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Just wondering if I should break up my one shot compilation stories into individual stories rather than grouping them all together. Especially the ones in group situations. I don’t know if I’m shooting myself in the foot in terms of potential reviews by putting them together. Although I worry that posting them one at a time would flood the site with mine and take attention away from other stories on the site. Thoughts?

When we do a themed collection among multiple writers, like our Hallowe’en or Yule/Christmas compilations, there’s a thread in the Writer’s Corner for everyone to post a bit about their contribution, including a summary and tags, and a direct link to that chapter. It makes it easier to navigate our holiday anthologies.

I personally avoid looking at ‘collections of stories’ if I'm in a lazy mood, which is my usual state of being; I really don't want to sift through a half dozen stories, just to find only one that I like. I also avoid certain tags unless I'm feeling adventurous, which seldom happens. Because of this I like to keep my stories as separate as possible, because it's something that I would appreciate as a reader. I go so far as to avoid multi-chapter fanfics if I can, saving chapters for fanfics that simply can't be told in one sitting. I do have fanfics that are sequels, but I make sure they work entirely independent of the other. That way if my reader decides they don't want to see something described or tagged in a previous fanfic, they can just skip it. I hope I don't aggravate people by saying this, but 'story collections' in my opinion, defeat the purpose of tags and descriptions entirely. A single tag for one fanfic, could be seen as a tag for every fanfic in the collection, and you would have to read each story just to find out if that's true. Likewise if I was to read a description to get an idea of the content of the fanfics, it would be a broad description that tells me little about any of the stories in that collection. I could look in the chapters, hoping to find more information about the stories within, but it's easier just to avoid the one collection among all the other new posts. I'm sure I sound picky about it, but that's how I do things, and I thought you might like hearing from someone who as both a reader and a writer, usually avoids 'story collections'.

Life has been crazy lately, between my car being totaled, granny having a brain bleed ER managed to staunch to having a minor stroke directly in in the ER. Alot is happening all at once. 😅