The way you've been doing it works fine… IF the reader is following the stories from the beginning and meets each character at their introduction. But you can't count on that in webfic.
The most thorough way would probably be, for each character in the poem, to include in the notes a link to the poem where that character is introduced and whose notes include that character's info. But that's a lot of work and probably WAY more than necessary.
Of course you've essentially got that when you say "This poem follows ___" or "This poem continues the story begun in ___", and the character is introduced in the sequence so defined. But I'm pretty sure that your use of "thread" is more inclusive than that, and in any case you haven't included a link with that particular thread mention here. And even that wouldn't help here if Calliope was introduced before you started that thread, e.g. as a character in a story that was primarily about other characters, as this story, which stars Calliope and Vagary, is the first appearance of Phrenica and Saul Omar.
Bleah, I only had about 6hrs' sleep and can hardly think. I'll try to pick this up later.
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Re: Thoughts
Date: 2015-04-25 02:29 pm (UTC)The most thorough way would probably be, for each character in the poem, to include in the notes a link to the poem where that character is introduced and whose notes include that character's info. But that's a lot of work and probably WAY more than necessary.
Of course you've essentially got that when you say "This poem follows ___" or "This poem continues the story begun in ___", and the character is introduced in the sequence so defined. But I'm pretty sure that your use of "thread" is more inclusive than that, and in any case you haven't included a link with that particular thread mention here. And even that wouldn't help here if Calliope was introduced before you started that thread, e.g. as a character in a story that was primarily about other characters, as this story, which stars Calliope and Vagary, is the first appearance of Phrenica and Saul Omar.
Bleah, I only had about 6hrs' sleep and can hardly think. I'll try to pick this up later.