Workshop Links File Info

Workshop Links File Info

Each author initiates, via the

an individual WORKSHOP LINKS FILE . This file contains a list of the novels and chapters the author wishes to have reviewed. The workshop manager will create the file using the information the author provides on the form.

Authors can use the form to update or otherwise revise the links on their workshop links file. Alternatively, they can request a link to that file. If you know the link, you can edit your file since all full Workshop memebers have edit access to to the workshop links files. Be careful, though! The workship links files are inserted directly into the Workshop page via the {insert:####} WritingML tag. Errors in an individual workshop links file can break the page, so be sure you don't have any errors such as unclosed WritingML tags.

Each WORKSHOP LINKS FILE.contains:

Your preferred display name (this is how your listing will appear in the roundtable forum);
A link to your WDC userID, {user:<YOUR ID>}; and
A list of links to the novels and chapters that you wish to have reviewed.

The form asks for other information, but the only required element is the list of links to the items you want reviewed. If you do not include your preferred display name , the manager will use your WDC handle by default.

Of course, workshop members need to be able to read your items. So, for example, item permissions could be set to PUBLIC or to the workshop group "Crosstimbers Novel Workshop Group" . Alternatively, if you instead choose to use a passcode, you could include it in the WORKSHOP LINKS FILE or include a note that instructs potential reviewers to ask you for it. If you want to include a note to ask for passcode, please use the "special instructions" sectipn of the form.

Any form of WDC link to your items is acceptable, although the b-item format provides additional information to potential reviewers. If you are posting to a Book Entry, you might consider also including a link to the Book, since the Book Entry formats don't provide very much information.

The form asks for things like genre or a teaser which can help you get reviews, but these are not required.