Yeap, good idea Deb. It'll be great on critical characters to list which chapters they appear in, and the summary will help locate them.
People like Matthew - bar the first three books, it'll be good to know which chapters he appears in in TKP and TSK. And Daffyd, Ariel (post Ober), etc.
How about if someone is thinking of doing a chapter, you can post in this thread to let everyone else know you're about to start chapter 2 or 3 or whatever, and that way we hopefully won't end up with two people doing the same chapter!
Zieria
My only concern here is that people will come along, pick a chapter, and disappear! Not that I think any of you guys here would, but I've seen it happen in the old days, when we used to do the character pages. Someone would promise to do, for example, Elspeth's character summary. Then disappear for 3 months (actually, I think that's exactly what happened, only it was more like 8 months :P ). Nobody else could do Elspeth's character summary because it had been claimed :P
So I think if we're going to do the "I'm working on ch # / book #", we need to put a time limit on it, for completion. If you haven't completed it in a week, then you post back here what you have done, so we know it's being worked on? And that way, if it gets forgotten and a couple of weeks go by, someone else can easily pick up where you started from.
If there's no update, then the chapter is free for all to do again.
It won't matter so much at the beginning when there's plenty to do, but near the end of the process when there's only a bare min. of chapters left it'll be a shame to be hanging around waiting.
And the process sounds good - post the first couple here so we get the system going, and then there's no need, unless we're having trouble with any particular summary? I expect things like the Rebellion are going to be difficult to condense into a paragraph without contributions from everyone (and for pivotal chapters, it'll be more fun doing it as a group than individually ;D ).
How's all that sound?
To summarise the process:
- post here that you're working on book/chapter#
- within a week, post it back here (to be added to the Encyclopedia by myself, deb, Zieria)
- if not finished, post what you've done. You have another week to complete it.
- if no response, the chapter's free to be done by someone else?