You're so sweet! From your lips to my advisor's ears then :) Someone *should* write a doctoral thesis on HP fan fiction!
And so interesting that you mentioned "Twist of Fate" - I've been wanting to discuss this one for reasons of dating!
(Full disclosure - I haven't yet read "Twist of Fate", and I feel so ashamed about that! I very much want to, and it's mortifying to admit that I keep putting it off because of length. I'm ridiculous I know, especially considering the number of words of fanfiction I've read over the years. I love your writing, and I know I will enjoy it when I finally do read it! Please don't hate me!)
But back to the issue of dating. As I have this interest in assigning publication dates to works of fanfiction, what should be the classification for a fic like yours which had its first installments posted to ff.net in Oct 2011 but wasn't completed until Jun 2012? Is this a 2011 fic or a 2012 fic? (I know I'm splitting hairs here as it doesn't really matter all that much in the grand scheme of things, but I like to be consistent. And since you're a librarian - yay! - and it's your fic, you're the perfect one to ask!)
It makes me wonder how librarians would classify literary works that were published serially, like Dickens' novels. If early chapters came out in one year and the later chapters in another year, what is considered to be the date of publication of the whole novel?
I've really pondered this for some time! Fortunately for me so far, my general propensity to read shorter fics has meant that this issue has not yet arisen with my lists. All of the fics I've put on my "year" lists were started and finished in the same calendar year. But I know that won't always be the case!
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Date: 2016-02-01 05:42 am (UTC)And so interesting that you mentioned "Twist of Fate" - I've been wanting to discuss this one for reasons of dating!
(Full disclosure - I haven't yet read "Twist of Fate", and I feel so ashamed about that! I very much want to, and it's mortifying to admit that I keep putting it off because of length. I'm ridiculous I know, especially considering the number of words of fanfiction I've read over the years. I love your writing, and I know I will enjoy it when I finally do read it! Please don't hate me!)
But back to the issue of dating. As I have this interest in assigning publication dates to works of fanfiction, what should be the classification for a fic like yours which had its first installments posted to ff.net in Oct 2011 but wasn't completed until Jun 2012? Is this a 2011 fic or a 2012 fic? (I know I'm splitting hairs here as it doesn't really matter all that much in the grand scheme of things, but I like to be consistent. And since you're a librarian - yay! - and it's your fic, you're the perfect one to ask!)
It makes me wonder how librarians would classify literary works that were published serially, like Dickens' novels. If early chapters came out in one year and the later chapters in another year, what is considered to be the date of publication of the whole novel?
I've really pondered this for some time! Fortunately for me so far, my general propensity to read shorter fics has meant that this issue has not yet arisen with my lists. All of the fics I've put on my "year" lists were started and finished in the same calendar year. But I know that won't always be the case!