Curious
What's weight 1 for?
Typo
I made a typo, fixed now. :)
= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.
= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.
weight
allows you to put a story out of alphabetical order. interestingly, i didn't understand that negative weight makes the story go first, not positive, until i played with it.
"Treat everyone you meet as though they had a sign on them that said "Fragile, under construction"
dorothycolleen
Dorothycolleen, member of Bailey's Angels
Note:
Organizer pages, like Title Page and Author Page as menu choices, have been moved from the Publication-type menu to the Organizational menu in the editing and creating screens.
Hugs,
Erin
= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.
= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.
Menu item |++TitlePage| changed to |++Organizer|
Too many uses of the phrase "Title Page". Hope this is clearer but it breaks some of the info in the FAQs and a few blogs.
Hugs,
Erin
= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.
= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.
Oye!
Gee, I've never done any of that. Guess I've a guardian angel watching me back.
Nancy Cole
Author / Universe Pages
I'm still learning my way with the set-up of BC, so please accept my apologies if this is a stupid question or been asked elsewhere. I've had a look in this section of the forum but couldn't see anything.
Okay, so I've posted my first story (I think my poor brain is still recovering from a close encounter with HTML) but my second story will involve chapters. In preparation I've had a look at this forum post which seems helpful. The question I had is how is a 'universe page' and 'author page' different from a title page? Is it that I create an author page and then put the title pages linked to that or is it different?
"Just once I want my life to be like an 80's movie, preferably one with a really awesome musical number for no apparent reason. But no, no, John Hughes did not direct my life."
Different types of pages
You should already have an Author page. If you don't, I think Erin or some other helpful person will put one up for you. An author page groups all your stories together.
Title pages will be linked to your Author page. Under that, you link each chapter of your story.
If you write linked stories, or sequels, you'll need to create another level to stitch everything together in the correct order. Think of it like a tree with Author at the top, then stories, then chapters.
A Universe page is what you need if you write many stories set in the same 'Universe'. It doesn't mean a top-level page (I don't think).
If your story has more than 9 chapters, you have to start fiddling with weighting to get things to sort in the right order. For example, for stories titled "My TG tale -1-" to "M TG tale -9-" the weighting is zero and all chapters sort naturally. But "My TG tale -10-" would naturally sort after -1- and before -2- so you have to set the weighting to 1 to make it come after the first 9.
Hope this helps,
Penny
Thanks Penny
Thanks Penny, that seems to make sense. I guess I'll find out for sure when doing it!
"Just once I want my life to be like an 80's movie, preferably one with a really awesome musical number for no apparent reason. But no, no, John Hughes did not direct my life."
I Have a story
It is easy to comment. Even if you make an error
only a few people will read it. No great shame.
But a story is different. I will be subject to
rocks and arrows. It is a short story partially
true. How do I post it. And will someone review it.
Kaptin Nibbles
Need to get an account
Get an account here then you can use the ++Fiction link at the top of the screen to input the story. It will appear on the front page immediately. Reviewing here is done after posting.
Also, after you post a story, your account will be upgraded to Author which gives you a few more perks and tools. :)
Good luck!
Hugs,
Erin
= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.
= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.
Help.
Where is the |Outline| tab?????
I'm not sure I am doing this right.
Outline tab
If you look at the top of the post which started the thread you're now in, you'll see two tabs: View and Outline.
When you post a story part, the first thing that happens when you press 'submit' (after you're happy with the previews) is that the story page will be displayed as other will see it. At the top there will be three tabs: View, Edit and Outline.
Edit is for those occasions when you go "OMG! I totally didn't see that typo! I HAVE to change it!"
Click on Outline and you'll get an entry page where you get asked to select a 'parent' page for your story. The page you should select should be the title page for the story or, if it's a stand-alone entry then choose your author's name instead.
Aside: I find this the most tedious part of the whole operation, since every author, every title page, every chapter is in that list. I wish there was a way of limiting the drop-down to just the author's entries only.
For the first nine chapters you can leave the weight as zero. In general the weight should be the count of digits in your chapter number minus one. This ensures that the chapters sort in the right order when they are displayed on the right-hand side of the web page.
Job done!
Penny
Weighting Story Titles
I finally (only took a month) figured out how to link my story titles to my author page, but I have a slight problem. My first series is titled The Summer of Bailey, but the second series I'll be posting is titled Seasons of Bailey. Obviously they won't sort properly in alphabetical order.
I was wondering if there is any way to weight them in such a way as to having Seasons appear after The Summer? I was looking around for a weight option, but may have missed it somewhere. I just don't want first time readers to be confused as to which story comes first. Am I missing something, or like Obi Wan Kenobi, am I asking the impossible?
~Bailey
Weighting
Yes, there is a weighting gadget. For fiction-type entries, it's in the outline tab, directly under the parent rollover. For organizer-type entries, it's in the edit page a bit above the body field.
Hugs,
Erin
= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.
= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.
Confused
So if I post say...
Bailey (Author)
-The Summer of Bailey (Title)
--Parts 1-7 (with weight at 0 for each)
-Seasons of Bailey (Title)
and then I weight my chapters under Seasons as 1, it should put them after The Summer? Or am I completely missing something?
I'm not seeing any option to weight them, other than the outline page of each story. There are no options for it when I choose the Edit tab in author page or either of the title pages.
Currently when I look at my author page it lists it as...
Bailey (Author)
-Seasons of Bailey (Title)
-The Summer of Bailey (Title)
and the next arrow at the bottom takes you to Seasons first. I want the complete opposite with The Summer to be the first page it goes to if you click the next arrow. So it isn't confusing for people.
Thanks for your help,
~Bailey
Weights again
Weights only affect ordering at the same level. If parts 1 to 7 are attached to Summer, they don't need weights.
If Seasons of Bailey is a Fiction-type, view the story then open the outline tab and set the weight to 1.
If Seasons of Bailey is a title page done on an organizer-type entry, then open the story to edit and look down the left hand edge of the screen. When you get to the Body field, which is where the entry that appears inside the box when viewing the entry, you will find the weight widget which is a rollover-type choose your value thing BELOW the body field. Sorry, above I said that it was above the body field but it is below it. I was speaking from memory and this time I went and looked. :)
That said, I went and adjusted the weight on Seasons for you.
Hope that helps.
Hugs,
Erin
= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.
= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.
o.O
lol! I was about to "mess with it" (did nothing but look at it though) and it changed on it's own. Then I read here that you changed it. Thought I was losing it for a second. Thanks for adjusting it for me. You're the best! I'll get it all figured out eventually I hope.
Thanks for your help,
~Bailey