Tags updated.

I've always defended the Slice of Life tag on Sharing the Night when it was a choice between that or adventure, but now we have a drama tag, which I think is a better fit, so I swapped that in.

That is all.

Edit: there was a time when I thought I would label the story as a mystery, given the chance. Thoughts?

Comments

[TheStratovarian]

I think drama and romance fit here more than mystery.

[ForSpite]

You had a bit of mystery, but it was only a piece of the story (and not what people traditionally think of as mystery, anyway, since when it comes to fiction most associate that with crime) so it's probably best to leave it off.

[Naturefang]

there was a time when I thought I would label the story as a mystery, given the chance. Thoughts?

It would work for some of the earlyer chapters yeah, but ultimatly its your choice as it is your story.

[VoiceInTheDark]

I wouldn't tag it "mystery" as that carries some specific connotations. While you have a search for truth, it falls more in line with the careful revelations common in fantasy adventure stories than something you might expect from a Whodunnit. Still, I suppose that at the base level it's the same thing.

[Cast-Iron Caryatid]

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Agreed. I guess “Romantic Drama” just sounds so plain that I feel the urge to add something more. Maybe I should have just added the Drama tag without removing slice of life…

Tags are hard

[Nali]

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When a good chunk of the slice of life-y bits revolve around adjusting to being a god who's afraid of being eaten by the planet, that's a drama.

Less is usually more, with tagging.

[Sable Tails]

If I were tagging the story, I'd probably tag it romantic adventure, personally. Only because the old site definition of adventure used to be something like "large in scope; opposite of slice of life." I know that many people equate "adventure" with "quest," however, and how that could make you uncomfortable.

While Sharing the Night may have mystery in it, it doesn't follow almost any of the standard mystery conventions or plotlines, and so seems like an extremely deceptive choice of tag to me. I think we've all had the situation where we've seen a story marked something like "adventure/romance," only to discover that the romance was actually completely perfunctory, or the adventure IS the romance without being grand in scope or questy in plot-line.

I'm not fond of using the drama tag for anything that fits under nearly any other genre tag, since I feel that the definition of "drama" can be stretched to fit nearly any story. However, since slice of life is the almost literal opposite of how I'd define StN, then I think drama is a much better choice, yes. I also think a minimalist approach to story tags is better; authors who throw every tag they can onto a story just obscure its actual nature and make it seem as if they either don't understand the tag definitions, are desperate for more viewers, or have no idea what their story is actually about and are just throwing in whatever strikes their fancy. That's how it comes across to me, anyway.

I guess the tl;dr is, I would tag Sharing the Night Adventure/Romance myself, or just Romance if Adventure makes you uncomfortable. But if you really want a second tag, Drama at least isn't deceptive like the SoL or Mystery tags, even if it doesn't really give the reader any additional info beyond just the Romance tag alone. ~ Sable

P.S. A good usage of the Drama tag would be my own story Prodigy, which is literally described by no other tag. I've gotten some flak from its conception for labelling it Comedy/Tragedy (including from Royal Guard prereaders, of all people), and I always told folks I'd change the tags if Drama or Bildungsroman ever became options. Guess I'm obligated to do that now.

[ForSpite]

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Well, if you want to throw "Adventure" on there, I think it would work. For that matter, many chapters fall under "comedy" as well, especially early on.

[Voldine]

3525639 Seconding the fact that early chapters have some substantial comedy.

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