Paul Gadzikowski

About a month away from my first anniversary on LJ. After choosing at the outset only six tags which I figured would be all-encompassing enough to cover everything I'd write about (akotas, blogging lj, fanfiction, heroes, me, memes), and having added only one to the list in eleven months (flash), I've realized that they're so all-encompassing and unspecific as to be pretty useless after almost a year of an average (I suspect) of more'n an entry a day.

• Among the tags I've added are cartoons and writing, so the difference can be told between discussion posts about akotas and fanfiction and the weekly reprints and GARPs from my websites.
• On the only such entry to date, the tag stories has been created for non-cartoon fanfiction reprints.
• I've added tags for properties borrowed by the fanfiction cartoons and discussed frequently in the heroes posts (e.g., drwho, bvs/a, sg1/a, superman, trek [and for each of the five series, st, tng, ds9, voyager, enterprise]), but in many fanfiction and cartoons posts borrowed characters appear in sketches that don't really depend on the characters being in character, mostly as randomly-selected straightman for the character who is the thrust of the day's gag. Property tags on fanfiction, cartoon entries only appear for properties whose characters get at least minimal development in that entry's cartoon(s).
• There's a tag tv as a catch-all for properties I enjoy but don't write or draw about often.
• Some people's LJ usernames are now tags, like qtrhorserider, billroper, and demiurgent.

I have no idea whether any readers have need for more specific tags in my LJ - certainly I've had no comments on the subject, plus I'm not certain myself how one searches another's LJ by tag - but it's got to the point I need'em.