Difference between OS, CS & SS

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Posted: 12 years ago
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This may be irrelevant to some but I can't help but sharing since I, and I'm sure many others, am getting very confused with the titles of the wonderful fanfictions on the forum.

An OS- is a ONE SHOT. Meaning that beyond the first, and final chapter, there is nothing more. That's it - hence the reason it is called as OS - One shot.

A SS - is a SHORT STORY. Meaning that it is a story with less than 10 chapters. It's a short story that ends after the tenth, or in some cases eleventh chapter.

A CS - is a chaptered story. Meaning there are multiple chapters to the story, exceeding the ten which would have made it a SS.

The only reason I'm saying this is there are stories titled OS and I'm thinking like oh what a nice story but odd place to end off but then I see an update for the OS and am like 'what's going on'.

I feel if we can implement these it would definitely help with the organization of our lovely forum :)

A really good method I've seen in order forums in titling a story is as follows:

example: [OS] Blah Blah Blah

or

[CS] Nah Nah Nah

or

[SS] Meh Meh Meh.

Just a thought :)😳

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-Zahra15- thumbnail
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Posted: 12 years ago
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I thought CS meant Character Sketch😆, well that's how I use it.

Btw, useful post because i know there are many who do not know just like I didn't when I first joined IF😆
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Posted: 12 years ago
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Hey.. Ur post is useful as I know many people just wrote os when it has many parts to their story... And it happens in every forum..!
But cs means character sketch isn't..?
And for the story with parts more than 10.. Members on IF just write ff
For eg Asya ff.. That's what I've seen since the past 5 years on IF...
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Posted: 12 years ago
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thanks for the info dear.
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Posted: 12 years ago
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its usefull...
i hv seen people who gets confused nd add more then 5 or 6 chaps in there OS
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Posted: 12 years ago
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Is this for me? 😆
I'll just replace the OS with SS, cool? :)
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Posted: 12 years ago
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Originally posted by: -Fizzi-

Is this for me? 😆
I'll just replace the OS with SS, cool? :)


Ahhh no please I at o mke anyone feel targeted, it's just something I've seen XD
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Posted: 12 years ago
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Originally posted by: Gunjhun


Ahhh no please I at o mke anyone feel targeted, it's just something I've seen XD


I was just joking babe. 😆
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Posted: 12 years ago
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Oh yeah I know, but I still do a one shot with many parts since people want me to keep continuing so yeah..im too lazy to change it to an SS or FF.. 😆
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-Jwalamukhi- thumbnail
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Posted: 12 years ago
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Hey!

I am sorry that the DT hadn't mentioned this before!

A One-Shot (OS) is like a chapter story!

A Short Story (SS) is 1-5 chapters!

A Fan-Fic (FF) is like more than 5 chapters!

CS is Character Sketch!

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