A man is driving home, thinking about beating his wife. Along the way, he passes a turtle. I am that turtle.
Some people would like the chapters of Home is for the Weak to be rearranged in chronological order.
Some people want them where they are.
Some people want it marked incomplete.
I want it marked complete because that story could stop updating at anytime, since its updates rely on me getting ideas for it rather than any sense of progression.
What do you want?
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Not having it chronological seems to work. It adds to the ad-hoc nature. Same for the "complete" tag.
I think chronological order might help make better sense of where everything falls together, if nothing else.
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Chronological would work better.
I just read it and I was confused for a few moments each time it was non-chronological.
I agree with chronological, but having it be marked complete makes the most sense to me
I feel good with both non-chron and complete; it's not like there's much of a real order anyway except start and finish.
I like the non-chrono. While chrono would be nice the story would lose a bit of it's charm. What charm? Well, this story has three elements that sell it. The humor, the chars, and the moments of emotions. And the fact that it stands without progression despite that makes me adore it even more. I haven't read past Celestia getting Scootaloo new digs out of lazyness but, I know that it's written well.
I like it how it is, actually. Just makes the whole thing more surreal.
For something like this, the chronological order of events doesn't matter too much aside from whether it comes before or after some key event, which a reader should be able to pick up from clues within the story. As I see it, the question of switching it to chronological order comes down to one question: Do you want to be nice, or lazy?
I can understand your reasoning behind marking it complete, and don't care enough to think of a counterargument
Leave it marked complete. People can change the settings for their folders to show updated chapters in their feed this way! As for reordering the chapters I would vote to leave it this way because it just feels better the way it should is done now.
Chronological might make it more accessible to some. I think it's fine left as complete, unless you think changing it to incomplete would yield more follows.
If you were to add another story arch or something you should re-arrange them and change the tag, otherwise everything is fine as it is.
It is complete, it just gets these wonderful little bits and bobs added on anyway, which is awesome.
I'm ambivalent on chapter order, mostly because aside from the first chapter and the chapters that take place after Nopony leaves, the actual order is loose as all get out. I'd say leave it as is unless you have a burning desire to shuffle things up.
Depends if you want to help readers keep track of what's going on or not. Personally, I'd say give it chronological order and update chapters to wherever they land in the timeline from then on. Still entirely ad hoc oddness, but offers a bit of minor clarity when trying to keep up with the actual vague story progression, because one is there, regardless of how little it really directs anything.
So yes, chronological order. And keep the Complete tag. People either get why or don't, but that's not really your concern if you're just going until you stop getting ideas. Have fun with it and let us be entertained.
Eh, I think you should keep it set as complete and add the filling in where ever you want. As long as you specify when the events take place, I personally don't mind the order. I get nofications on new chapters anyway. [shrug]
What I I want is for fimfiction to add a tag for stories that are theoretically complete but are prone to being updated at any time.
Ah dont care
I'd say keep it non-chronological; the current order works perfectly well and I see no reason to change it.
I do, however, think marking it incomplete would be a good idea. My main use for complete/incomplete tags is to determine when I can download a story without needing to worry about missing future parts, and when a story is marked complete but is still updating, that heuristic stops working.
Alongside "Incomplete", "Complete", "Hiatus" and such, they should have an "Endless" tag that is just... it's like Detective Conan or One Piece or Simpsons or South Park. It never ends.
This is clearly one of those sitcommy stories where the overarching plot generally just doesn't matter very much beyond providing context. It's just a sandbox for ideas.
I would prefer chronological order.
Me? Personal opinion? Keep it in chronological order, and mark it as complete.
The reason I say complete is because the story technically is complete. When I get to the end I'm not going to be dangling on a cliffhanger for years waiting for new chapters to come out. I'm too impatient to read stories that are marked Incomplete unless I know for a fact the author is going to update on a frequent (daily, weekly at most) basis.
So for me, Complete works best.
HOWEVER, it would be good to let your readers know that the story will continue expanding in the summary area, that way they can see that it's complete but also know that it will continue to grow and ideas come along.
More chapters.
The format is all you, chief.
--Spade
I want ... a nice, peaceful life. A small, quiet home and a friend to come home to. I want a comfy chair and a deck, a pipe and a bottle of really nice whisky. I want to sleep until I'm not tired and to wake with the sun.
Or, you mean about the story? Eh, whatever's fine man.
Given that it's revealed that Scoots knows who Nopony is from some indeterminate but early time and is just playing along it seems to make chronology largely irrelevant.
I say let it skip around.
I'm always surprised how timid everyone is with experimental or non-standard narrative structures since the low stakes and free form nature of the internet should encourage such things.
Don't know how one would get through some Kerouac or Bukowski that way.
But that's my wee little opinion.
I would say keep the end of the story as the 'last chapter' - the one where Celestia comes back.. Add any new chapters before that. That's the only part that really matters after you start the story.