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THANKS FOR THE DD!! YOU GUYS ARE ALL AWESOME! Literature Gallery: Chapters and Annotation Assignment
A brief sketch for an idea I had not long ago for the lit community.
I didn't go into anything on the submission side. More or less this is the presentation side one would see as they click on a Lit deviation.
I'm sure most of you don't know that I actually came to deviantART as a writer. It took a few years before I fell into what I'm doing here, now.
I've been meaning to re-upload some of my older work, and it occurred to me as I thought about doing so how entirely in need of help that whole process really is.
I hope this one is actually considered seriously. It could really improve our Lit system by leaps and bounds... and make it FUN to read again!!!
As always, I'd love to hear your thoughts!
-AHiL
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omg, me too!!! It would really put the fun back in the lit-end of dA. I know I'd be more apt to re-post my writing if the system was better.
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OH
MY
GOD.
This would fucking ROCK! Especially for some of my works, where peole have read some chapters and then tell me the story doesn't make sense! Eesh!
By the by, I'm sure you don't remember me, but I was on your team ages ago. Unfortunately life (read parents, writers block, last year at university, entrance exams, boyfriend trouble) collapsed on me at the last moment and I had to put dA on the back burner. I've managed to drag myself back now, though I'm busier than ever (only because I now have this semblance of control...ahem...) If you don't remember me, I -completely- understand, on the other hand, if you DO, then I have to apologise for running away like that. It all just happened =/ Good to see you putting up such awesome stuff though, btw. Keep it up! 
(I'm lurking here more than you know 
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Oh I remember you. I never forget a charming string of text.
Good to see you're doing well.
The DES team has been virtually inactive since around the time you left, and is currently under re-construction. Should be back up soon. After a couple more weeks, let me know if you're still interested in helping the DES, k? No hard feelings either way---it'll just make it easier to know if I have to fill a new slot right away or not.
Annnnnd THANK YOU for the compliment on my idea!
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Charming? I was thinking more on the lines of mysterious, enigmatic, creepy even! 
How many more weeks is what I need to know before the DSE comes back up. Deal is I have my main entrance exam for this year on the 16th of November, and a string of university and entrance exams after that which are not equally important but important enough. Seeing as I'm taking time out for dA, I might actually be able to help! But could you ask me closer to the time when it comes back up? I'll probably only be able to answer you best then. If my main exam goes well, then -everything- else after should go well too
As for the compliment - it was obviously deserved xD I hope this gets DD'ed cause then it can be brought to the attention of the staff that has the power to bring about these kinds of improvements. That would just ROCK! *crows with delight*
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Honestly I couldn't give you an exact date. It really depends on how long it takes me to finish up the few things I have left to do with it.
how about: I'll just keep your position solid... and when you come in sometime and notice the DES is up and active again, decide then how your time looks.
But yes, i'll ask you, too when it gets closer to time. I'll be making a check-in time for everyone. I need to find out who else's schedule has changed since then.
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I support this! I don't upload lit but I do enjoy reading stuff on dA. It would be really cool to be able to fav chapter 1 of something and then be able to go back to it when new chapters are added, cause the writer would be able to submit new chapters are edits rather than as whole new deviations.
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Oh man. Definitely agreed!
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Your Mom
And your mom's mom
Huzzah Shazzam
ROOOTFL
Anyway a great idea, man, and great execution
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LOLlllLlLllLl.
Thanks, bro!
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Yes. Yes it could. *starts a riot*
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Good god, this is a glorious idea.
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Ah! thank you superbly!
Tell your friends!!! we need to get this thing to the top of the popular list.
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I'll hold angelo down and you convince him by whatever means necassary
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lmfao. Ah, I knew there was a reason we're such good friends.
I'd better got get my lightsaber PSD. Perhaps i can print on off and make him think it's real?!
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Well I know where it could be inserted into his person to make him realise it's real
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I definitely like the idea of chapters, especially if they can be named! I also find the slider intriguing, but it might get out of hand with some long pieces, which are well over 1000 lines. Perhaps a better solution would be two buttons: "Bookmark this line", and "Comment on this line". For bookmarking, this can be accomplished with some simple JavaScript and cookies (hell, it can be done in Greasemonkey). However, for annotations, the line number and comments will have to be stored in a database, and when the site is rendered, (graphical) indicators can be inserted at the ends of lines to show comments. Then all one has to do is click, and bam! annotations
If I get enough feedback I may be inspired to write a bookmarking script for Greasemonkey.
