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I'm trying to think through "Some Sex" vs "Much Sex", and the tagging convention that you add tags as the plot line develops.

The story is a slow burn -- no action until the 5th chapter out of 10, but there's a ton of fluid exchange by the 9th.

1) Since the sexual content tag is difficult to update mid-story, unlike the others, do you simply tag the story as a whole when you first start posting?

2) If a few chapters could be considered "much sex" does that make the whole story "much" or just "some"? Because it's a slow burn there's definitely a plot, and less than 30% of the chapters contain sexual content. It's just that when it's there, it's pretty in-your-face.

Advice?

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I would tag it 'Much Sex' with the 'slow' tag.

I'm trying to think through "Some Sex" vs "Much Sex", and the tagging convention that you add tags as the plot line develops.

I include all the tags when I post the first chapter. And I know all the tags because I don't post any chapter until the entire story is complete.

As to the sex content, I started a thread on that subject a while back. In the thread, I claimed that's the most inconsistent thing on SOL. What you defined sounds like "some sex" to me. You could also use the "slow" tag to indicate sex doesn't occur for some time, but I don't use that tag. I can't bring myself to saying my story starts out slow because I think past the sex even though the tag is specifically about the sex.

IIRC tags are for the whole story, not a chapter.