Hi Mark. Good suggestions. I recently discovered a feature of Medium I didn’t know was there. (Maybe I’m just slow.) It’s called a “kicker.” A kicker is a subject added above the story title. It can be used to group related stories and can contain a link to (for example) a story index. To add a kicker, type a line of text at the very top of your story (above the title) and format it with the smaller “T”.
I created one of these for my Bernard and Melody flash fiction stories recently:
The kicker on the index page says “The Bernard and Melody Story Index” and doesn’t have a link. The kicker on each of the stories says “A Bernard and Melody story” and links to the index. I don’t know how effective this is at getting people to read stories, but it probably gets at least a few extra views and reads for them, and it’s a convenient way for me to find them all.
Another mechanism I’ve used is the series. I don’t think people use series the way Medium intended. A lot of people just use them to make lists of links. I went a somewhat different direction. I created a series called The Realm of Tiny Giants. It collects together all of my short fiction on Medium. Each card contains the image associated with a story and some background text. Stories are in chronological order, so people can see how my fiction writing career on Medium has progressed. I link to this at the bottom of every fiction piece I post.
I guess the bottom line is, Medium offers a number of ways to link stories together. It’s just a matter of finding the ways that work best for you.
