Create a narrative
To post a new narrative, locate and click the Add content > Narrative scene link in the left column menu.
There are 4 important sections to each narrative: the body, the backlinks, the author's notes and the terms.
There is more information below about how to fill in each of these sections
The 'Body' section is where you paste the entirety of your story. There are a few best practices we suggest for this:
- Write your story using a trusted word processor.
- Pasting from Word can cause some formatting issues. Instructions for pasting from word are available in the next support section (below).
- Make certain to remove the reminder text "Paste your story here" before adding your story to this form.
Drupal provides an option which removes Word formatting form text to protect how your content appears on the web page.
Click the Paste from Word icon
to open a text form.
Paste your Word text into the form and click 'OK.'
Adding backlinks (and other links)
Backlinks provide the opportunity to trace a story's inspirations, possibly tracing ideas back through a chain of stories. Over time, being able to identify important original ideas could be as important as where we eventually get. There are two types of backlinks, internal and external.
- Make certain to remove the helper text in the form before adding your content.
Internal backlinks
- These identify Regarding Tomorrow stories, blog posts and forum discussions which inspire any part of your story.
- These should include the complete URL of the page where the story, post or forum is located.
- Links will look like http://www.regardingtomorrow.com/home/node/22 or http://www.regardingtomorrow.com/story-name-here.
- An explanation may be provided for each, giving readers a better idea of how they developed into your story.
External backlinks
- These identify movies, shows, books, blog posts, comics, songs and any other ideas which inspire any part of your story.
- When possible, please link these to Amazon.com pages where readers can purchase something if the like. This site does incur some costs and this will help us offset these costs through our Amazon affiliate account.
- If Amazon.com links are not available or you would also like to include other pages (Wikipedia, home site - like a film's home page - or another article about the media) please bullet each individual page.
This is where the writer gets to explain their thoughts, process, likes/dislikes, and any other ideas that went into their story.
Choosing scene properties (terms)
There are three taxonomies connected with each story. These taxonomies include a series of terms which help readers identify content by these terms to find ideas they would like to read for pleasure or influence. It's important to flll these in as accurately as you can, so readers can find them via search filters.
Aspects of human existence
- These 20 terms refer to a range of common elements which seem consistent with humanity through time or will exist going into our future.
- Select all of the terms you believe are present in your story.
- If you feel there are any missing, please email us at regardingtomorrow@gmail.com. This site should grow with the thoughts of our members, so any ideas are welcome.
Location of story
- These seven terms represent locations where your story could occur.
- Please check all of the locations where your story could play out. Some stories will involve several locations and some may include all of these.
Years into the future
- Simply select the range of years which represent your best guess how far out your story may occur.
- As with the others, you may select as many of these as you feel are appropriate.
At the bottom of create narrative scene page are a set of stacked tabs. Click on the Revision information tab.
Enter any note in the revision log message box. This will trigger the creation of a new revision when you click 'Save' at the bottom of the page.
To see the list of revisions for your work, log in and click on the Revisions button 
at the top of the screen. The status will show whether each revision is current and or archived. It will also show whether the revision is published.
To select an older revision, click on the date links (07/05/2013 - 09:44) for example. This will open a view of the older revision. To update, click the Edit button 
. This will open an editable version. When you save, the new revision (whether edited or not) will be published and saved as the newest revision.
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