Need help in identifying right tags for novel and remove the unnecessary ones.

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You may suggest tags that suits the genre as closely as possible with your previous experiences on scribblehub. Open to constructive criticism.
 

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You may suggest tags that suits the genre as closely as possible with your previous experiences on scribblehub. Open to constructive criticism.
Let me see if I understand correctly.
You've written a novel and you're not sure what the keywords should be for its classification, is that it?
Just go here:
https://www.scribblehub.com/list-tags/ and choose up to 25 of them.
We shouldn't have to suggest them to you; you wrote the book, have at it. ? :blob_cookie:
 

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The purpose of tags is to make it easier for readers to find your novel based on specific content types, whether tropes, archetypes, or themes. It's impossible for you not to know what your content is about.
 

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A tag is only unnecessary if it never happens or happens less than once per twenty or more chapters. Now some of the stranger tags imported from NovelUpdates are a bit confusing, but most of them have descriptive text (IIRC as a pop-up if you have JavaScript enabled, and in a separate document if you don't)
 

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Let me see if I understand correctly.
You've written a novel and you're not sure what the keywords should be for its classification, is that it?
Just go here:
https://www.scribblehub.com/list-tags/ and choose up to 25 of them.
We shouldn't have to suggest them to you; you wrote the book, have at it. ? :blob_cookie:
I have used maximum equivalent tags but does it create dilution of trope on readers or concentrate it. As this is not based on any fan-fiction i considered the main trope to be meta- fourth wall breaking but as it is a mixed niche. I was confused about what should be my target audience. Hence i include the main category as fantasy, but as i used comedic undertone i should have used main category as comedy or satire. But that would limit the conceptual expansion that i am about to offer in novel. I am an extreme type of overthinker so wrong decisions are always certainly non-negotiable in my mind as thought. I always rehearse the same points to weigh the pro and cons of keeping a specific the category.
 

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Hence i include the main category as fantasy, but as i used comedic undertone i should have used main category as comedy or satire.
Personally I don't understand why people use both "Comedy" and "Comedic Undertone" at the same time. Comedy means a main focus on comedy. Comedic Undertone means it is there, but it's not the focus. They are contradictory, to a certain extent, so use one or the other, not both.
 

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I have used maximum equivalent tags but does it create dilution of trope on readers or concentrate it. As this is not based on any fan-fiction i considered the main trope to be meta- fourth wall breaking but as it is a mixed niche. I was confused about what should be my target audience. Hence i include the main category as fantasy, but as i used comedic undertone i should have used main category as comedy or satire. But that would limit the conceptual expansion that i am about to offer in novel. I am an extreme type of overthinker so wrong decisions are always certainly non-negotiable in my mind as thought. I always rehearse the same points to weigh the pro and cons of keeping a specific the category.
Well, do us all a wonderful favor and try not to overthink it. Focus on the primary tropes that you feel not only describe your book well, but will also be popular for the masses. if it's comedy, label it as such. Avoid the use of "undertones". That was MY fault when I first came here. Undertones don't mean a thing; the meat of your book is what you want to classify. So stick to just that, the meat. ?
 

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You may aswell go with the 25 most uncommon tags if you dont know.

I'm rather stunned "nurses" and "restaurant" aren't more popular.
 

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Either you need to stop communicating with GPT so much, or stop using AI to write. There are a huge number of "It's not just x -- it's y." Telltale AI writing signs. AI checker said only 3 sentences in the first chapter were not, at least partially, written by AI.

To other writers, this is why they don't know their own tags. They aren't the author.
 

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I'm rather stunned "nurses" and "restaurant" aren't more popular.
yeah... nurse play made nurses VERY popular.
You may aswell go with the 25 most uncommon tags if you dont know.

Your list is very nice. Good job.

You may suggest tags that suits the genre as closely as possible with your previous experiences on scribblehub. Open to constructive criticism.
I thought I would support ph03nix's comment. This is very true.

Also, its very practical. Simply put if you have too many tags up, you can also get readers giving you cutup reviews in anger. So its important to have the tags match and not just be reaching. Some people get triggered by certain things and can't handle them either.

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An example, of this is... this site doesn't use or have a 'survival' tag in its genres. When you look there you don't see it.

But how survival stories are written, often the plot uses the nature, wrath of g-d, etc, and lack of survival skills to eliminate the baddies. So that's how you see people die and get taken out. And when supernatural and superheroes stories are written usually they tend to have the POWERS you have eliminate that death. So then the readers if they don't see the survival tag they are like, why didn't our main character save all of them? Then they are complaining to you. I've had this happen. But a survival story does different plot structures. Its supposed to have some deaths which are bringing out the mind and skills of the MC as being a power by the effects of only him thriving. And people don't always understand that.

Although when you watch Fear the Walking Dead, the first season one of the things that just makes you mad is that they make a lot of people die from stupid stuff. Sometimes the deaths are TOO Stupid. You want that to make sense at least.
 
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Really, why hasn't anyone isekai'd into a hospital or restaurant yet? ?
 

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Throw on as many tags as possible with zero regard for how it effects the story. Filter the weak out one by one and let chaos reign.
 

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yeah... nurse play made nurses VERY popular.

Your list is very nice. Good job.

I thought I would support ph03nix's comment. This is very true.

Also, its very practical. Simply put if you have too many tags up, you can also get readers giving you cutup reviews in anger. So its important to have the tags match and not just be reaching. Some people get triggered by certain things and can't handle them either.

...

An example, of this is... this site doesn't use or have a 'survival' tag in its genres. When you look there you don't see it.

But how survival stories are written, often the plot uses the nature, wrath of g-d, etc, and lack of survival skills to eliminate the baddies. So that's how you see people die and get taken out. And when supernatural and superheroes stories are written usually they tend to have the POWERS you have eliminate that death. So then the readers if they don't see the survival tag they are like, why didn't our main character save all of them? Then they are complaining to you. I've had this happen. But a survival story does different plot structures. Its supposed to have some deaths which are bringing out the mind and skills of the MC as being a power by the effects of only him thriving. And people don't always understand that.

Although when you watch Fear the Walking Dead, the first season one of the things that just makes you mad is that they make a lot of people die from stupid stuff. Sometimes the deaths are TOO Stupid. You want that to make sense at least.
I agree with you. My real problem is to weed out the unnecessary tags. My narrative here is not like an one way story from A to B to C to climax. I have been writing shorter outlines for future chapters so considering there will not be a single protagonist as i have give the lead to 'the narrator' as main character. You might feel him like the watcher from marvel but still different setting and plot. It will not be a multiverse like thing. All i want to write is what i cant find elsewhere. The main concept of my narration is the boredom we feel while actually pushing through a story which intially captivated our interest but later on farted on our expectations and if only could it go the other way including new tropes that might make it more fun and chaotic in way to retriev our lost sense of curiosity and we read it not as a duty to fullfill but as a dream life to live on not regretting the decision we choose this path of uncalled emptiness later.
 

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You may aswell go with the 25 most uncommon tags if you dont know.

So how does this compare with "Crooked Ukeleles" or "Gay Ukeleles"? Never knew there were stories about them!
Only have one or would have used that for one story (and same issue with another that keeps wanting to get out when I should be working on other stories)
 
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