While musing over the homepage ideas and its modules, I got the idea for a literature queue page.


Basically, it would have ~4 boxes or categories (Short Stories, Long, Poetry, Misc). And in each of them, it would list all the threads created in those categories during the past week.

The upside is that there would be no chance of older threads being bumped above new threads in this queue. Everything would be new.

The downside is that long threads - where the author keeps posting new work as new posts - would not appear.


I'm curious what people think of this. Even more - what you would think if this queue became the "main" Literature page. And the literature forums page would be something more like an archive, but everyone could still post and everything.

I like the idea because you could see all the most recent Lit. threads all on one page. But again, there's the downside, though there might be a some way to include such threads.

This is basically what I have in mind. Please ignore the horrible design, spacing, sponsors, and layout for the moment. I only have short stories and poetry on it for demonstration.

http://www.youngwritersonline.net/queue.php

I like the idea, but my novel would be one of those novels that wouldn't get to be in the Literature Queue ... so I guess I'm going to have to say no on this one, because I'm old and set in my ways.

Is there a way you could set it so that it would show, not new threads, but new literature posts (the ones that cost points)? That would get the ongoing story threads as well as the new ones.

I guess it is a good idea. It doesn't seem that different from New Posts in Literature.

I don't really see the need for it, and it hurts novels. I think that "new posts" should just get more accentuated and a "new post" should entail a new chapter being added to a novel. Right now its still a little flawed

Maybe if you had something like that for the short stories and poems, and something for the novels. Such as stories in the novels section that have new posts would be featured--placed somewhere they could be noticed?

I'm against this. I think it would create more confusion over the literature section. We should use our homepage to highlight new posts, but not to overshadow old ones. Perhaps what we need is to include a feature into the blog, if we bring it back, that includes notable bits in the lit section (links to various threads there of important). Not sure how we'd do it, but so be it. I just don't like anything that overly complicates the literature portion of YWO. We have the new posts thread and the critique button thing. I don't think doing what you're suggesting is going to suddenly make people start critting more.

I don't think this will be too bad, but it would be nice to have a place where whole novels can be stored.
So the author only has to click on their book's name, and they can add pages or chapters; without fans having to search for them in the novels section.

I agree with Inkweaver. I think having a place where all that stuff would be stored (more or less) for easy access would be great. Weren't we talking about some sort of "Portfolio" thing where everyone's fiction submissions would be put together in a sort of "resume"? I think we should consider doing that if it's a possibility. That would really make YWO awesome. Plus, it would also be nice to have it so it shows past stuff that has since been removed from the site (not the actual story/chapter/novel, but just the name and date), so there is a chronology of everyone's stuff for them to see (and it could even say how many critiques were on the page, etc.).

Just some thoughts.