Truthfully, it's disturbingly gory. So much so that I couldn't continue it until now. If it took me over two months to be able to handle one image, I'm not sure about subjecting the unwary to it. How should I tag something like this, maybe a warning at the beginning and a spacer after that or should I just hold on to it. It shares the first several paragraphs with the lynching tree to let you see where the gore is coming from.
I finally finished my Halloween story tonight
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Tags are good
Tags are good. In a recent story, Maeryn also put the truly difficult material in a red font, so people could read the rest of the story if they wanted to, without inadvertently stumbling on the triggering scene.
— Emma
I would put a disclaimer at the top of the story
to notify readers of a potentially bad thing within it if it will trigger.
Sephrena
Put the disclaimer in the teaser that appears on the front page
When you upload the story, click the "Body *(Edit summary)" and put the disclaimer there being as detailed as you can without too many spoilers. That will give the readers a look at the disclaimer before they even open the story.
Then tag the snot out of it. Add every caution that you think might apply. If that still doesn't seem addiquite, use the Taxonomy upgrade extras box and make up some more.
Emma's red text is a good idea. If you don't know how to do that, PM me and I'll create the code for you.
Hugs
Patricia
Happiness is being all dressed up and HAVING some place to go.
Semper in femineo gerunt
Ich bin eine Mann
I can only relate what I have done
I posted one story that rather gruesome. I saw no need to go into the nitty-gritty details though. I flagged up ALL the releventant cautions. Juding from feed-back that was enough.
On another occasion I had a bit that could possibly have been a trigger for some in an otherwise lighthearted story. I marked that section (not with a colour but in anohter way). Beginning and end of the iffy part. There was no feedback regarding that so possibly it was OK.
My Version
Eight years ago, I wrote a story about revenge that would normally be a single post, a solo. I divided it into three parts, specifying the middle part as optional, detailing the brutal crime. The numbers suggest that readers either stopped with the first part or continued on through all three parts.
Of course, the third part was much better received than the second.
-- Daphne Xu (a page of contents)
well, it's posted
I put a warning at the top. There doesn't seem to me to be a good way to separate out the gory part. Now I'm curious about how many people are scared away by the warning.