I use tags religiously -- it's one of my favorite LJ features, especially when browsing through huge fic communities or the LJ of an author who's posted tons of fics. I don't even want to think how long it would take to search some of those LJs otherwise to find what I'm looking for!
As for my own fics, some of the ways I've tagged them are:
1. By fandom. (e.g. 'sgfic' for Stargate fic, 'tos' for Tales of Symphonia, etc. -- so readers can pull up all fics for a specific fandom)
2. By pairing. (danandjan, daniel/vala, sheelos, gen, etc.)
3. Any fic that I wrote, I tag with 'my fic' (whereas if I'm recommending someone else's fic or talking about fic or fic writing in general, I usually tag it as 'fic').
4. I tend to create Table of Contents posts for longer, multi-part stories -- a single entry that links to all the parts of the story. These then get tagged 'toc' (for table of contents) so I can pull up my main stories at once without having all of the story posts in the way of finding the one I'm looking for.
5. If I'm posting a multi-part story/series, I'll either use the full name of the story ('frozen flame' or 'no regrets') or I'll assign it an abbreviation so I can pull up the entire story at once ('ff2' for "Frozen Flame" (Book 2), 'mh' for "Mental Holiday," 'wwb' for the "Whatever Will Be" series...etc).
I've also seen some authors tag based on rating, but I don't see as much value in that one unless you're trying to sort adult fic from non-adult fic.
Yes, I'm an organizing freak, all those tags are probably overkill to the nth degree, and chances are you don't need half of them. But when I posted my old, ridiculously long fics to LJ as a backup, I needed to be able to find what I wanted amongst the 200+ posts, and these tags helped me do so. *shrugs* Just a few ideas. :)
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Date: 2009-12-30 01:29 am (UTC)As for my own fics, some of the ways I've tagged them are:
1. By fandom. (e.g. 'sgfic' for Stargate fic, 'tos' for Tales of Symphonia, etc. -- so readers can pull up all fics for a specific fandom)
2. By pairing. (danandjan, daniel/vala, sheelos, gen, etc.)
3. Any fic that I wrote, I tag with 'my fic' (whereas if I'm recommending someone else's fic or talking about fic or fic writing in general, I usually tag it as 'fic').
4. I tend to create Table of Contents posts for longer, multi-part stories -- a single entry that links to all the parts of the story. These then get tagged 'toc' (for table of contents) so I can pull up my main stories at once without having all of the story posts in the way of finding the one I'm looking for.
5. If I'm posting a multi-part story/series, I'll either use the full name of the story ('frozen flame' or 'no regrets') or I'll assign it an abbreviation so I can pull up the entire story at once ('ff2' for "Frozen Flame" (Book 2), 'mh' for "Mental Holiday," 'wwb' for the "Whatever Will Be" series...etc).
I've also seen some authors tag based on rating, but I don't see as much value in that one unless you're trying to sort adult fic from non-adult fic.
Yes, I'm an organizing freak, all those tags are probably overkill to the nth degree, and chances are you don't need half of them. But when I posted my old, ridiculously long fics to LJ as a backup, I needed to be able to find what I wanted amongst the 200+ posts, and these tags helped me do so. *shrugs* Just a few ideas. :)