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Series Spanning Plot Threads
Second Aristh:
--- Quote from: Serack on November 16, 2012, 04:20:34 PM ---*fishes for comments/compliments on the formatting*
All these sub bullets make the formatting a little tedious... I origionally wanted the book bullets to be numbered, but It appears that adding the horizontal line code between them broke that.
Edit: It appears that keeping the books bulleted retains the lack of spacing between the book and it's sub bullets though... Remove the bullets for the books and they get a significant dead space added there.
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I know you've put a lot of work into this already, and I'm not sure how painful it would be do change, but in the end, this kind of thing might be more readable if it was organized from the other direction. Have a large plotline as a main bullet point; then put the details from each of the books where that plot was extended. For example
White Council Vampire War
Storm Front
* Harry uses the sunshine hankie on Bianca, causing her to lose control and kill her assistant
Grave Peril
* Bianca teams up with Mavra
* more stuff...
* Harry starts vampire war by saving susan
etc...
In order to keep it from getting quite so bulky, each of the plot lines could be done inside a spoiler type tag so people could just look at the one they are interested in.
Serack:
--- Quote from: Second Aristh on November 16, 2012, 05:19:06 PM ---I know you've put a lot of work into this already, and I'm not sure how painful it would be do change, but in the end, this kind of thing might be more readable if it was organized from the other direction. Have a large plotline as a main bullet point; then put the details from each of the books where that plot was extended. For example
White Council Vampire War
Storm Front
* Harry uses the sunshine hankie on Bianca, causing her to lose control and kill her assistant
Grave Peril
* Bianca teams up with Mavra
* more stuff...
* Harry starts vampire war by saving susan
etc...
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I like the merits of my current system enough to stick with it (Plus the amount of effort and momentum it already has). This is a pretty good idea, however it would have to be done very carefully to avoid it bloating into "The Exaustive Topic of Every Theory Possible Through the Ages"
I expect that I will probably a bit fatigued out by the time I finish this reference, but that doesn't mean you can't start working on your own ;)
--- Quote from: Second Aristh on November 16, 2012, 05:19:06 PM ---In order to keep it from getting quite so bulky, each of the plot lines could be done inside a spoiler type tag so people could just look at the one they are interested in.[/q]
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Edit: Forgot to respond to that last bit: That sounds like something I should have thought to incorporate with this topic.
Also, if you do chose to start working on your own reference and want to dig for insite on how I hashed out my own bullet formatting, the Quote tool will allow you to view my code.
AcornArmy:
The word "Elaine" does not appear in the ebook of Storm Front. The comment neurovore mentioned is this:
--- Quote from: Storm Front, Ch. 5 ---I had been a miserable failure in relationships, ever since my first love went sour. I mean, a lot of teenage guys fail in their first relationships.
Not many of them murder the girl involved.
I shied away from that line of thought, lest it bring up too many old memories.
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wyltok:
--- Quote from: TheCuriousFan on November 16, 2012, 03:50:37 PM ---I've checked, there is.
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And neuro gets an award for best recollection of Storm Front! So yeah, Elaine would also fit in "Threads briefly introduced in Storm Front". Which is quite impressive, since she doesn't actually appear on screen until the 4th book of the series. I have a bit more time, so let me catch up on the topic before I say anything else. Awesome work, Serack, and well done to all those others who've chipped in as well.
AcornArmy:
And great format, of course, Serack. :D
Looking at even just the bare structure of it that's been outlined so far in the first post, I feel like this is one of those times when the cross-connections are so many that we almost need a three-dimensional model to make sense of them all. Or four-dimensional, really, representing not just the cross-connections but also the changes between the connections over time. If we had more details, we might be able to find the major vectors, like determining the spread of viruses across the world in those "outbreak" movies.
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