Board Thread:Suggestion Box/@comment-4199666-20140127134455

Okay, for those of you who didn't realise, Cece and myself recently made new timeline pages for 2013 and 2014, and I think on the suggestion thread for this I may have scared people off from editing those pages because they don't think that their event is important enough.

When I said the timelines were for major events, I meant that they were for interactions that are more than a one off thing. For example, a thread where Mary Sue bumps into Marty Stu outside Barfield mall and they introduce themself and then Mary Sue says "oh, I have to go" doesn't count as major. That being said, you don't have to kill a character for it to be major. Too soon?

These are just my suggestions and feel free to suggest edits to these.

An event can be considered major if: Also, I feel like we need more events and I feel like we could incorporate them into the timeline. Where the event fills up the main space and then underneath in bullet points, things that happened in the event are listed and linked to the thread.
 * It had a significant impact on the character, or was done as part of a plotline. (For example, Bronte and Jackson meeting was written with the intention to pursue them romantically, and is the first part of their romance. Ariana and Selene meeting (as far as I know) is probably not going to be pursued further and has no real impact on either character. Unless that changes.
 * It was a milestone in their life. For example, Rachel Clark opened her new store, Cody Scott died, Chris and Tiara started dating.
 * It is a holiday celebrated by everyone or most people.
 * It is a party/school event/other related gathering.
 * Plus any other things you think will help keep people up to date with your characters.

For example:

Also to do with events, I like the system they have over on CDW of having a page with the event and the date and a list of who's invited, but seeing as those pages only get used once, I thought we could dedicate a new board to events, where characters can organise their own events, and create a list of people invited and the date and location of this event, and then people can link the threads which apply to that event in the comments. If this doesn't make sense let me know because I'm bad at explaining stuff.

It's just a suggestion but I feel like it would help make things more organised and less vague, and will help everyone find out what's going on with characters and be more inclined to read storylines which sound interesting.

Anyways, let me know what you think and reply with any suggestions for improvement. 