Board Thread:Setting Things Up/@comment-4023106-20130624230635/@comment-4023106-20130625153952

Yeah, I was thinking about story length too. I certainly think we should have the category, but as far as I know there aren't any length standards, even just across FF.net or anything. What I do for my own organization is this:

1. one-shots and shorts: <25k words

2. novellas: 25k-50k

3. novels: 50k-200k

4. epics: 200k+

Thing is, I naturally gravitate towards long fics, so I don't know if 200k seems "epic" to others. Three or four categories should be fine, I think, since I don't often see people reccing drabbles.

For pairings, I just created het, slash, etc. because I figure there are those who are open to all pairings outside of "no slash," or who prefer no pairings whatsoever, so they could have lists catering to those tastes. But I was planning on creating specific pairing categories which would also go under Category:Pairing. So a Drarry fic would go under "Slash" as well as "Harry/Draco." I just haven't created the pairing categories yet because I wasn't sure how we would name them (Harry/Draco? Draco/Harry? HP/DM? HPDM? etc.)

I've never tried using a colon in a category name, but I'll see if it works. If not, perhaps "Genre - Drama" could be used... or maybe "Drama (Genre)" or something. I'll make a few test categories.