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Originally Posted by applegaa
Here is my current list of statuses:
In-Progress,
Completed,
Hiatus,
Abandoned,
Dropped,
Stub,
Deleted,
Vacation,
Anthology
I leave the column blank if the site does not return a status.
I added the vacation and anthology options because I set that status manually when appropriate. I haven't seen a site that uses them. I treat vacation like hiatus and check less frequently for updates.
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Interesting. Thanks for sharing these!
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Originally Posted by ownedbycats
I have
- In-Progress
- Complete
- Oneshots
- Dormant
- Abandoned
- Anthology
- Fanzines
"Oneshot" is completed fics with one chapter. Dormant means it hasn't been updated in a long time. Abandoned is usually when it's deleted, but also a few where the author died (  ) or has stated they've abandoned it. |
Also interesting, I'm fascinated by how people handle this stuff.
Somewhere else people were asking others what amount of time has to pass until someone considers a work "abandoned" and people definitely had different opinions. For me it isn't necessarily about the time period, I've seen too many authors resume a work years later (always so pleased when that happens), but about whether they seem to be still active at all I guess.
It never occurred to me to put "Anthology" in "Status" so I'm surprised to see that you both do that. Huh. I guess most of the anthologies I'm building these days are created from series on AO3 and AO3 has completion status for series and I use that.
(Are you using column types where you can have multiple options listed for status? As I mentioned earlier, I was previously using a fixed set of values. Was going to switch to a text column but most of the time I use tag columns and now I'm pondering if there are cases where I'd want multiple status items for a work.)