How to collect my Biggles ficlets/promptfic from the past few years

[sholio]

As per a conversation elsewhere, I think I'm finally going to try to get my circa 2022-2025 Biggles ficlets collected on Ao3, the same way I did with my Agent Carter promptfic and some others.

However, the AC promptfic was relatively easy because I was mostly writing them for Tumblr prompts.

The Biggles ones are just absolute chaos. Some are collections of fills for specific events (Whumpcember, Whumptober); some are commentfic written in response to other people's fic or stray comments; some are slightly more coherent fills for prompts on Tumblr or elsewhere.

For reference, here's how I did it in other fandoms, all in one document sorted by fandom.

With the caveat that I am definitely doing it at least SOMEWHAT like this (that is, as a chaptered fic with short prompt fills collected together, not 200 separate individual fics), do you have any opinions on how I go about doing this? (More complicated answers in comments welcome, of course.)

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Individual chaptered fics for each event (Whumpcember 2022, etc)
0 (0.0%)

Individual chaptered fics for type of event (a Whumptober document, one for Tumblr fills, etc)
2 (11.8%)

Sort them by pairing or trope, so all the similar types are together (e.g. all the Biggles/EvS fic, all the gen h/c fic) regardless of source
9 (52.9%)

One chaptered fic for everything, like with the Agent Carter ones
3 (17.6%)

I have no preference/I am good with whatever you want to do
6 (35.3%)

I like clicking boxes! Oh look, a box.
8 (47.1%)

Comments

[trobadora]

FWIW, I've never looked for things by event after the event was over.

[sholio]

I was honestly kind of fascinated that almost nobody specifically went for the sorted-by-event option! That seemed like a pretty straightforward way of doing it to me, but apparently it makes more sense on the author end than the reader end.

[sheron]

The reason AC one worked so well is because you basically had the same small set of characters (if I remember correctly), If you had like all of MCU to put in it I'd prefer you split off into themes by ship. That said you'd put some minor characters in sometimes and it was fine? IDK. Rambling!

My personal preference is to stick to chaptered fic versus lots of short individual fics because too many short fics is very draining and I would much rather see a single chaptered fic that I can read through knowing it's all one theme (e.g. Whumptober)

In Biggles, I would personally prefer to see major ships indicated somehow so that it's clear -- i.e. I don't want to stumble into Algy/EvS when looking for Biggles/EvS. As long as it's obvious how to do that (whether it's separating fics by ship or one fic with chapters where each chapter has a heading of what the ships are) I'm fine with anything.

Your way of doing it in AC worked really well for me!

[sholio]

Thank you for the input; it's helpful! Yeah, I agree with you about AC working unusually well because the fic all (or at least mostly) involved a very limited group of characters and pairings. tbf, I think my Biggles fic does too (mostly). I really almost never write anything other than gen or Biggles/EvS. Actually, while I wasn't originally that fond of the idea of splitting it up by type (because that's more work for me, lol) it probably *would* work pretty well to divide it into gen and Biggles/EvS, and I don't think I necessarily have to subdivide it further than that. (Maybe a third collection if I end up with weird stuff that doesn't really fit either of those, but I don't think I have a lot of that.)