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Yes, naming the chapters would be awesome.
But a quick adjustment to not being able to do it in a "flashy" way, would be for dA to enable heading commands (as they have available in subscriber journals and News Articles) in the text dialog. then we could just use a simple text heading in the top margin of our writing... not unlike when we write our manuscripts in our word processing programs.
I don't see any reason why the slider couldn't count that high. Perhaps the rough i have presented here doesn't look suitable for numbers that high, but I'm certain dA could quickly and studiously implement a way for it to track lines in that amount. but I do like your idea, too.
You should definitely make a bookmarking script! That would rock my sox!!!!!!
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Well, I understand the appeal of
The problem with the slider counting too high is that it would essentially get too big. The script would probably be laggy, and it wouldn't be entirely useful since you'd have to scroll down quite a few lines to get to where you want to be. Jumping to a particular line would either require a lot of extra HTML, or some sort of complicated math function which wouldn't be all that practical given the vast variety of fonts and sizes. So to be honest, I'm not really sure what your slider does, but I think your ideas could be accomplished in a much simpler fashion without a lot of extra work.
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I guess I'll remain hopeful that deviantART sees the potential of the idea... slider or not.
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Crap! ..not only is it SERIOUS COMMON SENSE for prose 
Jess for President ! :woot:..
( bit of a writer's fantasy going on with the number of comments tho ...
It could even be implemented in poetry for a collection of poems that are all interconnected etc... ( if there's a formal name for that like triptych applies to visuals ...it escapes me at the moment )
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Fangfingers......always running to keep up with someone else's capitolistic abuses or dreams.
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Dude. It's Cicero. He was like one of Rome's greatest prose stylists and orators. If that guy can't get that many comments, who can!??!
but then, if you look at that versus the faves... it starts to feel more like dA. lmfao.
I always call them "Suites", but I just pulled that out of my ass from musical inspirations. Anyhoo, yeah! I was thinking the same thing.
I hope dA picks it up. I know myself for one would be more apt to post novel and short stories with a Chapter and Annotation system implemented.
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I hope dA picks it up. I know myself for one would be more apt to post novel and short stories with a Chapter and Annotation system implemented.
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yeah for shit sure... i hate posting anything connected here ..it only ends up all streched out and disconnected which only incites apathy from lazy viewers.
This works to self contain it and faving it insures that whoever investigates it as a fav...gets a more comprehensive view of the overall work.... right there ..in your face...no excuses.
it also cuts out that annoying First page, second page , third page link shit youhave to put in the descriptions in a meager attempt at cohesion... which are nothing but tedious and time consuming.
Oh ..i missed cicero ...lol...i thought it was more like Monty Python's "Novel Writing at Dorchester"...( Oops and he's signed his name again )
and "suites" works just fine
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looks great, i'd like that definatly since im a writer!
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It's so hard to present your ideas in a way that's both attractive and formidable, as the process/result is now. I hope that someone up top sees this and takes it to heart. I genuinely feel it's not only a great idea, but absolutely needed.
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yeah scrolling a long page can get you lost in where you were reading
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No doubt!
When I was heavy into lit, I used to stick a piece of tape on my CRT screen when I was reading to hold my place.
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i usually just highlight what im reading
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wow this is seriously one of the best ideas I've seen this gallery put out. Really amazing man... where were you during the contest o.O
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Thanks, man!
Now what we need to do is get the lit GMs pimping it off in their journals. More people in that community need to see it!
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Well you've already got Alicia's vote XD She was freaking out (in a good way) about it last night when you posted it!
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this is good for humanity as a whole.
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Yes! Because some future Pulitzer prize winning writer is going to write a dissertation that will solve world hunger, and because deviantART instilled this idea, they'll have posted it here, first!!!!
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I know, right?!?! Super yum!!! I almost fell out of my chair when I thought of it.
Parts of the ideas have been floating around in my head since i came to deviantART, but it finally came to me in a way that was super simple.
Tell all your friends about it!
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I would actually be more inspired to write if we had such attention given to the literature process. It would make it easier to write, for me at least.
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