Arctic Light

HOW hard is it to post pairing warnings/notices on your stories? This is really getting quite ridiculous. I've clicked on quite a number of promising-looking stories on ff.net lately and started reading, only to be blindsided by an unexpected pairing. And you know, this isn't just me speaking as a primarily gen-reader here; regardless of whether a person prefers reading het, gen or slash, usually they have certain preferred pairings and others that mildly squick ... it would be nice to be *warned*!

*steps off soapbox*

I finished another ficathon story today (the other "hard" one) and will have it up here in a day or two. Not sure yet if I'll post it on ff.net. This means that I have just one ficathon story to go, which is actually going to be a multi-chapter one, and I'll probably start posting chapters fairly soon.

Hard to believe I'm almost done!

After that, I have two unfinished stories to work on ("Ghost" and the "Fading Sun" au) plus a variety of others that I've started over the last few months, such as a "Running on Empty" sequel. And I really want to write a Jeannie-centric story ... maybe a sequel to "Postcards" ... oh, so many possibilities!

I've got 522 SGA stories saved to my hard drive. I've never had this happen before, but I think I'm actually going to need to go through and do more organizing than just shoving them into a folder labeled SGA, which is all I've ever done when saving fanfic in the past. It's not necessarily that I haven't read this prolifically in a fandom before; it's just that I don't think I've ever a) encountered a fandom with this many good stories and b) found so many that I wanted to save for re-reading.

The question is, how to organize them? My usual method is to tag the filenames with little notes to give me some vague indication of the content of the file (e.g. labels like "aww" or "slash" or "funny" or "vignette"). There's no real system to it, though -- it's just whatever aspect of the story predominated in my head, so I might have two very similar stories where one is tagged "cute" and the other is tagged "funny" or "nice" or one of the many other highly subjective tags that I use. I guess it would probably be a good idea to separate out the slash from the gen ... and the ones I really liked from the ones that had good parts but weren't that great overall ... hmm.

For those of you who either save stories to your hard drive, or bookmark the ones you liked, what sort of organization do you use? How well does it work for you?