Hey @RandomP4
1) You can look up all of the work by a certain person and they may have it in folders. To do this, just select the author and visit their portfolio, or, if you're on one of their works, and they have it in a folder system, then it will show up together under "Related Works" in the side bar beneath the user information.
You can also do a search using the search option in the black bar at the top of the page.
2) Chapters are updated in parts usually, but it depends on the users. Most of the time, they post new chapters as new works, and label them like Soul for Sanctuary Chapter 1 part 2/4. This means that you're on the second part of the first chapter because reviewing works is easiest on here when it's between 2,500 words to 5,000 words, and that could be much shorter than an entire chapter. Some people ignore that and post whole chapters together, in which case they would just post it up to the Chapter 1 part.
It's up to how the author wants to title their work honestly. It's author discretion.
3) Authors are encouraged to update chapter by chapter, or chapter part by chapter part because of the size of novels. We try to review everything on YWS through our system called the Green Room, where new works go until they get 2 reviews each. This means if you update in parts, small parts, you're more likely to get reviews, and, on top of that, you get more reviews the smaller the chunks are that you post.
However, each time you post, it costs points, which you get by reviewing.
Some users have posted entire books in one go, and that gets really long, barely gets any reviews, and isn't that helpful because we're trying to do reviews in about 20 minutes, and you can't read a book or hold your place on here in one sitting.
Publishing Center
The publishing system works by giving you space to post part of your work and name it. You have the option of coding with HTML, or using the buttons to code for you.
After you hit publish, you can label it under whether it's poetry, chapters, short story, etc.. On the same screen you add a blurb to attract attention in the Green Room, or on your profile [This doesn't show up on the actual work though, so don't put super important information in it that you need people to read, just offset that in the text as an author comment]. You can also label what rating it should be at so if it has mature content, like swearing, explicit scenes mentioned, etc. you can warn viewers and those warnings do show up at the top of the post. Once you finish that, you hit publish, it deducts the points, and you have a work in your portfolio on your homepage.
Every username gets a homepage, and on that page you have your portfolio, your trophies [badges that you win by participating in events like RevMo right now], and your gifts [which friends give you for 50 points a piece], as well as an 'about' section you can edit through settings, all of your reviews, and all of your posts, like this one!
So after you publish a work, it will appear in your portfolio which you can organize from the portfolio page and make folders for novels, put things in order by numbering them to go from 0 to 100+ at the bottom of the page [or they will appear so the newest work is at the bottom of the page if they are all at 0] and make things related to one another by putting them together in folders.
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Points: 1883
Reviews: 806